from the Bethel Woods website:
STORY FACES
WORLD STAGE SERIES
Bethel Woods is excited to host this intriguing, interactive performance! Catering to family audiences, Christopher Agostino shares discoveries from his 30-year adventure in theatre, storytelling, and painting faces. Audience volunteers are brought on stage and face painted to illustrate the stories as he tells them, fully engaging the audience with a skillful spoken word performance combined with his unique visual art. After the performance, Agostino will lead two face painting demonstrations/workshops for kids where additional participants can get their faces painted. For more information about this show, go to Christopher Agostino’s official website
The World Stage Series presents music and performing arts from around the world with the goal of promoting respect for diversity and an appreciation of the arts in all audiences. World Stage Series performances are available for school audiences on school days and for youth, families, and the community on weekend days.
Bethel Woods’ Educational and Children’s programming is supported by Annelise Gerry and Family and the Rhulen/Loughlin Family – In Memory of Trevor John Loughlin. Transportation, admission, and scholarships provided in part by TD Charitable Foundation and First Niagara Foundation.
- Nov 9 , 2014
- Event Gallery
- 1:30 PM Doors Open
2:00 PM Show Time - View Seating Chart
- FREE – tickets required
- Sign-up for a free after-show workshop by email at education@bethelwoodscenter.org.
(max. capacity for each workshop 18 people – two workshops available) - Buy Tickets Now
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See the new video: What is a StoryFace?
I am a painter and a storyteller, and this is how I tell my stories.
Learn more at http://agostinoarts.com/StoryFaces
Christopher Agostino’s StoryFaces
learn about all we do at: agostinoarts.com
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My introduction to this Mexican fusion of death and beauty came via the mummies of Guanajuato when I was there as a student in the 80s. In 2001 I had the opportunity to return to Guanajuato as part of the Festival International Cervantino, painting faces in the street as one of a number of international performance artists. A few days after the festival ended, just before I had to leave, the center of the town was filled with stalls of the artisans creating items for the coming Dia De los Muertos. I bought this mask, and felt really great when the woman who sold it recognized me as a fellow artist for the facepainting I’d done in those plazas the week before.
I approach the Day of the Dead as a celebration of the presence of death within life, and the continuation of life within death through the love we retain for those who have passed. I want to retain stark images of death in the faces I paint, and for inspiration I look less to the current sugar skull style and more to traditional imagery such as Posada’s La Catrina and Mexican skeleton figurines.
