We’re happy to announce our newest collaboration with the landmark Los Angeles establishment Bob Baker Marionette Theater.
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater is a Los Angeles establishment that has served tens of millions of kids and households since its unique location opened in Downtown Los Angeles in 1963. Their mission as a nonprofit group is to teach, have fun, and encourage creativeness by puppetry and the allied arts.
With over 2,000 handcrafted puppets and an archive spanning practically a century, Bob Baker Marionette Theater is without doubt one of the largest and longest working puppet theaters in the US. Now in a brand new Highland Park dwelling, they’ll proceed to broaden performances & packages to achieve households, adults, and the Los Angeles County neighborhood at giant.
From Welcome Founder/Artist, Jason Celaya: Rising up in Los Angeles, our public elementary colleges would often have subject journeys to BBMT. The reminiscences and influence of these early experiences of the “sensible magic” of the puppets nonetheless encourage a lot of what we attempt to seize and create right here at Welcome.
The theater simply reopened its doorways and welcomed again audiences after practically 18 months of closure that started in March 2020. Final December the neighborhood rallied across the theater’s survival with beneficiant help they usually had been capable of stay of their new location in Highland Park. The theater has a fundraising aim for 2022 of $100,000, and if they’re able to obtain it the Jerry and Terri Kohn Basis will match their efforts with a $50,000 donation. The proceeds from this collaboration will straight contribute to that fundraising aim and assist them of their mission of restoring, revitalizing, and reimagining ther theater, puppets and exhibits for a up to date viewers. Hyperlink in bio for each product and donation.
Store the collaboration right here:
Donate on to the theater right here: http://www.bobbakermarionettetheater.com/donate
All product may even be out there for buy on the theater:
4949 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Get blissful!
