Wise Fool Basics 25th Anniversary Digital Version

Wise Fool Basics, also known as The Wise Fool Handbook, is a comprehensive guide to building masks and puppets for social justice, as well as an historical document of Wise Fool Puppet Intervention, a community arts group active in the 1990s and 2000s.  The book includes everything you need to start your own puppetry project–from planning your build, brainstorm, design & storyboard process, gathering supplies and building techniques from simple to grand.  There are pages on consensus decision making, theatre games, stilts, costumes, shadow puppets, kids projects, low tech noise makers and so much more.  The book is directed towards folks who want to make art for social change, but will be useful for anyone wanting to create masks and puppets. The digital version is a direct scan of the 1999 printing of the book with color photos swapped in and a dozen full color bonus pages.

Download includes PDF and EPUB versions in one big 500MB zip file.  Download link expires after 5 days.