ARTS & MISCELLANEOUS

Carry Me
by Tim Lowly

Brian Volck in the on-line blog “Image: Art, Faith, Mystery” writes: “Lately, I’ve been reading some works at the intersection of theology and the impaired body. As a physician trying to live as a Christian, that’s where I spend much of my professional time. While I treasure idealized portrayals of the human figure in classical and Italian Renaissance art, I, like you, perhaps, am an imperfect body in a suffering world. In my life and work, I experience pain and suffering less as a brutal shattering of perfection than a familiar, often ironic companion - Here’s where I find the work of (21st century) visual artist Tim Lowly so compelling. His daughter, Temma, who appears frequently in his paintings, has a constellation of impairments Lowly never disguises. - Lowly lovingly places his daughter in contexts which neither idealize nor demean her.
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“The piggies are coming, the piggies are coming?.”


Be getting ready for the Omnipresent Puppet Theatre’s production of The Three Little Pigs in Plymouth Hall (at our church, of course) on Saturday, June 14 at 1 p.m. courtesy of Don and Kamela Kruszka, who founded the theatre company in 2003 and brought it to Bakersfield with them two years ago.

Tickets will be available for $3 each, and the proceeds for the event will be supporting The Empty Space Theatre on Oak Street.

Additional features of the event will include a yummy bake sale and an opportunity drawing for items such as a puppet production for your next birthday party, a 26-inch mountain bike and season tickets to both the Flics foreign movies at the Fox Theatre and the Bakersfield Condors. Ask Don about buying tickets ($1 each or six for $5???such a deal!).

Past productions of the Omnipresent Puppet Theatre include Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel and Anansi’s Rainbow based on spider folktales from around the world. (For more information about the theatre, see www.omnipuppets.org). The Kruszkas make themselves available for workshops, teacher in-services and private parties locally as well as on the coast and in Southern California.

The door opens at 12:30 p.m. And, yes, parents and neighborhood kids are invited. So please help to spread the word around that piggies will be playing in Plymouth Hall on June 14.

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