Making leaf angels!

 

Awesome Co-op Poster

Our eleventh-hour pre-departure project was to craft this amazing poster about our co-op, to put on display at the Big Co-op Conference, for all to see and oggle, and with hopes to inspire other co-ops to make similar posters for next year. The best part of the Big Co-op Conference is meeting so many new friends and hearing about their own co-ops.

Plus, I got to use crayons.

Check out the large version.

Bread and Puppet

Bread and Puppet is performing this Saturday at the U of R ($1 UR, $5 others, 8:30pm). In fact, we're hosting them and their puppets here at Ant Hill Co-op for the weekend. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Bread and Puppet:

The Theater was founded in 1962-1963 in New York City. It was active during the Vietnam War in anti-war protests, primarily in New York. It is often remembered as a central part of the political spectacle of the time, as its enormous puppets (often ten to fifteen feet tall) were a fixture of many demonstrations. In 1970 the Theater moved to Vermont, where it still resides; there is a Bread & Puppet Museum on its Vermont land, showcasing its decades of work. The Bread & Puppet Theater has received National Endowment for the Arts grants.

Until 1998 the Theater hosted an annual Pageant and Circus (in full, Our Domestic Resurrection Circus), in and around a natural amphitheater on its Glover grounds. In the 1990s the festival became very large, drawing crowds in the tens of thousands of people who camped on nearby farmers' land over the summer weekend of the pageant. The event became unmanageably large and less and less concerned with the theater's performance. In 1998 a man was accidentally killed in a fight while camping overnight for the festival, and director Peter Schumann subsequently cancelled the festival. Since then the theater has instead offered smaller weekend performances all summer long, and travelled around New York and New England performing.