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      Opening Celebration: A Narwhal Carnival

      Opening Celebration: A Narwhal Carnival

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      In-person event
      Location: Create Space Studios, Main Atrium, Exhibition Gallery (109) and around the museum

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      The exhibition gallery will be open for self-guided exploration from 10 am–5 pm.

      Join us as we celebrate the opening of Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend through an array of programs designed to invoke a sense of wonder! Meet fantastical marionette puppets walking through the galleries and create your own sea creature using recycled materials with a local artist. Plus, enjoy an ocean-themed PEM Pals with us!

      Walkabout Puppets with Purple Rock Productions
      10 am–3 pm | Throughout the museum

      Meet some very special marionette characters ready to share their joy and invite playfulness into your museum visit.

      PEM Pals with Teresa Coelho
      10:30–11:30 am | Main Atrium

      Move, groove, sing and listen with Teresa Coelho, director of Music Together® of Salem. Explore ocean animals and stories through music and enjoy a reading of Little Narwhal, Not Alone by Tiffany Stone.

      Designed for children (5 and under) and their caregivers, PEM Pals aims to engage and excite all of the senses through books, movement, music, art and hands-on activities.

      Drop-In Art: Recycled Fantastic Creatures
      11 am–3 pm | Create Space Studios

      Meet local artist and art therapist Bruce Orr and explore sea creatures with features and superpowers stranger than fiction! Tinker with a wide variety of recycled materials, and learn how you can give life to used household items to create new artworks.

      Gallery Activation: Get to Know Narwhals
      11 am–3 pm | Exhibition Gallery (109)

      Come curious for a hands-on exploration of what makes narwhals unique at our in-gallery discovery cart.

      About our collaborators

      Teresa Inés Coelho
      Teresa Inés Coelho

      Teresa Inés Coelho has years of experience as a performing arts educator. She holds a Music Education Degree from the University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music. Her passion lies in igniting a love for music in children and their families through music and movement classes using the research-based (and fun!) curriculum Music Together®.

      Bruce Orr
      Bruce Orr

      Bruce Orr is an art therapist and founder of InkWell, an arts program with free art classes scheduled to start at the Peabody Institute Library this September. InkWell strives to provide accessible arts experiences for all ages, emphasizing creative reuse and self-expression. In 2011, Bruce moved to Beverly, Massachusetts, to join the team as an art therapist at Raw Art Works (RAW) in Lynn, where he was the director of the male-identifying public art program and ran a fine arts studio group for artistically advanced teens for 13 years. He has painted murals for Carlton Innovation School, North Shore Children’s Museum, Montserrat College of Art and Beyond Walls, and is currently finishing a large-scale “Garden City” installation for the city of Beverly at the former Family Dollar on Cabot Street.

      Purple Rock Productions

      Purple Rock Productions began in February of 1985 with the full-length hand puppet production of Spinning Straw Into Gold. Since then, Purple Rock Productions has presented a wide variety of programming at many locations throughout the Northeast.

      Rolande Duprey
      Rolande Duprey

      Rolande Duprey, Artistic Director of Purple Rock Productions, is a teaching artist with the State of Connecticut. She has a M.F.A. from the University of Connecticut, where she studied with Frank Ballard. She also has an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons University. Since 2019, she has worked at the East Hartford Public Library as an Adult Services Librarian, developing programs for the EHPL YouTube channel as well as in-person programs for all ages. This presentation of Wonderful Walkabouts will be her last performance of the show with Purple Rock Productions. She will continue performing impromptu with her puppets at the East Hartford Public Library.

      Matthew Leonard
      Matthew Leonard

      Matthew Leonard is a touring puppeteer who performs with his company, Lionheart Puppets. He holds a BFA in Puppet Arts from the University of Connecticut and has worked with Paper Moon Marionette Theater, Great Arizona Puppet Theater and the Little Theater of Manchester. He also serves as the President for the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry.

      Adelka Polak
      Adelka Polak

      Adelka Polak is a veteran puppeteer, performer, teacher and artistic collaborator. Her company, Sova Dance and Puppet Theater, creates performances for young and old alike. She has worked for the Jim Henson Foundation teaching and training educators and therapists in using puppetry. She has performed with Squonk Opera, the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater and Larry Hunt’s Masque Theatre.

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