This Friday our speaker will be Kathy Vest, Executive Director of Puppetry Arts Institute.
Puppetry Arts Institute was established in May of 2000, as part of a dream of a group of local puppeteers led by Diane Houk. The location on Winner Road in Englewood was opened in October of 2001 to share the art of puppetry with the community.
They are also the world producers of Nunsense Puppets used in the nine different Nunsense productions. They have shipped puppets all over the United States and to such foreign destinations as Germany, England, Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Sweden, Lithuania and Nova Scotia. They were given production rights by Pady Blackwood, the original designer for the Broadway productions. Nancy Clark learned the skills for producing these puppets from Pady, who was our artist in residence until his passing eight years ago.
The Puppet shows they schedule bring in local and out-of-state puppeteers using a variety of styles of puppetry. One show a year they bring in a puppeteer of national reputation for older children and adults, to increase the understanding of the wide range of the art of puppetry.
Puppet making workshops are scheduled with at-risk youth, school children, daycare groups, homeschool groups, seniors, the mentally and physically challenged and family and youth groups. Kindergarten classes from the Independence School District come to PAI to paint their own puppets, and see a puppet show that teaches about kindness and respect in the classroom.
For the last several year Lenexa Rotary has raised funds for our projects by selling drinks at the Lenexa Art Fair, Lenexa BBQ Battle and Lenexa Chili Challenge. We participate with Western JOCO Rotary. We raised over $12,000 last year.
We have a few spots remaining that need to be filled. Please call Phil Hammond at 913-244-4750 if you can fill one of these remaining spots.
Lenexa Rotary will be welcoming a new Rotary Youth Exchange Student for the coming school year. She is a girl from Chile and will be attending Mill Valley High School in Shawnee.
We have one host family and are still looking for two (2) more host families for the school year. Please seriously consider being a host family and ask your family and friends if they would like to be a part of this wonderful experience.
"Peace Poles are individual monuments that have been artistically designed to convey the message “May Peace Prevail on Earth”. This year the Lenexa Arts Council, the City of Lenexa, Kansas and the Lenexa Rotary Club have partnered to organize The Peace Poles Community Art Project. Over 30 individuals and groups have created Peace Poles that are now on display in Black Hoof Park. I encourage you to visit this outdoor exhibit. I will periodically post some of the photos that I have made of them. Cheers to Community Art & Artists!" ~ Marshall Rimann
Park at the south entrance where the boat entrance is located. All of the peace poles are placed south of the boat ramp toward the boardwalk
Event time 7:00-8:00 p.m. The sun should be going behind the trees and not quite as hot
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