1/3/22 Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner and Benefit

Join us on January 3rd! at 7:30! Attend masked on-site at Judson Church, or from your home live-streamed.
Help Great Small Works to continue creating puppets, flipping banners and turning cranks, beating drums and blowing horns, writing, teaching, performing, organizing, and dancing in the streets!
No food will be served. A NOODLE GROTTO will honor the spaghetti we are not able to offer.
Entrance for the event is 243 THOMPSON STREET, NEW YORK, NY
FEATURING:
Original Great Small Works pageantry and a rousing game of puppeteer ancestor BINGO, with prizes! ARTISTIC DRINKS for sale (with straws)
**MUSIC by Frank London and friends**
Trumpets – Frank London and Stevie Bernstein, Percussion – Onel Matos, Saxophone – Jessica Lurie, Tuba – Ron Caswell, Drums – Aaron Alexander
And, to honor the ancestors —
Pura Belpré: “Perez and Martina,” by Teatro SEA
Bernice Silver: “Schnitzelbank,” created by Great Small Works and performed by Boxcutter Collective
Lenon Holder Hoyte: Excerpts from “The Harlem Doll Palace” by ALVA Puppet Theater
Naftule Brandwein: “N*A*F*T*U*L*E” a cranky created by Tine Kindermann, Josh Kohn and Michael Winograd. Performed by Shane Baker, Ira Temple, Tine Kindermann and Michael Winograd.
Chinese Theater Works with “New Year Celestial Rabbit Review”
Suggested donation $20, sliding scale. Buy tickets now to attend on site or online! Invite a friend! Make a donation! Info: 917-319-8104
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Great Small Works also thanks the Puppet Slam Network, NY State Council on the Arts, Scherman Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, and the Doctorow Family Foundation.