What is it like to do our online workshop? Watch this video!
new! Puppets in Prague Voucher
Looking for a unique gift for a puppet lover?
Support Puppets in Prague and buy them a voucher for one of our
Weekend Workshops!
Each workshop lasts two hours is taught by Mirek Trejtnar, master woodcarver and puppet designer.
Goodbye 2020!
It's a PIP Party (online)! Featuring (very) short shows with puppets made in our 2020 onine workshops. BYO puppet and champagne.
January 3, 7 p.m. Prague Time
RSVP here!
NEW! Weekend Workshops: Winter 2021
A series of online 2-hour workshops. Every week, learn something new!
PUPPET COSTUMES
ACROBAT MARIONETTE
MOVNG EYES
TOY THEATRE STAGE
USING MACHINERY
Discount if you sign up for 3 or more!
marionette carving workshops - online
A full online course: We send you puppet parts, you carve a marionette of your own design along with a group of artists. Live lectures and individual consultations at each class, plus recorded videos and a manual.
May 17 - June 7, 2021
Animal marionette online
For the first time, we are offering a workshop on the technology of a marionette with four legs.
March 11 - April 4, 2021
Weekend workshop: Storybuilding with your puppet - online
Want to make a puppet show but don't know how? A one-day, 2-hour workshop with two leading Czech puppeteers to help you start!
December 13, 7-9 p.m. Central European Time (1-3 p.m. EST)
skeleton workshop - online
We are bringing back our popular breakway skeleton workshop in January - online!
August online workshop puppets completed!
Congratulations to our hard-working students!
final photos from our first online workshop
...look at these amazing puppets!
PIP DURING COVID-19
We hope you are all healthy and safe.
We thank everyone for your support!
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pip turned 20
What a great party of puppets and their wonderful makers. Thank to so many of you for coming to our online celebration!
Puppet KUCHA
John Bell from the Ballard Institute of Puppetry and other puppet designers spoke at our PUPPET KUCHA -a gathering of artists from around the world in our workshop during the Prague Quadrennial.
Posted 9.6.2019
Puppet as automata
Puppet, robot or sculpture? Designed by Mirek Trejtnar, this is a combination of carved puppet and electronics. More photos and videos here.
Posted 13.4.2019
Puppets in Prague recommends book
"Figures in the Fourth Dimension" is about mechanical puppets. It is full of beautiful images and makes it possible to start creating artworks using hundreds of technical drawings, which shows in detail how it all functions.
