Inspired by Anne Braden’s 1958 memoir, “The Wall Between,” this puppet film combines tabletop puppetry, shadow puppetry, and a “crankie” scroll to tell the story of how two families challenged Louisville, Kentucky’s segregated housing market. In 2002, an elderly Anne Braden recounts from her living room the 1954 story of when she and her husband Carl (both of whom were white) purchased a house in an all-white neighborhood on behalf of their friends Andrew and Charlotte Wade (who were Black). The Wades and Bradens endured a backlash of white supremacist hatred in the midst of anti-communist hysteria, and none of their lives would ever be the same again. To mark the 70th anniversary of the Wade-Braden case, join us for a screening of the film and a subsequent panel about the making of the film and the reverberations of the case into 2024. 2021, U.S., DCP, 42 minutes.

Content warning: contains images and stories of racially motivated violence, including references to lynching. Recommended for ages 9+.

https://www.speedmuseum.org/event/the-other-america-an-anne-braden-story/

Join Squallis Puppeteers and the Louisville Academy of Music for this performance and workshop combo hosted by 21C Museum Hotel in Downtown Louisville! This event includes a 10am performance of Ferdinand & Friends, a collaborative performance featuring Squallis Puppeteers’ Shawn Hennessey and Louisville Academy of Music’s Sara Callaway, followed by a finger puppet making workshop.

21C event page

Come to The Portland Museum Sunday, March 19th for a free 1pm performance of Mouse Tails! While you’re there, check out our 25th Anniversary Exhibition. Free workshop right after the show (around 1:45pm.)

Please join Squallis Puppeteers artists and board of directors as we celebrate the opening of our 25th anniversary exhibition at The Portland Museum! See puppets, props, relics, posters and pictures from the past quarter century of Squallis in Louisville and beyond. Contribute your own story, find out what Squallis is up to now,, and learn about AHOY!

Come hang out with Squallis at the 2022 Portland Art & Heritage Fair! We will at the Portland Museum mingling in big puppets, making finger puppets, and DJing out back! This will also be everyone’s first chance to see our 25th anniversary exhibition in the Portland Museum galleries!

Join our larger-than-life puppets Mono and Bigfoot for this neighborhood celebration of Beechwood park! Get your picture taken with two community characters, one an infamous recluse relocated from the forests, the other a one-eyed visitor from another dimension.

Squallis will be at Bernheim’s CONNECT this Saturday, September 10, 2022! Come see our larger-than-life puppets, and make a special friend of your very own to take home.