Chicago Women of Color Puppetry and Performing Arts Fringe
Festival Artist and their work
Agape Love Train
Yolanda Sampson (puppetry)
Meghna’s Cantastoria
Meghna Chandra
Fish Sermon, A Puppet Ballet 2024
Leah Lara (puppetry)
Maria Reads a Book: Ari’s Anger Eating Dragon (Performance/puppetry)
Maria Camia
Maria Reads a Book: F*cked Flower’s Flight Into Speedy Vibrations (Film)
Maria Camia
Una Judge - The One That Got Away
Sheila “Strawberry” Gaskins (puppetry)
My Mother the Clown
Sheila “Strawberry” Gaskins (film)
Jim Crow the Puppet
Jeghetto (puppetry)
“Just Another Lynching” (an American horror story
Jeghetto (film-puppetry)
Variety Show using Marionettes
Steven Widerman (puppetry)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Jacqueline Wade (puppetry)
Consuewella Triptych In MOVE
Jacqueline Wade (puppetry)
Home Is Not where the Heart Is
Holly Lammert (Installation)
Bastard the Bunny
Nate Puppets (puppetry)
“He Worked Hard, The Story of James, “Jim” Lewis”
Samuel J. Lewis, II (puppetry)
Special Collection from Handmade Puppet Dreams Screening
Jazz and Soul Musical Selection
Jadesola adu
On a Move: Philadelphia's Notorious Bombing and a Native Son's Lifelong Battle for Justice (Book Signing)
Mike Africa
Film Project
Brad Brewer (puppetry-film)
Musical Performance
Andrew Kaplan
Hip Hop & R&B
Ron Parks
Musical performances
Jo Schaffer
Cabaret Burlesque
Marcellus Burt
Prairie Stories
Lisa Knasiak (storyteller)
The Gold Fish Casino
Sarolta Vay (puppetry film)
My Flesh
Arkay A (puppetry)
Black Girl, Brown Soul
Desiree McCray (solo performance)
Ecdysiast
Dante Ingram (puppetry)
Puppet Filmmaking at Home Basics with Alex U. Griffin)
Alex Griffin (puppetry-film)
I love Stories - by Charlie and Friends
Charlie Minors (singing and storytelling)
Pieces of Me (Book signing)
Regina Hall
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