*TONIGHT! Cloacas on the Bandstand * *July 11 at 6pm* *Santa Fe Plaza* * * *FREE!! *Listening to *Cloacas* is like traveling sideways in time. This ensemble invokes elements of folk, Americana, Classical, and American gothic styles as well as whatever their acoustic instruments inspire. http://cloacas.bandcamp.com/ [image: Cloacas]* ** * *Puppet Mayhem with Miniature Curiosa (Pittsburgh) & Flying Wall Studios (ex-Pittsburgh)* *July 17, 2013 at 8pm* *High Mayhem Emerging Arts studio, 2811 Siler Lane, Santa Fe NM* *Tickets are suggested $10 donation at the door (no one turned away) * A puppet extravaganza that will change your perception of what a Puppet show is/can be. *Miniature Curiosa* from Philadelphia joins High Mayhem’s own Flying Wall Studios (aka Puppet Meat Market) Clown, archivist, and amateur scientist Albert Billows has built a time machine. Mr. Billows requests the presence of an audience on July 17th at High Mayhem to witness its maiden voyage, *Tonight a Clown Will Time Travel*. Please be warned there will be danger, balloon animals, and heartbreak. Pittsburg-based puppet company Miniature Curiosa presents this immersive puppet spectacle for one night only in Santa Fe as part of their North American tour. Integrating live-projection technology, the Victorian pastime of Toy Theater, repurposed overhead projectors and a canopy filled with LEDs, Tonight a Clown Will Travel Time is not to be missed! *Tonight a Clown Will Time Travel* is not intended for young audiences. [image: tonightaclown_promo_tour_santa_fe] <http://www.highmayhem.org> *Flying Wall Studios* Sabrina and Damon Griffith, co-founders of Flying Wall Studios (formerly Puppet Meat Market) began combining years worth of puppet making and production skills in 2002. Since then, they have made and sold thousands of puppets as gifts and collectors items, many of which have travelled internationally. Since their first showing at the Beehive Coffehouse in Pittsburgh Pa, their work has been seen in craft fairs in New York, art markets and galleries in Santa Fe NM, The DeYoung Museum in Sanfrancisco, and in homes throughout the country and abroad. Creating puppets as a form of playfulness, FWS seeks to engage its viewers in their own creativity. Often there is only a title or single name given to a piece. This is to encourage the viewer to create a relationship with the puppets, creating the puppet’s world and intertwining it with their own. This is why the artists encourage viewers to play with the puppets on display rather than simply look upon them as an untouchable work of art. Every person and every puppet is unique. The combination of personalities, real and created, makes for endless stories and play, thus personalizing each individual’s experience. [image: OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA] http://www.highmayhem.org http://www.facebook.com/highmayhem https://soundcloud.com/highmayhem