{"id":57465,"date":"2023-11-27T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=57465"},"modified":"2023-11-27T10:03:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T10:03:11","slug":"the-christmas-cats-trail-puppet-show","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/the-christmas-cats-trail-puppet-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Cat\u2019s Trail: Puppet show"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J\u00f3lakattarins Sl\u00f3\u00f0\/The Christmas Cat\u2019s Trail is a 40-minute-long puppet show celebrating the Icelandic Yule Lads, Gr\u00fdla, Leppal\u00fa\u00f0i, and the Christmas cat through the eyes of a visiting American and his dog.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The show will be performed with hand puppets and string puppets, with live music from the banjo and harmonica. The show will be in English and is recommended for families.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mark Blashford<\/strong> specializes in traditional puppet performance, including: marionette, shadow, rod, and hand puppetry. As a trained puppet builder, Mark received his MFA in the Puppet Arts from the University of Connecticut in 2017. He has also studied in Germany, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. Formerly based in Chicago, USA, Mark has lived in Reykjavik since September 2022. He is an instructor in Bernd Ogrodnik\u2019s Academy of the Wooden Puppet. Blashford performs in the States as Rootstock Puppet Co. and in Iceland as Fl\u00f3ki Br\u00fa\u00f0uleikh\u00fas. His mission is to craft and perform puppet theatre rooted in stories that promote mutual kindness and ecological awareness for the good of people and their environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>ACCESSIBILITY: The Auditorium and bathrooms are wheelchair accessible. Bathrooms are gender-neutral.<\/i>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00f3lakattarins Sl\u00f3\u00f0\/The Christmas Cat\u2019s Trail is a 40-minute-long puppet show celebrating the Icelandic Yule Lads, Gr\u00fdla, Leppal\u00fa\u00f0i, and the Christmas cat through the eyes of a visiting American and his dog.\u00a0 The show will be performed with hand puppets and string puppets, with live music from the banjo and harmonica. The show will be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":57469,"template":"","event-categories":[60,6,97],"class_list":["post-57465","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-all-events","event-categories-children","event-categories-theater","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/57465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=57465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}