GRUMBLING GRYPHONS, winner of the 2003 Connecticut Governor’s Arts Award will be celebrating its 30th Birthday on August 12th at 6:30 p.m. at Cornwall Town Hall. A lively evening is promised for young and old alike! Matica circus will have jugglers and stilt walkers. Sirius Coyote Music will perform Going Green Music, Brazilian Capoeira Dancers will dance & Vanessa Roe of Paprika Music from New York City will sing in Creole with the children from Grumbling Gryphons Theater Camps.

A performance of La Sirene: A Haitian Folktale written by Leslie Elias about the reforestation of Haiti and the mythical spirits who help in this process will be performed by children attending 2010 Gryphon’s Theater camp. The children come from all over the Northwest Corner as well as Haitian children from Waterbury. This show was recently written & performed at The Harvesting Hope Camp in Woodbury, CT. A twelve person GIANT OIL SPILL will appear and menace marine life. The Haitian Sea Goddess- La Sirene will spirit it away with the help of the audience!  This oil spill was purchased by Leslie Elias at the 25^th Anniversary of Earth Day in New York City while parading with Grumbling Gryphons as “The Ocean” (60 people in ocean animal costumes made by Ellen Moon of Cornwall Bridge ) This oil spill has been part of Grumbling Gryphons’ production of The Ghost Net: An Environmental Musical of the Sea which has toured nationally for twenty years. The company has been performing for thirty years.

Mystery guests and long time Gryphon actors will add merriment and magic! Cake and refreshments will be served. For the grand finale a three person giant puppet of THE GREEN MAN made by Tim Prentice and Ellen Moon will summon all to dance and celebrate on the green!  Grumbling Gryphons is a non-profit organization. Suggested donation is $10.00. Proceeds will benefit the theater's annual scholarship program; work in inner city schools as well as helping Haitian children to find care and housing.

To register for the last week of Theater Camp August 9^th-12^th, please contact

grumblinggryphons@yahoo.com or view www.grumblinggryphons.org

 Please call Leslie Elias, Artistic Director at 860-672-0286 for more info.