Spiral Q Puppet Theater Presents Its Third Annual Valentine's Gala, "Q-LICIOUS: A MAD, MAD TEA PARTY"
Philadelphia, Pa. – Spiral Q Puppet Theater is thrilled to announce that Q-LICIOUS, its third annual Valentine’s Gala, will be held in the landmark Founder’s Hall at Girard College on February 9, 2008. This year’s Alice in Wonderland-themed “Mad, Mad Tea Party” will begin at 7:00 and keep rocking until 11:30 PM.
Q-LICIOUS has come to be known as the place to be on a chilly Valentine’s weekend, and in the past two years, guests have been entertained by juggling masters, marching bands, drag kings and queens, and silent art auctions. This year’s event promises to up the ante, boasting our best art auction ever, paper-maché croquet, and delicious treats of all shapes and sweetnesses!
From 7-9 PM, the Queen of Harts Reception will honor the life, work, and pizzazz of Philadelphia activist and Spiral Q founder Matty Hart and feature a special appearance by Miss Martha Graham Cracker, Philly’s Tallest Drag Queen. Beginning at 9:00 PM a larger group of attendees will cut a rug at the Mad Hatter’s Dance Party. Guests will boogie to the brass of New York City’s Rude Mechanical Orchestra and learn to dance the Lobster Quadrille from the Mock Turtle. This event sold out in its first two years, and Q-LICIOUS 2008 is surely not to be missed!
Q-LICIOUS is the opportunity for Philadelphians to support Spiral Q’s work in the classrooms, community centers, and public spaces of our city. By attending last year’s event, over 400 individual guests enabled Spiral Q to:
- Produce 6 Community Parades, including the citywide Education to Power Up North Parade with 20 participating organizations, West Philadelphia’s 8th annual Peoplehood Parade and Pageant, Are We Sleeping? with over 360 parade & pageant participants; and our 5th Dracula Parade through Rittenhouse, presented by the Rosenbach Museum & Library.
- Provide over 26 Arts Education Residencies in Classrooms, Community Centers and Organizations across the city.
- Serve over 34 organizations and groups through our Justice Works Program, a unique programming area that works to sustain Spiral Q’s commitment to free speech and peaceful assembly in our city.
- All in the last twelve months!
Tickets are still on sale for this year’s event and can be purchased at www.spiralq.org. For more information, please contact Tracy Broyles, Spiral Q’s Executive Director.
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Philadelphia’s Spiral Q Puppet Theater lives at the intersection of the arts and social justice communities. Established in 1996, Spiral Q produces giant puppet parades that raise social consciousness and connect individuals and organizations throughout the city. Working from the belief that freedom of speech is both an inalienable individual right and a collective responsibility, Spiral Q strives to use the age-old arts of puppet-making and theatrical pageantry as vehicles for social change. This same belief has driven Spiral Q’s commitment to creating a more perfect society—one that values listening as highly as it values speaking, values diversity as highly as it values unity, and believes that nurturing creativity in all will ensure that thinking outside the (cardboard) box will happen for years to come.
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Release Date: Wednesday, January 16th 2008
