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June 2009 Penelope Open's Clarmont California Summer Concert Series, second year in a row
with her ecology theme interactive musical puppet shows.

1 World Music and Puppets articipates in 2009 Peace in the North East Festival
and
Live /Love H20 festival, Long Beach, June 2009
to see video visit

Guardians of the Earth

Peace in the North East, Live Love H20 Festival, Long Beach, Author days, Long Beach, Alhambra, San Bernardino College,
Azusa Pacific College, Cal Poly Downtown Center, Da Gallery, SoHo Gallery, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Bowers, Museum of Art,
Festival, Los Angeles Women in Music Festival, Hope Festival, Anaheim Children's Festival, Claremont Summer Festival, Shriner's Author's Day
festival, Vernal Utah Dinsoaur Festival, Arizona State and Cal State Los Angeles Ramayana Festival and many

DDuring the puppetry segment, children, teenagers and adults all got involved.

Leah Mitchell, 3, swung around a puppet turtle on "trash patrol" to clean up seas polluted human indifference. Kalea Wright, 10, envisioned herself as the mermaid puppet she maneu vered through imagined seawaters. Soft-spoken Ashley Golangco, 11, tried to deepen her ventriloquist voice to mimic the baritone bloodsucker Count Dracula. Kalea's father, Dwight Wright, temporarily set aside his dad duties to become a moray eel puppet protecting the sea. Genevieve Golangco, 6, discovered her acting talents as she repeatedly hammed it up volunteering as a little puppeteer maneuvering mermaids, sharks and starfish for Torribio's ecological adventure with puppets, snappy music and funny lyrics.

When Torribio taught children how to form words without moving their lips, she said "ba" was one of the words hard to say without moving the mouth. The word "baby" prompted Kacey Contreras, 7, to pull her little brother Camron, 3, close for a gentle sibling squeeze.

penelope's newspaper story photo slaug a dragon

Penelope newspaper article with shadow puppet

May 2007 Penelope Torribio was awarded the “Heart for Arts” award by AHA! Artist Helping Artist, for her contribution to community, especially children. She has brought her time and talents to many events. including several “Call to the Arts! Festival’s, presenting her ecological puppets shows and organizing the other performers. In 2004, Penelope rented a large space and set up her 600 plus puppet collection for a free exhibit and presented many puppet shows and workshops for the city of Pomona and surrounding areas. . Her exhibit and shows were well attended and appreciated by the public and the press. During this month she promoted the need for art and music in the school. AHA! highly recommends Penelope Torribio for her talent as a writer and puppeteer and her heart for children and the arts. Glenn Horton, Director of AHA! www.artistshelpingartists.org/	On many occasions, I have witnessed Penelope capture her audiences with delightful music, puppetry, and drama woven into magical theater. Penelope’s lifetime commitment to the arts and healing through live performance are remarkable, not only due to the range and level of her artistry, but also to her commitment to teaching and healing. You might visit her website to view some of the many facets of her work. In just one example of her creative accomplishments, she has interpreted the Mahabharata, into a puppet show. Keep in mind that the original version of this Indian classic has more than 74,000 verses! Her interactive performances with children engage the audience as participants in thoughtfully designed, yet extemporaneous and felicitous, theatrical performances that sometimes involve dozens of puppets and instruments. I am honored to serve as a reference for Penelope’s nomination for a Red Carpet Award. Please feel to contact me at any time—I can’t think of a more deserving candidate. Most Sincerely, Wolfram Alderson, Director of Alternative Eduation The Sycamores
Your presentation was “best activity” for our event by other participants. Annual Community Literacy Fair, Shriners' Hospital for the Los Angeles and The Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation. Lee Ann Butler-Owens,, Director Lullelee Publications.	Penelope's children musicals have what numerous grownup musicals have lacked: wity lyrics, catchy tunes, and a subject matter that truly matters. Suzanne Lummis poet, playwrigthe and the Director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival

May 2007
Penelope Torribio was awarded the “Heart for Arts” award by AHA! Artist Helping Artist, for her contribution to community, especially children.
She has brought her time and talents to many events. including several “Call to the Arts! Festival’s, presenting her ecological puppets shows and organizing the other performers.

In 2004, Penelope rented a large space and set up her 600 plus puppet collection for a free exhibit and presented many puppet shows and workshops for the city of Pomona and surrounding areas. . Her exhibit and shows were well attended and appreciated by the public and the press. During this month she promoted the need for art and music in the school.

AHA! highly recommends Penelope Torribio for her talent as a writer and puppeteer and her heart for children and the arts.
Glenn Horton, Director of AHA!
www.artistshelpingartists.org/

On many occasions, I have witnessed Penelope capture her audiences with delightful music, puppetry, and drama woven into magical theater. Penelope’s lifetime commitment to the arts and healing through live performance are remarkable, not only due to the range and level of her artistry, but also to her commitment to teaching and healing. You might visit her website to view some of the many facets of her work. In just one example of her creative accomplishments, she has interpreted the Mahabharata, into a puppet show. Keep in mind that the original version of this Indian classic has more than 74,000 verses! Her interactive performances with children engage the audience as participants in thoughtfully designed, yet extemporaneous and felicitous, theatrical performances that sometimes involve dozens of puppets and instruments.

I am honored to serve as a reference for Penelope’s nomination for a Red Carpet Award. Please feel to contact me at any time—I can’t think of a more deserving candidate.

Most Sincerely,

Wolfram Alderson,
Director of Alternative Eduation

The Sycamores

Your presentation was “best activity” for our event
by other participants. Annual Community Literacy
Fair, Shriners' Hospital for the Los Angeles and The
Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation.
Lee Ann Butler-Owens,,
Director Lullelee Publications.

Penelope's children musicals have what numerous grownup musicals have lacked: wity lyrics, catchy tunes, and a subject matter that truly matters.
Suzanne Lummis poet, playwrigthe and the Director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival

Penelope Torribio awarded Red Carpet Award for Women in Theatre, 2007
first puppeteer to be given this award

Penelope recieives Red Carpet Award from Women in Theatre

Penelope recieives Red Carpet Award from Women in Theatre

Penelope presenting a puppet show in a tribal school in S. India

Penelope performs for nearly 3,000 street and tribal children in Southern India
She also gave workshops to their teachers on how to teach with minimum supplies