As summer turns to fall and the days grow shorter, we can only think of one thing - Halloween! Join us to kick off the season with Uncanny Cabaret II — a special multi-media variety show and fundraiser for our friends at Driveway Follies, the long-running and beloved Oakland Halloween puppet show tradition.
This family-friendly event will include live puppet and expanded film performances + recent and historic Halloween-adjacent films with live music accompaniment.
PROGRAM:
- "Halloween Spooks" blacklight puppet performance by Driveway Follies
- "Pedagogy" puppet performance by Risa Lenore
- "Ombres & Apparitions: Phantasmagoric Parlor Tricks" expanded film/shadow puppet performance by Facing West Shadows
- "Spook House" 16mm animated film + live sound performance by Kathleen Quillian
- "Mr. Strictland" puppet performance by David Wallace & Leonora Taylor-Wallace
- "The House of Ghosts" (1906) by Segundo de Chomón and "The Haunted Curiosity Shop" (1901) by Walter Booth, with live sound performance by Renée Delores & Owen Caraway
- "Tuning the Sleeping Machine" (1996, 16mm film shown on DV) by David Sherman
- "Spook Sport" (1940, 16mm film shown on DV) by Mary Ellen Bute & Norman MacLaren
- "Once Upon a Time" (1974, 16mm film shown on DV) by Lawrence Jordan
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