Sun 18 Jul 2010
The Cook/Marks Collection is coming to Seattle!
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Northwest Puppet Center is honored to become the home to this internationally acclaimed collection.
“The World of Puppetry: Treasures from the Cook/Marks Collection” will be the first opportunity for a portion of this massive collection to be displayed in Seattle. Don’t miss your chance to see the world through wooden eyes with puppets from Bucharesti, Palermo, Bali, Athens, Osaka, Rio de Janeiro, Bamako, Bursa, and many more points on the globe.
Included on display are stunning examples of Sicilian opera dei pupi, Indonesian wayang and Japanese bunraku (some of the puppet traditions recognized by UNESCO as “Intangible Cultural Assets to Humanity”). You will even see vaudeville marionettes returning to the limelight after making their original appearances on Seattle stages a century ago!
Northwest Puppet Center presents
The World of Puppetry: Treasures from the Cook/Marks Collection
Location:
Seattle Center Pavilion B (next to the skate park)
On View July 23-Aug. 1, 2010
6pm-9pm on Fri. July 23
11am-4pm on weekends
11am-3pm on weekdays
Admission is FREE but donations to Northwest Puppet Center are welcomed to help continue NWPC’s expanding museum efforts.
Exhibit sponsored by The Jacqueline S. Marks Fund at the California
Community Foundation and Seattle Center. General support provided by ArtsFund and Washington State Arts Commission.
To learn more about the Cooks/Marks Collection:
http://nwpuppet.org/worldofpuppetry.html
Get a double-dose of puppets by combining your visit with the regional festival, Puppet-O-Rama,
organized by members of Puppeteers of Puget Sound, to be held at Seattle University July 30-Aug. 1. International Puppetry Museum and Northwest Puppet Center will be hosting a reception at the regional festival on July 30 to celebrate this new collection and would like you to join in their celebration. Come learn more about puppetry at the festival: http://www.puppet-o-rama.org
Not a puppeteer and want to see puppet shows all around the area?
Find out where the Northwest Puppet Center will be performing this summer http://www.nwpuppet.org/summer.html
After this exhibit at Seattle Center, more of the collection will be on display when the 2010-2011 season opens in November. Northwest Puppet Center will feature two exhibits each year and The Cook/Marks Collection will be a major portion of the Puppet Museum at the Northwest Puppet Center for generations to come.
To find out more about the Northwest Puppet Center’s 2010-2011 season performances: http://nwpuppet.org/weekend.html
