Creators of the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series, the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative curated a show for the month of July 2008 at Space 1026 with their group show Out of the Shell of the Old. Justsseds' sole Philadelphia member (and puppeteer) put together an events series to give a greater context for the art installed in the space by presenting a panel discussion, a roster oflocal musicans, and, of course, a puppet show.

SHODDY PUPPET COMPANY (Leslie Rogers, Lucy Schneider, Michelle Posadas and Morgan F.P. Andrews) premiered “The Soldier & The Phoenix,” a toy theater fable with accordion accompaniment about a soldier’s memories of boyhood, a boy’s quest for chicken hearts, and a chicken’s desire for flight. REID BOOKS (author/composer of The Nothing Factory) debuted a new one-man-band performance “The Excremental Context: A Parody of Satire” in which Reid played prepared guitar, bugle, truck horns, cookie sheets and toilet plunger while getting to the bottom of an Ubu-esque yarn. ERIK RUIN gave an encore performance of “Flight: The Mythic Journey of a Person Displaced,” a wordless and cinematic shadow puppet play featuring a haunting violin and vocal score by KATT HERNANDEZ and assisted by the artful hands of AMY WALSH.

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Reid and Erik collaboarted on this play.
Visit the wonder cabinet of Amy Walsh here.
More music from Katt Hernandez and her violin here.
Lucy Schneider plays acoordion in this band and makes clothing that looks like this.

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