February 11, 2016
Through collaboration with In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, The Minneapolis Japanese School is offering free tickets to the special showing of The Story of Crow Boy for the Mounds Park Academy community and the Minneapolis Japanese School community on Saturday February 20th at 2 p.m. at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater. The show contains some footage of WWII and oppression, so parental guidance is suggested for young children under 10. Reserve your free tickets now! Send an email to momotanno@gmail.com with “CROW BOY” in the subject line with the following information: 1) First and Last Name 2) Number of tickets per reservation (up to 4 tickets).
Please reserve early to claim your tickets as we are offering the tickets to Minneapolis Japanese School community and Mounds Park Academy community on a first-come-first-serve basis. In the event you cannot use the reserved tickets for any reason, we ask that you give them to someone who can come, or return them.
THE STORY OF CROW BOY explores the intriguing life story of Taro Yashima who wrestled with human brutality, racial discrimination, and the ravages of WWII to build work of social conscience, compassionate insight, poetic visual form, and ultimately — of joy. Yashima reminds us what it means to be human, and offers understanding into the complexities of cultural survival. This production draws on his autobiographical and fictional books including the Caldecott Honor Award-winning CROW BOY (1956) about a young boy who learns to sing the “voices of crows” in defiance of his years of being bullied.
