A Festival of Radical Puppetry is a gathering point for West Coast contemporary, emerging and radical puppetry.
Puppets give themselves permission to be outrageous, poetic, crude, absurd and bizarre.
There is currently a huge revitalization of puppetry, celebration arts and circus arts in the United States. As younger artists become disillusioned with the cultural bankruptcy of television and corporate media they dig into the roots of popular culture seeking to reclaim and revamp the magic and color of these ancient folk forms. Deadline for performance submissions is February 1st, 2001. Deadline for gallery submissions, movies and workshops is March 1st, 2001.