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Elevate "THE GROUND"!
The Ground opens on August 16th at The Dresher Ensemble Studio!

Shows are:

August 16th at 7:00PM

August 17th at 7:00PM

August 18th at 2:00PM

and

August 23rd at 7:00PM

August 24th at 7:00PM

August 25th at 2:00PM

Dresher Ensemble Studio

2201 Poplar Street

Oakland CA

94607

After nearly 30 years in puppet theater, creating award winning works with theaters all over the country and touring the world, I, Fred C. Riley III working under the name Odd Savvy, have been working to create my own puppet theater.

“The Ground” will be a sonic poem exploring our human nature and how we can learn to live in accord with the natural world. I am exploring the edges of a lifetime of technique in tabletop puppetry, mask and shadow theater. I and my team (with help from the DEAR program and the Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant) have spent the last 2 years building mock ups, trying out new concepts and finding new poetry in movement theater. This will be the culmination of those efforts and a lifetime given to this art form. Theater is a group effort and that includes you.

Please give what you can to help us create this exciting new work of puppet theater. This year, we received another generous grant from The Jim Henson Foundation, plus financial support and fiscal sponsorship from ShadowLight Productions.

We are almost there! With your donation, we can make this production a reality.

We are digging in “the Ground” to find the seed that unites all human endeavor, that connection that can be so elusive in this ever fractured world.

Join us and help us build community through building great theater.

(Your donation to The Ground is 100% tax deductible. Thanks to our fiscal sponsor)

Website

OddSavvy.com

Social Media Links

Instagram : odd_savvy ( https://www.instagram.com/odd_savvy/ )

Facebook : Odd Savvy ( https://www.facebook.com/oddsavvy )

Fred C Riley III ( https://www.facebook.com/fred.c.riley/ )
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Support Our Artists
A message from our Artistic Director:

"Over the course of a long career, I have been fortunate to work with an amazing collection of artists and performers. The group size varies from 7 to 20 people, depending on the project. Our cinematic shadow theater style requires quite a lot of people: shadow casters, designers, musicians, voice-over actors, technicians, and administrators.

I would like to honor and celebrate our collaborators. Each project is a voyage of exploration and discovery, not only of the material at hand, but of each other and what we can bring to the creation of a truly unique form of theater. This year, for example, we are embarking on a new phase of shadow theater, incorporating video as a source of the backgrounds for our puppets and masked actors. Unexpectedly we discovered hidden talents among our shadow casters as digital creators and designers!

We begin each project with workshops where everyone is encouraged to try things out. At this stage failure is just as welcome as success. In order to find what will work, it’s important to discover what doesn’t. As Beckett once said, we fail again, and fail better. The look and feel of every project is unique because different team members create the look and character of each show.

Live theater is unlike film or animation because the actors are actively listening to and reacting to the audience. In fact, the end result of theater is our collaboration with the audience, without whom our work would be meaningless. Following our deep inspiration from Indonesian traditions, we imagine performances to be offerings of nourishment for the soul, of both audiences and performers. We need each other for the event to be complete.

We try to make our work available to all, through low ticket prices and free events whenever possible; which means we have to raise money through grants and donations. We also believe that our artists should be properly compensated for their work.

If you have enjoyed our productions over the years, this is your chance to help us pay it forward." –Larry Reed

https://shadowlight.org
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The mission of ShadowLight Productions is to expose the general public to the art of Shadow Theater. The means of providing such exposure includes but is not limited to live theater, film and other media. We strive to preserve indigenous shadow theater traditions, and to explore and expand the possibilities of the shadow theater medium by creating innovative interdisciplinary, multicultural works.
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About Shadowlight Productions

The mission of ShadowLight Productions is to expose the general public to the art of Shadow Theater. The means of providing such exposure includes but is not limited to live theater, film and other media. We strive to preserve indigenous shadow theater traditions, and to explore and expand the possibilities of the shadow theater medium by creating innovative interdisciplinary, multicultural works.

22 Chattanooga StSan Francisco, CA 94114

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Theater, Performance art, Performing arts education, Performing arts

Established

1995

Verified on GoFundMe

2021

Tax ID

94-3216800

NTEE code

Performing Arts

Shadowlight Productions is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 94-3216800. Donations are tax-deductible. Select content is provided by GuideStar.

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