Discover your puppet passion by learning a lot from a dummy…or puppet. After the tour, take home a token of the experience by purchasing a puppet in the Museum Store.Įducation is a key element at the Center. Special Exhibits focus on a particular theme or style of puppetry. Take a tour through Puppets: the Power of Wonder and discover how puppetry has influenced religion, people and politics through the ages. Get up close and personal with puppets in the Center’s Museum, which houses a collection of puppets, books, posters and videos from around the world. Looking for an alternative activity for date night? More mature audiences will appreciate the artistry and humor of the New Direction Series, which includes the popular Xperimental Puppetry Theater. Most productions meet Georgia QCC Standards, and Study Guides for each Family Series show are available for download. Patrons of all ages will enjoy the productions in the Family Series and SummerFest. Three performance series host a variety of shows geared towards educating as well as entertaining audiences. Since 1978, the Center has introduced millions of visitors to the wonder and art of puppetry and has touched the lives of many through enchanting performances, curriculum-based workshops, and the hands-on Museum, as well as Distance Learning and Outreach Programs. It’s a magical place where children and adults are educated, enlightened, and entertained. The Center for Puppetry Arts is a unique venue and a cultural treasure. The first puppetry center in the United States, today it is the largest American organization solely dedicated to the art of puppet theater. It is our hope that these sessions will offer participants an opportunity to discover new collaborators and begin new, exciting investigations into their process of art making as puppeteers.The Center for Puppetry Arts opened to the public on September 23, 1978, when Kermit the Frog and his creator Jim Henson cut the ceremonial ribbon. These groups will work together over the course of the following two weeks to develop a brief performance using preexisting puppets, toys, and interesting ephemera.ĭuring the second session participants will present their works in progress and offer critique and support to the works presented by their peers. Participants will be encouraged to form small collaborative groups based on common interests, complimentary skills, and chosen subjects. The first being on Sunday, September 12th from 3:00 - 4:00pm and the second being on Sunday, September 26th from 3:00 - 4:00pm.ĭuring the first session participants will work with three facilitators Eli Presser, Emory Royston and Brittaney Talbot and with one another to discuss and develop concepts that will be used as the groundwork for a brief performance. The workshop will take place over the course of two sessions. The performances resulting from the workshop will be included (with the artist’s consent) as a part of the upcoming October Puppetry Slam! This workshop is intended to begin and build upon existing creative relationships between participants through collaboration, experimentation, and peer critique. In keeping with the time of year we thought it would be appropriate to choose text focused on the transition between summer and fall. Rather than aiming to create a completed work, participants will be encouraged to work together as they explore different methods of puppet manipulation, staging, and design through the interpretation of short pieces of poetry and prose. Participating artists will work to create short and portable puppetry vignettes using suitcases, boxes, and other compelling containers (eggs are also welcome). The LAGP Puppetry Arts Incubator: A two session online workshop focused on the development of egg-straordinary short works of puppet eggs-perimentation. Which came first: the artist or the art? Discover your answer in our LAGP Puppetry Arts Incubator.
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