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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.
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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.
May 81 min read
May Puppet Recipe: Puppets + Technology with Dominik Migač
Recording (3 May 2026) - click on photo to see video
May 51 min read
April Puppet Recipe: Czech Puppet Collections
Recording (12 April 2026) - click on photo to see video
Apr 131 min read
Puppets and Technology: Meet top Czech scene designer of 2025
At our May Puppet Recipe, we're thrilled to have Dominik Migac, winner of the Czech Theatre Critics'award for best scenography, talk about his ingenious design.
Apr 61 min read
Moving Eye Workshop: Our April Puppet Recipe
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.
Apr 31 min read
A Frog is Born
I was so excited to make the Frog Marionette Recipe. Mirek provided detailed diagrams with proportions and dimensions. In the video he guides you through the making. This recipe offers three different controller designs which I particularly like as it gives you options as a maker to learn different styles and choose what best suits the needs of your puppet. My frog is a little smaller than Mirek's due to the sizes of wood I had to hand.
Apr 33 min read
March Puppet Recipe: Czech Puppet Collections
Recording (8 March 2026) - click on photo to see video
Mar 91 min read
Learn about Czech Puppet Collections with experts Marie Jiraskova and Pavel Jirasek at our next Online Puppet Recipe
Find out about the unique history and significance of Czech Puppet Collections - both private and in museums - with Marie Jirasková and Pavel Jirasek, authors of the award-winning book "Puppets and the Modern" and several other books about the overlap of art and Czech puppetry.
Mar 72 min read
Slava Roztoky Masopust! Building a community with (not only) puppets
Masopust is the Czech equivalent of Mardi Gras - a celebration of eating, drinking and merriment at the end of winter. It literally means meat + fast, and while it has links to the final hurrah before Lent, its origins go back farther - certainly to pagan rituals and, before that, the Bacchanalia.
Feb 264 min read
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