THE STORY OF CROW BOY

The Story of Crow Boy by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
Photo by Daniel Polsfuss

Created by Masanari Kawahara, Sandy Spieler, Steven Epp and Momoko Tanno

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre

The Story of Crow Boy asks what it means to be human amidst incredible brutality

On stage Feb 18 ”“ 28, 2016

“A timely story of how experience can inspire art, and how art can transform the world”

”“ Steve Epp, Core Collaborator

In a time when the world is challenged by cultural suspicion and ethnic distrust, HOBT enables this  conversation with a new performance by some of the Twin Cities leading visual and performance artists.

THE STORY OF CROW BOY explores the intriguing life story of Taro Yashima who wrestled with human brutality, racial discrimination, and the ravages of WWII to build work of social conscience, compassionate insight, poetic visual form, and ultimately ”“ of joy. Yashima reminds us what it means to be human, and offers understanding into the complexities of cultural survival. This production draws on his searing graphic autobiographical and luminous fictional books including the Caldecott Honor Award-winning CROW BOY (1956) about a young boy who learns to sing the “voices of crows” in defiance of his years of being bullied.… Read the rest “THE STORY OF CROW BOY”

February 2016 Alley Newspaper

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Save &/Or Rave Burma-Shave: Disaster Comes to a Contest

BY SARAH SILVER

I was a jingle judge for the Burma Shave company. Actually, I got the job under false pretenses. In the Spring of 1956 I had bumped into an old friend from journalism school, who told me that an opening was available – “just mention Ed Emery, a professor at the college,” she said, “you”'ll be the next jingle judge.”

That”'s what happened. They assumed Mr. Emery had sent me, so I was hired for a four-month period to start immediately. For readers born after 1960, Burma Shave was an internationally-known phenomenon. Famous from the 1920”'s through the 1950”'s for its unique advertising methods, this modestly-operated company was located next to a railroad track in the Bryn Mawr area of North Minneapolis [moved from 2019 E. Lake Street 1925-1935].  Its main products were a shave-less cream and a not-so-well-known powder toothpaste.

To advertise the shaving cream, Burma Shave erected thousands of sets of five consecutive signs along  highways all over America and neighboring countries. Each sign had a segment of a rhyming jingle. The punch line always was followed by the words, “Burma Shave” on the fifth sign.

The company had six executives, five secretaries, one woman in the basement and one part-time jingle judge.… Read the rest “Save &/Or Rave Burma-Shave: Disaster Comes to a Contest”