About Wise fool New Mexico

It is Wise Fool New Mexico's mission to ignite imagination, build community, and promote social justice through performances and hands on experiences in the arts of circus, puppetry, and theatre. 2008 Pinon Award Winner from the Santa Fe Community Foundation, voted Best Local Theater Group 2008 by readers of the Santa Fe Reporter.

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2008 Individual Giving Campaign

Community is the heart and soul of Wise Fool. It is our mission and our method. But in order to continue providing our crucial services, Wise Fool needs your support. We have just launched our 2008 Individual Giving Campaign - please help us to fill the stilt!

We know that economic times are hard, and we're all feeling the crunch. However, a just, creative, and united community is a vital pursuit that must not depend upon economic climate. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now by clicking the yellow "Make A Donation" button above. Checks or cash can be mailed to:

Wise Fool New Mexico
2778-D Agua Fria
Santa Fe, NM 87507

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  • Making Mischief - published in Local Flavor Magazine
    “We’ll make people sing, and we’ll dance on their tables!” laughs Wise Fool’s Amy Christian, recalling that one year the “Feast of Fools” April Fools’ Day celebration culminated in a gustatory and performance finale that was a giant sheet cake iced to resemble a dollar bill. The performers dramatically cut it up and distributed it to the people. That, in a nutshell, is both the philosophy and the style of performance troupe Wise Fool New Mexico. “We’ve done this before where people got so into it, they were so raucous, we actually couldn’t really perform after a while–the people just went crazy.”
  • What Tethered Dreams May Come - published in Pasatiempo
    Have you ever been to the circus? Have you ever seen children so caught up in the pageantry and magic of a three-ring performance that, for one brief moment, your eyes become as wide and brimming with imagination as their own? In this whirlwind age of e-mails, deadlines, and the collective rush to get ahead, wonderment is fast becoming a dying sensation. And now that Santa Claus and his elves have done their dutiful service for the year, where does all of that unspent awe disappear to until next year? In Santa Fe, thank goodness, it never goes away. In 1998, Amy Christian, Alessandra Ogren, Robbie Ann Pino, and Jaime Smith formed Wise Fool New Mexico, a nonprofit that brought a unique brand of performing arts to the City Different: circus acts, aerial displays, stilt walkers, puppeteers, masked theater, and costumed storytelling.