![]() ![]() Others depicted astonishing geographical features (voyages to the Arctic) or impressive urban development (a train ride from London to Paris). Some were created to encapsulate and preserve the stories of historical events. These moving panoramas were toured throughout the world, transporting people to new places and cultures they’d never seen. It was, in effect, the beginnings of modern cinema. Artists began creating long paintings that were wrapped around two large spools on either end and hand-cranked to create a scrolling story with a beginning, middle, and end, rather than a static image. ![]() Though they were called moving panoramas at the time, crankies began in the 1800s as a way to expand upon the fashionable panoramic paintings of the era. The festival is just once a year, but she takes her work all over the city. Kathy, I think, has inspired the crankies to continue. I have a story.’ Anyone can create a crankie and have it be meaningful. “You see people at shows go, ‘I’d like to do that. “It’s so inspiring,” says Lauraville crankie artist Liz Downing. ![]() All the while, as the city has become known as the epicenter of mechanical, often musical, moving picture shows, she’s continued to empower others to tell their own stories. and leads workshops for students young and old. 7-9 but has since been postponed until May 20-22 due to COVID-19-Fahey has toured her crankies around the U.S. In addition to helping found the annual, wildly popular Crankie Fest at the Creative Alliance with folk duo Anna & Elizabeth-which was set to return Jan. But it was the discovery of “crankies”-the 19th-century art form that combines storytelling and a hand-cranked scroll of illustrated images-that allowed her to integrate her work as a papercut artist, shadow puppeteer, and vocalist with her love of folk tales.Ĭrankies, in a word, became her niche-so much so that she’s now known as the Godmother of Baltimore Crankies, the Jane Appleseed of Crankies, or the Matron Saint of Crankies, depending on whom you ask, and her devotion to the all-but-lost art form has had a ripple effect on the Baltimore arts community. Suffice it to say, her papercuttings have become even more elaborate over the years. “I think that was the first time someone had said to me, ‘You’re an artist.’ People had known my drawing before that, but I remember that being the year when teachers started saying things to me like, ‘It’s okay you’re not good at science.’” “I go back to school and have this amazing papercut, and my teacher was like, ‘Wow,’” Fahey recalls. She remembers spending hours in bed, likely with a fever, slowly cutting by hand her intricate image. The homework came at a time when Fahey was sick and had to stay home from school for a couple days. She was tasked with creating a papercutting, but instead of the usual hearts or snowflakes fifth-graders might make, she challenged herself to cut a panda bear in the middle of a bamboo patch. The traditional theatre strengthens a sense of cultural identity while bringing people closer together through entertainment.When Katherine Fahey was in grade school, one assignment changed the course of her destiny. Once played widely at coffeehouses, gardens, and public squares, especially during the holy month of Ramazan, as well as during circumcision feasts, Karagöz is found today mostly in performance halls, schools and malls in larger cities where it still draws audiences. ![]() The puppets are manipulated by one lead artist, the Hayali, who may have one or more apprentice-assistants who are learning the craft by helping to create the tasvirs and accompanying the action with music. The usually comic stories feature the main characters Karagöz and Hacivat and a host of others, including a cabaret chanteuse called Kantocu and an illusionist-acrobat named Hokkabaz, and abound in puns and imitations of regional accents. A play begins with the projection of an introductory figure to set the scene and suggest the themes of the drama, before it vanishes to the shrill sound of a whistle, giving way to a main performance that may incorporate singing, tambourine music, poetry, myth, tongue-twisters and riddles. "Karagöz is a form of shadow theatre in Turkey in which figures known as ''tasvirs'' made of camel or ox hide in the shape of people or things are held on rods in front of a light source to cast their shadows onto a cotton screen. ![]()
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