PAST Events
November and December 2024
World Premiere of Agents of Change in
Berkeley, CA and Mill Valley, CA!
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This unique show is available for hire at your gallery, museum, theater, community center!
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East Bay Debut of my newest Solo Show on:
Saturday, August 9th at 11 AM
Berkeley's West Branch Library
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Save the Day For Snail
Save the Day for Snail is an interactive handmade puppet show featuring Gladsy the snail designed for ages 3 through 9 and their families. The loss of Gladsy's house sends her looking to her community for support. When bureaucracy fails, community members try to help, but it's not until everyone works together that they find a solution. Puppeteer Risa Lenore combines live acting and puppetry in this new show made from reclaimed and upcycled materials.
Children will be invited to interact in and with the performance, by making the sound effects, joining as puppeteers and helping rebuild Gladsy's house.
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August 22
10:30am
Crocket Art Museum
Sacramento
workshop and puppet
show
From September 4- October 5, 2025, Risa Lenore Hosted a 5 week community Diorama Extravaganza at Oxtail Gallery space in Berkeley, CA.
We had more than 50 Dioramas made, approximately 20 participants, and a great showing of all of the imagined worlds at our closing show.
THANK YOU to all whom participated.
PUPPET SHOW!
Agents of Change; Lizards, Carrots, Noodles OH MY! A Multimedia Puppet Theater Show
Possibly Puppets Handmade Theatre Company Presents a rollicking visual adventure through a series of four interconnected vignettes. Prepare to be delighted by tabletop puppets, paper puppets, live human actors, live music and exciting set designs. Each short story explores the themes of transformation and hope; much needed contemplations at the end of election week!
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​WHO?
Created by educator and artist Risa Lenore of Jelly Jam Time, alongside climate activist and clown, Ceci Walken, educational puppeteer Daniel Gill and artist musician David Wallace. This Bay Area premiere of original visual-art-in-motion is bound to provide rich sensory entertainment for all ages. (best suited for ages 5 and up).
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HOW?
The creation of Agents of Change; Lizards, Carrots, Noodles OH MY! is proudly supported by The Jim Henson Foundation, The City of Berkeley Civic Arts Grant, Intersection for the Arts and Kala Art Gallery.
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​​Show Length : approx 1 hr.
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​​​​WHY?
“Possibly Puppets is a joy; Risa's artistry is riveting, wielding depth, whimsy, beauty, poignancy, wit and poetry. The beauty of the handmade set is utterly compelling. The stories are both bite-sized and layered, able to connect with a breadth of ages, attentions, and experiences. There is always, always something for everyone in these unique, spectacular, shows! Not to be missed!” Yael K. Berkeley
About the show- The Audience says:
"That was awesome!" "It was pure magic!"
"Amazing!" " Inspiring!" "Superb! Every detail an entire portrait! We loved it and had so much fun!" "We loved it! It was absolutely stunning- and I loved the reclaimed materials! Thank you!"
"That was the most wonderful experience I have had in a while. Thank you for making such beautiful work!"
PROCESS:
This show is designed, built, sewn, painted, drawn, printed, sculpted, engineered, administered and directed by artist Risa Lenore. Concepts and story seeds began to sprout in 2019 when Risa participated as an Artist in Residence at the El Cerrito Recycling center. Much of the materials in this show are scrounged, upcycled, reused and reclaimed. Sources for the materials include the El Cerrito Recycle Center, SCRAP, Thrift Stores, the street, Urban Ore, and Neighbor's Recycle bins.
The other puppeteers and performers, Daniel, Ceci and David collaborated with Risa to expand on the story seeds and turn them into fully fleshed vignettes. These are small stories about big things told through surreal imagery, metaphor and allegory.
The Theatre stage was built by Cameron in collaboration with Risa.
Friends came by to lend helping hands, cutting, stapling, sewing, gluing!
THANK YOU ALL!
This project premiered in November 2024 at KALA Art Gallery and Classroom and is supported by:
In September and October 2025, We developed and performed our newest short puppet piece "Pedagogy" about the unfortunate truth of Transitional Kindergarten in California. This piece premiered at Shapeshifter Cinema in Oakland and at the inaugural SF Ignite Puppet Slam produced by Dyana Diaz.
DONATE today to ensure beautiful Handmade art remains strong in the Bay Area! We need your support to sustain us.
THANK YOU!
We are fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which allows us to offer you tax deductions for your contributions. Please make checks payable to Intersection for the Arts, and write Possibly Puppets in the memo line. This ensures that you’ll receive an acknowledgement letter for tax purposes, and your donation will be available for our project.