<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><span><span class=""><font size="4"><b><i><font>06/14 Radical Puppetry at the Democracy Center w/ Erik Ruin and Maryann Colella (Fri)</font></i><br><br>One Touch Of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin</b></font><br>
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<b>One Touch Of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin</b> is a table-top toy
theater show by Erik Ruin and Maryann Colella concerning disasters and
the organic mutual aid efforts/networks which arise in their wake.
Amongst other examples, we focus on the Halifax ship explosion of 1917,
the largest man-made explosion before the invention of the atom bomb.
The show incorporates sprawling silk-screened graphics come to life, toy
instruments, tape-deck sound effects and text f<span class="">rom Rebecca Solnit's book <b>A Paradise Built In Hell</b>.<br> <br>
<b>Erik Ruin</b> is a printmaker, shadow-puppeteer, founding member of the
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, and co-creator of the recent book Paths
Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (w/ Cindy
Milstein, PM Press, 2012). For more on his work, see <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ferikruin.tumblr.com%2F&h=WAQF5YjvE&s=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow"><span>http://</span><span class=""></span>erikruin.tumblr.com/</a><br>
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<b>Maryann Colella</b> is a puppeteer, dancer, mask-maker and street-theater
instigator who has been working with The Bread & Puppet Theater for
the past 7 years, and has also collaborated with All the Saints Theater
Company, Royal Frog Ballet, the Boston Radical Arts Troupe, Deep In the
Belly, the Puppeteers Cooperative and Agua Sol Y Soreno.</span></span></span><br><br>-------------------<br></div><span><span class=""><b>One Touch Of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin<br></b></span></span></div><span><span class=""><b>w/ Erik Ruin and Maryann Colella<br>
</b></span></span></div><span><span class=""><font size="4"><b>Friday, June 14 • 7pm</b></font><br></span></span></div><span><span class="">The Democracy Center<br></span></span></div><span><span class="">45 Mt Auburn Street<br>
Harvard Square • Cambridge<br></span></span>-------------------<br><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br>Luis E. Cotto | <a href="http://about.me/luiscotto" target="_blank">http://about.me/luiscotto</a><br><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,153,0)"><b>~ "Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living." -- </b>Mother Jones</span>
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