“Look, Honey…Summertime Fun at SVT!”

On Our Mainstage

Tongue and Groove Theater Presents:
The Red Balloon

July 10-26, 8:00 PM

Tongue and Groove Theatre combines live orchestration, dynamic animation, and inspired movement to tell this well-loved story.

Directed by David Yeakle, this wordless play stars Mark Stewart (Thrush, A Thought in Three Parts) as as a lonely boy who is befriended by a mysterious red balloon.

The show features a talented cast of twenty actors and dancers, including company member Mimi Kayl-Vaughan (Blue Lapis Light’s Constellation and Requiem) as the girl with the blue balloon. Original score by Justin Sherburn (Okkervil River, 8 1/2 Souvenirs). Animation by Leah Sharpe (A Scanner Darkly) Set and lights by Arthur Adair (La MaMa ETC).

Reservations and More Information at Tongue and Groove Theater

SVT Events

SVTeen Playwriting Workshop

Come out to enjoy a Free Reading of the SVTeen students' work!
July 26 at 2:00 PM

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YOGA at Salvage Vanguard Theater

Lila Flow Yoga
Lead by Leigh Fisher, RYT500

Saturdays 10:15- 11:15am.
August 1st- September 20th

8 week session: $60. Drop-in: $12.
Email eclecticyoga@hotmail.com to register

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On-Camera Puppetry

August 4-8 (Monday-Friday)
Young puppeteers and filmmakers alike will enjoy this camp. Anyone can build a puppet! Anything can be a puppet! Sock puppets! Paper-tape puppets! Shadow puppets! Flat board puppets! Found objects with googly-eyes! The only limits are the limits of our imaginations. In this camp students will design and build their own puppets, then bring them to life. They will storyboard short films featuring their puppets and film them – using each other as a production team. This camp is designed to help students become more aware of the preparation and teamwork involved in creating a project for the screen and to help them to become more critical of the onscreen images they encounter on a day-to-day basis. This camp will culminate in a screening of student work. Each student will also receive a copy of the class project DVD.

Other Summertime Fun @ SVT

Merlin Works Institute For Improvisation presents…
Improv 101

Brought to you by the Merlin Works Institute for Improvisation.
For complete beginners and experienced actors, this workshop teaches the fundamentals of improvisation. Interactive exercises build listening and communication skills, heighten awareness and teach you how to be more playful, spontaneous and flexible. Play short form improv games—like you see on TV's "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"—in a fun and safe environment!

Wednesdays, July 2 - August 20th 6-8pm (8 meetings)
$150 all classes included

Register Now!

www.merlin-works.com
(512) 657-3005

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Church of the Friendly Ghost

Church of the Friendly Ghost is a growing community organization dedicated to the proliferation of creative musics, future-minded expressions, experiments in sound, and cutting edge jazz especially of the home-grown variety (Austin/Texas.) C.O.T.F.G. seeks to serve as a transom for the creative music community in Austin, provide a viable stage alternative to the commercial bar/venue game, and curate a truly exciting series of performances accessible to the public.

Art is a right, not a luxury item.

In the coming year C.O.T.F.G. hopes to partner with music educators to present a series of public workshops in addition to the concert series. a website is in the works which we hope will serve, in part, as a bulletin board for the creative music community in Austin and offer a public anthology of recoded creative music in Austin and Texas.

Friday, July 4th
doors open at 9PM, show beginning later than usual, so you can still catch the fireworks
admission is on a sliding scale, $8 to $12

9:45 PM   Plutonium Farmers
10:45 PM   Book Of Shadows
11:45 PM   Vialka

Sunday July 13th
$5, doors at 8:30 PM

9PM, Hotel Hotel
10PM, Gayle Gold
11PM, Pacific Before Tiger (Greensboro, NC)

Tuesday July 15th
$5, doors at 8:30PM

9 PM   Abagail & Hansel
10 PM   Coz The Shroom
11 PM   Jerry Seinfeld's Atrophied Sac

Thursday July 17th
$5, doors at 8PM

8:30 PM   Some Say Leland
9:30 PM   No Mas Bodas
10:30 PM   Alexander's Dark Band
11:30 PM   Dry River Yacht Club (Tempe, AZ)

Sunday July 27th
$5, Doors at 8:30PM

9 PM   Juffage (Chicago, IL)
10 PM   Jacob Green/Josh Ronsen Large Ensemble with Bulbs

Programs #7 & #8
Tuesday July 29th / Wednesday July 30th
doors open at 9PM both evenings.

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New Leadership at Salvage Vanguard Theater

As you may or may not know, Jason Neulander is stepping down from his AD position on May 30. It's been a good 14 years and we're sad to see Jason go. I think he's sad to go too, but you know, change is growth…. or so I've heard.

However, the great news is that Jason's position is being split into two positions. An Executive Director and an Artistic Director. And wow oh wow... the two wonderkins that are stepping into these roles are so dang awesome that it makes the skin vibrate with anticipation. Want to know who the official appointees are for these new positions?

Read the official press release right here.

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Get Up!

Every other Saturday, fantastic improv duo Shannon McCormick and Shana Merlin combine their improv forces to perform as Get Up! Then, they invite some of Austin's best to join them on the double bill.

THIS MONTH:
July 12 - Get Up and the Knuckleball Now
July 26 - Junk and Parallelogramophonograph

Get tickets: $10 at http://gnaptheater.eventbrite.com/

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Mural! Façade! Stop Fighting—You’re Both Right!

The front of the building is finally painted. I mean, it's like...it's like a real live building now. Can you believe it?? We can't. Swing by to check out the full effect of full color on the walls of a real live theater.

THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON AT SALVAGE VANGUARD.
Check our calendar page for even more information!

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Directions to Salvage Vanguard Theater

To get to The Salvage Vanguard Theater take IH-35 to the Manor Road exit. Take Manor Road eastbound. Go past East Side Café and SVT will be on your right hand side before Airport Blvd. The address is 2803 Manor Road.