A performance featuring Live Music, Color Shadow Puppets, and Video Artistry

Children and adults will enjoy this colorful and inspiring re-imagining of "Aladdin", the beloved Arabian folk tale, set in a fantasy world inspired by architect Antoni Gaudi­ and children's illustrator Wanda Gag.

Heroine Ala Dean is a feisty little girl struggling, along with her mother, to get by in their war-torn country. One day she discovers a magical, marvelous lamp -- with a genie inside! Ala Dean wishes for all the usual things: riches, a palace and servants. But she soon realizes that she can't be happy if the people around her are suffering. Confronting these truths, Ala Dean discovers the true mystery of the lamp.

At the Center for Independent Artists
4137 Bloomington Avenue South, Minneapolis

Friday, April 14th at 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 15th at 2:00 and 8:00 PM (Reception after evening show)

Tickets: $8.00 for kids, $12 adults.
For reservations: (612) 724-8392 -- space limited

Created by: Anne Sawyer-Aitch
with Lisa Abbatomarco, Jemiah Aitch, Beth Backen, Willis Bowman, Joel Walther, Heather Wells & Tracy Yue
Music by Laura Harada

Made possible, in part, by grants from the State Arts Board
& the Puppeteers of America Endowment Fund

For information on the Center for Independent Artists: www.c4ia.org