The forest creature was at the Commonweal forest! Watch one of West Marin County’s artistic marvels, Sha Sha Higby give a mythical, evocative, and haunting performance incorporating puppetry, sculpture, and masks. Each individual costume that is used in Sha Sha’s performance can take years to make and is informed by a lifetime of experience. On October 28, she wore her newest skeletal wings and wings of captured fall leaves— we watched her emerge out of the labyrinth in the Commonweal forest on the afternoon of the full moon. It was like seeing a Miyazaki animation come to life! This event was a fundraiser for The New School. If you enjoyed this performance, and want to see more of this kind of programming coming next year, find the DONATE button on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And THANK YOU if you already have!

Sha Sha Higby
Sha Sha pursued the art of puppetry and sculpture in her early years, spent one year in Japan studying the art of Noh Mask and theater. She received a Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship to study dance and shadow puppet making in the villages in Indonesia for five years at the Academy of sMusic and Dance, studied lacquer arts in Tokyo and Kyoto under the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, received an Indo-American fellowship to study the textile arts of India, and a Pilot Travel Grants Fund from Arts International for Bhutan, the National Endowment for the Arts in Solo Theater Fellowship, U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, Theater Bay Area CASH, and the California Arts Council. Find out more at www.shashahigby.com and follow her on Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo and X.

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