Upcoming Events

Playchella

As the US approaches the 2026 midterm elections, I, as a queer puppeteer in rural Kansas, am discovering more and more that community and comedy can help us in healing from the discourse we find ourselves in as a country:

Hence, Playchella, a pop-up puppetry festival!

Visiting crucial, congressional districts, a series of puppet plays will be performed throughout these districts in everyday gathering places; community centers, coffee houses, churches, bars, campuses, and libraries to name a few. At each stop, there will be:

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a chance to practice your voting by selecting which hilarious, pantomime-style puppet show gets performed that day. Then boost voter registration with resources from HEADCOUNT, read from our comic pot-luck, and take home a free, art project.

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Each show shares a lesson needed in today’s America.

Show 1: Good King Wenceslas

Theme: Food Security, Equity

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Show 2: Robin Hood

Theme: Wealth Disparity, Classism, Philanthropy

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Show 3: Ondine

Theme: Emotional Intelligence, Democracy, Disrupting the Status Quo

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Show 4: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Theme: Charity, Goodwill, Empathy

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Meeting folks where they are in spaces they have access to and are familiar with, met with a hands-off communal activity meant to bring laughs and levity to these hard subjects, and doing so regularly, I believe, can help embolden those disillusioned and frustrated with our political system as is to enter the conversation more actively for the 2026 mid-terms and their primaries.

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Each stop’s cost comes to:

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$500

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Your contribution today will help make these chances for first-time voters and current, disparaged constituents to vote for new leadership on national, state, and local levels possible.​