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Volunteer for Ritual Art Troupe

Ritual Art Troupe is seeking volunteers in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, Portland, Oregon, and just about anywhere for some types of volunteering. Email us to let us know you want to volunteer. (You can also donate funds or donate venue, food, materials, or equipment.)

San Francisco Volunteer Opportunities

For Theatre Makers project:

Actors
Playwrights
Directors
Set designers
Costume designers
Prop makers
Sound engineers
Lighting designers
Stage managers
Stage hands
Transport and logistics
Video designers / videographers / photographers
Casting directors
Producers
Sign Language Interpreters (ASL)
Poets, Musicians, Composers, and Conductors
Dancers and Choreographers
Publicist
Program design, layout, and printing

Portland Volunteer Opportunities

Coming soon…

Anywhere Volunteer Opportunities

Fundraiser to research, write, and follow up on grant requests to foundations and other groups
Blogger to update website with the latest news

Orchestra of the Moon and Breedlove Puppet Theatre perform together for the first time

The charming town of Sherwood, Oregon, has for 62 years been the home of a civic celebration called Robin Hood Days.

On July 15th of this year, it also became to host to Orchestra of the Moon and the Breedlove Puppet Theatre, and the first-time collaboration of those two groups.

The band and the theatre joined forces for a production of “The Wicked Sacristan,” in which the orchestra played all the musical cues for the play.

This joining of musical and dramatic forces was the original concept of the puppet theatre, and many audience members commented on the “magical” quality that the large musical ensemble added to the play.

Notable, too, was the contribution of Emma Rose, newest addition to the Breedlove Puppet Theatre, whose performance in the roles of Ydoin and the Miller were marvelled at by all, and whose general contributions to the smooth flow of the shows are unable to be expressed adequately here. Many thanks!

And while thanks are being handed out, let’s also acknowledge Ben Neubauer for many contributions that day.

Great work, everyone, and

Ritual Art Troupe Board Meeting on March 2, 2018

The Ritual Art Troupe held a board meeting at 10:00am on March 2, 2018, with Board Meeting Minutes here.

Current members of the RAT board are Mark Alburger, Jacob Breedlove, and Stardust Doherty.

The organization is actively seeking new board members.

The agenda for the board meeting was as follows:

Official Business

Call to Order and Introductions
Quorum Check
Review and Approve Agenda
Review and Approve Prior Board Meeting Minutes
Project Review (brief)
Finances (Banking, Past and Planned Donations/Grants and Expenses)
Board Recruitment
Other Official Business
Next Board Meeting
Adjourn

Ritual Art Troupe Board Meeting on September 1, 2017

The Ritual Art Troupe held a board meeting at 11:00am on September 1, 2017, with Board Meeting Minutes here.

Current members of the RAT board are Mark Alburger, Jacob Breedlove, and Stardust Doherty.

The organization is actively seeking new board members.

The agenda for the board meeting was as follows:

Official Business

Call to Order and Introductions
Quorum Check
Review and Approve Agenda
Review and Approve Prior Board Meeting Minutes
Project Review (brief)
Finances (Banking, Past and Planned Donations/Grants and Expenses)
Board Recruitment
Other Official Business
Next Board Meeting
Adjourn

Ritual Art Troupe Board Meeting on March 3, 2017

The Ritual Art Troupe held a board meeting at 11:00am on March 3, 2017, with Board Meeting Minutes for March 3, 2017.

Current members of the RAT board are Mark Alburger, Jacob Breedlove, and Stardust Doherty.

The organization is actively seeking new board members.

The agenda for the board meeting was as follows:

Official Business

Call to Order and Introductions
Quorum Check
Review and Approve Agenda
Review and Approve Prior Board Meeting Minutes
Project Review (brief)
Finances (Banking, Past and Planned Donations/Grants and Expenses)
Board Recruitment
Other Official Business
Next Board Meeting
Adjourn

Informal Discussion

Detailed Projects Discussion
Website
Donation Capability (Credit Cards, Online)
Contact / Email List
Other Items as Time Permits

Rag on a Stick Theatre completes the Camlann Festival Season

Puppeteers and musicians of the Rag on a Stick Theatre (Jacob Breedlove, Puppeteer, Aage Nielson and Laura Kuhlman, Musicians) were pleased to perform at the final festival of the summer season, September 24 and 25, 2016, in Carnation, Washington.

They performed the play “Why the Sea is Salt”, and also several sets of medieval music, to general acclaim.

Jacob Breedlove is now at work on another puppet play, an adaptation of the 15th century play “Everyman”.

Orchestra of the Moon plays at Laurelhurst Park

On the June 21st Orchestra of the Moon helped Portlanders celebrate the Solstice by playing a program of Medieval music in Laurelhurst Park.

We were the opening act at that location, of what was a city-wide and truly world-wide music-making event: Make Music Day.

Begun in France, in the eighties, (so I have been told), the day is an effort to get music played all over town, especially by groups which might not otherwise perform frequently.

Ritual Art Troupe Board Meeting on September 30, 2016

The Ritual Art Troupe held a board meeting at 11:00am on September 30, 2016, with Board Meeting Minutes for September 30, 2016.

Current members of the RAT board are Mark Alburger, Jacob Breedlove, and Stardust Doherty.

The organization is actively seeking new board members.

The agenda for the board meeting was as follows:

Official Business

Call to Order and Introductions
Quorum Check
Review and Approve Agenda
Review and Approve Prior Board Meeting Minutes
Project Review (brief)
Finances (Banking, Past and Planned Donations/Grants and Expenses)
Board Recruitment
Other Official Business
Next Board Meeting
Adjourn

Informal Discussion

Detailed Projects Discussion
Website
Donation Capability (Credit Cards, Online)
Contact / Email List
Other Items as Time Permits

Progress photos of the head for the new bass rebec by Chris Davies

Here as promised are a few pictures of my progress on carving the head for the peghead of the bass rebec made for Orchestra of the Moon by Portland Luthier, Christopher Davies. (My arrangement with Chris was that I would be the one to carve the head.)

The wood for the head is pear. My inspiration came from some Romanesque sculptures I’ve admired for years. This is my first attempt at carving a head for an instrument.

Here is the head on the instrument awaiting finish:

I will post pictures when i have a chance to put the finish on the head.

Ancient Instrument Hoard visits Veritas classrooms

On May 24th I visited Veritas School in Newberg, Oregon, to share musical instruments from the Middle Ages and Renaissance with the students.

The instruments I brought along to share were:

Renaissance Recorders

Tenor and Bass Krummhorns

Soprano Schryarpfief

5 String Medieval Fiddle (Vielle, Fidel)

Bass Rebec

Bass Viola da Gamba

Hurdy-Gurdy

Virginal (Muselar)

Clavichord (after Urbino)

This was my third visit to this school, for teaching or performance purposes. As ever, I found the students extremely polite and attentive, and was pleased by the many intelligent and thoughtful questions I was asked, about the instruments, the music, or the history connected to both.

I applaud the high level of musical culture fostered at Veritas School, under the visionary guidance of Sally Mehler, and thank her and the students for inviting me back. I look forward to future visits there.

-Jacob Breedlove