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In The Heart of the Beast Theatre Update
BOARD UPDATE AUGUST 12 2021In 2021, HOBT has been working to restart our organization and adapt to the impacts of COVID-19. We considered every path forward that would put us in the best possible position to live out our mission and carry the important work of the MayDay Council into the future.In conversation and with the input of HOBT staff and the MayDay Council, the HOBT Board of Directors has voted to sell the Avalon Theatre, our home since 1988.It”™s time to find a new, smaller home that will allow us to live into our vision of a decentralized MayDay. That includes moving into a new space that is more sustainable and accessible.HOBT is also in the process of moving out of our puppet storage warehouse, which was rented to store the thousands of puppets in HOBT”™s collection.The puppets will return to the artists that created them, museums who can house them (both locally and nationally), and HOBT will be maintaining a smaller collection to carry our work [...]
MAYDAY MAY 5TH 2013: “SEE THE WORLD”
Bread and Puppet Theater”'s Hallelujah Cantastoria Play and Drawings adapted by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre for MayDay 2013 Parade and Pageant May 5th ~ Starting 1:00 PM at 26th and Bloomington to 34th Street and into Powderhorn Park. Rain and Snow? Date May 12 Listen to KFAI Radio 90.3 FM or @HOBT on Twitter“See the World,” theme will unfold in the 39th In the Heart of the Beast MayDay Parade and Pageant, as a painfully honest and simple story about how our actions affect our beautiful world. It is inspired by and adapted from the Vermont state, 50 year-old “Cheap Art and Political Theater, Bread and Puppet”'s classic cantastoria production called Hallelujah. The power of the script lies in its simplicity, and its profound call to action.
Ingebretsen”'s Celebrates Nine Decades for Nine Weeks
By Carsten Smith Every birthday is worth celebrating, but some birthdays are worth an extra special effort. For Ingebretsen”'s Scandinavian Gifts, that birthday is the ninetieth, which will be celebrated this October. “My grandfather opened the store here because it was a Scandinavian neighborhood at the time. The neighborhood has changed, but we still feel supportive of it and supported by it. We are glad to be here,” says Julie Ingebretsen, gift store manager and the granddaughter of the store founder, Charles Ingebretsen. “We have a calendar full of special events, many of which revolve around food, naturally, and the neighborhood is invited!” says Julie. For nine Saturdays, one for each decade, Ingebretsen”'s will have “Taste of the Times,” a celebration of food fads and fashions over time. Starting October 1, from 11 to 1, customer will receive free samples of food representative of that decade. The first Saturday will be [...]
