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Red Carpet Award Penelope Torribio, contribution to theatre and community, 2007

Hope Award 2007 for musical contribution to the children of Los Angeles.
 Penelope Torribio, Heart for Art Award, AHA, Artists Helping Artist

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Apreciation to Penelope Torribio for her contribution 2005-2008 to the children of the Shriners' children's hosptial.

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Penelope Torribio uses her creativity to raise awareness of the importance of balance in our world and the need for each of us to be “Guardians of the Earth.”  An award-winning puppeteer and singer-songwriter, her albums include topics such as “the rain forests, dinosaurs (how not to become extinct) and ocean ecology.  Penelope’s songs have been used in ecological events all over the world, including her own interactive ecological musical puppet shows.
Performances: 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,
2010 Arts Olympus, Queen Mary, H2o, International Water Festival, Descanso Garden Earth Day Celebration, 2010, Leareders Causing Leaders. 2010, Long Beach Convention Center,
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 more.

Penelope is a master puppeteer with over 600 pupptes some from all over the world.
Many she created on for her own shows.

Penelope is also an award-winning singer-songwriter.
She has ten albums, many based on her ecological musical puppet shows.

During the puppetry segment, children, teenagers and adults all got involved.  Quote from DAily Bulletin

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 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/

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

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

 


Arizona State

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Recommendations for Einstein in My Garden
Penelope is the Mark Twain of the bug world. 
—Maria Kostelas, “Flutes of the World.”

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Penelope this is truly wonderful. The more we look the more we see. Our bug friends are just trying at every chance to get our attention. You've build a bridge and now all will come and walk on it. The "new" kids will find an even closer thread to be connected to nature because of the path you've walked. Thank you. Casey  imcasey@sbcglobal.net

The CD makes it great for struggling readers and ESl, Good readers can enjoy "Einstein in My Garden," too. Anna Pomaska, author illustrator
Award-winning author and photographer Penelope Torribio’s spectacular photographs and witty reflections take us on a backyard adventure where bugs look stranger than the monsters in the old-time matinee movies.  This book is an entertaining combination of fact and fiction pointing towards a future that is dependent on the way we perceive and treat these tiny beings.
 “Einstein in My Garden” is a valuable book with thought-provoking original photos. Penelope’s moths are "reverse Houdinis." They represent us who reverse our beauty from invisible to the visible. She delights her audience with valuable insights into deeper truths of being, encouraging them to rise in consciousness. 
Marcielle Brandler, internationally-published poet/educator/public speaker

Penelope Torribio is an ecology artist who uses her talents as a photographer, puppeteer, singer-songwriter and author to bring awareness  to the fact that we must all be “Guardians of the Earth.”

Penelope Torribio’s great bug can photos beenjoyed by all ages— and the more sophisticated readers will enjoy the philosophy and wit in her reflections on bugs.
Susan Dobay, artist and arts activist

 I think that you will be amazed at Penelope’s photographs and deceptively simple reflections on the creepy, crawling, flitting, singing, spinning, creatures that are so necessary to our survival.
Daria Nuñez, President, Education for the Arts.

 

Penelope's photography


Penelope Torribio, M.A.

Author
Speaker
Educator
Entertainer
Teacher Trainer
Arts Administration Certified
Behavior Transformation Specialist

Past Events(samples)
Red Carpet Award Ceremony 2007, Los Angeles Women's Music Festival 2007,
Author's Festival Shriner's Hospital, 2004 to 2008
Whole Child Whole Earth Festival, 2008, Month of Puppetry,
sponsored by Cal Poly University,
The DA Center for the Arts, Pomona Valley Arts Association.
Numerous Authors Days: San Bernardino Valley College, Long Beach, Montebello,
Anaheim Children's Festival, India,
speaking and entertainment tour.
Brain Expo, California Arts Alliance, Parent nights, La Verne University TV,



CD and Books
The Rain is Coming, rain forest songs, lyric coloring book and CD
Under the Blue Blue Sea, ocean ecology songs,lyric coloring book and CD
Dinosaur Dance, dinosaur songs, lyric coloring book and CD
The Grass is Green, farm animal songs, lyric coloring book and CD
Sing the Calendar Songs, coloring calendar and CD
Guardians of the Earth, CD
Headed for a Good Time, country CD
Watch Out! I'm Singing the Blues CD
Family Man, Acoustic CD
Songs from Outer Space, CD

Einstein in My Garden, photos and reflections on bugs
Future in Our Hands, what everyone should know about education
ArtSmart, Superior Learning in the Inclusive Classroom
The Magic in You, Making Changes in the Neighborhood
Directive Drawing for Diagnosis, Intervention, and Development
Ruler of the World, marionette and shadow puppet adaptation of the Ramayana, a Hindu Epic
The Magic in You, from Vacant Lot to Community Garden
Never Get Too Close to a Fish

Relaxation DVDs for kids
Take ten, 10 Mintues with Nature
Bugs and Those Who Love Them
Flowers nd Those Who Love Them
Birds and Those Who Love Them
Water Birds and Those Who Love Them
Bugs and Those Who Love Them (2)

Awards,
2007, Red Carpet Award from Women in Theatre

2007, Hope Award for talent in Music and for
contribution to the Children of Los Angeles

Books-Golden Leaves Awards, Cal Poly, University, Pomona, CA
2005- “Future in Our Hands What Everyone Should Know About Education.”

2003-“ArtSmart, Superior Learning in the Inclusive Classroom.”

2004 Heart for Art Award, AHA, Artist Helping Artist, for contribution to Children in the area of Art


Present Position
CEO of 1 World Education and Entertainment
CEO of 1 World Publishing
author, singer-songwriter, recording artist

President, 1 Word Linked-Up, Social Media Networking Business

Credentials
Learning Handicap, clear, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA
Masters in Education, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa CA
Secondary Credential, Communication Arts and English, life, California Polytechnic University, Pomona
Junior College Credential, life

Teaching Experience

2000-2002–Sycamore residential school for severely emotionally disturbed boys 7-17.

1994-1999 Substitute Teacher, (When I was not giving school assemblies.)
1999-bilingual kindergarten September-January.
1997-98 RSP Rosemead School District
SDC (special day class), Visually handicapped, O.H. (orthopedic ally handicapped) as well as regular education k-high school
Coordinator of Education, Charter Oak Psychiatric Hospital, September 1991 to September 1994.
SED, Los Angeles County Department of Education, Banana School, Covina, Ca 1989-1991.

1991-1992-REI, school for children with emotional handicaps, enrichment teacher.
Assemblies and Author’s Days, musical puppet shows to educate and entertain.

“It was an honor and a pleasure to work with Penelope in a program that provided a wide range of "out of the box"
therapeutic activities for severely emotionally disturbed children. There is no end to the range and depth of Penelope's
talents as a teacher, therapist, and artist. Her amazing talents and skills and her incredible personality and intelligence
are an instant recipe for success.” (August 1, 2006) Wolfram Alderson, Director of Day Treatment, Sycamore, Alta Dena, CA


" Penelope children's musicals have what numerous grownup musicals have lacked, witty lyrics,
catchy tunes and a subject matter that truly matters." Suzanne Lummis, Director L. A. Poetry Festival.

"Without getting strings tangled, Torribio controls each delicate movement to make her friends sing,
dance, blink their eyes, smile and even stick out their tongues. What happens between Torribio and her puppets is magic."
Art Preview, Jennifer Cho Salaff, Daily Bulletin

"Our Teachers loved the way you integrated teaching about writing with entertaining." Long Beach Authors Festival

"I love the way you sing. I like when you played your guitar. I wish I could see you again. I like all
of your puppets. Your singing is the best". Casey, Long Beach Authors' Festival Student

You are the Mark Twain of the Bug World, Maria Kosteles Flutes of the World

Additional Skills
Web Design: Los Angeles Poetry Festival, Institute of Genetic Science, Laff! Learning and Arts for Fun, 1worldeducation,
1worldmusicandpuppets.com, thatiscountrymusic.com, nearlyfatalwomen.com, beguardiansoftheearth.com, rainforestsongs.com
stablewatercluster.net, health-join-study.net, autism-join-study.net, guardiansoftheearthstore.com, guardiansoftheearth.net
Computer Instructor: Flash, Photoshop, Word, Dreamweaver, HTML
Video Production
Guitar and songwriting teacher
Master Puppeteer



www.penelopetorribio.com for more information

695 E. Kingsley Avenue Pomona, CA 91767
(909 )868-0995
penelope1world@mac.com

 

 

 
 

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