Holiday News
From November 24th to December 4th, please use the code PUPPETLOVE to get 20% off of your whole order. Just enter the code in a field at checkout on our STORE SITE.
Please note that the last day to order for guaranteed shipping before Christmas will be December 16th. Anything ordered after that may not ship until after Christmas.
Of course, even for items ordered on the 16th or before, we cannot promise the packages will arrive before Christmas, just that we will ship them.
Our 2022 show was a success!
Our 22nd annual giant puppet show saw larger audiences than ever before. Thank you and let’s do it again soon!
For the 2022 show, Paperhand took an adventurous dive into the paradoxical nature of time. Paper, cloth, and cardboard were transformed into creatures and characters of all shapes and sizes, then came alive in a parade of primordial pageantry!
The show calendar and list of all our amazing opening acts are here.
Paperhand was thrilled to work with the amazing performer, writer and activist Eli Nixon!
We were inspired and informed in our work creating this summer’s pageant by Eli’s incredible new book Bloodtide.
Bloodtide attempts queer futurity, without mythologies of settler
innocence, and with sustained recognition that time extends through
our ancestors: recent ones, bog bodies, slithering fern dwellers and
primordial beasts with telsons ruddering behind. It’s a holiday
marking our relation to place and thus the necessity of making
reparations and contributing to land return projects. Bloodtide
promotes horizontalist structure building practices through pageantry,
crabaoke (altered lyrics), naturedrag, cardboard sculpting, feasting
and other hands-on locally oriented, commemorative & survivalist
practices. Bloodtide posits that shared homage and attention to
horseshoe crabs might further all repair efforts and other
insufficient necessities for our collective and individual healing/
transformation.
If you would like to buy a copy, you can do it here.
Listen and download the music of ‘The Meanwhile Clock and Other Impossible Dances’
Did you enjoy the music from ‘The Meanwhile Clock and Other Impossible Dances’? If so, you can keep listening to it by procuring the album online at the link provided below:
Books are in stock now, and are available for purchase
online and at:
Paperhand events, The General Store in Saxapahaw, McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village, Flyleaf in Chapel Hill, Quail Ridge in Raleigh
“The handsome volume is also a triumph against the subtle forces that always threaten the legacy of the live arts…
All through the book, a cascade of vivid full-page images and illustrations feature an astonishing array of larger-than-life mythic, iconic, and archetypal figures drawn from [sources] across the globe. Dragons and phoenixes fly across its pages.”
-Byron Woods for The Indy
*Shows! Workshops! Calls for volunteers!*
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