FULL MOON PUPPET SHOW Mutual Aid Puppet Workshop
Large-Scale Puppet: Combining Art & Activism
Full Moon Puppet Show is offering two open community workshop sessions designed by teaching artist Christopher Lutter and project lead Magdalena Kaluza to give participants a hands-on understanding of how to design and build large-scale puppets and/or pageant puppets, while combining the power of visual art with community activism. Working alongside lead artists Akiko Ostlund, Dillon Sebastian, and Ellis Perez, participants will help to complete a large-scale puppet and learn about the efforts of United Renters for Justice INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA. These workshops will be in-person at Chris Lutter’s studio at 2714 E. 27th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406
What is Mutual Aid? Full Moon’s Mutual Aid workshops partner with a social justice organization to design a puppet(s) that will help in their efforts to create change. The puppet is designed with input from the partner organization, an experienced teaching artist and three Full Moon lead artists. Open Community Workshops teach participants about the design process while completing the final steps. The puppet is then donating to the partner organization for their future use.
Enrollment is sliding scale/free. Sign up for a single workshop or come to both. Your donation helps support this Full Moon Puppet Show Mutual Aid Workshop.
Community Workshop Sessions:
Saturday, Nov. 12, 1 – 4pm
Sunday, Nov. 13, 1 – 4pm
Age Recommendation:
14 years old and up
Tools will be provided. Please wear old clothing, closed toed shoes, hair pulled back, masks are optional.
Teaching Artist Bios
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Christopher Lutter
TEACHING ARTIST
Christopher is a designer, inventor, theater-maker and community educator whose work revolves around the design, construction and performance of puppets, masks, props, costumes, theatrical inventions, kinetic-sets and sculptural installations. He produces his art predominately from waste-stream materials, exploring the unique potentials inherent in the material -
Magdalena Kaluza
PROJECT LEAD
Magdalena Kaluza (they/them) has facilitated community arts and organizing processes for more than 15 years. They honed their hosting and facilitation skills through youth work, antiwar organizing, and food and environmental justice. Most recently, they are a Co-op Culture Organizer with United Renters for Justice, helping 60 families co-create a permanently affordable housing cooperative in south Minneapolis.
Lead Artists
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Akiko Ostlund
Akiko Ostlund is a Twin Cities-based interdisciplinary storyteller, teaching artist, curator, and activist. The mediums she most commonly works with include poetry, music, dance, collage, and puppetry. Her work often includes themes of anti-oppression and social change. A native of Osaka, Japan, Akiko tells stories that reflect the narrative of immigrant women of color that are often underrepresented in white eurocentric society.
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Dillon Sebastian
Dillon Sebastian is a builder living in Minneapolis. She likes to make big things little and little things big. She is interested in using the process of making and teaching puppets as a way to share stories. She has learned from and with puppeteers and artists at the Big Parade in Oberlin, Parade the Circle in Cleveland, MayDay Parade and Barebones Productions.
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Ellis Pérez
Ellis Pérez is a Minneapolis-based poet, storyteller, and visual artist. Their work centers on themes of vulnerability, softness, silliness, and ancestry. They are the dad to three chihuahuas and currently working on their debut novel.
FULL MOON PUPPET SHOW is supported by:
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
