2006 Adoption Awareness Event

 

Adoption Resource Center of Connecticut

78 Eastern Boulevard

Glastonbury, CT 06033

(860) 657-2626

 

 

Come celebrate National Adoption Awareness Month with Adoption Resource Center of Connecticut!

ARC-CT, in partnership with the Carol Autorino Center for Arts & Humanities at St. Joseph's College invites you to join our adoptive families for a day of fun learning, community support and unique entertainment.

Starting at noon at the Hoffman Auditorium in the Carol Autorino Center for Arts & Humanities, and continuing throughout the day, ARC-CT will be hosting an open house for those interested in learning more about adoption, both domestic and international.  Families representing domestic adoptions and adoptions from a wide variety of countries will be on hand to answer questions and share their experiences.

The concession stand will be open throughout the day. 

For more information contact Diane at ARC-CT.  To help sponsor this event contact Gene Ambeau at 860-212-1521.

 

At 1:00 PM, Little Theatre of the Deaf (part of the National Theatre of the Deaf) will present Next Stop:  Africa, the newest in their continuing Fingers Around the World series.

Tickets prices:
Adults $12.00; Seniors $10.00; Children under 18 $8.00

What is the National Theatre of the Deaf?

A Tony Award recipient for theatrical excellence in 1977, National Theater of the Deaf (NTD) has produced twenty-nine foreign tours in thirty-seven years. It is the only company to have played all fifty states, 7 continents, and in 1986, was the first American company to perform in the People's Republic of China. Over the years, NTD has succeeded in bringing American Sign Language to generations of worldwide theatre goers, and will continue to do so in the next millennium and beyond.


At 4:00 PM, the Cashore Marionettes will perform Simple Gifts.

This show is highly recommended for adults.  It is suggested that children be no younger than 8 years of age.

THE CASHORE MARIONETTES are unmatched in artistry, grace and refinement of movement. The internationally acclaimed Cashore Marionettes redefine the art of puppetry. The moving and humorous performances have astounded audiences in Europe, the Far East and across North America including stops at the Kennedy Center, Annenberg Center, Kravis Center, and many others.

The program, Simple Gifts, is a series of touching portrayals and poignant scenes from everyday life set to stunning music by such composers as Vivaldi, Strauss, Beethoven and Copland. The original vignettes presented in Simple Gifts, through a combination of virtuoso manipulation, beautiful music, theatrical illusion, and artistic insight, provide a sensitive vision of what it is to be human. The performance spans the range of emotions with characters and actions that are amazingly convincing. The marionettes are engineering marvels and the quality of movement is extraordinary.

Joseph Cashore has received numerous awards for his artistry including a Pew Fellowship for Performance Art, based upon his artistic accomplishment; a Henson Foundation Grant, an award intended to help promote puppetry to adult audiences; and a Citation of Excellence from the UNIMA-USA, the highest honor an American puppeteer can receive. The Cashore Marionettes are so well conceived and projected, the movement so convincing, the illusion so powerful, that the result is a compelling, unforgettable theatrical experience.

Tickets prices:
Adults $20.00; Seniors $15.00; Children under 18 $10.00

 

THE CASHORE MARIONETTES “A wonderful world of breath-taking magic is created by one man and his exquisite marionettes.”

-Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta

“The range of movement truly has to be seen to be believed and even that might be pushing it.”

-The Toronto Sun

“This collection of puppet vignettes, set to well-chosen music, is a simple but brilliant production that carries the audience through a range of feelings…this show is highly recommended even for adults who don’t happen to have kids.”

-Calgary Herald

“Puppetry purists (and their children) will be entranced by the lifelike delicacy and details of the mastery of this blending of beautiful craftsmanship and artistry with insight and illusion”

-The Atlanta Journal/Constitution

THE CASHORE MARIONETTES

 

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