<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(255, 51, 0);"><b>MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology </b></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(255, 51, 0);"><b>Spring 2010 Lecture Series</b></div><div style="margin:
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font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Monday, March 8 at 7:00 PM</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"Bread and Puppet Theater"</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Peter Schumann</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;
color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Bartos Theater</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">····················································································</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Bread and Puppet Theater </b></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px
0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Peter Schumann, legendary founder of <i>Bread and Puppet Theater</i> will present a short “fiddle lecture“ illustrated with cantastoria banners. Moderator John Bell, long-time collaborator of <i>Bread and Puppet Theater</i>,
will discuss with Schumann the theater‘s use of public space,
technology, the concept of progress, and the relations between puppet
theater and modernism. The evening will end with a drum and fiddle
performance. </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Peter Schumann </b></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Peter Schumann studied and practiced sculpture and dance in Germany. He moved to the USA in 1961 and founded <i>Bread and Puppet Theater</i>
in New York City in 1963. The company worked to address political
issues through hand and rod puppet shows and giant puppet parades.
Schumann and moved to Vermont with <i>Bread and Puppet Theater </i>in
1970, where he continues to build puppets, create shows and giant
outdoor spectacles and perform locally and internationally, and to bake
bread, grow garlic and split firewood.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>John Bell </b></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">The
lecture is moderated by John Bell, an ACT Program Artist in Residence,
puppeteer, scholar, teacher, and former performer with <i>Bread and Puppet Theater</i> for over a dozen years.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Location:</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15) </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">20 Ames Street, Cambridge </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">(see directions below). </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Free and open to the public.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">For more information:</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://theatricalfields.mit.edu/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267617221_0">http://theatricalfields.mit.edu/</span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://visualarts.mit.edu/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267617221_1">http://visualarts.mit.edu</span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica;
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style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">ABOUT THE SERIES</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">····················································································</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px;
font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(10, 10, 10);"><i>The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative.</i>
is a lecture series introducing key figures whose artistic practice is
situated at the intersection of performance art, avant garde dance, and
activist theater. Focusing on time-based and ephemeral formats that
navigate between art, film, theater and dance, the series juxtaposes
speakers of different generations and backgrounds who share an interest
in feminist discourses and politics. </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">The
series this spring is dedicated to Joan Jonas, a pioneer in video and
performance art, and the 2010 recipient of the Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship
Prize presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT on April 15, 2010. </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">The
lecture series is directed by Associate Professor Ute Meta Bauer,
Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) in
collaboration with Professor Joan Jonas, and Lecturer Amber
Frid-Jimenez. </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">····················································································</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">THANKS</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px;
font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">····················································································</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">The
lecture series was made possible in part by the Grants Program of the
Council for the Arts at MIT. Thanks also for support from the MIT
Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program.</div></div>
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