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IMAGINEFAMILY & CHILDREN’S STAGELOCATION Memorial Drive between JFK Street and Plympton Street (Harvard University Side) COORDINATOR Cambridge Arts CouncilHOST Jonathan Mirin, Piti Theater CompanyTO BEE OR NOT TO BEELI MIN MOMAURA MENDOZAROLIE POLIEGUACAMOLEPUPPET SHOWPLACETHEATRE’S PUPPET PLAYTIME!ODAIKO NEW ENGLANDTO BEE OR NOT TO BEEIn Piti Theatre Company’s play with music To Bee or Not to Bee12PM Farmer James has lost his bees, there’s only gruel to eat andnow the townspeople (the audience) have arrived to protest,chanting “There’s no good food, we’re in a bad mood.” To Bee tells James’comic, tragic and ultimately hopeful story - complete with puppetry,clowning, dance, live music and lots of audience participation. Piticreated the show, which has been performed in France & Switzerland,to raise awareness about the honeybee’s plight and gives children andadults tools for helping bees thrive in their communities. www.ptco.orgROLIE POLIE GUACAMOLEBrooklyn-based Rolie Polie Guacamole is coming to Cambridgefor an afternoon of funk, rock and folk music mashed intooriginal tunes about natural living, eating healthy and stayingactive. The band has released three albums: Rolie Polie Guacamole(2008), Time for Hummus (2010) and Houses of the Moly (released Feb26, 2012). Houses of the Moly is their first rockin’ cover album of classictunes and traditional children’s songs. Featuring Grammy nominatedBrady Rymer, Jason Lansing from The Okee Dokee Brothers and Brooklynkindie artist Suzi Shelton. Houses of the Moly features songs popularizedby the band: Dragon Hunt, Upside Down and Firetruck. The album alsoincludes covers the whole family will enjoy, Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut”,The Beatles’ “Octopus’s Garden” and Joni Mitchell’s “Circle Game”. Theirinteractive shows and high energy sound turn in to the finest dance partyyou won’t want to miss! www.roliepolieguacamole.comCAMBRIDGE RIVER FESTIVAL 20131PM6LI MIN MOLi Min Mo is a professional storyteller, award-winningeducator and artist. She has been thrilling audiences with herstorytelling concerts, and teaching art and Chinese culture withher unique contagious energy and enthusiasm for over 20 years. Sheoffers children’s and adult workshops and dramatic shows, as well aseducational seminars on teaching art and culture. www.liminmo.com2PMPUPPET SHOWPLACE THEATRE’SPUPPET PLAYTIME!featuring Brenda Huggins, Phil Berman, and Bella MonsterGet ready to exercise your imagination! Join Bella Monster,Puppet Showplace Theatre’s “Monster in Residence,” and herfriends Brenda and Phil as they embark on an amazing puppet-filledadventure. Puppet Playtime is a fun, interactive performance experiencedesigned for very young children and their grown ups. The performancefeatures original live music, sing-a-long songs, interactive games, andmultiple styles of puppetry!3PMMAURA MENDOZAMaura started her musical training when she was 14 yearsold in El Salvador and later in Panama. She attended collegein Havana, Cuba and Mexico City. Her background includesmusical theater, acting and dance. After moving to the US and launchingher career as a solo singer, Maura has played many local venuesexploring rock, jazz, acoustic and pop music. She performs regularlyin the Boston area, blending her Latin roots in music with local jazzmusicians. www.mauramendoza.com4PMODAIKO NEW ENGLANDOdaiko New England (ONE) was founded in 1994. ONEis composed of diverse individuals with a multitude ofbackgrounds, talents and skills. ONE seeks to bridge theboundaries of race, class, culture and religion – and to heightenawareness of this beautiful and powerful performance art. Odaiko NewEngland integrates the powerful sound of the taiko (drum) with gracefulmovement to create a dynamic and visual performance that is memorableand inspirational. With its own unique style, ONE fuses the traditions ofJapanese rhythms with the musical influences of many cultures to createa contemporary American taiko aesthetic. www.onetaiko.org5PM

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(CONTINUED )Explore the Cambridge CreativityCommons (CCC), a new arts andeducation program in East Cambridge.Participate in a hands-on art activity!CCC is founded on the principle thatevery child is creative and that this abilitycan be developed in environments wherecreative process is practiced.IChromodynamicPlaygroundCorporal Burns ParkThe Chromodynamic Playground artinstallation transports you to a world ofsaturated color and sound. Participate in acollective work of art by creating paintingsunder highly-saturated LED light. As thelights cycle through a variety of colorcombinations, the paintings appear tochange color in surprising ways. Madepossible by the Cambridge Arts Counciland the Council for the Arts at MIT.Sunday ParklandGames/KnucklebonesJNear Interactive Dance StageThe Charles River Conservancy andthe Department of Conservation andRecreation present a special Saturdayedition of the Sunday Parkland Games atthe River Festival! Join in fun games andathletic activities for all ages provided byKnucklebones.Roving Performances & Public ArtANIKAYA Dance Theater presentsLilithCorporal Burns Park@ 1:30pm ONLY!!!Come experience Lilith, a group danceperformance exploring the story of thefirst woman, who rebelled against Adamand fled Eden, choreography by WendyJehlen with dancers of all ages fromBoston University, Brown University,and the Boston dance community,accompanied by live improvised music.Sidewalk SamCorner of Memorial Driveand JFK StreetSee the amazing sidewalk chalk artof Sidewalk SamSponsored by Irving & Harding HousesCambridge River Festival 2013Ollie and Bianca10Throughout festival groundsOllie and Bianca, two talented highschool students, who perform regularlyon Cambridge Street bring their fantastictalents to the River Festival! Ollie playsthe accordionist while Bianca plays theukulele, juggles, and twists balloons.Chester TheBalloon JesterThroughout festival groundsWatch as balloon artist Ed Braunsteintransform balloons into fanatical figures.VictorianFairground OrganBetween Flagg and Akron StreetThe Diamond Jubilee Carousel Organ isthe largest touring antique fairgroundorgan in the Americas. It was built in1897. With over 400 pipes played bya mechanical card reader it recreatesthe sound of the traveling carnival, TheHappiest Music on Earth!J.A.B Step Inc presentsthe “4 FOR 4”(3 on 3 Basketball Challenge)Basketball CourtsMale & Female Tournament.Open for ages 10 . www.jabstep.netFly-Innew riverside parkA mustering of kites, hand-made byCambridge kids and middle school students.We will not be making kites on site but youare welcome to come fly your own with us!Helen ManzellaCorporal Burns Park 3pm – 6pmShe was trained in classical ballet fortwelve years before experimenting withimprovisation. She uses her therapeutictraining to bring intentionality and healingawareness to her dancing and hopes thatthrough performance she can help bringherself and her audience closer to peaceand the cessation of suffering.

THEATER STAGEINSPIRELOCATION Memorial Drive between JFK Street and Plympton Street (Harvard University Side)COORDINATOR Central Square Theater HOSTS Kami SmithAMERICANREPERTORYTHEATERNEW REPERTORYTHEATERCOMPANY ONECENTRAL ECTLIARS &BELIEVERSIMPROV BOSTONThe Hypocrites, known for their insightful illuminationsof classic and obscure theater texts, bring Pirates ofPenzance back to Cambridge to complete the A.R.T.’s 2012/13Season. Irreverent and hilarious, this adaptation of the Gilbert andSullivan classic brings beach balls, sunshine (the artificial kind) and aton of fun music! Audiences of all ages will be invited to sing along withthe banjo picking Mabel and the instrument-laden cast.www.americanrepertorytheater.org12PMNEW REPERTORY THEATERAn excerpt from our summer show, Jimmy Titanic, a oneperson show staring Colin Hamill about the sinking of theTitanic. “If you are going to find yourself in heaven, it&1:35 may as well be in historic circumstances, like going downPM on the greatest ship ever built. Yet even now, 100 years later,angel Jimmy Boylan steps aboard Titanic every day: ridingits notoriety, struggling with its legacy, forever consumedby ‘the Wondership.” www.newrep.org12: 30CENTRAL SQUARE THEATERARABIAN NIGHTSEnter ancient Persia, and be transformed by the powerof storytelling--again! The Nora Theatre Company andUnderground Railway Theater perform an excerpt from their&2:45 award-winning production of Dominic Cooke’s ARABIANPM NIGHTS. Based on One Thousand and One Nights, a collectionof folk tale from the Middle East and Asia, ARABIAN NIGHTS isrich with suspense, romance, and hilarity---stories irresistiblefor all ages. At its hear is the power of imagination to heal, inspire, andtransform. www.centralsquaretheater.org12: 50CENTRAL SQUARE THEATERCABARET SERIES(Never Far From Home: Love Songs About Leaving)As the summer begins, four friends gather to resume an oldroutine. But something - or someone - is missing from theirharmonies. A bittersweet and hilarious love letter to leaving andbeing left, this fresh, charming, and occasionally irreverentevening combines a collection of new songs by local composers,original script material by Lydia Diamond, and the vocal powerof The Cabaret Series (Cheo Bourne, Jen Ellis, Brian RichardRobinson, Kami Smith). The Cabaret Series fuses music and story in afreshly imagined cabaret setting, making this classic form accessible to acontemporary audience with live accompaniment on piano, strings, andpercussion. L SQUARE THEATERPHOTO CALL WORKSHOP12to5:45PMJoin CST’s resident Companies, Underground Railway Theaterand The Nora Theatre Company for PHOTO CALL! Try oncostumes, learn how to pose on set pieces, manipulate giantpuppets----and find out how to do all this for the camera!www.centralsquaretheater.orgACTOR’S SHAKESPEARE PROJECTA Resident Acting Company member with Actors’ ShakespeareProject, Jesse has appeared in Pericles, Twelfth Night,Antony and Cleopatra. Other recent credits include BerkshireTheatre Group:The Puppetmaster of Lodz, Moonchildren, Macbeth, TheEinstein Project, A Christmas Carol. Brandeis Theatre Company: ThreeSisters, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Game of Love and Chance,Hecuba, Siddhartha, Funnyhouse of a Negro, Little Monsters. GeorgiaShakespeare:Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Much AdoAbout Nothing, Coriolanus, Cymbeline. Jesse earned an MFA in acting atBrandeis University and a BA in theatre at Oglethorpe University. Jesseis a teacher of the Suzuki method of actor training at Brandeis OMPANY ONE3:25&4:40PMA performance piece based on our summer show, How We GotOn by Idris Goodwin and directed by Summer L. Williams. HowWe Got On: Spoken word poet and hip-hop playwright IdrisGoodwin MC’s a theatrical coming-of-age mix tape about howwe become the people we’re meant to be, flowing and rhymingour way to adulthood. www.companyone.orgIMPROV BOSTONFast-Paced High Energy Interactive Comedy! From theprofessional stages of ImprovBoston (Central Square,Cambridge), our Touring Company travels across the countryperforming day and night for audiences of all ages. Don’t missthe chance to see this elite team of comedy veterans in action.Who knows, you might even wind up on stage yourself!www.improvboston.com4:05&5:20PMLIARS & BELIEVERSInspired by the myth and set in a traveling side show duringthe Great Depression, ICARUS is a new experimental musicalcreated by Liars & Believers. ICARUS features imaginativepuppets, movement and an exciting original Americana score,presented with the lyricism, irony and fantastical imagery thatare the hallmarks of Liars & Believers. ICARUS premieres inMay in Cambridge and then moves to New York City in July. It has beencreated with generous support of the Cambridge Arts Council and theMassachusetts Cultural Council. www.liarsandbelievers.com3:50PM&5PMCAMBRIDGE RIVER FESTIVAL 2013AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER11

CONNECTFOLK & ROOTS STAGELOCATION Weeks Footbridge at DeWolfe Street (River Side)COORDINATOR TOAD and The Lizard Lounge HOST Tom Bianchi, Cambridge-based MusicianABBIE BARRETT &THE LAST DATEANNIE & THE BEEKEEPERSTHE FOUR LEGGED FAITHFULRUSTY BELLETODD THIBAUD BANDGIRLS GUNS AND GLORYABBIE BARRETT & THE LAST DATEBarrett draws on a wide range of influences—everything fromPink Floyd and Radiohead to Neil Young and Aimee Mann. Herband has been featured regularly on WXRV The River’s“Homegrown” program, and in American Songwriter and PerformingSongwriter magazines. Last month, they were nominated for “Best inthe State” by the New England Acoustic Music Awards. In 2008, theInternational Acoustic Music Awards gave Barrett runner-up in thecategory of Best Female Artist. www.abbiebarrett.comRusty Belle describe themselves as “dirty kids with badmintonguitars making a backyard hootenanny; a middle yard secretmeeting in the clubhouse under the rhododendrons withcookpot helmets and broomstick getaways.” Seven Days in Burlingtonsays, “They’re a little bit country, a little bit rock’n’roll, a little bit old-timeyand a whole lotta weird. But in a good way. This quartet mashes genres asif they they were tasty little sonic potatoes.” www.rustybelle.comANNIE & THE BEEKEEPERSTHE FOUR LEGGED FAITHFULRUSTY BELLE1PMAnnie and The Beekeepers, currently including multiinstrumentalists, Annie Lynch, Jeni Magana, Javier Cruz,and Keenan O’Meara, are a group of college peers turnedinternationally touring Americana group. Based in Brooklyn by way ofBoston, their music hails from somewhere between Liverpool and Harlancounty. They have performed at SXSW, Philadelphia Folk Festival, BostonFolk Festival, UK’s End of

generates a compelling sound all its own. Their works blend composition and improvisation in new and unexpected ways, using the musical vocabulary of classical composers like Bartok and Stravinsky, as well . Department at Berklee College of Music, has worked with Mulgrew Miller, Gary Bartz, Johnny Gri n, Joe Zawinul, Albert King, Art .