Have you ever heard of a pop-up puppet? They are the talking puppet you can fit in your pocket. So easy to make, with unlimited possibilities and fun characters to create!
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Join Helen Hayes Award Nominee, Matt McGee and create a fun puppet for all ages! Learn how you can elaborate on this design and make fantastical creatures and characters on your own! Have you ever heard of a pop-up puppet? They are the talking puppet you can fit in your pocket. Come see why this style of puppet is called by some, "the gateway to puppetry".
Make a moving-mouth sandwich puppet with puppeteer, Stacey Gordon. Seriously, this will be the greatest, no-calorie sandwich you will ever make. Gluten free.
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Puppeteer, Stacey Gordon, will guide you through making a moving-mouth sandwich puppet. You'll learn skills that can take you into puppet building beyond sandwiches, but why not begin (or continue) your puppet building journey with a delightful lunchtime treat. Sandwiches are inedible & not sentient and are guaranteed to not murder or your money back. Glue gun skills required (use at own risk). No sewing required.
Join us for an hour of manipulation and mayhem! Bring a marionette & practice techniques for manipulation & get advice from other puppeteers. Learn how to stand, sit, & walk your puppet and more!
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Join us for an hour of manipulation and mayhem! Participants are invited to bring their marionettes, including the ones constructed in Making Marionettes, and practice puppeteering. Participants will have space to practice interacting with objects and other puppets in a relaxed environment. Learn the basics like how to properly hold your puppet and “find the floor." Practice walking, sitting and climbing for a smooth performance. Learn tips for creating a character and changing your voice. If you’re feeling extra brave, hop in the Puppet Hot Seat and introduce the world to your brand new character!
Marvelous Medium of Masking Tape: Make a Puppet or Prop
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Come turn your idea for puppets, props, decor and more into 3 dimensions with the marvelous medium of masking tape! Let Matt McGee guide you through the process of bringing your creation to life!
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Props, masks, puppets, decor, and more, find out how this roll of inexpensive sticky stuff can be one material you never want to be without in your art supplies. Learn some tricks and techniques from award-winning master puppet builder Matt McGee on how to turn your ideas into 3 dimensions (regardless of your skill level), using nothing more than masking tape, some other common household materials, and your imagination. Ages 10 and up are a-okay! Matt McGee is an award-winning stage actor, puppet designer, and creator of the 2-time Jim Henson Foundation grant-awarded world premiere play, Under the Sea with Dredgie McGee. Originally raised by puppets in the wilds of Central CA, Matt built his professional career in the Washington, DC area and now works full time at the Great Arizona Puppet Theater as their head puppet builder and Director of Digital Media.
Play around with other puppeteers on-camera & get in some practice doing improv & camera work in a group-setting. Come to play or just to watch the fun, it's up to you! Bring a puppet!
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Extra time goofing around with an audience & watching seasoned pros perform is one of the best learning opportunities--but even if you're not interested in learning, it's great fun to watch puppeteers improvise with puppets on camera. Whether you choose to watch from the audience, or get up on stage alongside seasoned professionals, you won't regret spending your evening at monitor playtime! Bring your own puppets or use ours. Bring a puppet!
If you've wanted to try your hand at puppetry, start here! If you have been doing puppetry for a while, the camera gives you feedback that helps your performance. Learn the basics and keep growing!
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Learn how to puppeteer for the camera from professional puppeteer, Greg Ballora (Muppets, Puppet Up!, Crash & Bernstein, Team America, Ratchet, Spiderman II), You'll start your puppetry class going over basics like how to position your body for range of motion and comfort, puppet posture, eye focus and lip sync, followed by moving through the frame, positioning, working with a monitor, and finally jamming to a song (of Greg's choice, he has to maintain some control here). All skill levels welcome.
In this workshop, Art Vega and Danny Montooth will teach arm rod technique for hand-and-rod style puppetry, and how to best utilize single arm-rods and dual arm rods.
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Bring a puppet and don’t drop your rods! Art Vega & Danny Montooth are teaching this arm rod workshop for those curious about best practices and effective performance with arm rods. We’ll discuss grip options, strategies for clean and specific performance, and some advanced techniques. Please bring your own puppet with arm rods if you have one. (There will be a limited number of puppets available to borrow if you don’t have one). Looking forward to seeing you there!
From RPGs to Puppetry, Creating Characters that Last
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Let seasoned improviser and puppeteer Aaron Beasley lead you to creating believable characters with strong viewpoints and personalities that can carry you through scene-work or your RPG life!
Would you like to get a start making puppets or other crafty things, but don't quite have a grasp on sewing by hand? Good news! This sewing for beginners workshop is perfect for you!
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You'll learn lots of different hand-stitches, & of course you'll get to practice them. You'll leave with a collection of labeled stitches in a book (that you make) & instructions on how to achieve them at home. We'll get through as many stitches as we can in our 2 hours. You'll even learn a couple of tricks for threading needles & tying knots. The instructor, Stacey Gordon, has been sewing by hand since she was much shorter than she currently stands, & she stopped growing a long, long, long time ago.
Victor Yerrid, Master Puppeteer & founding member of Jim Henson’s Puppet Up! leads this puppet improv extravaganza. Participants will perform in a series of games & exercises. Big fun, limited spots!
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Improvisation is the ultimate tool to free up your acting. Nearly every puppet show ever created has benefitted from some form of improv, and the more facile your skillset, the more in-demand you will be as a performer. Good improv will help you develop characters, audition stronger, and ultimately become a better actor. PLUS, it’s waaaaay easier than learning a bunch of lines. Just ask Matin Sheen of West Wing fame. He was once quoted as saying “Man, I wish I was a puppeteer who could improvise. That would be a much better job than having to memorize all of this stupid political jargon. I’m Martin Sheen.” So, if you like puppets and don’t want to get stuck working on dialogue heavy scenes with Bradley Whitford and Allison Janney, then come learn how to improvise with puppets. It could be the best life decision you will ever make!