In Jimmy Tingle Off Broadway Theater

ArtBeat: Sat., July 21st

12:15PM — Magpie Puppets presents Leopard Learns a Lesson
Leopard Learns a Lesson is based on a folktale from Malawi, where the audience learns, along with the leopards, that cooperation works better than intimidation. Maggie Whalen, creating and performing puppet shows for children since 1969, is the creator of Magpie Puppets, a one-woman hand puppet theater based in Medford, Massachusetts.

1:30PM — Gloucester Hornpipe & Clog Society presents Historic Beastliness: Battles and Waltzing Bears
On the wilder side of folk music, the performance includes rousing vocals, accordion, fiddle, banjo, dulcimer, and rhythm (spoons, bones, and the amazing pogo-cello). New and old songs of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and fun chanteys by salty sea-dogs will be sung, and Irish jigs and reels will be performed.

2:30PM — Behind the Mask presents Sho
Adapted from a book by Francoise Richard and inspired by a Japanese folk tale, this is the story of Sho, a servant girl who journeys to a strange and far-off mountain where she hopes to find her freedom and her lost cat. But to her dismay, the people she meets on the way all tell her that no one has ever returned from Cat Mountain! Performed solo, the little girl’s special visitor, in the form of a sacred ancestor, tells the tale with an assortment of masks, music, traditional Japanese songs, vocabulary, and theatre-styles.

3:30PM — Boston Hula Hoop Troop
Behold the hip shaking wonder of our city's finest hula hoop troop.