MayDay 2009 Tabloid

Sunday, May 3

PARADE begins at 1 p.m. on Bloomington Avenue and 26th Street TREE OF LIFE CEREMONY about 3 p.m. after the Parade arrives in Powderhorn Park FESTIVAL to follow in Powderhorn Park

Created and produced by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre with the assistance of the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board.

Each MayDay we celebrate the twining together of two roots of traditional MayDay celebrations: The Green Root honoring the green energy of the earth—spring! And the Red Root honoring the work of human hand, heart, and mind. This year we celebrate red + green = brown = the ground!

“The work we are going about is this, To dig up the [King’s Hill] and the Waste thereabouts, and to Sow Seed, and to eat our bread together by the sweat of our brows.

The first Reason is this: to lay the Foundation of making the Earth a Common Treasury for All, both Rich and Poor, That every one that is born in the land, may be fed by the Earth our Mother that brought us forth, according to the Reason that rules in the Creation.”

– FROM THE SECOND DIGGER MANIFESTO (aka A Declaration from

the Poor Oppressed People of England) June 1, 1649

OUR COMMON TREASURY– Dig It Why are we investing in an economy* based on credit that enables us to spend more than we have to accumulate more than we need while sickening and depleting our Earth?

Who pays for this system, and who profits from it?

Our current money economy is tumbling to the ground.

Perhaps it is the Earth itself calling us to touch what is real, what is hurting – calling us down into the richness of the soil itself from which we were all born and to which we will all return.

The failure of our current economic system gives us opportunity to invest in a new economy of joy, gratitude, and service for the nourishment of the Earth, our Common Treasury — dig it!

Yes! for pigs, worms, and the smaller-than-the-eye-can-see who invite us to generate fertile soil for the wealth of all.

Yes! for the weaving of social justice and ecological concerns to nourish the health of the Earth’s communities.

Yes! For all we have! The wisdom of our bloodlines! Abundance of the Earth!

We have each other, and we are so rich!

*ECONOMY means MANAGEMENT OF THE HOUSE economy: oikos = house + nemein = to manage. (Merriam –Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary)

Our Common Treasury

PARADE STORY

YO U R F R I E N D LY G U I D E TO T H E PA R A DE O N BLOOMINGTON AVENUE

SCENE 1: SAVE OUR ASSETS: Dig the Real Economy Preservemos Nuestros Bienes/Disfrutemos la Economía Verdadera pp. 6–7

SCENE 2: SPROUT! ¡Broten! pp. 8–9

SCENE 3: ALL WE HAVE Todo lo que Tenemos pp. 10–11

JOIN IN SECTION

Participación Abierta

IN POWDERHORN PARK: TREE OF LIFE CEREMONY En El Parque Powderhorn: La Ceremonia del Árbol de la Vida pp. 16–17

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The MayDay Parade Creation Process: From Seeds to Full Bloom

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o national corporate logos. No pop culture icons. No waving royalty in gasguzzling vehicles. MayDay, as parades go, breaks the mold. In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre’s annual MayDay Parade and Festival has been a vibrant example of art as community building in the Twin Cities area for 35 years. In an era when art is seen mainly as something to buy, and activism is often narrowly defined as protesters disrupting the system, HOBT’s MayDay Parade and Festival is an annual embodiment of what happens when communities pull together and art and activism meet.

For many of us in this northern climate, the MayDay Parade is a time to celebrate the coming warmth with towering hand-built puppets and masks, music, and performance in the street. The essence of the parade is rooted in the local community and contemporary issues, concerns, and visions for a better world (see page 15 for more on the history of In the Heart of the Beast Theatre’s MayDay.)

SCHEDULE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Dedication

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THE PARADE Starts at 1:00 p.m., traveling from 26th to 34th on Bloomington Avenue before entering Powderhorn Park Parade Scenes Your friendly guide to the Parade on Bloomington Avenue p. 3 Scene 1: Save Our Assets

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Scene 2: Sprout!

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Scene 3: All We Have

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TREE OF LIFE CEREMONY Begins on the west shore of Powderhorn Lake in Powderhorn Park after the parade ends, around 3:00 p.m.

Ceremony

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About In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre Thank You MayDay Friends

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Etched in My Heart: 35 Years of MayDay

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Show Your Support for MayDay!

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Volunteer!

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For 35 Years

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Friends and Supporters

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Thank You Volunteers

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In the Heart of the Beast Theatre 2009-10 Performances and Programs Insert Advertising Section

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THE FESTIVAL Follows the Tree of Life Ceremony and ends at sunset.

Map and Schedule

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Everything in the parade is hand-built; every idea grows out of our community.

Early every year, participants and artists brainstorm and articulate a different theme in open community meetings. People from the community share their hopes and fears, dreams and concerns, and from these the year’s theme germinates. The team of staff artists then spends many hours conversing, digging deeper, and critiquing ideas to bring forth the theme and images for the current year’s parade and ceremony. (For a list of past themes, see page 15.) When the community workshops begin on the first Saturday of April, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre’s main auditorium is converted into a giant art studio. Throughout the month, everyone is invited to the 16 public workshops, and all who enter participate in the building of this communal story through the creation of puppets, masks, floats, and costumes.

Like a garden, the theater begins with all the potential of bare, rich soil. Within a month, the auditorium is overflowing with puppets, masks, and the creations that you see today.

On the first Sunday of May, it all spills out into the streets. Puppets come alive, people dance, sing and play through the streets and into Powderhorn Park. Today, you are probably joined by more than 50,000 participants and spectators from near and far. Diverse neighbors have come together in dialogue about current issues and identified a communal focus. The creative process gives voice to issues and concerns.

Together, artists and area folks have created this parade, which dissect problems in our society, but also envisions a better alternative. It is here that art galvanizes bonds between neighbors, evoking great joy and energy for the future. Enjoy, and happy MayDay!

Hands at Work (At the May Day Workshop)

Molding, shaping, voices twining.

A bag of cloth, a bundle of twigs, laughter abounding.

Wrapping, smoothing, grace of hands at work.

Sewing, braiding, everything comes together.

Moist brown clay and crumbled paper, yellow cloth, black ribbon.

Crimson paint, white of glue, green rising everywhere.

Craft a pig, shape a bird, birth a pinwheel, weave a web to remind us who we are as we touch earth’s gifts, our own deep roots.

– FLORENCE DACEY Mayday Poems 2009

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WE DEDICATE THIS YEAR TO

ALL YOU! OF

WHO GATHER FROM NEAR AND FAR TO ENVISION, BUILD, SUPPORT AND ENACT THIS ANNUAL EVENT

THANK YOU TO THE WORK OF THE TEAMSTERS! Celebrating the 75th anniversary of their 1934 strike that led to many gains in workers’ rights THE NORTHLAND POSTER COLLECTIVE! 30 Years!

For stirring our activism with clarity, beauty and wit

THANK YOU DEAR ONES, WHOSE MEMORY WE HOLD IN OUR HEARTS TODAY: BOB CALDWELL, Center Strength of the Tree of Life WASTEWIN GONZALEZ, Star Bright Leader, Wise Beyond her Years RAFALA GREEN, Midwife of Community Vision and Beauty, Sister Artist

AND TO THE STREETS AND FIELDS OF PHILLIPS AND POWDERHORN COMMUNITIES WHO RECEIVE THE JOYOUS MULTITUDES EACH YEAR.

THANK YOU! to all our 2-legged, 4-legged flying, swimming, and crawling neighbors!

And to Jim Koplin, greenman, who teaches us all to garden with his good sense, keen watchful eye, and skillful hands.

SCENE 1

SAVE OUR ASSETS: Preservemos Nuestros Bienes

The egg is cracked—YIKES! what do we do with it? What will we build to protect the egg? All the king’s men try to find a solution. Their system creates Waste and flies swarm. The House of Cards is unstable and falling. The king’s men desperately shovel stinky stuff to prop up this falling house. Humpty Dumpty is in his inevitable El huevo está quebrado - ¡ay, ay, ay! ¿Qué vamos a hacer con él? ¿Construiremos algo para protegerlo? Todos Los Caballeros del Rey tratan de encontrar la solución. Su sistema crea porquería merodeada por moscas. La casa de naipes es inestable y se está derrumbando. Los caballeros del rey palean desesperadamente para contener el derrumbe de la

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he state of our economy is a reflection of what we value in society, and of what we invest in with our time, our labor, and our resources. Our parade begins on the brink of ruin. The nest egg teeters on a wave of panic with no nest in sight. What happened to all that wealth allegedly created in the last decade? Where did it go? Did we see an increase in wages? In health care? In manufacturing and industry? New jobs? Any part of the real economy? What beyond easy credit (or debt, from our viewpoint) did we invest in? The assets of the few have been artificially inflated while labor, industry and the physical infrastructure of our country have been sold off.

We have in effect invested in nothing. As a result, what our parents could afford on one salary thirty years ago (shelter, transportation, food and health care) can hardly be secured today with the combined salary of two.

The unregulated financial agencies that got us into this mess, the king’s men, ride “to the rescue” on the ponies of a negligent government.

Their solution is more of the same: financial manipulations that inflate their assets but leave us with huge piles of debt — debt on which our economy teeters like a house of cards. This is a debt that we and our children and our children’s children will shovel to inflate their assets for generations. The architects of this disaster, the bankers and financial wizards, use our panic to consolidate resources and political power and further entrench themselves as our economic planners.

The nest egg is paraded as Humpty Dumpty on a swaying house of credit cards: our future perched on increasingly ethereal constructs of debt.

This economic house is in turn supported by a foundation of waste straight from the horse’s rear end, while all the little flies seek a share of the awful (offal) mess.

– Julian McFaul, Mark Safford, Alison Heimstead

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money… the banks and corporations that… grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children… wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

— THOMAS JEFFERSON

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the King’s horses and all the King’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

— EUROPEAN NURSERY RHYME

“The Fed has allowed an unregulated and untested, privately-controlled “credit generating” shadow banking system to infect the broader economy and create a nation of credit addicts which are entirely at the mercy of unpredictable market fluctuations. Is this how the economy’s “life’s blood” should be distributed? … (The Fed) threw open the profit-sluicegates for the banks and Wall Street speculators who made more money than anyone ever thought possible.

Clearly, this is what motivates Bernanke and Geithner. These are their real constituents.”

— MIKE WHITNEY, freelance journalist and columnist from “Counterpunch,” April 4, 2009

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Dig the Real Economy Disfrutemos la Economía Verdadera

downfall. Pigs dig, leveling the soil. Labor and unions assist in the creation of a level field of fertile soil, as do soil organisms. A piggy seed bank encourages us to invest in fertile soil for the feeding of all. casa. Es inevitable que Humpty Dumpty se caiga. Los puercos escavan, nivelando la tierra. Las herramientas de trabajo y la resistencia sindical ayudan a la creación de un nuevo campo nivelado de suelo fértil, con organismos del suelo. Un chanchito de ahorro, invierte en semillas para plantarlas en el suelo enriquecido de la imaginación humana.

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oes collapse mean the end? Or is there possibility for a different structure, a new beginning in Humpty Dumpty’s cracks?

A herd of shovel-nosed pigs undermines the devastating, deifying, sky-aspiring constructions of the king’s men. The pigs root in the dirt for the simple things they value: healthy poop, living soil. They upturn the earth, leveling the playing field, spreading the wealth, and reconnecting us with the soil and its inherent value.

Though the apocalyptic king’s men try to stop the swine from leveling the House of Credit, a line of laborers protects the work of the pigs.

With upraised shovels, these laborers resist the return of soil into piles of waste. With these same shovels, they turn to the work of leveling and invigorating the soil. By maintaining soil that thrums with life, we invest in a resource that can be shared equitably. The soil thrives with ecstatic worms and active micro-organisms, which direct our attention to the small, honest actions that create a humane economy. The bugs of the dirt prepare the soil to be a new kind of bank for us all: a place to store the seeds that will grow the bounty of our future. From a transformed economy will emerge a new kind of bank that, rather than hoarding savings, will protect free access to the resources of the earth as our common treasury.

– Janaki Ranpura, Lindsay McCaw, Harry Kingham

LABOR RESISTERS – In 1934, the Minneapolis Teamsters strike broke business- backed opposition to unions.

We acknowledge the 75th anniversary of the strike by showing active resistance through laborers.

If we must fill our lives with bullshit, let it be in verdant pastures occupied by noble beasts. After all, would you rather have bullshit splattered on your pants and boots or coming out of your mouth?

— PROFESSOR D. WABBIT

DIGGERS – The words “Common Treasury” were first used by the English Diggers in 1649. The Diggers were a group of poor people who gathered on common land and grew crops to feed each other and anyone who wished to join them.

MICRO-ORGANISMS/MICRO-CREDIT – In 2006, Muhammed Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering micro-credit: loans of a few hundred dollars to help the poorest poor start their own businesses by buying a car, a cell phone; tiny advantages that we take for granted provide a critical difference for entrepreneurs in developing countries. These batik flags honor the movement of micro-credit. Look up the Grameen Foundation for more information.

dokadoka to / hana no ue naru / bafun kana Thud thud upon the flowers drops the horse turd.

— HIROAKI SATO

“Money is not wealth; money is only a measure of wealth and a means of exchange. Real wealth is good land, pristine forests, clean rivers, healthy animals, vibrant communities, nourishing food and human creativity.”

— SATISH KUMAR, “Nature Crunch,” Resurgence, Jan–Feb 2009

“Now is the moment to replace this thin democracy with a very different, emergent, ‘living democracy’ — a way of life, set of values aligned with the best of human nature.”

— FRANCES MOORE-LAPPE, “Liberation Ecology,” Resurgence, Jan–Feb 2009

“Our problems are simply too complex, interconnected, and pervasive to be solved from on high: they require the ingenuity and exuberant engagement of billions of us.”

— FRANCES MOORE-LAPPE, “Liberation Ecology,” Resurgence, Jan–Feb 2009

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SCENE 2

SPROUT! ¡Broten!

The weaving of green and red creates an economy which we all share. Chia-leaders give out besos pesos, a new currency (exchange them for seedlings in Powderhorn Park!) Pinwheels spin wind into energy. Seedlings are carried in a moving community garden.

Compartimos la nueva economía verde, creando un tejido de verde y rojo. “Brotistas” dan besos pesos, la nueva moneda puede ser cambiada por

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e sprout, we spin. We are doing the work. We are the green collar workers, shovels ready. We are employing the Wind.

We are employees of the Wind. We spin and shine. We are chia-leaders. We are creating our own currency. We exchange our tenderness for your tenderness. We tend to each other. We are growing our own food. We share our food. We share our water. We are employees of the Sun. We are employing the Sun. We are tending our tender green sprouts. We sprout. We are creating our own new networks. We are dancing. We hear the call. We are spinning our own new webs. We pass them with care from hand to hand. We include all who want to join.

In order for any sort of “Green Economy” to thrive we must accept and embrace our true relationship with the Earth. We are not here to conquer and rule the Earth. The Earth is not our tool or our plaything to do with as we please. We are earth. Without this paradigm shift, any steps towards a “Green Economy” will be hollow and ineffective.

We are all earth! We are all food! Plants take energy from the sun and turn it into food. Animals eat plants for nourishment. When we die our bodies are in turn eaten by tiny creatures. Our bodies decay and return to soil. Plants grow in the soil and the cycle continues. We are what we eat. We are what our food eats. We are all food. We are all earth.

— Anne Sawyer-Aitch, Bart Buch, Kevin Long, Masanari Kawahara, Stacy Lee King

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BESOS PESOS: The Tenderest Tender – One important part of our vision is developing local networks and economies. We are inspired by places around the world that are creating their own local currencies.

We are planting a seed of this idea in our parade with besos pesos.

Chia-leaders will buy hugs, kisses, handshakes, and high-fives in exchange for besos pesos. Plant one on them, and plant one in your garden! Redeem your besos pesos in Powderhorn Park for seedlings to take home and tend.

Tender tenderers tend the seedlings, tall grasses, flowers. Bees and insects swirl. Sprouting spiders weave new networks. plantitas en el parque. Molinetes de papel transforman el viento en la energía. Llevamos las plantitas en un jardín comunitario móvil. Tiernos cuidadores atienden las plantitas, la hierba alta, y las flores. Las abejas e insectos giran. Las arañas con brotes tejen sus nuevas redes de trabajo.

This is the prayer Of our life Written on mud Uttered by rain, Spun into seeds, All held in one web Shaped by the seen and unseen This is the song Of our selves Each carrying light And dark Born of the Earth Touching the sky Time to dance our new joy green — FLORENCE DACEY MayDay poems 2009

A Noiseless, Patient Spider A noiseless, patient spider, I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself; Ever unreeling them—ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you, O my Soul, where you stand, Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,—seeking the spheres, to connect them; Till the bridge you will need, be form’d — till the ductile anchor hold; Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.

— WALT WHITMAN

“This is what I propose: A social-uplift strategy that creates green jobs, not jails; a politics anchored in a New Deal Coalition for this century; and a moral framework based on reverence for each other and the planet. It can be done.”

– VAN JONES, (founding president of Green For All, an organization that promotes green-collar jobs and opportunities for the disadvantaged), “Two Crises, One Solution,” YES! Magazine, Summer 2005

“The precise, miniscule craft of the spiders had so honed and focused my awareness that the very webwork of the universe, of which my own flesh was a part, seemed to be being spun by their arcane art.”

– DAVID ABRAM “The Ecology of Magic,” Finding Home (an Orion Magazine anthology)

“And then the miracle in green. A shy miracle and a fragile one.

A seedling, its leaves tender to the sun, drinking the water tenderly poured by the prisoners’ hands. A lemon tree, two inches of free-hearted life in a tiny patch of dry earth surrounded by barbed wire.

The prisoners fought for the right to have a prison garden, Saving pips and seeds from their food to plant, and they created more than a garden, it was a metaphysical icon for our age.

In all the brutality of Guatanamo- a metallic thought in a metallic cageThey created green and a memory of shade.”

– JAY GRIFFITH “Artifice vs. Pastoral,” Orion, March/April 2009

Participating Social Justice and Environmental Groups* Afro Eco Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota H.I.R.E. Minnesota Health Care, Infrastructure, Renewable Energy

Sisters Camelot S.P.R.O.U.T. Urban Farming Women’s Environmental Institute Youth Farm and Market Project *Those who had committed to marching in our section at the time we went to press.

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SCENE 3

ALL WE HAVE Todo lo que Tenemos

The elements of Earth, Air, Sun, and Water weave together, feeding the Turtle of the World. From its back grows the Tree of Generations: our rich biological wealth and diverse cultural heritage. Its falling leaves deliver the wisdom we most need to hear. The creatures of the world dance, connected to its twisted DNA tail. A flock of birds with wings like hands carry gifts of learning from our

Los elementos de la tierra, del aire, del sol, y del agua se tejen juntos. La tortuga del mundo come el tejido y forma el A.D.N. de nuestras raíces rojas y verdes. De éstas raíces, el árbol de

Turtle of the World

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ll we have is the wisdom of our ancestors, our red bloodlines intertwined with the green abundance of the earth. All we have is the courage and joy with which we strive for a better world. All we have is each other. And we are rich.

Can we learn to live lightly like birds, to pass on the knowledge we need to keep moving, and move together when the moment demands it? Just as a flock of birds is more than the sum of its parts, our actions can become a part of the vast movement that is rising: the movement for social and ecological justice (red and green intertwined, each stronger in that union).

In the nest of hands we find the potential of ourselves as human beings on this planet. We celebrate the people and movements who have taught us how to resist, and how to provide for each other.

Fragility and strength are in a precarious balance: we must come together with courage to face an uncertain future.

Quetzalcoatl delivers the message that the ancestors are here, opening connections between our creators and ourselves. Their power keeps us strong in our purpose and our work of giving thanks and finding balance. One people, one planet. One shining stitch in the fabric of possibility.

— Gustavo Boada, Malia Burkhart, Tina Nemetz, Emma Byron, Angie Courchaine

The earth is a gorgeous tapestry, and in every act, every interaction, we are weaving the image of ourselves. To gaze upon the intricate beauty of earth’s vast and splendid body is to also appreciate the rich heritage of form and culture that has shaped every one of us. As we dance around this Turtle Island, linked together through our DNA, may we learn to listen to each other fully – to appreciate the unique and precious gifts that every being has to offer.

– MALIA BURKHART

Birds Birds are stronger as a group. In a flock, they help the weaker, tired birds keep up. When one moves, the others sense it and quickly react as a whole. Birds have found a formation, a flock, that works for them. We must find ours. We need to look out for each other and learn to react to subtle hints of wisdom.

Stronger ties to each other are necessary in order to meet the challenges that face us.

The growing movement for global justice contains this magic of the flock. Groups of activists in the streets move spontaneously, flexibly, without leaders. Knowledge and inspiration are passed between neighbors and spread across the globe. We are guided and strengthened by others who teach us about courage and community: wisdom we will need to use and share wherever our journey takes us.

– ANGIE COURCHAINE & EMMA BYRON

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past to build a nest. A nest of hands holds the large earth egg. Quezalcoatl, the feathered serpents, collect energy and strength from the circle of this community and send it to the Heart of the Sky.

nuestra riqueza biológica y diversa herencia cultural crece. Un grupo de pájaros con alas, como manos, lleva los regalos de enseñanza de nuestro pasado para construir un nido.

Un nido de manos sostiene un gran huevo-tierra. Quezalcoatl, la serpiente plumada recoge la energía y la fuerza del círculo de esta comunidad y la envía hacia el Corazón del Cielo.

The Human Nest – Our Home Seeing homes collapse and neighbors disappear is sobering. As an alternative, we aim to build our houses and carry them softly. This home for the earth egg is made with the sticks of the tree, wisdom of ancestors, and our very hands. The red, white, yellow, and black hands symbolize the directions and the colors of all people. The nest nourishes and protects the earth, our common treasury, with no borders or boundaries.

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TINA NEMETZ

“Joy and thanks to the colors streaming in from all the earth’s illuminated circles.”

– FLORENCE DACEY, MayDay poems 2009

great sacrifice, great commitment to something beyond our own lives, to right what we have done, to bring health, security, and balance to our earth egg.

– TINA NEMETZ

“Joy and thanks to those who will not relinquish justice or banish tenderness.”

– FLORENCE DACEY, MayDay poems 2009

Circle Dance/ Buffalo Dancers The buffalo is holding firm to our prayers.

Forming a protective circle around the young, our children, our future. A buffalo is a house, containing everything we need to live. The buffalo is continuing abundance.

– TINA NEMETZ

The Earth Egg/Nest Egg The earth egg/nest egg is all we have: the earth growing green grass, Chia continents abundant and without borders.

We are one.

The Cosmic Earth Egg contains the seeds of all being. It is pure potential. We are pure potential. The energies of earth and sky merging. Energy! Life! Pregnant and patient about to awaken…

We have pushed the egg to the edge, a precipice. A gulf exists between what we have (all that accumulated stuff), what we have done, and where we need to go — for the earth, and for our lives on it. Our future is unsure, through our own doing. It will take

“You are here!

You belong to us We love you”

– GUSTAVO BOADA “Give us a blessing so that our words and actions be one in unity, and that we will be able to listen to each other. In doing so, we shall with good heart walk hand in hand to face the future.”

– FRANK FOOLS CROW in prayer before the United States Senate — 1975

Quetzalcoatl’s Presence Many of the world’s legends say that humankind was created after many attempts, a circle of failures and amendments. As a result, a circle of wisdom is opened to us when we are humble, barefoot and vulnerable. Sometimes we mistake our human achievements for the power of creators. We forget to say thank you.

We ignore the necessity of balance. But the dried mud on our foot connects us to the Earth, the life provider and mother of the maize. The Quetzalcoatl are messengers, connecting the creators in the sky with humans on this ground, reminding us to seek balance.

— GUSTAVO BOADA

He is our creator.

We are the new humans made of maize, substance and food.

The Maize is the fruit of Soil, the Sun and the honest work of the people.

Quetzalcoatl, again, has gathered all our failures.

He brought these as a humble offering to the soil spirit — mother Earth.

Generously, She tried one more time; the new maize was given to us: a fragile egg.

They are all praying timelessly and weaving our multicolored spirits.

When we are walking, they are shaping, with smoke, our prayer dance.

We say thanks one and a thousand times, we dance in infinite circles to keep the energy of our bodies in the center.

We burn copal to purify the air to make lighter our prayer to The Heart of the Sky. A prayer to strengthen our spirit to do it right this time.

— GUSTAVO BOADA 11

IN THE PARK

The Tree of Life La Ceremonia del Arbol de la Vida MAY WE HOLD THE VISION AND COURAGE to nourish our Earth as a Common Treasury for All, both rich and poor, that all may be fed by the Earth, our Mother that brought us forth.

Ceremony Team: Jackie Beckey, Julie Boada, Chris Griffith, Mick Labriola, Esther Ouray, Sandy Spieler, Kristi Ternes, Tom Wells

“Oh sacred world now wounded We pledge to make you free Of hate and war and hunger And selfish cruelty And here in our small corner We plant a tiny seed And it will grow to beauty To shame the face of greed” — PETE SEEGER Happy Birthday Pete Seeger! We are thinking of you as you celebrate your 90th birthday today. Thank you for encouraging us to sing together!

YOUR neighbors need your help.

The Minnesota Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign is asking for letters to help neighbors facing foreclosures on their homes. Here is one example of a letter: Dear Sheriff Richard W. Stanek, Please serve your community by finding alternative solutions to bank foreclosures, other than the taking away of homes from the hard-working people of Hennepin County. Thank you!

Conference Between the United States of America and the Sioux Nation of Indians.

Whereas, a conference held between the United States of America and the Sioux Nation of Indians, Lieut. Z. M. Pike, of the Army of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of the said tribe, have agreed to the following articles, which when ratified and approved of by the proper authority, shall be binding on both parties:

SIGN CITY DATE

Please send letter to: MN Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign 310 East 38th St. Minneapolis, MN 55409 Mnppehrc.com For more information: http://www.economichumanrights.org

ARTICLE 1. That the Sioux Nation grants unto the United States for the purpose of the establishment of military posts, nine miles square at the mouth of the river St. Croix, also from below the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Peters, up the Mississippi, to include the falls of St. Anthony, extending nine miles on each side of the river. That the Sioux Nation grants to the United States, the full sovereignty and power over said districts forever, without any let or hindrance whatsoever.

ARTICLE 2. That in consideration of the above grants the United States shall, prior to taking possession thereof, pay to the Sioux two thousand dollars, or deliver the value thereof in such goods and merchandise as they shall choose.

ARTICLE 3. The United States promise on their part to permit the Sioux to pass, repass, hunt or make other uses of the said districts, as they have formerly done, without any other exception, but those specified in article first.

Ratified April 6, 1808

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Ceremony “The credit crunch has shaken the stock markets and banks around the world… Excessive greed for limitless profit, and reckless lending and spending are the causes of the credit crunch. We are doing the same with Nature.

The greedy squandering of natural capital is risking the integrity and sustainability of the Earth itself…

[We] have confused money with wealth. [We] have failed to recognize that money is not wealth; money is only a measure of wealth and a means of exchange. Real wealth is good land, pristine forests, clean rivers, healthy animals, vibrant communities, nourishing food and human creativity. But the money managers have turned land, forests, rivers, animals and human creativity into commodities to be bought and sold. Even money itself has become a commodity as speculators trade in money to make more money...money has a place within the broad context of sustainability and a harmonious relationship with the natural world, but we have to put it in its place and keep it there, rather than allow it to dominate our lives to such an extent that the human community as well as the Earth community is endangered.”

— SATISH KUMAR “Nature Crunch,” Resurgence, Jan–Feb 2009

THIS LAND If we stood silent for one minute Could we hear This Land Crying out for us Through our bodies The old ones teach All we have This cherished Earth Our Real and Common Treasury All we have Each Other Joined together By and For This Land —

FLORENCE DACEY MayDay poems 2009

Joy and thanks to the ones who came before us, their songs and words brought forward, their courage and their laughter rising above the pain.

Joy and thanks to the ones who teach us to work with respect for the earth and each other.

Joy and thanks to those who will not relinquish justice or banish tenderness.

Joy and thanks to those who never sell their souls and to those who teach us by their errors.

Joy and thanks to the weavers of our breath and meaning, the shimmering webs that link us all.

Joy and thanks to the colors streaming in from all the earth’s illuminated circles.

Joy and thanks to the soil and water and air from which we arise, wild with life.

Joy and thanks to the wondrous world which cracks but does not break, which cradles us through the centuries, which still proclaims each of us a true and certain wealth.

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FLORENCE DACEY MayDay poems 2009

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THANK YOU MAYDAY FRIENDS!

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t takes a whole village, and then some, to put together the MayDay Parade and Festival. To all of you who planned, brainstormed, organized, fundraised, gave money and/or supplies, sculpted, sewed, pâpier mâchéd, stapled, built, painted, cooked, cleaned up, sang songs, played music, and danced: THANK YOU!

Great Praises to Our MayDay Volunteers as of April 21: Kristin Abhalter Jemiah Aitch Ryan Billig Bruce Blacher Jane Celine Paul Chamberlain Maddy Chamberlain Lola Chamberlain Madge Chamberlain Adam Cook Kevin Cosgrove Lynne Derby Sharon Dill Gaea Dill-D’Ascoli Andrew Ehrman Steve Epley Orlow Epley Chris Gamm Patty Gille Lenief Heimstead Soozin Hirschmugl Sean Hoakland Kai Hoakland Eric Hofstad Mindy Holte Mike Huber Johanna Huber Xena and Ethan HuffJohnson Loren Kellen Laura Kosowski Maria LaNave Matt Larson Greg Leirwood Nick Lethert D. Blake Love Cyril Malle-Barlow Phil Manz Grace Manz Kate McDonnell Hannah Nemetz Mary Jo Nicholai Alan Olson Dan Polnan

Krista Pearson Nichole Pederson Tom Peichel Barbara Peterson Becky Peterson Jake Peterson Don Quixote Monica Rojas Chacha Sikes Sandra Sonnenberg Igor Stanceric Sue Sterling Allison Stewart Huck Stoike Celia Swanson Willow Terri Cate Thoemke Jody Thorsett Harry Waters, Jr. Katie Willingham Erin Jason Kelsey Nicole Julian Munir Shelley, Charlie, and Zoe He Repo

SUN FLOTILLA CREW Trevor Adams Jemiah Aitch Dave Atchinson Ryan Billig Bruce Blacher Sarah Bowman Willis Bowman Crystal Brinkman Lelis Brito Leigh Combs Heidi Eckwall Soozin Hirschmugl Xena Huff Michael Katch Loren Kellen Ethan Johnson Janet Johnson Naomi Joy Sharon Meister Ken Meter Jason Misik Mindi Monroe Sreekishen Nair Carol North Eleanor Savage Molly Van Avery Arwen Wilder Vanessa Yancey

Friends School Band Gals in Sewing Nook Cherry at Urban Farming Margaret Shields at S.P.R.O.U.T. Sister’s Camelot Linden Hills Co-op Harry Waters, Jr.’s Macalester Community Theater Class

TREE OF LIFE CREW John Holmes Lana Holmes Michael Holmes Gene Zemske Nancy Zemske Jack Derbis Cris Derbis Lyonel Norris Vicki Kunerth Dennis Levendowski Lisa Knazen Larry Rosenbower Nancy Rosenbower Bryce Rosenbower Forrest Rosenbower Carol Newman Dan Newman Karla Anderson Sue Magee CEREMONY BAND Jackie Beckey Jonathan Kennedy Rachel Blomgren Tynan Kerr Jonathan Waldo Nikki Grossman Andy McCormick Jon Davis Paul Fonfara Andie Mazorol

MAYDAY ARTISTS SCENE I: Save Our Assets Artists:Alison Heimstead, Janaki Ranpura, Julian McFaul, Lindsay McCaw, Mark Safford, Harry Kingham (visiting artist) SCENE II: Sprout!

Artists:Anne Sawyer-Aitch, Bart Buch, Kevin Long, Masanari Kawahara, Stacy Lee King (intern) SCENE III: All We Have Artists:Gustavo Boada, Malia Burkhart, Tina Nemetz, Emma Byron (visiting artist), Angie Courchaine (intern) TREE OF LIFE CEREMONY Director: Sandy Spieler Team: Esther Ouray, Julie Boada, Kristi Ternes, Chris Griffith, Jackie Beckey, Mick Labriola, Tom Wells AT LARGE: Duane Tougas Florence Dacey, Visiting Writer* WORKSHOP STAFF Lucinda Anderson, Clay Room Assistant Shelley Chinander, Sewing Room Coordinator Jim Koplin, Puppet Construction Victoria Pena, Clay Room Assistant FESTIVAL STAFF Kathee Foran, Executive Director Paul Robinson, MayDay Coordinator Sarah Bourne, Radio Girl Alina Campana, Communications Coordinator & Booth Coordinator Leigh Combs, Park Traffic Coordinator Steve Elliott, Join-In Section Coordinator Brent Harring, Parade Traffic Coordinator Jamie Joslin, Parade Route Booth Coordinator Melissa Koch, Booth Coordinator Margery Otto, Volunteer Coordinator Pat Parnow, Co-Vendor Coordinator & Festival Site Coordinator Katy Peters, Financial Manager Mary Rivard, Booth Coordinator Sue Rogers, Co-Vendor Coordinator Jenna Thorsett, Booth Coordinator Dixie Treichel, Entertainment Coordinator Abby Zimmer, Info Booth Coordinator INTERPRETIVE SERVICES Judy Baldwin, Audio Description Mary Catherine, ASL Interpreter TABLOID CONTRIBUTORS/PRODUCTION Alina Campana, Editor Beth Holmes and Stephanie Rogers, Design Bonita Kosciolek, Ad Sales Holle Brian & Triangle Park Creative, Ad Layout Content provided by Parade and Ceremony staff and friends.

Every April, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre opens its doors to our community for a month of free workshops during which the MayDay Parade—floats, masks, puppets, and costumes—is built. People of all ages and walks of life work side by side to create one of the most beloved events in the Twin Cities—truly a collective endeavor. The financial and in-kind sponsorship of businesses and foundations help us make this community building through art possible, keeping the workshops free and open to all. Our deep gratitude goes to:

SPONSORS

SPONSORS COMPAS Medtronic Arts Access Program Hennepin County Medical Center Jerome Foundation The McKnight Foundation* Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board The Minnesota State Arts Board* The United Arts Fund of COMPAS

BLOCK HOSTS Concordia Language Villages Mya Dosch, Em Harris & friends from Carleton College Susan Gust, Harvey Winje & friends Sue Hunter Weir & the U of M CLA Art Student Community Lynne Larsen & friends MEETin.org Jan Metge & 2800 15th Avenue Block Club Patricia Ohmanns & friends Phillips Neighborhood Network Powderhorn Hennepin Partners Radical Faeries Revolting Queers Solidarity in Health Spirit of the Lakes Church Trans March Collective Twilight Tattoo Walker Community Church Kristy Weifenbach & friends YouthCARE Community Service Stars

*grants made for general operating purposes that also support this program. * Poet Florence Dacey’s participation in the MayDay process was funded in part through a grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts and Humanities Council.

IN-KIND SPONSORS Biffs Inc. Chicago Lake Liquors Clean Water Works Frontier Natural Products Co-op Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

Mother Earth Gardens Reddy Rents Seward Co-op and Deli Welna Hardware Wilderness Inquiry

Special thanks to all who have donated seeds and plants for this year’s ceremony.

... And the hundreds of individuals, foundations, and corporations who have contributed to this and other programs at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre.

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The MayDay Parade and Festival is presented with the assistance of the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board. Special thanks to Obie Kipper, Minnehaha District Manager; Richard Mammen, Director of Community Recreation Services; Arik Rudolph, Coordinator of Community Events; Peter Jaeger, Park Director, and the staff of Powderhorn Park for hosting the annual MayDay Festival.

ETCHED IN MY HEART:

35 Years of MayDay

BY SANDY SPIELER, IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MASK THEATRE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND A FOUNDER OF MAYDAY A version of this article appeared in the April/May 2009 edition of The Alley newspaper

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ach year arrives fresh with passionate conversations and reflection about the life we are living and creating together as a community.

Each year is etched in my heart. The inspired dialogue, building, and performing together acts as a yearly renewal in my life, and serves as a deep well for the continued unfolding of the many years. 35 YEARS?!

Thank you to the many, many, many people who have shared hearts, minds, and hands to bring MayDay to this celebration of 35 years!

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TINY BEGINNINGS MayDay began in the Phillips community of south Minneapolis, from my household called “Almond Tree” at the corner of 18th Avenue and 25th Street.

It grew from collaboration with my coworkers at Powderhorn Puppet Theatre (now called In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre) and with other neighborhood artists and activists. I wanted to build an event that would bring the neighborhoods of Powderhorn and Phillips together.

We began with the simple desire to bring neighbors out of their houses to greet each other at the end of the long winter—the literal long winter—and also the long “winter” of the Vietnam War. We envisioned the parade as an Ark carrying us through the storm that threatened to tear our community apart – to celebrate our arrival to a world renewed by joy and camaraderie. I had no thought of repeating this epic journey 34 more times, yet here we are, traveling together as a community through many storms, welcoming all to the arrival of each year blessed by a community abundant with love.

THE YEARLY THEME During our fourth year, I began speaking of our MayDay Festival as a yearly “pause to honor Change as the creative force that keeps life happening – to honor the changebringing of Earth’s process and to honor the change-bringing of people’s lives and work.”

Our MayDay has become a yearly mark, a notice that another year has unfolded in our lives. Where are we at THIS moment in time at THIS place?

We pause to celebrate the strength of people together with the earth, an everyday communion that we witness with public gratitude on this day. I see our MayDay rooted in two important traditional celebrations—the celebration of the “GREEN ROOT” of Earth’s green energy rising in Spring, and the “RED ROOT” of human work energy rising from mind, heart and hand.

Our theme this year celebrates the merging of the red and green energies of the world. We cheer on the great merging of the social justice movement with the environmental movement to remember humans as responsible relatives of the

earth. As we experience the failure of our economic systems built on debt, consumer waste, the theft and sickening of earth resources, we gather to rebuild an economic system that protects and sustains our Earth as a “Common Treasury for All.” A VISION FOR THE FUTURE It has always been my intent that MayDay’s images of our world in beauty and peace could give us energy and courage to make this vision real. Now more than ever, I wonder how our time together, this great gathering of brilliant minds, hearts, and hands, can produce actual work that serves the health of our planet. For example, our themes of recent years call us to find ways of transitioning from global oil dependency/depletion to local sustainable resiliency. To further this call, this year we have filled Bloomington Avenue with seedlings grown by many neighbors to be planted after MayDay in gardens all over the neighborhoods. As we imagine South Minneapolis as a village transitioning to local sustainability, perhaps neighbors will propose Bloomington Avenue as the great central permaculture garden for this “Blooming Town.” Maybe our parade route will eventually be a garden — wow!

Maybe Powderhorn Park will be the center of “Powerdown” initiatives to bring energy down from wind and sun into local homes. Dream with us and step into these visions with the real work to make our neighborhood rich in brilliance, beauty and peace. Let’s do it!

IN THIS YEAR In this year, let us remember with great thanks all who have built, enacted and received MayDay. MayDay happens because of the support of thousands and thousands of people. Let us remember our personal memories of various years, marking the joys and sorrows of life’s passages. Let us remember the events of our communities and of the world which have shaped the themes of the various years and etched a peculiar history and possibility into our neighborhoods. Let us hold each other at this moment which will never be exactly the same again, this precious gathering of THIS moment in THIS place.

Happy 35th MayDay!!

35 YEARS OF MAYDAY THEMES 2009: Our Common Treasury—Dig It (value and invest in our Earth as our ultimate treasury) 2008: A New Bridge: Infrastructure for the Future Beings (a blueprint for sustainability) 2007: Somos Aqua (water) 2006: The Time Is Now! To Come Together for the Common Good! (common good) 2005: Where Do We Go From Here? (disarmament) 2004: LEAP! (vision of the Holy Fool) 2003: This Is Our Child (violence toward children and a Bill of Rights for children) 2002: MAYDAY! MAYDAY! (a cry of distress and call for peace) 2001: Prayer for the Flowering of Compassion (teachings of the Dalai Lama) 2000: Divining Economy (wealth and health) 1999: Somos Uno (25th celebration honoring the red and green roots of Mayday) 1998: Sing! (Music) 1997: May Abundant Blessings Flow (gratitude and community wellness) 1996: Be a Bridge (to prevent violence in the community) 1995: Gorgeous Fever of Consciousness (as the virtual world expands, gratitude for our body’s senses) 1994: In Honor of Seeds: Awesome Vessels of Power (in honor of seeds) 1993: Let the Sleeper Awake! (call for deeper layers of consciousness) 1992: I Am Another Yourself (against colonial mindset in every way) 1991: Return to Turtle Island (honoring Native American contributions to the world, and the Tree of Great Peace treaty) 1990: Wheel of Change Ever Whirling (applauding the dismantalment of the Berlin Wall and Nelson’s Mandela’s freedom) 1989: Voices of Trees (honoring reciprocal relationship of humans and trees) 1988: When the Dragon Speaks (dedicated to the spirit of people) 1987: We May Be Family After All (from Chief’s Seattle’s famous speech) 1986: Corn (honoring corn as the intrinsic physical and spiritual sustenance of the Americas) 1985: Our World Home (think globally and locally) 1984: In Honor of Time and Change-bringing of Hearts, Hands, Minds (honoring teachers and 10 year olds for the 10th MayDay) 1983: Water II (in honor of water) 1982: Water I (in honor of water) 1981: In Honor of Change 1980: The Year of the Child (in alignment with United Nations theme) 1979: Wake Up! (honoring spring and people’s work) 1978: Changes (honoring the change-bringing of earth and of people) 1977: Seasons 1976: The Ark (Noah’s carrying us through the storm) 1975: The First One (bringing us back together from the years of the Vietnam War) 15

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Please Support MAYDAY! In the Heart of the Beast Theatre’s MayDay Parade and Festival celebrates its 35th year today. As we remember where we’ve been, we also look toward the future and dream that this special Twin Cities event has decades and decades ahead of it.

But for that dream to be reality, we need your financial help today.

This one-of-a-kind community event only happens because people like you value MayDay’s spirit. We gather folks from around the neighborhood and from across the globe to work collaboratively on this creative endeavor.

We take the castoffs of the world—old newspapers, leftover paint, and bits of fabric—to create a special lens through which we can look at the life we live together. With this lens we examine our weaknesses as well as our strengths, and pledge once again that the good within our human family will triumph.

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MayDay is not just an event that In the Heart of the Beast Theatre creates for the community but an event that we create in community with anyone who walks through our doors. From the very first brainstorming meeting in February, to the more than 2,500 people who attend the parade workshops in April, all the way through the clean up in mid-May, our community is integral to the collective creation of the MayDay Parade and Festival.

YES! I want to invest in the long-term: I want to invest in the long-term stability of MayDay by participating in the Gift For Us All campaign.

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But it’s not just sweat equity that makes MayDay possible—MayDay, like all of us, exists in the real world and has real world expenses of more than $200,000. The production of MayDay is mostly offset by grants, fees, and sales, but that accounts for only 75% of what is needed. For the remaining 25%, we turn to those that care about MayDay and ask for your financial participation. Without it, MayDay is not possible.

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HOBT volunteers acquire hands-on skills while working with master puppeteers. You’ll become part of the communal energy created by a large body of people working together toward a common goal.

We also welcome interns or long-term volunteers who are looking for a more in-depth experience.

Volunteers are the lifeblood of the community we call In the Heart of the Beast Theatre. Hundreds of people donate thousands of hours each year to make our work possible. They…

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Help create and stage the 36th Annual MayDay Parade and Festival next year. Hundreds of positions are available during April and on the day of the event including: community workshop assistants, festival set-up crew, ceremony ushers, strike crew, stage managers, parade marshals, booth staff and more!

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YEAR-ROUND If you have skills and an interest in fundraising, budgeting, teaching, the legal field, or neighborhood issues, join one of the Board committees.

If you are interested in volunteering with In the Heart of the Beast Theatre, please contact Margery Otto, Volunteer Coordinator, at 612-721-2535 x14 or motto@hobt.org.

INTERNSHIPS If you have some experience and skills in painting, pâpier-mâché, set construction, technical theater, working with children, or are interested in a marketing or arts management internship, please send a letter indicating your background and availability to motto@ hobt.org.

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FOR 35 YEARS IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST P U P P E T A N D M A S K T H E AT R E has been combining flour, newspaper, paint, imagination, and community input to tell stories that explore and celebrate the human experience and the wonders of the world’s natural and cultural richness.

Puppetry’s power lies in the act of transformation – of bringing something inanimate to life. This act in itself speaks to our lives, which rise and fall and rise again. As we share this act of building and performing, we find that art brings people together. It creates and expands community.

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The work of HOBT is strongly grounded in the concerns of its home neighborhood as they connect to regional and global issues. Through its artistry, the theatre brings people together in the hands-on creation of and participation in community-wide puppet and mask events. In addition to the annual MayDay Parade and Festival, HOBT produces original plays for both family and adult audiences. The theatre also engages adults, youth, community groups, and even whole towns in a range of creative education programs and collaborative experiences across Minnesota.

“Beneath the Surface was fabulous! Funny, witty, joyful - educational, enlightening, sobering — creative, poignant, and motivating! Thanks for the hard work, care and dedication that went into creating such an important show. Drinking fountain water never tasted so good!”

Bruce Silcox

— Audience member in response to Beneath the Surface, 2009

“One of the most inspiring displays of collaborative community building…

Their ability to work with such a wide and varied range of ages and interests was truly inspiring and the results they achieved were truly remarkable.”

— JOSEPH TADIE In response to an HOBT residency at Saint Mary’s University, Winona, MN, 2009

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FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS These incredible individuals have contributed to In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre between April 1, 2008 and March 31, 2009. Their support makes our performances, programs, and the MayDay Parade and Festival possible. We are grateful to each and every person on this list.

GIFT FOR US ALL The amazing individuals listed below have made a longterm investment in the stability of HOBT by making a pledge or gift of $1,000 or more to the theatre’s general operating budget.

Meg Anderson & David Washburn Shayna Berkowitz & Phyllis Wiener Amy Blumenshine & Michael Troutman Sarah Bowman Michael Brown Karen Cooper & Bruce Schneier Peter D'Ascoli Paula & Cy DeCosse Phil Deering & Carol White Lisa Doerr & Ronald Erickson Kathee Foran & Tom Beach Roger Hale & Nor Hall Patricia Hoff Catherine Jordan & Steve Lick David Koenig Gail Korell & Doug Brown Amy Lange & Jane Newman Debi Lipkin & Ray Lipkin Ed McFadden & Elizabeth Creighton Mary McVay Dan & Carol Newman Jane Newman David O'Fallon Helen Pound Catharine Reid Molly Rice & Dan Priebe Carole Senty & Richard Miller Curt Sloan & Helen Duritsa Kristine Smith & Wayne Bailey Kate Tilney & Fred Kaemmer Nancy Ward Barbra Wiener SUPPORTERS The following wonderful people have made a multi-year pledge to support HOBT. Julie Andrus Judy Baldwin Peter Berrie & Robin Langevin Roger & Lennore Bevis Janet Bisbee Brad & Sonia Borg Ron Brand & Gail Lundeen Brand Robert & Mary Brown Paul Busch & Clare Welter Carolyn Carr & Jonathan Sellman The McCoy Family Maura Chapman Pam Costain & Larry Weiss Ginny Craig Angela Crandall Neal Cuthbert & Louise Robinson Fran Davis Susan Doherty Tim & Tara Dougherty Patricia Eaves & Stuart Alger Edward Foster & Laura Tiffany Patricia Francisco & Larry Lavercombe Kathy Furey Linda Goldetsky Dave Hage & Therese Sexe Loren Halvorson & Ruth Halvorson Mark Halvorson Warren Hanson Dianne Heins Michael Henley & Randi Yoder Trish Herbert Diane & John Herman Susan Hoffman & Nancy Gossard Linda Houden Kurt & Kathy Hunter Nancy Hurd & Bill Schmid Nancy Hylden & Peter McLauglin Jeanne & John Hynes Beth Hynes-Ciernia & Pat Ciernia Julie Ingebretsen Nancy Johnson & Dan Nordley Sue Kearns & Steve Compton Michael Kehoe & Molly Greenman Markell Kiefer & Tyson Lien Lisa Knazan & Dennis Levendowski Gayle Lamb Paul Landskroener & Marybeth Neal Jeenee Lee & Craig Davidson Luanne Lippold & Bruce Johnson Raeone Loscalzo Katy Lowery Robert Lyman Phil Manz Ruth Markowitz Steve Mayer Denise Mayotte & Warren Hanson Roy McBride & Lucinda Anderson James McCarthy & Gloria Peterson Bill & Eunice Milbrath Marian Moore Gretchen Musicant Carol & Chris North Patricia Ohmans & Anthony Schmitz Dave & JoAnne Peterson Deanna Phillips Linda Picone Jackie Prince Terese Pritschet MaryLynn Pulscher & James Bode Eleanor Savage D. A. Schaefer Naomi Scheman Gary Schiff David W Schroth & Laura Jean Jamie Schweser Sima Shahriar Colleen Sheehy Rose Sherman Erin Terese Sim Daniel Spock & Lisa First Walton Stanley & Leslie Rapp Andrea Steele & Jennifer Cash Catherine Stepanek George Sutton Pat Thompson Mary Laurel True Anne & Tom Ulseth

Jill Van Koolwijk & William Hommeyer Harry Waters Jr Katherine Werner Lisa Whitehill & David Mahoney Barbara Wiener Gwen & James Wildermuth Diane Wiley Tony Williams & Kathy Webb Jodi Williams Laura Wittstock Grit Youngquist & Jon Kerr Gene & Nancy Zemske Louise Ziegler FRIENDS Those listed below are the folks who have helped to keep HOBT strong during the past year.

Jean Abbott Tatiana Achcar Maureen & Ira Adelman Andrew & Jeanne Adelmann Shari Albers & Steve Miller Judith Alessio Joe & Christine Alfano Barbara Alfrey Elizabeth Allis Kristine Alswager Verna Alt & Win Weston Lorie Alveshere Amy Andersen & Tim Wilson Mark & Donna Anderson Beverly Anderson Joy Anderson Linda Anderson & Timothy Hammett Elizabeth Anderson Beverly Anderson Christine Anderson & Randy Manthey Susan M. Anderson Ann Anderson Julia Anderson Elizabeth Anderson Jeanne Anderson Barbara Anderson Van Anderson Dean Andrew Nancy Andrews Marion Angelica & Emil Angelica Vincent Anthony Catherine Apostle Gretchen Arana Anne Archbold & Paul Sommers Judy Arginteanu & Dan Welch Carol Arthur & Alan Arthur Amy Atzel Glenn Austin & Naomi Ward James & Carol Avant Ann Avant Sigrid Bachmann Linda Back McKay & David McKay Jeanne Badman & Jim Wells Barbara Bail Darla Baker Kelly Barnebey Carol Barnett Sara Barsel & Randy Neprash Karen Bartig Katherine Barton & Gerald Kettunen Cynthia Bartoo Jim Bartsch Corrie Bastian Jack Becker & Nancy Reynolds Mikkel & Lois Beckmen Jeanne Bedard Jeff & Karyl Beeman Marian & Jean Behrend Toni Beitz Donald & Mary Anne Bennett Eric Berger Kris Berggren & Ben Olk Lisa Bergin & Elizabeth Wheeler Amy Bergquist Lorie Bergstrom & Scott Vreeland JoAnne Berkenkamp Michele Bevis Leo Bickelhaupt Marian Biehn Sharon Bigot Paul Birnberg Susan Bishop Judy & Douglas Bjork Judy Blases Alice Bloch Ruth Blom Alison Blomster Bonita Blumenauer Carolyn Borgen Lynda Borjesson Tom Borrup Mary Boyer Alex Boyer Yiscah Bracha Margaret Braden-Stein & Jerome Abraham-Stein Mary Ann Bradley Elizabeth Branca & Robin Dunn Mary Brandl Michelle Brechon Rachel Breen Andrea Breen & William Perkiss Karen Brezinka & Michael King Moriah Brierley Lori Brink Sue Brinton Judy Broad Linda Brooks Kristen Brown & Kristin Schaefer Richard Brownlee James Brummett John Bueche Malia Burkhart Laura Burlis Mary Burnison Catherine Burns Mary Burns Pat Burns Francis Busta Santos Bustamante Luisa & Patrick Cabello Hansel Andrew Caddock Douglas Cain Louise Cameron Kathryn Campbell & Ralph Campbell III Karen Cardy Renee & David Carey Lisa Marie Carlson Alan Carpenter Stephen Carpenter & Megan Hazen Rosemary & Thomas Caspar Melisande Charles

Ann Chemin Elizabeth Childs & Todd Larson Kimberly Christensen & David Sielaff Eric Christopher Joe Chvala Susan Claeys Bruce Clark Whitney & Sarah Clark Deb Clemmensen & Jon Pratt Eva & Barry Cohen Prentis Cox & Amy Stubenhaus Trentt Cramer Amy Crawford Fred Crea Bonnie Creason Barbara Crosby Thomas Cross & Patricia Kelly Marilyn Cuneo Howard Cutts Florence Dacey Janet Dahlem Pat Dahlen Deborah Dane & Scott Walker Lexie Danner Catherine Day Diadra Decker Lori Dehn Judy DeLaittre Claudia Dengler & Alan Saltzman Janice DeNoble Lynne Derby Arletta & Rolland Derby Natasha & Dan DeVoe Andrew Dick & Jeanne Vergeront Barbara Dickie Thomas Dickinson Gaea Dill-D'Ascoli Julie Dirksen Elizabeth Dodd & Joseph Mlinar Peter Dodge Richard & Patricia Donnay Lisa Dooley Mary-Carolyn Dorfman Terry Dosh & Millicent Adams Dosh Melissa Driscoll & Jay Hambidge Shannon Drury Sandra Duclos Field Mary Durfee Therese Durkin Pamela Dyer-Bennet Julia Eagles Rachael Harlos Roberta Ebbers John Eckberg Joseph Edelheit Machelle Norling Mary Louise Egan Terry Egge George Ehrenberg Lollie Eidsness Judith Eisner Kent Eklund Jennifer Elliott Oliver Ellis & Sarah Honeywell Gayla & Chris Ellis Judith Emmings Pam Endean & Colleen Carey Judy Enenstein Linda Engberg Ron & Barbara Engle Vicki Englich L. Peter & Karen Erickson Mary Erler Peters Mary Everest Karl & Liz Evert Tara Fahey Scott & Martha Martha Soule Gennae Falconer Wendy & Sidney Farrar Peter Farstad & Paul Mellblom Stephen Fautsch Robin Fawcett Nancy & Robert Feldman John Fenn & Jill Breckenridge Abby Fenton & Aaron Rutzick Sandy & Jay Fetyko Rosemary Field Jerry Fierkenstad Suzanne Fischer Bonnie Fisher Sally Fisher Jack & Amy Fistler Jerry Fjerkenstad Mary Fleming Christine Flood-Urdangarin Kathleen Fluegel Kathy Foley Sheila Foran & Scott Edmonds Dan Foran Sue Foran Anne & Todd Forrester Jean Forster Edward Foss Ruth Fothergill Richard & Katherine Fournier Ann & William Fox Rita Franchett Helene Freint Greta Gaard & Barry Greenwald Anne Gadwa & Julia Haltiwanger Mary Elizabeth Galvin Valerie Garber & Denis Feigenbaum Penelope Gardner Diane & Kennon Gardner Gary Gardner & Helen Kivnick Robert Garfinkle & Susan Koch Louis & Dorothea Garvey Kristin & Gregory Garwick Dianne Gasch Nancy Gaschott & Donald Ritchie Maria Genné & Chris Anderson Cindy Gentling Paula Gilbertson Joan & Lynn Gilbertson Toni & Gerry Gilchrist Mary Giles Mary Ann Gillespie Lori & Pierre GingerichBoberg Glenn & Robin Gintert Sarah Gleason Marcia Glick Elizabeth Glidden Michael Goldberg & Gail Otteson Dorthy Goldie Jan Gonder Donna Goodlaxson Lucille Goodwyne Cam Gordon Neal Gosman & Sandy Pappas Sara Gould Gilbert Gragert Gail Graham Elana Gravitz Leslie Gray

Warwick Green Julie Greenwood & Larry Werner Jan & Kevin Gregerson Jeanine Gregorie & Jack Laffe Emer Griffin & Molly Obsatz Magenta Griffith Ammie & Gary Gronert Maria & David Groos Diane Grossman Mary Jo & Gerald Gruidl Tom Gullett Earl Gutnik Chris Gwinn Val Gyurci Sherry Haaf & Betty Edwards Eleanor Haase Jocelyn Hale & Glenn Miller Christopher Haley Janis Hall Marjorie Hallinan Mary Ellen Halverson Mary Hamel & James Snapp Nancy Hanauer Amanda Hand & Michael Garry Kit Hansen & Stephen Greenfield Shirley Hansen Dolores Hanson Shirley Hanson Bob Hanson & Debbie Hadas Brent Harring Beth & Nico Harrington David Harris Nett Hart & Lada Tamarack Shawn & Will Hartfeldt Dale & Edna Hartman Holly & Joe Hatch-Surisook Jack Hauer Sharlene Hauer Robert Hauer Terri & John Hawthorne Peg Hayes & Jerome Perkins Mike Hazard & Deborah Wallwork Carey HeartBorne Virginia Hedges Diana Hedges Sandra Heidemann & Jim Stengel Anne & Daniel Heilman Lenief Heimstead Stefan & Lonnie Helgeson Ann Helm & Scott McKell Jane & Frank Hennessy Mary Henrickson & Stephen Flagg Michelle Hensley Dan Herber & Carrie Seib Karen Hering & David Hammond Susan Herridge Katie Herron Patrick Herson Garry Hesser Cathy Heying & Wendy Wiegmann Doug Hicks & Susan Schonfeld Patrick Higgins & Barbara Zeigenhagen Neal Hines Margaret Hinton Lisa Hinz & Stuart Macdonald Susan Hoch & Jim Haefemeyer Heidi Hoechst Julianna Hofeld Wendy Holdman John Holloway Del & Gregg Holmes Anne-Marie Holst Lydia Holsten Linda Holt Malinda Holte Chuck & Sarah Holtman Tom Homme & Meri Golden Will Hommeyer Kristine Hoover Kevin Horne Debra Hornfeldt & Heidi Sundet Elisabeth & Mark Horst Susanna Hostetter Louise Hotka & Jill Meyer Kate Houston Kelly Hrenko & Kelley Dinsmore Susan Hubbard Rachel Hudak Maxine & Kieran Hughes Elizabeth Hughes Kimberlee Hunter Gregory Huonder Ruth Hynes Beth Hynes-Ciernia & Pat Ciernia Jeremy Iggers & Carol Bouska Heather & Jeff Ilse Judy Isaacson Paul Ittner Dana Jackson Benjamin Jacobs Susan Jacox Richard Jaeger & Jennifer Schuster-Jaeger Patricia James Sarah James Laurice Jamieson Lisa & Friedo Jamila-Wuerth Barbara Jeanetta & Mark Richardson Susu Jeffrey Lynn Jeffries Laura Jelinek Lynne & Donald Jennings Rose Jensen Susan Jensen Sally Johnson & Kay Kramer Jan Johnson Cynthia Johnson Karen Johnson Maureen Johnson Wendy & Wade Johnson Meredith Johnson Kaarin Johnston Warren Jones & Marian Gee Andy Jones & Rosa Oesterreich Tim Jordan Suneeta & Dimitri Kaasan Phyllis & Don Kahn Carla Kaiser Gerald & Rebecca Kajander Amy Kallenberg Patricia Kaluza Pamela Karbon Terri Karis Gina & Kurt Kastel Pamela Kaufman & Dennis Keierleber Sharon & Alfred Kauth Mary Ellen Kavanaugh Masanari Kawahara & Elizabeth Garvey Patricia Keefe Mary Keller Barbara Kellett Lynda Kelley Brenda Kelly Jay Kemp Nicole Kenney

Teri Kerkvliet Nancy Kessler-Moore Bill Keyes Jennie Kiffmeyer Deah Kinion & Paul Kinion David & Caroline Kirchner Julia Kirst Laurence Kivens Donald & Darcy Kjome Donald & Marie Klein Michael & Theresa Klein Steve Klein Kathryn Klibanoff & Jeremy Edes Pierotti Joanne Klinnert David & Doreen Kloehn Karen Knab Vicky Knickerbocker Mark Knierim & Ann Sugnet Marsha Knittig Sylvia Knutson Pamela Knutson & John Bramble Melissa Koch Suzan Koch & Roy Koch Charles Koch Janet Kortuem Kathy Kosnoff & Lyonel Norris Larry & Lauri Kraft Jacalyn Krammer & Daniel Shaw Paul Kraska Liz Kremer Amy & Bert Kritzer Judy & Gilbert Krohn Joyce Krook Laurel Krouse Brad Kruse & Kimberly Faurot Andrea Kuenning & Daniel Leisen Vicki Kunerth Sarah Kunze Joseph Kuznik Angela Lackey Suzanne Laddusire Joy & James Laine Dot Landis Yale Hicks Jeanne Landkamer Claudia Landolfi Betsy & Sharon Lane-Getaz Robyn Langkos & David Matthews Kathleen & Barry Langton Jennie Lanners Kim Lapakko Nancy Larsen Helen & Trygve Larsen Annie Larson Jean Larson & Timothy McIntosh Day Elizabeth Larson Jenny Larson & Michael Bischoff Nicolette LaSorella Peter & Martha Laudert Suzanne Lauer Kathleen Laughlin Nancy Lauritsen Lance Lavine Sue & Stefan Laxdal Chuck Le Gros & Karen Heegaard Lillian Leatham Seth Leavitt & Camilla Pickering Kristal Leebrick & Don Stryker Barb Leibundguth & William Klaila Greg & Mina Leierwood Kathy & Allen Lenzmeier Victoria Leonard Deanie Lerner Nina & Jean-Louis Lesaout Michelle Lesley Deborah LeSueur Laurie Levin & James Brickwedde Anne & John Levin Martha Lewis-Hunstiger Elizabeth Liddiard Wozniak& Thomas Wozniak Jay & Sally Lieberman Harriet Lievan Scott Likely & Jane Schaffer Vickie Lind & James O’Connor Susan & Hans Lindbloom Laura Lipkin & Joe Sularz Lyle & Elizabeth Lofgren Barb Loida Ann Longfellow Brenda Louise Faith Lubitz Ann & Don Luce Colleen Ludwig Jane Lufkin Linda & William Lundborg Catherine Lundoff Beverly Lutz Nora & Mary Mack Margaret Mackaman & Brian Amelang Susan & Rick Macpherson Mike & Gail Madden Brian & Chrissie Mahaffy Stephen Mahle Anne Mahle & David McCarthy Joelyn Malone Mollie Malone-Brown & Griffith Brown Richard Mammen & Patricia Hummel Dave Mann & Pamela Twiss Polly Mann Sheila Manor Pat Marjoram & Paul Miller Steve Mark & Nancy Mark Maureen Markillie Ann Markusen Eily Marlow Judith & Todd Marshall Lisa Martin Joel Martin & Lisa Filter Michelle Martin Patricia Martinson Andy Marvy Ben Marzinski & Jennifer Pedersen Jeanne Massey & Paul Taylor Lotti Matkovits Kristie & Tony Mattioli Maura Matula Williams Stephanie May & Carol Nies Lisa Mayotte Paula Mazzacano & Michael Porter Katherine McClure Fiona McCrae Margo McCreary & Peter Doughty William & Virginia McDonald Megan McGinty Carla McGrath & Cole Rogers Paul McHugh Barbara McIlquham S Catherine McIntire Ann McIntosh Kathy McIntyre Anderson & Gary Anderson

Cate McKegney & Richard Seurer Lisa McLean Malcolm & Wendy McLean Karen McNamara & Scott Dekart Debby McNeil Barbara Meacham Mary Kaye Medinger Carole Megarry Donald Meisel Mark & Nancy MeiselYoungman Sharon Meister Karen & Daniel Melander Joyce Mellstrom & Betsy Husting Sue Melrose Ann Melrose Engh & Peter Engh Guild Members Michael Menner & Margaret Grosspietsch Ken Meter Kathleen & David Michaelson Joy R. Miciano Gail Miller Ellen Miller Jane Miller & Anne Breckbill Sarah Miller & Ron Okagaki Laura Minnihan Elizabeth Mitchell Lia & Jeff Mitchell Mark Mitchell & Diane Patrick Christopher Moeller & Sarah Maas Brie Monahan Mary Moore David Moore Jr Lisa G Moriarty Michael Mouw Michael Muehlbach Philipp & Laura Muessig Dipankar Mukherjee & Meena Natarajan Diane & Gerald Mundt Vicki Munson John & Beth Murphy Beams Joe Musich Betty Lou & Ron Nelson Joy Nelson Julie Nelson & Michael Jubert Elizabeth Nelson Sather & Thomas Sather Julie Nester Robert Neu & Jera Mariner Jennifer Newberg Anne Newhart Nancy Newman & Pam Heggie Cecelia Newton Loren Niemi Solveig Nilsen Christie Nixon Sally Nixon Marjorie Noonsong Diane Norman Julie Norton Brian Noy Julie O'Baoighill & Giuliana Ciabo Jane Ochrymowycz Margaret Mary O'Connor Dianne O'Donnell & Conrad DeFiebre Bruce Ohnstad Nancy Okerlund & Susan Kaplan Tim Old & Morgan Clifford Larry Olds Robert Olsen Margot & Robert Olsen Patricia Olsen Florence Olson Carolyn Olson Karen Olson Lois Olson Vicki & Daniel Olson K. Cassandra O'Malley Bob Onan Jr Ellen O'Neill Ann O'Neill CSJ Vivian Orey Rebekah Ormsby Dennis & Turid Ormseth Lisa Ortiz Beth Oschwald Caroline Oster Margery Otto Joan Owens Elizabeth Ozmon & Gjertrud Anderson Marion Padilla Amy Pagett Joe & Mary Palen Madonna Palladino & Michael Cass Dale & Karen Panton Carolyn & Robert Papke Victoria Paprocki Kent & Robert Kent Warren Park Patricia Park Patsy Parker Marjorie & Frank Parker Lorinda Parks & Bradley Harper Richard Parnell Melissa Partin & Brian Martinson Joan & David Pasiuk Carol & Bradley Pass Ethel PaStarr Jasen Patalonis Krista Paterson Greg Pates Carole Patrikakos Mickey Patterson Mildred Delores Paul Traudi Pawlowski Katherine Pearson Deborah Pearson Lora & Elizabeth Pedersen Don Pederson Anne Peek & Thomas Ehlinger Paul Pekarek Heidi Pemberton Polly Penney Mary & Craig Peterson Lee & Donna Peterson Gene & June Peterson Jean & James Peterson Beth Peterson Ingrid & Chris Petrilla Margaret & Bill Pharris Laurie Phillips Dan Pinkerton & Jane Johnston Dick & Rose Pinomaki Jen Pirrera Roxanna Plouff Gregory Poferl Steve Pohlen & Chris Glisczinski Lora Pollari-Welbes & Matt Welbes Jill Ponasik Mary & Phillip Popehn Judy Popham Wayne & Virginia Potratz

Jane Powers & Michael Green Barbara Pratt Timothy Price Jane Prince Jason Prodoehl Dr. Keith Prussing Sister Carolyn Puccio Colleen Puent & Pam Bonzelet Michelle Quill Lyn Rabinovitch Diane Rackowski Bonnie Rae Eric Ramstad & Bree St Peters Mary Lou Ratz & William Kim Doris Rausch Jeannette Raymond & Mark Schultz Phyllis Reames Jack Reddan & Terrie Arfi Jodi Reeb-Myers & Brian Myers Danae Rem Ric Watson Judy Remington & Julia Classen Julie Remington Julie Renner Tamara Renwick Nadja Reubenova & Joel Wolinski Brian Reusch Aisling Reynolds Barbara Rice Natalie & Timothy Rice Elizabeth Richards Kathi Rickert & Paul Eaves Linda Ridlehuber & Maggie O'Connor Ellen Riley Marilyn Robertson Nell Robie Paul Robinson Tom & Sandra Robinson Lisa & Michael Rock Sharon & Michael Rodning Bash Nancy Roehr Alice Rogers JoAnne & Thomas Rohricht Mike Rollin Mary Rose Jody Rosenbloom Jesse Ross James Ross Linda Rost Greg Rotter Nancy Rozycki Paul Rucker Ann Running Sovik Patricia Ryan Matt Ryan Bridget Ryan Mary Ryan & Robert Schmitz Emily Ryan & John Wakefield Dan Rybeck & Kate Searls Carol Rydell & Ralph McQuarter Daniel Rydholm & Kathleen Heideman Patrick Sadler Frank & Joan Safford Sisters of Saint Joseph Carondelet Jared Saks Maynard Sandberg Lesly Sanocki Rev. José M. Santiago Ann Sargent & Elise Christensen Janis & Harvey Sarles Erika Sass & Abby Roza Lisa Sass Zaragoza C.M. Sauber Maralee Savage Laurie Savran Merry & Aaron Sawdey Sally & Tim Sawyer Edward Sawyer Timothy Sawyer Anne Sawyer-Aitch & Jemiah Aitch Kathy Schaaf Sara Schaefer Rita Schaefer-Seaton & Dean Seaton Steve Schanback & Cheryl Beardslee James & Victoria Schanen Jim Scheidt & Peggy Larson David Scheie & Wendy Cook Barbara Schewe Donna Schimunek Jay Schmitt Jeremy & Susan Adena Schneider Michael Schoeberl Lola Schoenrich Kay Schoenwetter John Schuerman & Max Folim Kathleen Schuler & Joel Albers Paul Schumacher Jackie & Mike Schwartz Tania Scinto Ann & Douglas Scott Dumas Joan Scully

Joe Sehl Bride Seifert Dominic & Patty Selly Corey Sevett & Sue Courchene Katie Sewell Mary Shamrock Katherine Shane Steve Share & Ronna Rochell Tibetha Shaw Glynis Shea & Sidney Schultz Mary Catherine Sherin Hyun Kyoung Shin Joan Shiva & Elayne Lipp Phyllis G. Shoemaker Patricia Siebert Alice Siegfried Anne Siegle Linny Siems & Bill Webb Bernice & John Sisson Nancy & Keith Sjoquist Katie Sjursen Betty Jane Skelton Ellie Skelton & Tony Thomas Charles Skrief & Andrea Bond Claudia Slovacek Ken Smith Karen Smudski & Jeffrey Mancl Molly & William Snuggerud Susan Sobelson & Judy Ingram Linnea Sodergren Betsy Sohn & Reggie Crawford Jeff Solotoroff Cynthia Sorenson Jose Souto & Laura Sabatino Krista Spieler & Thomas Smith Sandy Spieler Talin Spring Tim Springer Eliot & Jody Stadler Scott Stangeland Thomas & Teri Starnes Nancy Staub Jearlyn Steele Susie Steinbach Barbara & Norman Steinberg Melanie Steinman Muriel Sterne Richard Stever-Zeitlin Jackie Sticha Jon Stoike Claire Stokes Kathy & John Stolle McAllister Elizabeth Storey Marcella Strand Kate Strathmann Lauren Stringer & Matthew Smith Sally Stromquist & Doug Mehrikens Clare Struck Chris Stuber Patricia Suess Kathleen Sullivan & Mark Ambroe Eric Sumner Peter & Maggie Sventek Karen Svien Joanne Swanson Celia Swanson Margret Swanson & Mark Muellerleile Steven Swanson Suzanne Swanson Kathleen Swanson & Kenneth Guenthner Ida Swearingen Dorothy Sylvestre Maj-Britt Syse & Mordecai Specktor Sandra Tanck & Richard Gjertson Charles & Janet Tarino Gary Taruscio Mike & Laura Temali Denise Tennen Jill Terwilliger & Charles Henderson Barb Thoman & Charles Welling Carei & Joyce Thomas Rebecca & Michael Thompson Mary Thorpe-Mease & Bill Mease Jodell Thorsett Sandy Tilton Victoria Tirrel & Edward Lotterman DeWaine & Jane Tollefsrud Rosarah Townsend Kathy Tran Maureen & John Trepp Joanne Tromiczak-Neid Clare Tropp Debra Tucker Toni Tunge Joanne Turgeon Marianne Turnbull Jennette Turner & Jon Rodine Gerald Tyrrell & Kevin Reuther Daniel Tyson Claire Uldrich Katie Ulwelling

Shirley & Frank Ungar Daniel Ungier William Upham Karen Utter Michelle Van Ryn Jocelyn van Toor Anne Vande Berg Patricia & Paul VanValkenburg Jean Velleu Kelly Verbrick Gail Vick & Joel Petersen Mary Vidas Richard Vincent Dolores Voorhees Cindy & Jeffery Voyen Joella Vreeland Dianne Wachs Grant & Janet Wacker Paul Wagner Jeremy & Heidi Wagner Mary Wahlstrand & Mark Bohnhorst Patricia & Samuel Walker Monica & David Walsh Cary Walski Cindy & Michael Walz Patricia Ward Kathy Ward Jay & Kathy Ward Maren Ward Ruth & David Waterbury Patricia & Ralph Watkins Martin Watson & Jenny Finden-Watson Michael & Linda Weber Mary Weber & Peter Fleck Ken Wedding & Nancy Ashmore Jill Weese Steve Vincent Tom Wegner & Barbara Weisman Maryanne Weidt Kristy & Kevin Weifenbach Marybeth & Andy Weisberg Joel Weisberg & Janet Watchman Thomas Wells Jonathon & Lucretia Wells Sue & Jim Welna Elizabeth Welter & David Kinyon Helen Welter Jerry Werle & Donna Meink Lina & Nate Werner Ellen Wersan & Timothy Sandry Nancy West Thomson West Robin & Daniel Westacott Dick & Sandra Westby Paula Westmoreland & Marc Ricciardi Deborah Wexler & Michael Mann Emily & James White Anita White Sarah White & Debra Ahrens Theodore Whitehurst Emily Whiting Paul Wiedel & Katy Peters Dale Wiehle Sharon Wikstrom Lori Williams & David Steininger Aurelia Wills Mary Lou Wilm Richard Wilson Holly Windle & Richard Rames Kevin Winge Marty Winkler & Noel Holston Joanna Winship Renata Winsor Carol Witte & Winston Cavert Wolfgang Wolf Barbara Wolfe Pam Wollum & John Dewey Raquel & Frank Wood Irene Wood David Woolley Marian & Bob Wright Susan Wright Dooley Jan & Larry Wydra Mary Yoshida Patricia Young Robert Young Walser & Julie Walser Julie & Steve Young-Burns Susan Youngdahl Grace Zaiman Jessica Zeglin & Robin Garwood Christine Ziebold & John Carpenter Tawny Ziemke Michael Ziomko April Zoll Close Lori Zook-Stanley & Joe Stanley Deborah Zvosec Loring-Nicollet-Bethlehem Community Centers Pepperwolf & Tom Bottolene

The MayDay Parade and Festival is presented with the assistance of the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board.

This activity is made possible by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature. In addition, this activity is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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THANK YOU Volunteers!

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he following spectacular people have volunteered at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre sometime in the last year. Our deep gratitude goes to all of you for performing, coordinating, educating, making art, building sets, selling merchandise, cleaning, ushering, hosting, singing, serving on the board, and all of your support.

Shaina Abraham Alejandro Aguilera Duarte Rodney Alexander Linda Alton Nicole Amaris Norma Amaris Van Amenya Lucinda Anderson Melissa Andrie Philip Archambault, Jr. Terrie Arfi Paul Ashman Emily Atchison Gretchen Bailey Travis Bailey Wayne Bailey Janet Ball Shanon Banishoraka France Barbeau Chrissi Barber Angela Barrerea Katherine Barton Kristen Bastis Colleen Beach Mike Beach Tom Beach Bear, Ron Cronick Katie Behrendt Cecile Bellamy Brent Bender Elizabeth Bendtsen Lorie Bergstrom Christie Berkseth Winna Bernard Anna Berowski Mercedes Betzina Michele Bevis Leo Bickelhaupt Frank Big Bear Jr. Tanja Birke Mary Blackburn Bonita Blumenauer Gustavo Boada Julie Boada Laura Boeringa Nancy Bonacci Andrea Bond Brad Borg Sarah Bourne Noemie Bove Perrin Boyd Lee Braam Kelsey Briggs-Dineen Matt Bromme Kori Brown Michael Brown Bart Buch Molly Budke Malia Burkhart Cindy Burns Jamie Buss Ann Butwell Emma Byron Luisa Cabello Hansel Patrick Cabello Hansel Talia Cabello Hansel Lisa Marie Carlson Nicola Carpenter Michelle Carter Malia Caruso Andi Cheney Judy Chinander Catie Chi Olson Matt Christensen Anna Cioffi Susan M. Claeys Brenda Clarno Steve Cobian Mary Collins Karen Cooper Ramon Cordes Willow Cordes Melody Cordes-Eklund Kat Corrigan Hannah CoumingNemetz Angie Courchaine Angela Crandall Katrina Croft Ed Crouter

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Keegan Culbertson Peter D’Ascoli Nicole de Beaufort Conrad DeFiebre Charlotte Degener Hughes Lynne Derby Becky Zosia Dernbach Brenda Diederichs Erin Dietrich Sharon Dill Gaea Dill-D'Ascoli Kader Diop Dominic DiVita Leo DiVita Sam DiVita Trang Do Mya Dosch Aimee Doyle Anna Drennen Mishka Dudash Jackie Duffus Matt Dulgar & daughter Paula Duthoy Mara DuVernois Sylvia DuVernois Kat Duvic Julia Eagles Alicia Earnest Ari Edes Brittany Edwards Andrew Ehrmann Deborah Eide Saleha Erdmann L. Peter Erickson Samantha Esguerra Olivia Faison Abby Faulkner Chris Fehring Andy Fiscke Kathee Foran Peter Foster Joan Fritz Anne Gadwa Christine Gamm Lou Gastuch John Gebhardt Willa-Wren Gelvick Lindsay Gerardy Patty Gille Lori Gingerich-Boberg Pierre GingerichBoberg Jane Goodnight Kelsye Gould Lisa Gray Helmi Grimm Leah Grupp-Williams Anita-Carine Guessou Earl Gunn Susan Gust Jesus Gutierrez Betsy Guzior Jacob Guziot Eleanor Haase Kathrin Hahn Amelia Hansa Sharon Hardy Danielle Harris Em Harris Josie Harstad Maryanna Harstad Tyler Hart Shawn Hartfeldt Amanda Hedlund Stefan Henry Vivian Henry Lue Her Allan Hildenbrand Pam Hill Kroyer Soozin Hirschmugl Maggie Hogan Kaira Hogle Kimberlee Hunter Sue Hunter Weir Barb Hutchins MC Hyland Penny Ives Len Jackson Susan Jacox Sharon Jaffe

Laura Jelinek April Jennings Fr Bill Johnson Kyle Johnson Catherine Jordan Marcelle Jordan Lea Karlssen Michael Katch Peggy Katch Mari Kempton Rachel Kennedy Natalie Khuen Mary Faith Kidder Barb King Harry Kingham Deborah Kitzmann Andrea Kloehn David Kloehn Doreen Kloehn Julia Kloehn Lisa Knazan Hannah KnazanLippman Melissa Koch Roy Koch Suzan Koch Jim Koplin Bonita Kosciolek Emma Kosciolek Kathy Kosnoff Eleanor Kowalczyk Georgeanne Krause Andi Kuenning Gemma Kumaraea Araela Kumaraea Angela Lackey Jeanne Landkamer Paul Landskroener Patricia Lange Lynne Larsen Nancy Larsen Matt Larson Katie Laughlin Sarah Launer Deb Leavitt Dylan Leavitt Mitch Lee Stacy Lee King Lee Leichentsitt Dan Leisen Karla Leon Kale Lepak Stephanie Lewis Tina Lindgren Joseph Lindquist Mary Anne Lindquist Marie Listopad Elizabeth Lo Carol Logan Karen Loida Faith Lubitz Leah Ludwig C Yamil Lumbi Morales Charity Lusteck Cody Lusteck Joey Lusteck Shelby Lusteck Nicole Lynott Leslie MacKenzie Kiara Madison-Cook Joe Mailander Cyril Malle-Barlow Marakah Mancini Jose Maquin Gutierrez Jesus Marquez Leni Marshall Bronwen MarshallBass Susan Marsnik John Martin Theresa Mason Kemal Matoruga Laci McBride Roy McBride Mick McClellan Sandi McDonald Ed McFadden Julie McFadden Zoe McFaul Katie McGee Paul McHugh

Greta McLain Loranda McLeete Paul McLeete Eileen McNulty Carole Megarry Sharon Meister Sue Melrose Stacy Meshbesher Jana Metge Pasha Milbrath Demi Miller Edgar Miranda Andrew Morabu Jovita Morales Ricardo Morales Lindsey Morel Donna Morris Betsy Mowry MJ Mueller Ana Musachio Joe Musich Dave Nedrelow Deb Nelson Emily Nemmers Katie Nemmers Cashel Dan Newman Mary Jo Nikolai Valerie Nordin Zoe Norris Lynette Obara Jane Obern Dianne O'Donnell Alan Olson Ann O'Neill, CJS Sarah Oppelt Margery Otto Eric Page Kristen Palmer Carol Pappone Jean Paradise James Parker Richard Parker Richard Parnell Sage Passi Carole Patrikakos Henry Pawlowski Nicko Pawlowski Traudi Pawlowski Lee Pedersen Dan Pederson Kate Percuoco Samantha Perkins Renee Petersen Jesse Peterson Makena Peterson Nettie Pignatello Helen Pound Laura Price-Waldman Terese Pritschet MaryLynn Pulscher Deborah Ramos Monica Raymond Jack Reddan Joseph Reeves Brian Reusch Aisling Reynolds Siobhan Reynolds Brian Rice Beth Richards Greg Rick Kegan Riddersen Ellen Riley Cass Ritacco Antonio Rodriguez Rina Rossi Stephanie Rosso Vienna Rothberg Marg Rozycki Roxanne Ruid Marcy Ryan Mary Ryan Pat Ryan Rose Ryan Gabriela Santiago Lisa Sass Zaragoza Emily Savage Carolyn Sayers Rita Schaefer-Seaton HJ Schmidt Bruce Schneier Tim Schweitzer

Marcia Seelhoff Dominic Selly Carole Senty Denise Sergent Ezra Sergent Leventhal Mimi Sergent Leventhal Suzie Shanklin Bruce Silcox Andrea Sisel Charles Skrief Peter Skrief Debora Slee Linnea Sommers Meredith Sommers Sandra Sonnenberg Bill Sorem Karla Sorensen Robbin Sorenson Sandy Spieler Micah SpielerSandberg Rose Spieler-Sandberg Angela Sprunger Emily Stover Lindsey Strange Whittney Streeter Angela Stubee Sonja Sutter Becky Swan Celia Swanson Margret Swanson Maeve Tallman Stephanie Taylor Gary Teravskis Jenna Thorsett Jodell Thorsett Lilia Torchia Luciano Torchia Micaela Torchia Rosarah Townsend Miranda Trimmier Carrie Trygstead Elora Turner Jessica Tweet Emily Umentum Wade Underdahl Jeff Urbanek Peter Urbanek Reyna Urbano Dawn Uribe Vonda Vaden Vanessa Van Alstine Lizette Vega Steve Vincent Jon Vogt Harry Waters Jr Jill Weese Kristy Weifenbach Sue Welna Catherine Wernecke Katherine Werner Eleonore Wesserle Annie Westmoreland Zach Wickens Amy Wick-Moore Lynndelle Wiebenga Paul Wiedel Jodi Williams Harvey Winje Rachel Winter Shea Witzberger Jan Wyolva John Xavier Gloria Xinico Morales Kristin Young Nathan Yourchuck Grace Zaiman Innokenty Zavyalov Peter Zeftel Jessica Zeglin Lucy Zhang Carlos Zhingre Louise Ziegler Mauricea Ziehr Mary Zilinski Abby Zimmer

Shaina Abraham and YouthCARE Community Service Stars Jill Ahrold and Obama Works Twin Cities Dean Albrecht and the Hennepin County Sentencing to Service program Luisa and Patrick Cabello Hansel and members of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church Paul Eaves and all the creators of the MayDay labyrinth Becky George and the merchants and staff of Mercado Central Sue Hunter Weir and the U of M CLA Art Student Community Sharon Jaffee and Hamline University’s Service Learning programs Bridgette Kelly and members of the Saint Joseph Workers program Cate Luehr and the NorthStar RollerGirls Jim McCreary and the choir of Walker Community Church Deb Mullen and University of Minnesota Health Academy students Joe Musich and South High School art students Rafael Ortiz and Metropolitan State University’s “Citizenship in a Global Context” students Poppy Potter and students from Skills for Tomorrow High School Eilidh Reyelts and the Children's Dental Service interns Liz Schachterle and 30 wonderful AmeriCorps members Emily Seru and the HECUA City Arts program Mary Stein and Ascension Place residents Brad Thompson and many, many Hennepin County Sentencing to Service crews Harry Waters Jr. and Macalester College’s Community Based Theatre students Chris Zweber and the students and staff of the Vocational Evaluation and Training program

HOBT Mission Statement To bring people together for the common good through the power of puppet and mask performance.

Board of Directors

Michael Brown, Chair Mary Lynn Pulscher, Vice Chair Susan M. Claeys, Treasurer Helen Pound, Secretary Karen Cooper Angela Crandall Ed Crouter

Kathee Foran Ed McFadden Sue Melrose Dan Newman Ann O’Neill, CSJ Charles Skrief Sandy Spieler Harry Waters, Jr. Mary Zilinski

In the Heart of the Beast Staff Sandy Spieler, Artistic Director Kathee Foran, Executive Director Julie Boada, Education Co-Director Bart Buch, Education Co-Director Alina Campana, Communications and Development Coordinator Masanari Kawahara, Staff Artist Melissa Koch, Community Programs Director Jim Koplin, Honorary Art Staff Margery Otto, Volunteer Coordinator Katy Peters, Financial Manager Paul Robinson, Company Manager Jenna Thorsett, Office Coordinator Duane Tougas, Staff Artist Abby Zimmer*, Education Asst. *Placed with HOBT through the St. Joseph’s Worker Program.

INTERNS/VISITING ARTISTS Emma Byron Angie Courchaine Stacy Lee King Harry Kingham PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Holmes Design, Graphic Design Margret Swanson, Fund Development Nick Lethert, Web Design Funders and Friends Alley Communications** Elmer L. and Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation Hugh J. Andersen Foundation Arts Connect All a program of the MetLife Foundation Arts Rising Beim Foundation Biffs, Inc** Bush Foundation Clean Water Works** Community Shares of Minnesota COMPAS Cy and Paula De Cosse Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation General Mills Foundation Hennepin County Medical Center Henson Foundation HRK Foundation Jerome Foundation Kopp Family Foundation Marbrook Foundation McKnight Foundation McVay Foundation Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board** Minneaplois Public Works Department Minneapolis Rotary Community Service Committee* Minnesota Department of Health, Environmental Health Division, Drinking Water Protection Section Minnesota State Arts Board Mississippi Watershed Management Organization National Endowment for the Arts Oswald Family Foundation Park Midway Bank Phillips Weed+Seed — An Initiative of the U.S. Department of Justice Piper Jaffray & Company The Pugsley Fund of the HRK Foundation RBC Dain Rauscher Reddy Rents** Catherine C. Reid Fund, a fund of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice Rehael Fund: Roger L. Hale/Eleanor L. Hall of the Minneapolis Foundation Seeds for Change Slamhammer Sound** Spire Federal Credit Union Still Ain’t Satisfied Foundation, A Foundation with Attitude Target Tennant Foundation Thomson Reuters Thrivent Financial for Lutherans James R. Thorpe Foundation*** Toro Foundation Travelers’ Foundation Triangle Park Creative** United Arts Access to Theatre Project United Arts Fund of COMPAS Valspar Corporation** Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation Barbra Wiener Fund, a fund of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice Zelle, Hoffman, Voelbel, Mason, Gette, LLP * Capital gift ** In-kind contribution *** Capital and operating gifts

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or 35 years, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre has created and produced the MayDay Parade and Festival (with the help of invaluable friends). Much of the cost for this unique community art event is covered by grants, fees, and sales— but not all.

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SUPPORT MAYDAY!

Entertainment 1 Band Stage (music) 4:00 5:00 6:00

Machinery Hill Cleo Paticx The Maroons

2 Show Stage (music, dance) 2:00 3:00 4:00 4:45 5:30

Mystic Melange No music during Ceremony performance Dred I Dread Rumba Eterna Raks Bedawi

3 Family/Folk Stage (music, poetry, dance) Sponsored by Hennepin County Medical Center

4:00

Holly Newsom, singer/songwriter

4:30

Ben Glaros, singer/songwriter

5:00

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Times are approximate.

Schedule subject to change.

4 Lake Stage (Spoken word, music)

4:00–6:00

RARE Productions

5 Besos Pesos Redemption If you received a besos pesos note during the parade, redeem it here for a seedling to take home, plant, and tend

Around the Park Mandance Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community Minneapolis Morris Dancers Thera Labyrinth Umoja Drum Circle Wellness and Support Space Wilderness Inquiry Canoe Rides Women’s Drum Circle

Thank you to all of today’s performers for their generous contributions of time and talent.

After the Parade and Ceremony, you’ll see volunteers with Donation Buckets. You can also donate at any HOBT t-shirt booth or the main HOBT information booth, or online at www.hobt.org.

If you value and enjoy MayDay, please be as generous as you can.

PLEASE DONATE TODAY! See page 16 for more on how you can help.

MAYDAY DEPENDS ON YOU!

Audio/Visual Assistance At noon, there will be a tactile tour of various floats and puppets.

Preregistration is required for this tour. Please call (612) 721-2535 ext. 23, to register.

The Tree of Life Ceremony is audio described and also presented in American Sign Language (ASL). If you or someone in your party need these services, please meet by the seating area next to the ceremony ring after the parade.