CRANKYfest

Sun, Nov 13
8:00-10:00pm
$10 (NOTA)

HappyFeetTravels.org and CounterPULSE present

CRANKYfest

What's a cranky?

Cranky art uses ancient scroll technology, with a frame, to tell
stories in ways that regular performance can't do. Bread and Puppet
first utilized a "cranky" - so called - by Peter Schumann around
1967. Soon after it's invention, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and
other groups began to perform with crankies.

Feeling that this obscure art form needs more attention, we present
the first ever CRANKYfest. Come see how artists have taken the cranky
idea and worked it into their own theatrical pieces.

With

Big Tadoo Puppet Crew
Eco-Artisans (R.G. Davis and Joyce Todd McBride)
Russell H
Tina Heringer
Nate Orman & Alex Douglas
Janaki Ranpura
Channing Sargent

There will be a workshop where you can make your own shoebox cranky,
complete with moving pictures to take home and enjoy (supplies are
limited).

Meet and greet the artists at an after-show reception.

About the Producers

CounterPULSE provides support and low cost resources for emerging
artists, serving as an incubator space to create socially relevant,
diverse, community-based art in San Francisco. CounterPULSE works
towards a world that celebrates a diversity of race, class, ability,
gender identity & sexual orientation. No one will be turned away for
lack of money for any event held at CounterPULSE.

HappyFt Travels, a world of creativity, seeks to spread the freedoms
of creative resistance and full enjoyment. Originally concepted as an
underground travel agency, this Web site is now an underground hub of
creative content, radical thought, and personal perspective. Linking
different art forms together on one neat blog, the HappyFt community
opens its digital arms to people that hope to find a personal
creative spark.

Venue:

CounterPULSE
1310 Mission St. (near 9th)
San Francisco
415-626-2060
http://www.counterpulse.org/

Additional Info:

415-377-2954
http://happyfeettravels.org/index.php/crankyfest-2005/