Thu Apr 11: Rabbit Tales presents IN THE HOLLOW
Featuring presentations by
GERALDINE JOSEPH - reading
CRAIG WEBSTER - short film
ELIZABETH J HILL - artist talk
Fergus J Walsh is a puppet designer, builder and performer from Ireland, currently working in New York City. He creates puppets from many materials, matching the material to the requirements of each particular project. He is currently an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design on Columbus Circle. Fergus has an MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut and a BA in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin. His latest production Hy-Brazal, a web-series about creatures in a parallel world, will be shown in part tonight! Fergus was the lead puppeteer at the world premiere of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival in August 2011. He will be touring with the show to Singapore in May of this year.
Fergus recently built puppets for The Little Shop of Horrors at The Gallery Players in Brooklyn, The Ohmies at the Playwrights Horizons Theatre on 42nd Street, for The Indelible Mark on Edward Barron at the Jim Henson Carriage House, and is presently performing with Wakka Wakka in a production of Saga.
Recently Fergus received a Henson Foundation Grant to develop a project entitled Hippo, about a Hippopotamus who wants to become the next President of the USA. In the past his work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Liz Marek and Bill Mack Award and the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry.
Geraldine Joseph is a writer, a mother of four, and a Registered Nurse. Although she's been writing since she was 5 she only recently formally studied at the Sackett Street Workshop here in Brooklyn. She is the daughter of Haitian immigrants, the youngest of 7 children, and was born and raised in Brooklyn, where being of Haitian descent was not, and in many ways is still not, cool. Geraldine writes about how her brothers and sisters had rocks thrown at them, how her mother wanted them to be more Europeanized and how even if the inside of the house was broken apart, the cupboards without any food, her mother kept the garden nice with brand new windows and door. Writing has always provided Geraldine with a free and safe place where she is hindered by nothing. She is here to read from here work-in progress entitled, Church Pants and Dress Shoes.
Craig Webster recently graduated from the film/video MFA program at the University of Iowa, where he created a number of short films and videos. These works emphasize that reality is full of dreams and fantasies and little things in-between that make what we think we see or "the external reality" not always so stable or else more curious than we normally give credit.
His films have screened at the Edinburgh, Buenos Aires, Hamburg (Germany), Brooklyn, and SXSW film festivals, among others. He lives in Sunset Park.
Elizabeth J Hill's art emerged from her background in nursing. Her sculptures have been exhibited and reviewed nationally and internationally. She's received numerous awards and grants, and taught in a variety of universities, graduate programs, and community settings. Ms. Hill lived in Scotland several years where her art became community-based. There, she facilitated community members in building giant puppets for pageantry. She experimented with the art of clowning, and created life-size dancing dolls with which she continues to perform. Ultimately, her art drew her back into service as a pediatric nurse, working in home care with medically fragile children. Today, her art and nursing merge as she embarks on creating custom therapeutic dancing dolls for people dealing with loss and grief. In all of her creative work, the focus has been the integration of arts into education, healthcare, and community-building.
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