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Mari Beast of Vista

Category: Event Calendar

Date and Time

  • Friday, Nov 21, 2025  7pm

Location

Avo Playhouse
303 Main Street

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Details

This free event is part of Downtown Vista’s ‘WinterFest’ celebration of the holidays.

Tania L. Yager, Creative Director of Twisted Heart Puppetworks, will explore the rich narrative traditions surrounding the Mari Lwyd, a striking “ghost horse” figure in Welsh seasonal lore that appears during the winter months as part of a house-visiting custom involving poetry, song, and symbolic challenges. Yager also will share her original puppet interpretation, the “Mari Beast of Vista,” and several of her ghost horse festival puppets. Yager also is founder of The Dark X-mas Market, and author of the forthcoming book The Allure of Dark Winter Spirits.