NEW LOCATION: Bread and Puppet will be at Lincoln Square Mall

Lincoln Square is located at 300 S Broadway in Urbana, right next to the IMC

We'll be in the space where the Winter Farmer's Market is held

What: Internationally Celebrated Bread and Puppet Theater presents, "The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus"

When: Friday, September 27th, 6pm-7:15pm

Admission & Audience: Free, All ages show! (Donations welcome)

Rain location: Lincoln Square Mall, 300 S Broadway, Urbana

The circus is coming! The circus is coming! The Bread & Puppet Theater will bring its iconic circus to Urbana on September 27th, 2024 for a 6pm show at Crystal Lake Park’s Cannonball Hill with ASL Translation. The company presents The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus, a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet Circuses that began while in residence at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1970. As usual, the show will draw on traditional circus tropes and familiar Bread and Puppet iconography to highlight urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration. After each show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.

The event is hosted by School for Designing a Society and co-Sponsored by the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and Cunningham Township Supervisor's Office. This event is supported in part by a grant from the Urbana Arts & Culture Program.