Calling All Puppetistas!
Southwest Weekend of Witness to Stop Torture
November 15, 2008 – Tucson, AZ
November 16, 2008 – Sierra Vista/Ft Huachuca, AZ
Nina Kunimoto and Debbi McCullough are working on a visual project for this year’s demonstration in Sierra Vista, AZ, to stop torture. Their concept is transformation: a large “caterpillar” that participants will help evolve by opening it from the caterpillar will emerge several butterflies.
These two artists are currently working on details of design and are looking for volunteers. We will probably need 10-15 people to work with them. This concept represents not only transformation but hope that beauty emerges from struggle. The butterflies will be monarchs. The monarchs migrate from southern Mexico every year. They remind us of the peoples to the south of us who must leave their homes and head to the US because of the extreme conditions that confront them, but unlike the butterflies, we do not welcome them.
If you are interested in donating supplies or helping,
please contact Debbi McCullough at mcculla1@cox.net
List of needed supplies:
- Newspaper
- Wallpaper paste
- Thin white fabric
- Chicken wire
- Paints (black, yellow and orange)
- Brushes
- Containers/buckets
- Broomsticks or wooden poles
- Face paint
- Single ply cardboard
- Masking tape
- Roll cardboard
- Heavy duty plier stapler/tacker stapler
Nina and Debbi are meeting the evening of Sept 20 to create a small proto type and work out the kinks in their idea. They’ll then put out a call to the community to join them and create an amazing display for the weekend of November 15-16.
Southwest Weekend of Witness is a sister vigil with the School of the Americas Watch demonstration at Fort Benning, GA on November 21-23. Visit the SOA Watch site for more info on the Ft Benning demonstration.
