Year-End Spaghetti Dinner, Calling All Giants!
Schedule
Mon Dec 29 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Judson Memorial Church - New York City | New York, NY
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Monday, December 29, 2025doors and pasta at 7:30PM
Tickets: $20, no one turned away for lack of funds
No advance reservations
For info: 917-319-8104
This show will also be livestreamed! Tune in here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1577624343266027/
Celebrate the coming of the New Year with pasta, puppets, music, and each other!
CALLING ALL GIANTS
Six giant puppets from six different artists will participate in a Convergence of Giants to celebrate the ways that oversized puppets have performed festivals of resistance from the Middle Ages to the 1980 Women's Pentagon Action and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement.
Participants: Ronnie Asbell, People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, Chinese Theater Works, Puppeteers Coop, Unidad Latina en Accion, and Amy Trompetter.
Also featuring:
Music by FRANK LONDON and friends
Loisaida Fife & Drum Corps
Deconstructions of mid-19th-century American tunes
Frank London, trumpet
Reut Regev, trombone
Ron Caswell, tuba
Charles Burnham, violin
James Paul Nadien, drums
A new dance by JENNIFER MILLER
performed by NOA RUI-PIIN WEISS and ZO WILLIAMS
Bach Sonata 1 in G Minor, Presto
Two crankies by ERIK RUIN with music accompaniment by ALI DINEEN
"On Another's Sorrow," a poem by William Blake
"Letter from Isolation" with text from Ulrike Meinhof's "Letter from a Prisoner in the Isolation Wing, June 16, 1972 to February 9, 1973."
Film by MEREDITH HOLCH
"Brother Bird"
Cranky by BOXCUTTER COLLECTIVE
"Witches, Women and Witchcraft: The (Mostly) True Cranky of a Cranky Old Hag” is a brief history of the medieval witch hunts, as told by… witches! With their reproductive healthcare skills, and a team of singing bullfrogs, is it possible that witches are just what we need to defeat the imperialist capitalist patriarchy?
Shadow puppets by SPICA WOBBE and MARGARET YUEN
"Prologue, Part II"
The second in a series of performances which focus on first generation Chinese American immigrants, Part II focuses on the stories of five women, using their own words, with shadow, objects, music and dance.
Great Small Works is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Additional thanks to: the Puppet Slam Network, the Scherman Foundation, and the Constance and Jarvis Doctorow Family Foundation.
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Where is it happening?
Judson Memorial Church - New York City, 55 Washington Sq S,New York, New York, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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