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Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum

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The Spiral Q Puppet Theater seeks to mobilize communities, empower marginalized people and illuminate the victories, frustrations and possibilities of living in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia and similar urban settings through the construction of full-scale giant puppet parades, toy theater and neighborhood pageantry. Through its puppet parades and pageants, Spiral Q is resurrecting and reclaiming an almost forgotten form of people's theater to amplify and unite the power and vitality of those working for change through art-making, protest, and civic theater.

More than just a public forum for the community arts of the Philadelphia region, the acclaimed Living Loft Museum provides affordable tours and workshops that celebrate local and personal voices through the universal elements and images of civic theater and pageantry. It is, moreover, a uniquely interactive exploration of the recovered history of a near-lost medium of popular political expression. The museum includes six-foot human heads of all shapes and sizes, a flock of birds of every hue, cardboard schools of fish, and an enormous paper-mache matador.

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    Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum

    3114 Spring Garden Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

    Phone: 215-222-6979   |   Official Website

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    02/11/12	Q-licious Ethical Society Building
    10/23/11	12th Annual Peoplehood Parade and Festival Clark Park
    10/01/11- 10/02/11	Peoplehood Open Studios Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    05/07/11- 05/15/11	Introduction to Stilt-walking Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    04/28/11- 06/16/11	Print-making: Turning Living Rooms Into Printing Rooms Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    04/28/11- 06/16/11	After-School Posters, Prints and Flags Club Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    04/27/11- 06/15/11	Mask Making: Become a Cardboard Virtuoso Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    04/26/11- 06/14/11	Trash Fashion: Making Clothes from Found and Recycled Materials Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    04/26/11- 06/16/11	After-School Puppet Arts Club Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    04/21/11- 06/16/11	Giant Puppet Performance Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    04/19/11- 04/21/11	Spring Break Puppet Arts Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    10/23/10	11th Annual Peoplehood Parade and Pageant Clark Park
    09/28/10- 10/21/10	Make or Pick Puppets for the Peoplehood Parade & Pageant Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    07/08/10- 08/05/10	Teens Revolt: What's On Our Minds NEXUS/Foundation for Today's Art
    02/13/10	Q-licious German Society of Pennsylvania
    12/05/09	The Peoplehood Pageant: A Proud Defiance Clark Park
    10/17/09	10th Annual Peoplehood Parade and Pageant! Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    10/11/09	Puppets in the Park Clark Park
    09/12/09- 09/27/09	Come Make Art in the Park with Spiral Q Puppet Theater Clark Park
    09/12/09- 09/26/09	Come Make Art in the Park with Spiral Q Puppet Theater Malcolm X Memorial Park
    09/11/09- 09/26/09	Come Make Art in the Park with Spiral Q Puppet Theater Village of Arts and Humanities
    09/11/09- 09/27/09	Come Make Art on the Porch with Spiral Q Puppet Theater Paul Robeson House
    09/10/09	Spiral Q's Peoplehood Puppet Appearances Clark Park
    09/10/09	Spiral Q's Peoplehood Puppet Appearances Village of Arts and Humanities
    09/09/09	Spiral Q's Peoplehood Puppet Appearances Paul Robeson House
    09/09/09	Spiral Q's Peoplehood Puppet Appearances Malcolm X Memorial Park
    08/28/09	Come Make Art with Spiral Q Puppet Theater! Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum
    04/27/09- 05/03/09	Museum Week at Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Living Loft Puppet Museum