Current Covid Policy: **For the safety of our artists, crew, staff and patrons, we strongly encourage properly worn masks when in Black Cherry's theater while not actively eating or drinking. Thank you!**
If you have accessibility needs or questions, please call 410-752-7272 or email [email protected]
If you have accessibility needs or questions, please call 410-752-7272 or email [email protected]
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday September 15th, 2024 We Wiggle Dolls Puppetry Collective w/a Magic Lantern performance by Georgia Beatty
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We Wiggle Dolls
a New York-based puppetry collective is coming to Black Cherry with a traveling puppet cabaret for adult audiences! They will be joined by Baltimore's own Georgia Beatty with a magic lantern performance! Sunday September 15th at Black Cherry Puppet Theater 1115 Hollins Street Baltimore, MD 21223 Doors at 6:30pm Show at 7:30pm Tickets $20/$15 available now CLICK HERE! Central Members of New York's We Wiggle Dolls crew have joined forces with performers from their respective tour stops to bring you a tonally and stylistically diverse evening of modern adult-oriented puppetry! Their ranks run the gamut from avant garde heroes of street theatre cut loose alongside cardboard butchers, to venerable traditionalists, and even performers completely new to the form! Cast: Anthony Selitto Budney @breakfast_puppets Tashi @_tashhi_ Jeremy Quentin @yellowlemonshapedrock Aleah Hyer @aleahhyer Dezy Kosmo |
Saturday September 21st, 2024 Puppet Slamwich
Poster by Sam Grossman
Puppet Slamwich
Saturday September 21st
at Current Space
Outside in the garden courtyard, under the big tent!
421 Tyson St, Baltimore, MD 21201
(enter through the back alley!)
Shows at 5pm (doors 4:30) AND 8pm (doors 7:30)
Tickets: $12-15
Tickets are available now! Click HERE to get yours!
Puppet Slams are evenings of short form puppetry acts intended for adult audiences, with a musical guest!
Performers:
Liz Downing
Cecilia Cackley
Eva Cranky Pantz
Geez and Louise
Brodrick Jones
Sari & Alice
Chuck Nesci
Hosted by Landis Expandis
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Events at Current Space are rain or shine. Tickets are non-refundable.
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Accessibility and Transportation Info: https://www.currentspace.com/visit
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Questions? Email us at [email protected]
Black Cherry's Puppet Slamwich Series is made possible by the generous support of the The HBH Fund and the The Puppet Slam Network and supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Creative Baltimore Fund, a program of Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
Saturday September 21st
at Current Space
Outside in the garden courtyard, under the big tent!
421 Tyson St, Baltimore, MD 21201
(enter through the back alley!)
Shows at 5pm (doors 4:30) AND 8pm (doors 7:30)
Tickets: $12-15
Tickets are available now! Click HERE to get yours!
Puppet Slams are evenings of short form puppetry acts intended for adult audiences, with a musical guest!
Performers:
Liz Downing
Cecilia Cackley
Eva Cranky Pantz
Geez and Louise
Brodrick Jones
Sari & Alice
Chuck Nesci
Hosted by Landis Expandis
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Events at Current Space are rain or shine. Tickets are non-refundable.
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Accessibility and Transportation Info: https://www.currentspace.com/visit
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Questions? Email us at [email protected]
Black Cherry's Puppet Slamwich Series is made possible by the generous support of the The HBH Fund and the The Puppet Slam Network and supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Creative Baltimore Fund, a program of Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
RECENTLY PAST EVENTS...
Tuesday August 27th, 2024 Gypsy Jazz Concert & Jam Session
Sam & Sami & Zach Serlet
Gypsy Jazz Guitar Concert & Jam Session
Tuesday August 27th Concert a
Followed by a Gypsy Jazz Jam and sketch session
(Bring your instruments or sketchbook!)
Concert at 7pm
Jam Session at 7:45pm
$15 suggested donation
Sam Farthing, Sami Arefin and Zach Serlet are coming back to Black Cherry to play a short concert and host a Gypsy Jazz Jam. Bring your instrument or sketch book and join the circle, or just come to listen. Either way, it's fun way to spend a Tuesday evening!
Wednesday August 14th, 2024 Puppet Potluck
It's Puppet Potluck time!
Come out and join us at Black Cherry Puppet Theater on
Wednesday, August 14th from 6:30-8:30pm
for the next Puppet Potluck!
Puppet Potlucks are a circle of puppet enthusiasts sharing ideas and works in progress! These sessions aim to build a supportive community for those interested in developing and sharing puppet shows! Have an idea to pitch, a work in progress you want to get feedback on, or just seek creative community around puppetry?
We'd love to see you there!
Bring some food and your ideas to share...No need to sign-up, just show up!
Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street
Baltimore, MD 21223
If you have accessibility needs or questions, please call 410-752-7272 or email [email protected]
Come out and join us at Black Cherry Puppet Theater on
Wednesday, August 14th from 6:30-8:30pm
for the next Puppet Potluck!
Puppet Potlucks are a circle of puppet enthusiasts sharing ideas and works in progress! These sessions aim to build a supportive community for those interested in developing and sharing puppet shows! Have an idea to pitch, a work in progress you want to get feedback on, or just seek creative community around puppetry?
We'd love to see you there!
Bring some food and your ideas to share...No need to sign-up, just show up!
Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street
Baltimore, MD 21223
If you have accessibility needs or questions, please call 410-752-7272 or email [email protected]
Saturday July 6th, 2024 Black Cherry Summer Salon!
Featuring Georgia Beatty, Isaac Fosl-Van Wyke, + Special Guest
Black Cherry Summer Salon!
Featuring Georgia Beatty, Isaac Fosl-Van Wyke & Breath of the Magi
Saturday July 6th Show at 8pm
Doors open at 7:30
Tickets $10-20 sliding scale!
Available now online--Click here!
JOIN US SATURDAY JULY 6th, for an array of entertainment from near and far! Exquisite fiddle and cello witchcraft from Black Cherry favorite Georgia Beatty, hopeful, psychedelic, alt-country with one foot in the graveyard from visiting Kentucky puppeteer and musician Isaac Fosl-van Wyke. We are also delighted to be joined by the incredible improvisational trio Breath of the Magi, feat. multi-instrumentalists Che Davis, Orlando Johnson, and Peter Redgrave!
Saturday June 22nd, 2024 Music at Black Cherry: Mole Suit Choir
Mole Suit Choir
with Ruby Mars and Suzanne Doogan
Saturday, June 22nd
Show at 8pm
Doors open at 7:30pm
Tickets available now! Click Here!
$15/$12/$10
Mole Suit Choir is a spectral electro- folk adjacent trio that creates using reverberated guitar, bowed banjo, and alien soundscapes. Formed over a dozen years ago to commune with the spirits of poet friends passed, they now conjure using all the words!
Check out Mole Suit Choir on Bandcamp
with Ruby Mars and Suzanne Doogan
Saturday, June 22nd
Show at 8pm
Doors open at 7:30pm
Tickets available now! Click Here!
$15/$12/$10
Mole Suit Choir is a spectral electro- folk adjacent trio that creates using reverberated guitar, bowed banjo, and alien soundscapes. Formed over a dozen years ago to commune with the spirits of poet friends passed, they now conjure using all the words!
Check out Mole Suit Choir on Bandcamp
Wednesday June 19th, 2024 Puppet Potluck
image by Sam Grossman who helps make these events happen!
It's Puppet Potluck time!
Come out and join us at Black Cherry Puppet Theater on
Wednesday, June 19th from 6:30-8:30pm
for the next Puppet Potluck!
Puppet Potlucks are a circle of puppet enthusiasts sharing ideas and works in progress! These sessions aim to build a supportive community for those interested in developing and sharing puppet shows! Have an idea to pitch, a work in progress you want to get feedback on, or just seek creative community around puppetry?
We'd love to see you there!
Bring some food and your ideas to share...No need to sign-up, just show up!
Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street
Baltimore, MD 21223
If you have accessibility needs or questions, please call 410-752-7272 or email [email protected]
Come out and join us at Black Cherry Puppet Theater on
Wednesday, June 19th from 6:30-8:30pm
for the next Puppet Potluck!
Puppet Potlucks are a circle of puppet enthusiasts sharing ideas and works in progress! These sessions aim to build a supportive community for those interested in developing and sharing puppet shows! Have an idea to pitch, a work in progress you want to get feedback on, or just seek creative community around puppetry?
We'd love to see you there!
Bring some food and your ideas to share...No need to sign-up, just show up!
Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street
Baltimore, MD 21223
If you have accessibility needs or questions, please call 410-752-7272 or email [email protected]
May 30th through June 2nd 2024 Alex & Olmsted's Happy Birthday, Mon Ami
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Join us for the World Premiere of
Alex & Olmsted's newest puppet show Happy Birthday, Mon Ami May 30 - June 2, 2024 at Black Cherry Puppet Theater 1115 Hollins St, Baltimore, MD 21223 Thursday May 30, 7pm (Sold out) Friday, May 31, 7pm Saturday, June 1, 2pm Saturday, June 1, 6:30pm Sunday, June 2, 2pm (Sold Out) Doors open 1/2 hour before showtime with limited seating! Tickets Available Now! Click HERE! Standard Ticket $17.50 Starving Artist/Senior $15 Kids 16 & under $10 Class, cultures, and expectations clash when Jacques' American cousin Sam visits him in Paris for a birthday celebration. Winner of a 2024 Jim Henson Foundation family grant award, "Happy Birthday, Mon Ami" will premiere at Baltimore's renowned Black Cherry Puppet Theater. Learn more about the incredible creators and puppeteers Alex & Olmsted HERE! |
Tuesday May 28th, 2024 Sam Farthing Quintet
Sam Farthing Quintet
Tuesday, May 28 at 7pm
Album Fundraiser Concert with
Max Jacobs- Violin
Sami Arefin-Guitar
Connor Holdridge-Guitar
Tomáš Drgoň -Bass
$10
No tickets needed. Pay at the door
Tuesday, May 28 at 7pm
Album Fundraiser Concert with
Max Jacobs- Violin
Sami Arefin-Guitar
Connor Holdridge-Guitar
Tomáš Drgoň -Bass
$10
No tickets needed. Pay at the door
Weekends April through May 2024-MANY FEATHERS FLOCK TOGETHER: A COMMUNITY PARADE
MANY FEATHERS FLOCK TOGETHER: A COMMUNITY PARADE
We are excited to announce our 2024 community parade, hosted by Black Cherry Puppet Theater and affiliated community artists as part of the annual Sowebo Festival on Sunday, May 26, 2024!
We will be making masks and processional objects this year inspired by birds, and other winged friends. We celebrate birds of different feathers who flock together* because their different abilities make the flock stronger. Join us as we craft bird masks, headdresses and wings. All work sessions will take place at Black Cherry Puppet Theater at 1115 Hollins Street in Baltimore, MD!
This is a volunteer-led event with crowd-sourced materials, by community for community. We welcome donations to the builds and to Black Cherry’s fund for renovating the theater’s facade here. Feel free to bring snacks to share to the parade builds!
For more information and to check in about access needs or questions, please email [email protected] or contact us through social media!
PARADE BUILD SESSIONS:
SUNDAY, April 28, 1-4pm
Sunday, May 5, 1-4pm
Saturday, May 11, 1-4pm
Sunday, May 19, 1-4pm
Saturday, May 25 1-4pm, Make and Take // make a HEADDRESS to wear to the parade
Sunday, May 26, PARADE at 1pm and 3pm starting from Black Cherry
**Update & more info on the parade:
This year's theme, Many Feathers Flock Together, invites you to come to the parade in whatever finery that title inspires! We also have new bird puppets and headdress/ masks made by members of our community, as well as puppets from past years available for folks to carry and wear!
There will be a make-and-take headdress making workshop for families this Saturday, the 25th from 1-4pm. You can make your very own headdress to wear during the parade on Sunday.
Parade Times are at 1 and 3pm on Sunday, the 26th. We will gather 30 minutes before each parade to get organized! If you have windchimes to bring, or whistles/flutes, please feel free to bring them! We will be an improvised whistling wind chiming parade band!
ACCESS INFO: There will be limited parking available on Lombard Street near Black Cherry and the start of the parade. For a list of places to park on Festival Day, visit here. There are curbcuts at the ends of the block where Black Cherry is located (1115 Hollins Street, south of the market), at Carlton Street and Arlington Avenue. For access from the sidewalk, there is one 5" step into the theater. A ramp can be set up to provide access. Please call in advance if you would like to enter the theater so we can set up the ramp. Parade participants will not need to go into the theater to participate in the parade.
The parade will take place at street level and will lead through crowded streets with lots of people. There will be the sound of chimes and whistles or flutes and crowds throughout the route. The route is about four tenths of a mile long.
Image and words by Valeska Populoh who helps make events like this happen!
We are excited to announce our 2024 community parade, hosted by Black Cherry Puppet Theater and affiliated community artists as part of the annual Sowebo Festival on Sunday, May 26, 2024!
We will be making masks and processional objects this year inspired by birds, and other winged friends. We celebrate birds of different feathers who flock together* because their different abilities make the flock stronger. Join us as we craft bird masks, headdresses and wings. All work sessions will take place at Black Cherry Puppet Theater at 1115 Hollins Street in Baltimore, MD!
This is a volunteer-led event with crowd-sourced materials, by community for community. We welcome donations to the builds and to Black Cherry’s fund for renovating the theater’s facade here. Feel free to bring snacks to share to the parade builds!
For more information and to check in about access needs or questions, please email [email protected] or contact us through social media!
PARADE BUILD SESSIONS:
SUNDAY, April 28, 1-4pm
Sunday, May 5, 1-4pm
Saturday, May 11, 1-4pm
Sunday, May 19, 1-4pm
Saturday, May 25 1-4pm, Make and Take // make a HEADDRESS to wear to the parade
Sunday, May 26, PARADE at 1pm and 3pm starting from Black Cherry
**Update & more info on the parade:
This year's theme, Many Feathers Flock Together, invites you to come to the parade in whatever finery that title inspires! We also have new bird puppets and headdress/ masks made by members of our community, as well as puppets from past years available for folks to carry and wear!
There will be a make-and-take headdress making workshop for families this Saturday, the 25th from 1-4pm. You can make your very own headdress to wear during the parade on Sunday.
Parade Times are at 1 and 3pm on Sunday, the 26th. We will gather 30 minutes before each parade to get organized! If you have windchimes to bring, or whistles/flutes, please feel free to bring them! We will be an improvised whistling wind chiming parade band!
ACCESS INFO: There will be limited parking available on Lombard Street near Black Cherry and the start of the parade. For a list of places to park on Festival Day, visit here. There are curbcuts at the ends of the block where Black Cherry is located (1115 Hollins Street, south of the market), at Carlton Street and Arlington Avenue. For access from the sidewalk, there is one 5" step into the theater. A ramp can be set up to provide access. Please call in advance if you would like to enter the theater so we can set up the ramp. Parade participants will not need to go into the theater to participate in the parade.
The parade will take place at street level and will lead through crowded streets with lots of people. There will be the sound of chimes and whistles or flutes and crowds throughout the route. The route is about four tenths of a mile long.
Image and words by Valeska Populoh who helps make events like this happen!
May 18th 2024 Puppet Slamwich at Current Space
Black Cherry Puppet Theater's Spring Puppet Slamwich, outside at Current Space!
An evening of Puppetry & Performance for Grown-ups!
Saturday May 18th
Two Showtimes @ 5:00pm (doors 4:30) & 8:00pm (doors 7:30)
at Current Space 421 Tyson Street
Tickets: $12-15
Tickets available now! Click here to purchase yours via Current Space!
ADVANCE SALES ARE SOLD OUT, BUT CURRENT WILL SELL "STANDING ROOM*" TICKETS AT THE DOOR
*If the weather holds, these "standing room" tickets also include seating along the built-in benches, on stools, and other seating. Those seats are just not protected from potential rain. If it's raining, you can still see the stage from the covered bar area though!
We are excited to welcome Baltimore legend Aaron Henkin
as our host for the evening
with Musical guest Orchester Praževica!
Performances by:
Alex & Olmsted
Chuck Nesci
Kevin Sherry
The Lantern Sisters
Mable Buchanan Palmer & Theron Palmer
And Lambe Lambe performers:
Cecilia Cackley & Kara Turner
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Enter through the back at 421 Tyson Street, Baltimore MD 21201
To ensure all ticketed guests are protected from possible rain, we can pre-sell 80 seats per seating. If the weather is clear the day of the show, we can sell a limited number of additional seats. This event often sells out though, so don't wait to get your tickets!
And don't forget to bring extra cash for popcorn to support Black Cherry!
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Events at Current Space are rain or shine. Tickets are non-refundable.
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Accessibility and Transportation Info: currentspace.com/visit
Poster by Maya Lawrence
Thursday May 2nd, 2024 Spellbinder Salon
Spellbinder Salon
Thursday, May 2 at 8pm
doors open at 7:30pm
Tickets $15/$12
Tickets available now, click here!
Back by popular demand, Black Cherry Puppet Theater is excited to present another installment of the Spellbinder Salon, hosted and curated by Jake Bee.
For this installment, we are joined by visiting former Baltimorean artist Christine Ferrera, whose unique blend of comedy and performance art has seen her headlining at venues and festivals across the country.
Christine and Jake will be joined by a host of local, spellbinding talent.
Thursday April 25th, 2024 Sam & Sami Gypsy Jazz Concert and Jam Session
Sam & Sami
Gypsy Jazz Guitar Concert & Jam Session
Thursday, April 25 Concert at 6:30pm
Followed by a Django Jam and sketch session at 7:15-10pm
(Bring your instruments or sketchbook!)
$10--No tickets needed, pay at the door
Sam Farthing and Sami Arefin are bringing their guitars back to Black Cherry to play a short concert and host a Gypsy Jazz Jam. Bring your instrument or sketch book and join the circle, or just come to listen. Either way, it's fun way to spend a Thursday evening.
Thursday April 11th 2024 Cast Shadows & Sbowe live score to silent film Vampyr
Cast Shadows and Sbowe
with a live score to the 1932 silent film Vampyr
Thursday, April 11th
Showtime 7pm
Tickets $15/$12.50
CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR TICKET NOW!
Cast Shadows channels spooky melodies from far-away places through accordion, piano, violin, guitar, toy piano. Freddy Lau (guitar) is a music conservatory graduate who loves to skateboard and to play the music of Django Reinhardt. Salis Dembling (piano, accordion, toy instruments) has collaborated, recorded and toured with musicians such as Beck, April March, Leo LeBlanc (pedal steel player for John Prine and Merle Haggard), Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes, and Ward Dodson of L.A.’s the Gun Club, and has shared stages with Johnny Cash, Screamin Jay Hawkins, the Buzzcocks, and Elliott Smith.
Sbowe is the solo project of Rachel Icenogle, a versatile cellist and composer based in Calabria, Italy with a mind for new and interesting sounds. Sbowe thrives in the scratchy, creaky, whirly sounds the cello can make, layering diverse musical textures in a lush groundwork for wild fables about insects and impressionistic stories about human batteries. About her EP Morimus (2022), Breaking & Entering Milwaukee wrote, “…the two tracks here create massive, textural, exquisite movements that feel poetic as they feel intentional. It’s like we’re observing both the gorgeous and tense moments of nature unfold in real time, punctuated by a variety of cello sounds.”
with a live score to the 1932 silent film Vampyr
Thursday, April 11th
Showtime 7pm
Tickets $15/$12.50
CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR TICKET NOW!
Cast Shadows channels spooky melodies from far-away places through accordion, piano, violin, guitar, toy piano. Freddy Lau (guitar) is a music conservatory graduate who loves to skateboard and to play the music of Django Reinhardt. Salis Dembling (piano, accordion, toy instruments) has collaborated, recorded and toured with musicians such as Beck, April March, Leo LeBlanc (pedal steel player for John Prine and Merle Haggard), Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes, and Ward Dodson of L.A.’s the Gun Club, and has shared stages with Johnny Cash, Screamin Jay Hawkins, the Buzzcocks, and Elliott Smith.
Sbowe is the solo project of Rachel Icenogle, a versatile cellist and composer based in Calabria, Italy with a mind for new and interesting sounds. Sbowe thrives in the scratchy, creaky, whirly sounds the cello can make, layering diverse musical textures in a lush groundwork for wild fables about insects and impressionistic stories about human batteries. About her EP Morimus (2022), Breaking & Entering Milwaukee wrote, “…the two tracks here create massive, textural, exquisite movements that feel poetic as they feel intentional. It’s like we’re observing both the gorgeous and tense moments of nature unfold in real time, punctuated by a variety of cello sounds.”
Wednesday April 10th, 2024 Puppet Potluck
Image by Sam Grossman
Come out and join us at Black Cherry Puppet Theater on
Wednesday, April 10
from 6:30-8:30pm
for the next Puppet Potluck!
Puppet Potlucks are a circle of puppet enthusiasts sharing ideas and works in progress! These sessions aim to build a supportive community for those interested in developing and sharing puppet shows! Have an idea to pitch, a work in progress you want to get feedback on, or just seek creative community around puppetry?
We'd love to see you there!
Bring some food and your ideas to share!
No need to sign-up, just show up!
Wednesday, April 10
from 6:30-8:30pm
for the next Puppet Potluck!
Puppet Potlucks are a circle of puppet enthusiasts sharing ideas and works in progress! These sessions aim to build a supportive community for those interested in developing and sharing puppet shows! Have an idea to pitch, a work in progress you want to get feedback on, or just seek creative community around puppetry?
We'd love to see you there!
Bring some food and your ideas to share!
No need to sign-up, just show up!
Sunday March 24th 2024 A puppet Purim Spiel by the Purim Spiel Teen Crew
The Jewish Museum of Maryland and Black Cherry Puppet Theater Present...
A Puppet Purim Spiel by the Purim Spiel Teen Crew!
A family-friendly interpretation of the classic Purim story told through puppets and audience fun. Bring your own noisemaker and come in costume!
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Doors 12:30
Show 1:00-2:30 PM ONE SHOW ONLY
Tickets $5
Advance tickets available Click HERE!
Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street, Baltimore MD
Featuring klezmer music by The Baltimorim!
Masks encouraged. Questions about accessibility? Email [email protected]
This program is co-sponsored by Hinenu: Baltimore.
A Puppet Purim Spiel by the Purim Spiel Teen Crew!
A family-friendly interpretation of the classic Purim story told through puppets and audience fun. Bring your own noisemaker and come in costume!
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Doors 12:30
Show 1:00-2:30 PM ONE SHOW ONLY
Tickets $5
Advance tickets available Click HERE!
Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street, Baltimore MD
Featuring klezmer music by The Baltimorim!
Masks encouraged. Questions about accessibility? Email [email protected]
This program is co-sponsored by Hinenu: Baltimore.
Saturday March 16th 2024 Puppet Slamwich!
Join us for our March Puppet Slamwich
--a variety show of puppetry and performance for adult audiences!
Saturday March 16th
Two showtimes at 6:30pm and 9:30pm
BOTH SHOWS ARE NOW SOLD OUT!
Tickets $15/$12
CLICK HERE to get your tickets
At Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins St.
Baltimore, MD 21223
Hosted by Tubey!
with Musical Guest Quinton Randall
Puppeteers:
Vida Cripps
Sheila Gaskins
Paige O’Malley
David Greenfieldboyce
Majeedah Johnson
Georgia Beatty
Thanks so much to artist Mika Nakano for creating this beautiful poster! You can check out more of her artwork here: https://mikanart.com/
Friday March 8th, 2024 Charming Disaster & Dream Baby
Charming Disaster & Dreambaby
at Black Cherry!
Friday March 8th
Showtime 8pm
SOLD OUT!!!
Thanks folks!
Tickets $17/$15 Click here to purchase tickets!
Goth-folk musical duo Charming Disaster, based in Brooklyn, NY, perform playfully dark original songs inspired by death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, science, and the occult. Their latest album, Super Natural History, is a musical cabinet of curiosities inspired by the natural world and the metaphysical realm, uniting the worlds of magic and science with songs that explore subjects like witchcraft, monsters, and the underworld alongside bats, plants, poisons, and parasites.
Learn more: charmingdisaster.com
"Charming Disaster has an affinity for monsters, mortality, paranormal activity and unearthly shenanigans…sparked by flashes of wry humor." –Rock & Roll Globe
Dreambaby is the solo act of Baltimore performance artist Jacob Budenz, whose signature “witch cabaret” style combines ritual, poetry, and mystical meditations with piano and vocal performance. Birthed at the 2013 Transmodern Festival, this act has been featured all over Baltimore—in venues such as The Yellow Sign Theater, The Creative Alliance, The Holy Underground, The EMP Collective, Terault Contemporary, and more—as well as The Black Cat (DC), The Manhattan Inn (NYC), Cafe Istanbul (New Orleans), The Americana Burlesque and Sideshow Festival (Asheville), and La Xata La Rifa (Spain).
Learn more: instagram.com/dreambabyjake
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Thursday February 15th 2024 Puppet Potluck
Come out and join us at Black Cherry
Thursday February 15th
from 6:30-8:30pm
for the next Puppet Potluck!
Bring some food to share!
No need to sign-up, just show up!
Puppet Potlucks are a circle of puppet enthusiasts sharing ideas and works in progress! These sessions aim to build a supportive community for those interested in developing and sharing puppet shows! Have an idea to pitch, a work in progress you want to get feedback on, or just seek creative community around puppetry? We'd love to see you there!
Image by Sam Grossman who helps make events like this happen!
Thursday February 15th
from 6:30-8:30pm
for the next Puppet Potluck!
Bring some food to share!
No need to sign-up, just show up!
Puppet Potlucks are a circle of puppet enthusiasts sharing ideas and works in progress! These sessions aim to build a supportive community for those interested in developing and sharing puppet shows! Have an idea to pitch, a work in progress you want to get feedback on, or just seek creative community around puppetry? We'd love to see you there!
Image by Sam Grossman who helps make events like this happen!
Saturday January 20th, 2024 Puppet Slamwich
Join us for Black Cherry's
"Jamuary" Puppet Slamwich!
Our kinda famous variety show of puppet and performance acts for adults!
Saturday January 20th, 2024
at Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street Baltimore, MD 21223
Tickets $15/$12
Available Now-Click HERE!
**BOTH SHOWS ARE NOW SOLD OUT!**
THANKS FOLKS!
Performers:
Phillip McKnight
Nino McQuown
Eva Cranky Pants
Storm Welch
Schroeder Cherry
Devin Martin
With Musical Guest AND Host:
Petite Fleur
Thanks to Mel Tillery for this incredible poster!! See more of Mel's work HERE!
Saturday December 16th, 2023 The Snowflake Man by PuppetKabob
poster by katherine fahey
The Snowflake Man
by PuppetKabob
Saturday December 16th at Black Cherry
Performance is at 2pm (runs 45 minutes long)
Tickets: children $5, adults $15 (or $10 hardship)
Tickets available now, Click HERE!
This winter, come chill at the Black Cherry Puppet Theater for the wintery tale of The Snowflake Man and be blissfully lost in a world of marionettes, miniatures, pop-up paper art, jazzy music, and live storytelling.
Inspired by Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley - pioneer of snowflake photography, this unique trunk show features beautifully designed Czech-style marionettes and a pop-up book of striking watercolor scenery.
PuppetKabob swings audiences into the historic 1920s as the tiny details in this UNIMA-USA award winning show bring harmony and focus to the wondrous beauty of the minute in nature combined with a little known piece of rural American history to magical effect!
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The show will be followed by a Puppet Social at 3:30pm
with tea & biscuits AND a Master Artist Presentation exploring of the process behind the creation of
The Snowflake Man with creators Sarah Frechette and Jason Thibodeaux!
Bring something sweet to share!
We will provide tea, although folks are welcome to bring their favorite blend.
Admission to the Puppet Social is sliding scale with suggested donation of $5, $10 or $15
Click here for tickets to the Puppet Social & Presentation!
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Click here to learn more about PuppetKabob and artist & founder Sarah Frechette
by PuppetKabob
Saturday December 16th at Black Cherry
Performance is at 2pm (runs 45 minutes long)
Tickets: children $5, adults $15 (or $10 hardship)
Tickets available now, Click HERE!
This winter, come chill at the Black Cherry Puppet Theater for the wintery tale of The Snowflake Man and be blissfully lost in a world of marionettes, miniatures, pop-up paper art, jazzy music, and live storytelling.
Inspired by Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley - pioneer of snowflake photography, this unique trunk show features beautifully designed Czech-style marionettes and a pop-up book of striking watercolor scenery.
PuppetKabob swings audiences into the historic 1920s as the tiny details in this UNIMA-USA award winning show bring harmony and focus to the wondrous beauty of the minute in nature combined with a little known piece of rural American history to magical effect!
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The show will be followed by a Puppet Social at 3:30pm
with tea & biscuits AND a Master Artist Presentation exploring of the process behind the creation of
The Snowflake Man with creators Sarah Frechette and Jason Thibodeaux!
Bring something sweet to share!
We will provide tea, although folks are welcome to bring their favorite blend.
Admission to the Puppet Social is sliding scale with suggested donation of $5, $10 or $15
Click here for tickets to the Puppet Social & Presentation!
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Click here to learn more about PuppetKabob and artist & founder Sarah Frechette
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 The Barnyard Sharks Variety Show
The Barnyard Sharks Variety Show
Wednesday, December 13th
Show at 8pm
Doors open at 7pm
Tickets $10 available now!
The Barnyard Sharks
with interviews by Aaron Henkin and Baynard Woods
Kemetic Lullaby (Bashi Rose & Michelle Blu
and Suppai Helwa
Sunday, December 10th, 2023 The Sam Farthing Trio followed by a Django Jazz Jam
Music at Black Cherry!
Sunday, December 10th
The Sam Farthing Trio
Concert at at 6:30pm
Tickets available now! Click here!
The show will be followed by a
Django Jazz Jam Session at 7:30pm
(bring your instruments!)
Learn more about Sam here!
Saturday November 18th, 2023 Puppet Slamwich at Black Cherry
Puppet Slamwich at Black Cherry!
An evening of Puppetry & Performance for Grown-ups
Saturday November 18th, 2023
Shows at 6:30pm and 9:30pm
Tickets: $15/$12
Available now!
BOTH SHOWTIMES ARE NOW SOLD OUT!
Thank you!
Performers:
Tatiana Nya Ford
Rebekka Paisner
Sam Grossman
Talbolt Johnson
Valeska Populoh & Marian McLaughlin
Danny Joe's Treehouse
Musical Guest: Marian McLaughlin
Poster Designed by Peter Dayton & Illustrated by Douglas Johnson
The Puppet Slamwich Series is made possible by the generous support of the The HBH Fund and the Puppet Slam Network
and supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Creative Baltimore Fund, a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts!
An evening of Puppetry & Performance for Grown-ups
Saturday November 18th, 2023
Shows at 6:30pm and 9:30pm
Tickets: $15/$12
Available now!
BOTH SHOWTIMES ARE NOW SOLD OUT!
Thank you!
Performers:
Tatiana Nya Ford
Rebekka Paisner
Sam Grossman
Talbolt Johnson
Valeska Populoh & Marian McLaughlin
Danny Joe's Treehouse
Musical Guest: Marian McLaughlin
Poster Designed by Peter Dayton & Illustrated by Douglas Johnson
The Puppet Slamwich Series is made possible by the generous support of the The HBH Fund and the Puppet Slam Network
and supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Creative Baltimore Fund, a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts!
Sunday November 12th, 2023 String Theory Theater premiere of Defrag
String Theory Theater
premieres a brand new family puppet performance:
DEFRAG
preceded by a few other short classic
String Theory puppet shows!
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE HAS CHANGED!
Sunday, November 12th at 2pm
(doors open at 1:30)
at Black Cherry
1115 Hollins Street, Baltimore, MD 21223
Tickets available online now! Click here!
Responding to a beckoning call, a child takes a surreal journey into their own inner realms,
meeting fantastical creatures in an effort to find balance and prevent a catastrophe!
**This performance rated as family show is suitable for children of all ages but best enjoyed by 6 yrs old and older**
Written and directed by Dirk Joseph, production of DEFRAG was supported by a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation
Learn more about String Theory Theater here!
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premieres a brand new family puppet performance:
DEFRAG
preceded by a few other short classic
String Theory puppet shows!
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE HAS CHANGED!
Sunday, November 12th at 2pm
(doors open at 1:30)
at Black Cherry
1115 Hollins Street, Baltimore, MD 21223
Tickets available online now! Click here!
Responding to a beckoning call, a child takes a surreal journey into their own inner realms,
meeting fantastical creatures in an effort to find balance and prevent a catastrophe!
**This performance rated as family show is suitable for children of all ages but best enjoyed by 6 yrs old and older**
Written and directed by Dirk Joseph, production of DEFRAG was supported by a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation
Learn more about String Theory Theater here!
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Saturday October 28th, 2023 Master Pique Theater
A Very Haunted Master Pique Theater
Join Pique Collective this October for a spine-tingling performance at Black Cherry!
Saturday, October 28th
two shows at 6:30pm and 9pm
doors open 30 minutes before each showtime
Tickets $15 General / $12 Student
Available NOW! Click HERE!
The evening will feature compositions from the likes of Jeremy Lyons, Lisa Perry, Martin Bresnick, Amy Beth Kirsten, Douglas Buchanan, and Ronald Roxbury. It's not just a concert, but a crafted experience where every note paints a scene and every moment tells a story.
Dive into a world where music, puppetry, and theatrical storytelling converge, crafting an eerily enchanting experience tailored for the spooky season. An event that promises to be as hauntingly beautiful as it is innovative, you won't want to miss this unique installment of MasterPique Theater.
Learn more about Pique Collective the modern classical music quintet HERE!
Sunday Oct 15th & Sunday Oct 22nd, 2023 FREE FALL at Black Cherry
Black Cherry Marionettes
Two Weekends of FREE FAMILY FRIENDLY events at
Black Cherry Puppet Theater!
Thanks to FREE FALL BALTIMORE!
Sunday October 15th and October 22nd
Puppet Performances at 1pm & 3pm
Puppet making from 1:30 until 3pm
Stay after the first show OR drop by before the second show to make your own puppet to keep!
Sunday, October 15- String Theory Theater and Black Cherry
Sunday, October 22- Kevin Sherry & String Theory Theater
It's free! Just show up!
Make your own puppet with help from our volunteers!
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String Theory Theater
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Kevin Sherry
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Saturday September 30th, 2023 Puppet Slamwich at Current Space
Black Cherry Puppet Theater's Fall Puppet Slamwich
Outside at Current Space:
An evening of Puppetry & Performance for Grown-ups!
Saturday September 30th
Shows @ 5pm (doors 4:30) & 8pm (doors 7:30)
Tickets: $12-15
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW VIA CURRENT SPACE!
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE!
*Show contains mature content*
(Don't forget to bring extra cash for popcorn to support Black Cherry!)
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This outdoor event will be held in Current Space's rear courtyard.
Enter through the alley at 421 Tyson Street Baltimore MD 21201
Accessibility and Parking Info: currentspace.com/contact
Events at Current Space are rain or shine. Tickets are non-refundable
poster by Valeska Populoh
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This outdoor event will be held in Current Space's rear courtyard.
Enter through the alley at 421 Tyson Street Baltimore MD 21201
Accessibility and Parking Info: currentspace.com/contact
Events at Current Space are rain or shine. Tickets are non-refundable
poster by Valeska Populoh
Fri Sept 15th, Sat Sept 16th, Sun Sept 17th, 2023 An evening with Alex and Olmsted featuring Milo the Magnificent with music by Witchez Bite!
An evening with Alex and Olmsted featuring Milo the Magnificent
with musical guest Witchez Bite
Internationally acclaimed puppet theater duo Alex and Olmsted
are bringing their award winning show "Milo The Magnificent"
to Black Cherry Puppet Theater!
Along with some variety acts and a short puppet films too!
Musical Guest Witchez Bite (Zach Serlèt, Tomas Drgon & Sami Arefin)
will get us in the mood with an opening set of swinging tunes before the show!
All ages welcome!
Showtimes:
Friday September 15th @7pm
Saturday September 16th @7pm
Sunday September 17th @11am
Tickets $15-$17.50 adults
$10 kids under 16
available online now
Click HERE to purchase tickets!
"The Jim Henson Foundation grant awarded MILO THE MAGNIFICENT® is a highly engaging puppet show about an aspiring magician. This wordless comedy, inspired by turn of the century vaudeville entertainers, is as highly physical as it is charming. Using stunningly innovative puppetry, Milo presents a variety of magic tricks which don’t always go as planned. Great for all ages!"
To learn more about Alex & Olmsted and the amazing work they do please check out their website: https://www.alexandolmsted.com/
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with musical guest Witchez Bite
Internationally acclaimed puppet theater duo Alex and Olmsted
are bringing their award winning show "Milo The Magnificent"
to Black Cherry Puppet Theater!
Along with some variety acts and a short puppet films too!
Musical Guest Witchez Bite (Zach Serlèt, Tomas Drgon & Sami Arefin)
will get us in the mood with an opening set of swinging tunes before the show!
All ages welcome!
Showtimes:
Friday September 15th @7pm
Saturday September 16th @7pm
Sunday September 17th @11am
Tickets $15-$17.50 adults
$10 kids under 16
available online now
Click HERE to purchase tickets!
"The Jim Henson Foundation grant awarded MILO THE MAGNIFICENT® is a highly engaging puppet show about an aspiring magician. This wordless comedy, inspired by turn of the century vaudeville entertainers, is as highly physical as it is charming. Using stunningly innovative puppetry, Milo presents a variety of magic tricks which don’t always go as planned. Great for all ages!"
To learn more about Alex & Olmsted and the amazing work they do please check out their website: https://www.alexandolmsted.com/
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Tuesday July 25th, 2023 Poose the Puppet & Toybox Theatre
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Poose the Puppet & Toybox Theatre at Black Cherry Tuesday, July 25th at 7pm (doors open @6:30pm) Tickets $15/$12.50 Available Now Click HERE! Don't miss these two captivating performance artists, coming all the way from North Carolina for one night only in Baltimore! Check out Toybox Theatre's Youtube page and Poose the Puppets Website |
Saturday July 15th, 2023 Namaslay: A puppet musical
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PLAYDOH PRODUCTIONS
presents NAMASLAY: A PUPPET MUSICAL Saturday, July 15th at 7pm Doors open 6:30 At Black Cherry Tickets $12.50-$15 TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW! CLICK HERE! "Namaslay” is a comedy puppet musical. It premiered in the 2023 New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival at Happyland Theater. This touring version is a solo-show adaptation of the original ensemble production. The show features a soundtrack of original musical numbers that are fun and thought-provoking for people of all ages. It deals with themes of gentrification, greenwashing, labor exploitation, toxic positivity, and wellness culture in the age of social media. **There is occasional explicit language. Show runs approx. 1 hour Playdoh is a multimedia performance artist exploring contested spaces and animated objects. They work as a prop and puppet maker and performer, creating work that irreverently comments on the way we structure our lives under capitalism, and the ways we try and fail to create and maintain authentic connections with one another. Puppetry performance and adjacent forms are uniquely situated to address how we perform and perceive "realness" within the artificial hells of our bureaucratic and tech-driven world. |
Friday July 14th, 2023 Resonant Rogues with Joe's Truck Stop
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RESONANT ROGUES with JOE'S TRUCK STOP
Friday, July 14, 2023 at 7pm Doors open 6:30pm At Black Cherry Puppet Theater Tickets $15-20 TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW CLICK HERE! The Resonant Rogues’ dark Appalachian folk paints a picture of their lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina and on the road. Anchored by the songwriting duo of Sparrow (banjo, accordion) and Keith Smith (guitar), they’ve traveled the byways and highways of America and crossed the oceans with instruments in tow. From riding freight trains to building their own homestead, the pair are no strangers to blazing unconventional trails. At once rooted and adventurous, each song tells a story of real experiences, friendships, and challenges. From a ridge in the Ohio River Valley, on a front porch where Kentucky’s visible through the winter’s bare trees, Joe's Truck Stop conspires over a smoking blend of Bluegrass, Honky Tonk, Western Swing, and whatever else finds itself inhaled and manifested by way of a wood box and steel wire...Years of digesting so much of the Country Blues lexicon and traveling the country learning the numerous styles of fiddlers, writers, and travelers alike has led to the original music that comes by way of Joe’s Truck Stop. The songs are stories of living on the road, love, temptation, heartbreak, family, banjo pickin' tobacco spittin' women, gas station sushi, and much more... |
Friday June 16 through Sunday June 18th, 2023 Black Cherry at The Columbia Festival of the Arts
BLACK CHERRY
performs
REQUIEM FOR A LANDFILL
(our classic marionette show made entirely of trash!)
at the
THE COLUMBIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
10475 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD 21044
Friday, June 16, 7:00pm
Saturday, June 17, 1:45pm & 4:15pm
Sunday, June 18, 12:20pm & 1:50pm
Click here for more information about the festival!
June 14th, 2023 Spirit-Rider and Night-Heart
SPIRIT RIDER and NIGHT HEART
Georgia Beatty & Maisie O’Brien
with
CURVING TOOTH
Liz Downing & Greg Hatem
Wednesday June 14th at 7pm
Doors open @ 6:30pm
Tickets $12.50--$15
Click here to purchase tickets!
Fiddler Georgia Beatty and shadow puppeteer Maisie O’Brien bring you “Spirit-Rider and Night-Heart", a tale of the haunted horse rider who spends years following a mystical drum in search of her heartbeat.
This is a performance where shadow dreams play, and song weaves a story from the future about the tasks of being alive.
Bill to be shared with the enchanting Baltimore duo Curving Tooth--
Liz Downing & Greg Hatem
Georgia Beatty & Maisie O’Brien
with
CURVING TOOTH
Liz Downing & Greg Hatem
Wednesday June 14th at 7pm
Doors open @ 6:30pm
Tickets $12.50--$15
Click here to purchase tickets!
Fiddler Georgia Beatty and shadow puppeteer Maisie O’Brien bring you “Spirit-Rider and Night-Heart", a tale of the haunted horse rider who spends years following a mystical drum in search of her heartbeat.
This is a performance where shadow dreams play, and song weaves a story from the future about the tasks of being alive.
Bill to be shared with the enchanting Baltimore duo Curving Tooth--
Liz Downing & Greg Hatem
Maisie O'Brien
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Georgia Beatty
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Liz Downing
Maisie O’Brien is a Philadelphia-based shadow puppeteer simmering together everything from cut paper to overhead projector, crankie theater, animation, printmaking, and cello. She has performed and workshopped her shadows nationally at puppetslams, festivals, and classrooms from Camden to Chicago. They have also developed shadows, puppets, sets, and costumes for local and international collaborations with filmmakers, dancers, musicians, playwrights, and educators.
Georgia Beatty is a fiddler and songwriter focused on cycle, lineage and healing through cultural transmission. Georgia’s first full-length album, Apprentice to Transformation is a collection of original & traditional fiddle tunes honoring death as a moment in transformation. Their playing uses microtonality and subtle pulse to create cavernous, oceanic space while holding grounded, danceable beats. Georgia’s study as a fiddler is in Norwegian traditional music.
Liz Downing creates aural images as companions to visual symbols. She collects sounds from beloved environments as a blanket for words to rest upon. When these words are sung, vibrations activate the symbols. This is the magic of music. Liz's visual images arise from the landscapes, which she loves to manipulate into existing upon a flat surface. This is the magic of art.
Georgia Beatty is a fiddler and songwriter focused on cycle, lineage and healing through cultural transmission. Georgia’s first full-length album, Apprentice to Transformation is a collection of original & traditional fiddle tunes honoring death as a moment in transformation. Their playing uses microtonality and subtle pulse to create cavernous, oceanic space while holding grounded, danceable beats. Georgia’s study as a fiddler is in Norwegian traditional music.
Liz Downing creates aural images as companions to visual symbols. She collects sounds from beloved environments as a blanket for words to rest upon. When these words are sung, vibrations activate the symbols. This is the magic of music. Liz's visual images arise from the landscapes, which she loves to manipulate into existing upon a flat surface. This is the magic of art.
April 30th through May 28th, 2023 Our Roots Are Entangled--Parade Build
Our Roots Are Entangled
JOIN US FOR A PARADE BUILD AT BLACK CHERRY PUPPET THEATER
Help us build large puppets and prepare other puppets for the Sowebo Festival Parade on Sunday, May 28. On Sunday we will parade around Hollins Market at 1pm & 3pm. Gather outside Black Cherry 30 minutes before!
All are welcome to attend or march with us!
We will also be fixing and shining up last year's puppets!
Drop-ins welcome, Masks encouraged, no need to RSVP, just come by and lend a hand:
SUN 4/30 12-4pm
SAT 5/6 12-4pm
SUN 5/7 12-4pm
WED 5/10 5-9pm
SAT 5/13 12-3pm
WED 5/17 5-9pm
Parade Headdress Workshop SAT 5/27 12-4pm
1115 Hollins Street (south of the market), Baltimore, MD 21223
Email [email protected] for accessibility needs and info
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Saturday May 20th, 2023 Puppet Slamwich at Current Space!
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We're taking the Puppet Slamwich back to the lovely outdoor courtyard of Current Space!
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW via Current Space! CLICK HERE!
An evening of Puppetry & Performance for Grown-ups!
SATURDAY MAY 20th, 2023
TWO Shows @ 5:00pm (doors 4:30) & 8:00pm (doors 7:30)
Tickets: $12-15 Purchase online in advance HERE!
*or CASH ONLY at the door while they last*
Current's Garden Bar will be open for your drink desires--
& don't forget to bring extra cash for popcorn to support Black Cherry!
Hosted by Laure Drogoul
with Musical Guest: Ghost Modal
Performances by:
Peter Redgrave
Danny Joe's Treehouse
Marian McLaughlin
Lil Lamberta
Schroeder Cherry
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This outdoor event will be held in Current Space's rear courtyard. Enter through the alley at 421 Tyson Street. Baltimore, MD 21201
Accessibility and Parking Info: currentspace.com/contact
Events at Current Space are rain or shine. Tickets are non-refundable
Thanks Esie Cheng @esie_doodles for the poster!
The Puppet Slamwich series is made possible by the generous support of the The HBH Fund and the Puppet Slam Network and in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Creative Baltimore Fund, a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts!
Wednesday April 26th, 2023 Charming Disaster
Charming Disaster returns to Black Cherry Puppet Theater for
TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT performances at 7pm and 9:30pm on
Wednesday April 26th
(aka the eve of Ellia's birthday)
Advance Tickets available: Click Here!
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Goth-folk musical duo Charming Disaster, based in Brooklyn, NY, perform playfully dark original songs inspired by death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, science, and the occult.
Their latest album, Super Natural History, is a musical cabinet of curiosities inspired by the natural world and the metaphysical realm, uniting the worlds of magic and science with songs that explore subjects like witchcraft, monsters, and the underworld alongside bats, plants, poisons, and parasites.
Learn more about Charming Disaster HERE!
“What do you get when you combine everything cryptic, horror, weird, macabre, showmanship, and pure dedication? You get the duo Charming Disaster.” –VWMusic
“Charming Disaster sound like the music that Pugsley and Wednesday Addams might have made after listening to the Decemberists, Squeeze and some Chopin.” - Yes! Weekly
TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT performances at 7pm and 9:30pm on
Wednesday April 26th
(aka the eve of Ellia's birthday)
Advance Tickets available: Click Here!
FB Event Page
Goth-folk musical duo Charming Disaster, based in Brooklyn, NY, perform playfully dark original songs inspired by death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, science, and the occult.
Their latest album, Super Natural History, is a musical cabinet of curiosities inspired by the natural world and the metaphysical realm, uniting the worlds of magic and science with songs that explore subjects like witchcraft, monsters, and the underworld alongside bats, plants, poisons, and parasites.
Learn more about Charming Disaster HERE!
“What do you get when you combine everything cryptic, horror, weird, macabre, showmanship, and pure dedication? You get the duo Charming Disaster.” –VWMusic
“Charming Disaster sound like the music that Pugsley and Wednesday Addams might have made after listening to the Decemberists, Squeeze and some Chopin.” - Yes! Weekly
Sat March 25th & Sun March 26th 2023: Poncili Creación/Daxophone Consort
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Black Cherry is thrilled to welcome back Poncili Creación from Puerto Rico, along with obscure composer collective The Daxophone Consort to perform their newest show
DEEPER CLOSER WARMER
TWO NEW SHOWTIMES JUST ADDED!
Saturday March 25th 8pm
Saturday March 25th 10:30pm (late night raunchy special!)
Sunday March 26th at 4pm (family friendly!)
Sunday March 26th at 8pm
Doors open 30 minutes before each showtime!!
Tickets available now: https://blackcherry.ticketspice.com/poncili-creacion
"Puppeteers Poncili Creación and experimental musicians The Daxophone Consort perform an ancient surgery that examines the crevices of flesh and consciousness. The operating theater is prepared for an unorthodox procedure, performed with instruments of bowed wood, foam, and circuitry. Inside the organism empires of bacteria will fall and new organic machines will be created while they search deep within the organisms for simple truths about existence"
To learn more about Poncili and see images of their mind bending creations follow them on Instagram
And check out this PBS interview with Poncili Creación creators--brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro
And learn about the Daxophone Consort HERE
DEEPER CLOSER WARMER
TWO NEW SHOWTIMES JUST ADDED!
Saturday March 25th 8pm
Saturday March 25th 10:30pm (late night raunchy special!)
Sunday March 26th at 4pm (family friendly!)
Sunday March 26th at 8pm
Doors open 30 minutes before each showtime!!
Tickets available now: https://blackcherry.ticketspice.com/poncili-creacion
"Puppeteers Poncili Creación and experimental musicians The Daxophone Consort perform an ancient surgery that examines the crevices of flesh and consciousness. The operating theater is prepared for an unorthodox procedure, performed with instruments of bowed wood, foam, and circuitry. Inside the organism empires of bacteria will fall and new organic machines will be created while they search deep within the organisms for simple truths about existence"
To learn more about Poncili and see images of their mind bending creations follow them on Instagram
And check out this PBS interview with Poncili Creación creators--brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro
And learn about the Daxophone Consort HERE
Thursday March 23rd, 2023 Trio Fadolín
Music at Black Cherry presents: Trio Fadolín
A cultural intersection through contemporary classical music
at Black Cherry Puppet Theater
Thursday March 23rd at 7pm
Tickets available now! Click Here to purchase!
Trio Fadolín members: Sabina Torosjan (violin), Ljova (fadolín), and Valeriya Sholokhova (cello)
More about Trio Fadolín in their own words....
Trio Fadolín is a new ensemble with a unique sonority — featuring Sabina Torosjan on violin, Valeriya Sholokhova on cello, and Ljova, performing on the fadolín – a new instrument that encompasses the range of the violin, viola, and most of the cello, finding its footing in an acoustic chamber music setting for the first time. We formed during the COVID-19 pandemic — our first performances were in the summer of 2021, on a makeshift stage at the Javits Convention Center mass vaccination site, operated by the US Army and sponsored by Sing for Hope. Since that time, we have made appearances at Bargemusic, Barbès, Symphony Space, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We continue to perform outreach events for Sing For Hope’s stage at the new Moynihan Train Terminal at Penn Station, where we frequently perform with special guests. As our opportunities to play together grew, our repertoire evolved steadily — it now includes works by Ukrainian composers Vasily Barvinsky, Mykola Kolessa, and Miroslav Skoryk, Spanish-American composer Andrea Casarrubios, folk music from Denmark, Sweden and Romania, in addition to original works by our fadolínist, Ljova. All three of us are graduates of The Juilliard School.
Our focus is multifaceted — on the one hand, we are exploring the unique sonority of the acoustic fadolín (six-string violin, with low C and F strings) within a trio context, using it — for the first time in history — as an integral instrument in an acoustic chamber music setting.
On the other hand, we also share a deep personal connection — all three of us grew up in the former Soviet Union and arrived in New York as teens. Sabina was born in Estonia of Armenian-Jewish heritage; Valeriya was born in Ukraine of Ukrainian, Jewish, and Russian heritage; Ljova was born in Moscow, Russia, of Ukrainian-Jewish, German-Jewish, Polish and Romanian heritage. We share a common bond of immigration, Eastern European literature, humor, animation and music.
We are here to tell the complicated story, to tell the stories of immigrant composers, to collaborate with immigrant artists, to showcase places where cultures intersect.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT Trio Fadolín's Website to learn more--read performer bios and hear them play!
Facebook event page
A cultural intersection through contemporary classical music
at Black Cherry Puppet Theater
Thursday March 23rd at 7pm
Tickets available now! Click Here to purchase!
Trio Fadolín members: Sabina Torosjan (violin), Ljova (fadolín), and Valeriya Sholokhova (cello)
More about Trio Fadolín in their own words....
Trio Fadolín is a new ensemble with a unique sonority — featuring Sabina Torosjan on violin, Valeriya Sholokhova on cello, and Ljova, performing on the fadolín – a new instrument that encompasses the range of the violin, viola, and most of the cello, finding its footing in an acoustic chamber music setting for the first time. We formed during the COVID-19 pandemic — our first performances were in the summer of 2021, on a makeshift stage at the Javits Convention Center mass vaccination site, operated by the US Army and sponsored by Sing for Hope. Since that time, we have made appearances at Bargemusic, Barbès, Symphony Space, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We continue to perform outreach events for Sing For Hope’s stage at the new Moynihan Train Terminal at Penn Station, where we frequently perform with special guests. As our opportunities to play together grew, our repertoire evolved steadily — it now includes works by Ukrainian composers Vasily Barvinsky, Mykola Kolessa, and Miroslav Skoryk, Spanish-American composer Andrea Casarrubios, folk music from Denmark, Sweden and Romania, in addition to original works by our fadolínist, Ljova. All three of us are graduates of The Juilliard School.
Our focus is multifaceted — on the one hand, we are exploring the unique sonority of the acoustic fadolín (six-string violin, with low C and F strings) within a trio context, using it — for the first time in history — as an integral instrument in an acoustic chamber music setting.
On the other hand, we also share a deep personal connection — all three of us grew up in the former Soviet Union and arrived in New York as teens. Sabina was born in Estonia of Armenian-Jewish heritage; Valeriya was born in Ukraine of Ukrainian, Jewish, and Russian heritage; Ljova was born in Moscow, Russia, of Ukrainian-Jewish, German-Jewish, Polish and Romanian heritage. We share a common bond of immigration, Eastern European literature, humor, animation and music.
We are here to tell the complicated story, to tell the stories of immigrant composers, to collaborate with immigrant artists, to showcase places where cultures intersect.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT Trio Fadolín's Website to learn more--read performer bios and hear them play!
Facebook event page
Saturday March 18th, 2023 Puppet Slamwich at Black Cherry
It's time once again for another evening of puppetry
and performance for grown-ups!
Join us on Saturday March 18th, 2023 for our kinda famous Puppet Slamwich series, a variety-like show of puppet acts and music at Black Cherry Puppet Theater! Support the arts and artists from in-town and beyond!
1115 Hollins Street, Baltimore, MD 21223
TWO showtimes at 6:30pm and 9:30pm
(doors open 30 minutes before each showtime)
BOTH SLAM SHOWTIMES ARE NOW SOLD OUT!! THANKS FOLKS!
Tickets are available NOW online
Click HERE!
Performers include:
Yates Godfrey
David Greenfieldboyce
Valeska Populoh & Marian McLaughlin
Floozy Charmichael & Yoru the Bunny Bear
and More!
Hosted by Sheila Strawberry Gaskins
with Musical Guest--Underworld Orchard
featuring Baltimore's own Elizabeth Downing,
Hanna Olivegren and Steve Strohmeier.
Poster Design by Annie Howe
Enjoy Puppets! Popcorn! Music! Drinks! Merch! and Community!
**For the safety of our artists, crew, staff and patrons, masks must be worn properly when not actively eating or drinking. Thank you!**
and performance for grown-ups!
Join us on Saturday March 18th, 2023 for our kinda famous Puppet Slamwich series, a variety-like show of puppet acts and music at Black Cherry Puppet Theater! Support the arts and artists from in-town and beyond!
1115 Hollins Street, Baltimore, MD 21223
TWO showtimes at 6:30pm and 9:30pm
(doors open 30 minutes before each showtime)
BOTH SLAM SHOWTIMES ARE NOW SOLD OUT!! THANKS FOLKS!
Tickets are available NOW online
Click HERE!
Performers include:
Yates Godfrey
David Greenfieldboyce
Valeska Populoh & Marian McLaughlin
Floozy Charmichael & Yoru the Bunny Bear
and More!
Hosted by Sheila Strawberry Gaskins
with Musical Guest--Underworld Orchard
featuring Baltimore's own Elizabeth Downing,
Hanna Olivegren and Steve Strohmeier.
Poster Design by Annie Howe
Enjoy Puppets! Popcorn! Music! Drinks! Merch! and Community!
**For the safety of our artists, crew, staff and patrons, masks must be worn properly when not actively eating or drinking. Thank you!**
The Puppet Slamwich Series is made possible by the generous support of the The HBH Fund and the Puppet Slam Network
and supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Creative Baltimore Fund, a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts!
and supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Creative Baltimore Fund, a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts!
Friday March 3rd, 2023 Long/Gone by Erik Ruin
***JUST ADDED A SECOND SHOWTIME AT 9:30pm***
Don't miss Erik Ruin's epic and immersive scrolling shadow show LONG/GONE
at Black Cherry Puppet Theater
Friday March 3rd
Shows at 7pm AND 9:30pm
**BOTH SHOWTIMES HAVE SOLD OUT! THANKS FOLKS!**
Doors open 30 minutes before each showtime!
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!
This show is limited capacity and expected to sell-out
Masks required when not eating/drinking
Over 100 feet in length, Long/Gone is a single intricately-cut piece of paper. The piece flows freely from image to image, while narratives and scenarios (often drawn from classic works of literature from Homer to Dante) emerge, collapse, and spill over and into each other. Philly Voice calls it “stark, intricate and wondrous – Ruin’s paper-cut art combines the enthralling fantasy of a storybook with the prismatic, fragmented beauty of a stained-glass window.”
In performance, Ruin scrolls the paper-cut continually across the surface of an overhead projector, creating an epic and immersive shadow-show, while musicians provide a live soundtrack. For this performance, he'll be joined by Jesse Sparhawk on harp and pedal steel guitar with special guest Will Yager on double bass.
Opening act by the musical wonder, singer, improviser Bonnie Lander!
Click here for the FB Event Page
Learn more about Erik Ruin HERE
Don't miss Erik Ruin's epic and immersive scrolling shadow show LONG/GONE
at Black Cherry Puppet Theater
Friday March 3rd
Shows at 7pm AND 9:30pm
**BOTH SHOWTIMES HAVE SOLD OUT! THANKS FOLKS!**
Doors open 30 minutes before each showtime!
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!
This show is limited capacity and expected to sell-out
Masks required when not eating/drinking
Over 100 feet in length, Long/Gone is a single intricately-cut piece of paper. The piece flows freely from image to image, while narratives and scenarios (often drawn from classic works of literature from Homer to Dante) emerge, collapse, and spill over and into each other. Philly Voice calls it “stark, intricate and wondrous – Ruin’s paper-cut art combines the enthralling fantasy of a storybook with the prismatic, fragmented beauty of a stained-glass window.”
In performance, Ruin scrolls the paper-cut continually across the surface of an overhead projector, creating an epic and immersive shadow-show, while musicians provide a live soundtrack. For this performance, he'll be joined by Jesse Sparhawk on harp and pedal steel guitar with special guest Will Yager on double bass.
Opening act by the musical wonder, singer, improviser Bonnie Lander!
Click here for the FB Event Page
Learn more about Erik Ruin HERE
Monday February 20th, 2023 Sixteen Tons: Limberjacks and American Folk Puppetry Workshop
This 3 hour workshop can accommodate up to 15 participants,
Open to all...adults, teens and kids ages 6 and up
**Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult**
To register visit: https://16TonsLimberjacks.eventbrite.com
Workshop is free, but space is very limited so please only register if you are sure you are able to make it! Thank you!
Black Cherry Puppet Theater, along with local performers and puppeteers including Sheila Gaskins and Valeska Populoh, are thrilled to host independent scholar and puppeteer Dr. Paulette Richards from Atlanta for a free limberjack workshop and look at the complex history of this folkart form. Dr. Richards co-curated the exhibition "Living Objects: African American Puppetry" at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in 2018-19. Her book "Object Performance in the Black Atlantic" is coming out this year!
"Limberjack puppets have constituted some of the most egregious examples of blackface material characters - a legacy that weighs on
American object performance like the proverbial sixteen tons of number nine coal. Yet limberjacks are a folk art form that incorporates elements of object performance traditions from European immigrant groups such as the Scotch and Irish. along with African American and indigenous peoples. In this workshop we will therefore review the history of limberjack puppets in the U.S .. build a simple. cardboard limberjack. and celebrate the bonds of solidarity workers of all ethnicities formed in the United Mine Workers of America union while performing to "Sixteen Tons,"originally composed by Merle Travis in 1946.
Paulette Richards is a puppet artist and independent researcher. She holds a Ph.D. in French Civilization from the University of Virginia and has taught at Georgetown University, Tulane University, and Georgia Tech. Richards has taught animatronic puppetry workshops at Friends School of Atlanta. Decatur Makers. the Dekalb County Public Library, the Center for Puppetry Arts. and the Puppeteers of America 2017 National Festival. She co-curated the Living Objects: African American Puppetry exhibit that ran at the University of Connecticut's Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and co-edited the anthology of essays from the Living Objects Symposium. Her book. Object Performance in the Black Atlantic is forthcoming from Routledge in 2023.
16 Tons FaceBook Event Page
Open to all...adults, teens and kids ages 6 and up
**Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult**
To register visit: https://16TonsLimberjacks.eventbrite.com
Workshop is free, but space is very limited so please only register if you are sure you are able to make it! Thank you!
Black Cherry Puppet Theater, along with local performers and puppeteers including Sheila Gaskins and Valeska Populoh, are thrilled to host independent scholar and puppeteer Dr. Paulette Richards from Atlanta for a free limberjack workshop and look at the complex history of this folkart form. Dr. Richards co-curated the exhibition "Living Objects: African American Puppetry" at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in 2018-19. Her book "Object Performance in the Black Atlantic" is coming out this year!
"Limberjack puppets have constituted some of the most egregious examples of blackface material characters - a legacy that weighs on
American object performance like the proverbial sixteen tons of number nine coal. Yet limberjacks are a folk art form that incorporates elements of object performance traditions from European immigrant groups such as the Scotch and Irish. along with African American and indigenous peoples. In this workshop we will therefore review the history of limberjack puppets in the U.S .. build a simple. cardboard limberjack. and celebrate the bonds of solidarity workers of all ethnicities formed in the United Mine Workers of America union while performing to "Sixteen Tons,"originally composed by Merle Travis in 1946.
Paulette Richards is a puppet artist and independent researcher. She holds a Ph.D. in French Civilization from the University of Virginia and has taught at Georgetown University, Tulane University, and Georgia Tech. Richards has taught animatronic puppetry workshops at Friends School of Atlanta. Decatur Makers. the Dekalb County Public Library, the Center for Puppetry Arts. and the Puppeteers of America 2017 National Festival. She co-curated the Living Objects: African American Puppetry exhibit that ran at the University of Connecticut's Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and co-edited the anthology of essays from the Living Objects Symposium. Her book. Object Performance in the Black Atlantic is forthcoming from Routledge in 2023.
16 Tons FaceBook Event Page
Friday January 27th, 2023 Trucker Talk
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Trucker Talk presents: Dreams & Nightmares EP Release Party With performances by: Sam Grossman with a brand new crankie, accompanied by Trucker Talk Lady Ro Liz Downing & Hanna Olivegren Doors 7:30, Show 8pm Tickets $15 UPDATE: SHOW IS NOW SOLD OUT!! Available Now Online! Click HERE ---------------- FB Event Page **For the safety of our artists, crew, staff and patrons, masks must be worn properly when not actively eating or drinking. Thank you!** |
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