Elevate "THE GROUND"!

This fundraiser is organized by Shadowlight Productions.

Tax deductible

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)