Friday, November 21, 2014

Butterbird Christmas Debuts on 12/7/14 at the Marshall J. Gardner Center



Butterbird Christmas Debuts on 12/7/14 at the Marshall J. Gardner Center
We are soooo stoked about our debut performance and hope that you will bring in the holidays with the Family Folklore Players! We will perform our original radio play, Butterbird Christmas, at 4:00pm at the Marshall J. Garner Center for the Arts in the Miller Beach Arts & Creative District of Gary, Indiana. Doors open at 3:30 PM, tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for children, a variety of baked sale goods will be available, and the Calumet Ridge Jazz Ensemble will be accompanying the project. 
Butterbird Christmas, is a hilarious romp for the whole family. Inspired by the era of classic broadcasting, the cast and crew banded together to create a timeless piece about growing up in Chicagoland.



Butterbird Christmas, is a hilarious romp for the whole family. Inspired by the era of classic broadcasting, the cast and crew banded together to create a timeless piece about growing up in Chicagoland.
Some very important characteristics differentiate Butterbird Christmas from many other radio plays out on the market today:
1.      It is an all-volunteer run production.
2.      Proceeds go to a multitude of projects dedicated to promoting literacy & arts education in Northwest Indiana.
3.      It is an intergenerational, multicultural radio play written about Da Region by a homegrown writer  
The Family Folklore Foundation’s mission is to offer educational opportunities to intergenerational community members using literacy and problem-solving strategies to make the world a better place. Over the course of the project, our players enjoyed communicating and communing with the wide range of volunteers and supporters. We have had the privilege of sharing in many special holiday moments with the cast and crew, and especially liked knowing all the goodwill this project will spread across the community. There is even a documentary being produced about the making of “Butterbird Christmas” that will be available in the spring.


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