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Singer-songwriter, Master Puppeteer, Author, Photographer, Educator
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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
click on newspaper to go to more clippings	Apreciation to Penelope Torribio for her contribution 2005-2008 to the children of the Shriners' children's hosptial. (Click lullalee to see Penelope at the Shriner's Hospital)	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.

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.

(Click lullalee to see Penelope at the Shriner's Hospital)

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,
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

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

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 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.