#Redwing Blackbird Theater

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Redwing Blackbird Theater at The Rosendale Farmers Market

Rosendale, NY More photos: Rosendale, Rosendale Street Festival

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At Amy Trompetter’s Redwing Blackbird Theater

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"Silence and the Earth" performed at Redwing Blackbird Theater in Rosendale, NY founded by Amy and Andy Trompetter in 1969. Also featuring music by Fossilhunter, or Patrick Branigan, one of my friends from school in the painting department. We played a little show and performed our play in a garage turned into puppet theater, filled with the most beautiful paper-machete puppets holding environmental protests, painted flowers, instruments of every stripe, everything made of recycled materials.

Amy Trompetter, is one of the trully most kindred and inspiring spirits I've ever met. I've never encountered someone at her age with so much uncompromising life and spirit. Her DIY spirit of bringing theater, poetry, puppetry to those who don't normally do it at Redwing Blackbird Theater has similar values as to what we aspire to do. It is the most encouraging thing to know that theater like this exist. Thanks to Casey Llewellyn a former mentor of mine, for helping with setting up this show! 

Here is there mission statement:

Redwing Blackbird Theater uses the art of puppetry to sing out with the varied nuances and overtones of our pre-language state of being. Puppets can express what cannot be said in words. Puppets also use words to say things that people cannot say, and they get away with it. We bring puppets into communities and make shows and parades with people who do not normally do theater. Over the past 40 years our most effective workshops have been in refugee camps in Africa and prisons in New York State. Now we are making puppet parades and shows to support Occupy Wall Street encampments on the east coast.

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Upcoming: "Animals in Winter" with Students at High Meadow School, High Falls, NY

On Tuesday, February 7 at High Meadow School in High Falls, NY, Redwing Blackbird works with first graders and young musicians led by Free At Last.  Together we will remount our show "The Animals in Winter," first performed Dec. 10 at Blackbird Theater during Frozendale.

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Upcoming: Black History Month Show at Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston, NY

On Saturday, February 4 at the Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, NY, Redwing Blackbird Theater will be joined by Kingston youth and local musicians for a Black History Month Exhibit opening.  Look for the storefront near Macy's in the mall to see our 4:45 parade and 5 pm "Rosa Parks/MLK" show.