July Puppet Recipe: Moving Mouth

Recording (5 July 2026) - click on photo to see video

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July Puppet Recipe: Moving Mouth

Recording (5 July 2026) - click on photo to see video

Puppet Recipes

Jul 61 min read

Meet our June Marionettes + see livestream!

This workshop brought us 11 makers from the USA, Canada, the UK, France, Denmark, Estonia and Australia. Puppets by (first row) Sayeda Misa Sourour, Lindsay Ragsdale, Chesley Cannon, Joplin Wistar, Vanessa Laddrak (second row) Holly Tomkins, Ava Noth, Rachel Harrtmann, Sandra Pankin, Ash Appadu, Jesper Kurt--Nielsen Who was with us? Jesper Kurt-Nielsen made a dancing bear as a companion for Magnus the Magnificent , the stunning weightlifter who Jesper made with us at our Circ

Jun 283 min read

Moving Mouth Workshop

Find out the secrets of how to design and construct moving eyes for all types of marionettes. After the workshop, make your own prototype with our "recipe" including instructions on how to make a simple version.

Workshops

Jun 271 min read

Take a tour of our workshop!

See this recording of our livestream during the June 2026 Marionette Carving Workshop

Workshops

Jun 171 min read

June Puppet Recipe: Art and the Puppet

Recording (7 June 2026) - click on photo to see video

Puppet Recipes

Jun 81 min read

See our Students' Automata

See what students in our 2025-26 Automata Workshops made!

Jun 12 min read

All the Puppet Festivals! June in Prague

How many puppet festivals would you guess a country of 10 million people could support? According to the Czech Loukar (Puppeteer) magazine, there were 26 puppet festivals in the Czech Republic taking place in 2025. As with so many things in the Czech Republic, this is a definite underestimation. I know of several smaller festivals that did not make their list, nor did they include festivals that are not specifically puppet festivals but are magnets for the puppet community (l

Czech Puppetry

May 315 min read

Automata Presentations - FREE!

See final pieces from our 2025-26 Automata Workshops - work from students in our two online courses which have been running from September to April: AUTOMATA FUNDAMENTALS and AUTOMATA ADVANCED.

Workshops

May 81 min read