BareBones Productions is pleased to announce the selection of Alison Heimstead and Maren Ward as the Artistic Co-Directors of the 20th Annual Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza.
Alison Heimstead is the founder of the Halloween Extravaganza. Her 1994 senior thesis at the U of MN, “Sam Hain’s Flaming Pavement Puppet Show”, was the original Halloween spectacle performance that eventually became the Annual Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza. Alison is an artist, puppeteer, and puppet theater director. She is Performance Curator at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in Minneapolis.
Maren Ward helped present “Hullaballoo” in 1996, what was the first “Halloween Extravaganza” under the banner of BareBones Productions. She has been involved as a performer or director in every Halloween Extravaganza since. Maren is a stage actor and theater director. She is a founder and Producing Director at Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
For the members of the Halloween audience who joined BareBones over the course of five nights this year, thank you for being part of public art, for supporting community theater, and for celebrating the season and honoring the dead.
Read more about the BareBones Halloween Extravaganza 2012 on the Chicka-BOOM! home page.
An explosive “Thanks!” to the cast and crew of Chicka-Boom!
The following 286 known Aerialists, Artists, Board Members, Builders, Carpenters, Choreographers, Cooks, Coordinators, Dancers, Directors, Editors, Fire Performers, First-Aid Providers, Fundraisers, Graphic Designers, Kid Wranglers, Kitchen Hands, Lighting Designers, Managers, Musicians, Organizers, Painters, Papier-Maché Hands, Parking Lot Hands, Photographers, Police Officers, Performers, Puppeteers, Riggers, Site Hands, Sound Engineers, Stage Hands, Stilters, Storyboarders, Ushers, Videographers, Visiting Artists, Writers and various Helpers, Collaborators, and Supporters of all kinds, plus another dozen or two unable-to-be-printed Excellent Others all helped to create the 19th Annual Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza: [read more...]
Images from BareBones’ 19th Halloween Extravaganza, Chicka-BOOM!
Photography by Jayme Halbritter, October, 2012
Images from preparations for BareBones 19th Halloween Extravaganza, Chicka-BOOM!
Photography by Jayme Halbritter, October, 2012
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Chicka-BOOM! was dedicated to the life of Andrew Wagner who entered the woods on May 3rd and “crossed the veil” thereafter. Andrew was a friend, colleague, and mentor to hundreds in the Twin Cities theater scene and elsewhere and, among other personal and professional pursuits, was a respected actor, lighting designer, and director. Andrew was Sound & Light Technican on “Foretold” in 2005, Technical Director on “The Uninvited Guest” in 2006, Technical Director on “As Muck Would Have It” in 2007, and Artistic Co-Director on “Carnetheria” in 2010. Andrew’s last romp with BareBones was as a bike puppeteer, a “Sheriff” astride the Jackalope with the BareBones unit in the 2011 State Fair Mall Parade. [read more...]
On behalf of BareBones’ Board of Directors, we are thrilled to welcome Lynette La Rue and Esther Ouray as the 2012 Halloween Extravaganza Artistic Co-Directors.
Together they bring six decades of mega puppet building and pageant organizing wisdom. Their formal and hands-on experience is certain to bless this year’s show with a special kind of magic. Puppets!
–Scottie Hall, Halloween Staffing Committee 06/30/12 [read more...]
September 5, 2012
Dear BareBones Nation,
The acorn falls and the apple drops. With the imminent cracking of the milkweed pod, the bird and the butterfly return to the Gulf, the Isthmus, the Equator, and beyond. The monarch and the oriole have each caught out southbound on a northwest breeze. Orange is outta here if it can fly and now these are the days of the yellows of Fall – goldenrod, corn cob, school bus, and leaf. [read more...]
