Opera-Matic

09/23/2025

A giant worm is heading your way! We need your help to prepare! We're celebrating Nature's Decomposers at the Arts in the Dark Parade so we need your help to make parade costumes and puppets!
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We're marching and collaborating with our dear friends at Chicago Creative Reuse Exchange and invite you to explore the space and build with us.
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Please RSVP so we have enough supplies ready for you. Build days will be at CCRX and at Chio's Studio in Humboldt Park. Address will be provided after you RSVP!

08/02/2025

Enjoy these behind-the-scene pictures of our build days! The process is part of the fun!
👉🏽 What you need to build a Giant Coyote 👈🏽
• Trash to build the armature ♻️
• a Stand to put the giant head on (our Jigsaw ran outta battery so we used a good old fashioned saw 🪚)
• Masking tape to make a mask over the trash
• Clay to sculpt the head
• Serán Wrap to cover the clay
• Warbla and heat gun (look these up. But you could use paper mache instead. That's cheaper, but it takes longer)
• Body is made of wooden reeds and held together by zip ties and wood glue
• To be continued....
Here's where we're at with the process. The actual mounting of this coyote onto a backpack involves many trips to Menards, PVC pipe, and two hiking backpacks.
Please come support the debut of this coyote at our presentation "Be a Part of the Art: Wild Solutions".

08/01/2025

We're in extreme building mode! Opera-Matic is making a GIANT puppet to honor one of Chicago's sneakiest urban dweller. Can you tell what we're making?
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🐺 This puppet will debut at "Wild Solutions: Be a Part of the Art", our summer event with Nights out in the Park!
Come join this free spectacle with family friendly activities!
🕥 4-6pm everyday!
Aug 5th 📍 Kilbourn Park
Aug 6th 📍 Wilson (John P) Park
Aug 7th 📍 Ken- Well Park
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Special thanks to: .punchfizz

06/28/2025

Come witness the magic of youth and performance! See flyer for details ❤️

Join Los Logansitos this summer for TWO performances! July 9th at Shedd Park and July 11th at Kosciuszko park. Both shows are 6-7pm and FREE!

Thank you to and the parks for facilitating and hosting these events! 🧡

11/04/2024

Dia de los Mu***os at Children's Garden of Hope!

10/31/2024

We are so grateful to be collaborating with Envision Unlimited and Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange - CCRx to bring our glow worm to the streets of Chicago during the Arts in the Dark Parade. What a treat!

10/14/2024

Practices with the giant Glow worm 🐛 are filled with smiles and laughter! Will you see the final transformation of the Glow Worm on Saturday?
We will be at the Arts in the Dark Parade, marching proudly with our partners and ! ✨

10/14/2024

Come find us at the Arts in the Dark parade with our fantastic partners, Envision and Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange - CCRx!!

08/22/2024

Face painting has been such a great hit! We need to publicly appreciate the "turtle and duck fighting over a Burrito 🌯 outside of Taco Bell". That was created by ✨
🎨👩🏽‍🎨Our face painter team includes:
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More events to come!

08/20/2024

We were at the Back- to-School Event with Northwestern Medicine and Mission of Our Lady of the Angels this past weekend. We led a Mad-libs style improv game and did arts and crafts. 🎨
The following stats about the event are provided by Sister Stephanie:

"We gave out 822 backpacks! 

There was about 1 adult for each of those kids, so we for sure had like 1500 people here. 

We cooked way over 1500 hot dogs."
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We believe in quality over quantity, but being a part of these stats are honorable.

08/17/2024

Congratulations Myra Su!!! You are a beacon of ingenuity in the theater and puppet community. Thanks for bringing your imagination to our upcoming series "Make Believe, Make a Friend"