Pageantry and Puppet Building Resources

Books
The American Pageant: A Movement for Art and Democracy
by Prevots Nimia

Community Drama: Its motive and Method of Neighborliness
by Percey Mackaye

Cities of the Dead
by Joseph Roach

The Met Books, Pageantry
by W.E.B. Debois

Some others...
Parades and Power (Temple University Press)
Street Art Of the Revolution
Caribbean Festival Arts


Web sites
Philadelphia's Puppet Uprising presents performances by puppeteers from all over the world. Some are full-length theatrical works that utilize puppets, other events are cabarets of several short puppet shows.

Since 1973, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre has been using water, flour, newspaper, paint, and unlimited imagination to tell stories that explore the struggles and celebrations of human existence.

The Puppeteers' Cooperative Home Page includes sketches to show how to make large puppets and ideas for puppet processions.

The Puppetry Homepage is a very comprehensive puppetry resource.

Wise Fools Community Arts is a non-profit organization which uses art and theatre as vehicles for community building, self-determination, social and political change.

The Theatre of the Oppressed was developed by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal during the 1950's and 1960's. In an effort to transform theatre from the "monologue" of traditional performance into a "dialogue" between audience and stage, Boal experimented with many kinds of interactive theatre. From his work Boal evolved various forms of theatre workshops and performances which aimed to meet the needs of all people for interaction, dialogue, action, critical thinking, and fun. In turn, the workshops are virtually a training ground for action not only in these performance forms, but for action in life.

The Institute of Outdoor Drama at University of N. Carolina Chapel Hill

The New Deal Stage, selections from the Federal Theater Collection 1935 to 1939


Ancestor Celebration Resources

Books
Golden Tales: Myths and Legends from Latin America
by Lulu Delacre
Grades 4-6, younger for reading aloud. Unable to locate an illustrated collection of the Latin American stories that she heard as a child growing up in Puerto Rico, Delacre has created a collection that will be welcomed by all who have also sought in vain for such an introductory treasury. (Booklist)

The Ancestor Tree
by T. Obinkaram Echewa
Ages 4-8. An original Nigerian folktale.

Daughers of the Dust
by Julie Dash (novel and film)
" ...while the film focuses on the Peazant family at the point of their migration from an isolated island community of formerly enslaved Africans, the novel carries the story to the next generation - to the 1920s and Amelia Varnes, a student of anthropology who returns from New York to observe Gullah society for an ethnographic study, and in the process, rediscovers her matrilineal heritage. Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston, Dash elegantly combines sultry descriptions with evocations of oral tradition, cultural theory with a sincere reverence for Gullah esthetics and experience." (The New York Times Book Review)


Web sites
African Spirituality Webring Sites

Festivals.com

Ancestor Resource Directory (US)
This is a good starting point for geneological searchs organized by US state


Teaching for Change Resources

Books
Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing
Minnesota Humanities Council

Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development
edited by Enid Lee, Deborah Menkart and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Network of Educators on the Americas, Washington, D.C.


Publishers of Multicultural Texts
University of Texas Press
P.O. Box 7819
Austin, Texas 78713-7819
Ph: 512.471.7233
utpress@uts.cc.utexas.edu

Lee and Low Press,
95 Madison Avenue
Suite # 606
New York, NY 10016
Ph: 212.779.4400
Fx: 212.683.1894
info@leeandlow.com


Web sites
Earth Celebrations is a New York-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering ecological awareness through the arts.

Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world.

Wealth o’ Websites is a resource for K12 educators that organizes website by theme and topic.

Local Resources
InLiquid.com is a local, juried, not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to increasing visibility and opportunities for visual artists.

University City District
3940 Chestnut Street
215.243.0555

Taller Puertorriqueño
2721 N. 5th Street
215.426.3311

Multicultural Resource Center
6617 Lincoln Drive
215.438.2729