This month, check out a great new Puppet show and exciting new documentary project!

[Puppet Underground]

This month, come see THE AMAZING AND MARVELOUS CABINETS OF KISMET, an experimental puppet play by Wit's End Puppets, one of our favorite puppeteering collaborators!

Kismet is a puppet who lives contentedly in a crowded world of cabinets and drawers. When his home is destroyed, he flees and finds himself in a strange new world made completely of paper, where he must adapt to his new environment. This production uses a unique combination of puppets made from recycled objects and paper to tell the story of a fantasy world that is visually unusual but perhaps not all that different from our own. This performance is intended for ages 8+. 

Mead Theater Lab at Flashpoint (916 G St. NW, Metro Center & Gallery Place metros)

April 26-May 19

Thursday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm

Tickets are $15 General Admission and $10 for Students/Seniors

And, if you love puppets, sign up for the upcoming Wit's End PUPPET-MAKING WORKSHOP with Scrap DC on May 12 after the show. Go to www.witsendpuppets.com or www.culturaldc.org to buy tickets!

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In other exciting news, our dear friend and collaborator, Teresa Camou Guerrero, is working on an awesome new documentary project and needs our support! 

SUNNÚ (which means corn in Raramuri, an indigenous language from northern Mexico) is a documentary about the destruction of rural life in Mexico and its relationship to the monopolization of the food industry. It shows the deterioration of family farming and the chasm between rural and urban realities, as well as the struggle of indigenous farmers and small farmers to keep producing corn, the center of Mexico’s economic, social and culinary life, the heart of its very identity.

SUNNÚ will be a feature length documentary intended to support food sovereignty movements in Mexico and globally. But in order to finish the film, the film-makers need to raise a lot of money! They've started a Kickstarter campaign, and there's only 2 weeks left to reach their fundraising goal. 

Please check out their Kickstarter page and support this great project!