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PIP Online New Year's Party
Celebrate 2026 by reuniting with puppet friends! Call for FINISHED PUPPETS, PUPPET RECIPES and AUTOMATA- wrap up 2025 by assembling old projects and then show them off at our party! WHEN: January 2, 3 pm EST / 9 pm Prague time WHERE: On Zoom Sign up now, it's free! More information about our presenters coming soon. Automata Workshop Students See the beautiful creations of Chesley Cannon, Cara Jane Hayman, Heidi Vanwachtendonck , Kathryn Rathke, Adriana Hollenbeck, Sabine Karn
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Read our students' reflections about our workshops
Why Wire Marionettes?
by Adriana Hollenbeck Adriana is a teacher of very young children. She started making puppets two and a half years ago, and submersed...
Nov 9, 20243 min read
Part 3, Chris Bain: Our Puppets Take to the Stage
Our student blog continues! In this post, Christina Bain, who described the creation of Stanislav and Skeletons, discusses what it was...
Aug 1, 20244 min read
Adriana Hollenbeck: Wooden Puppetry&Young Children
For two years, Adriana Hollenbeck, Early Childhood educator and Head of The Experiential School at Shorecrest Preparatory School , has been learning as much as she can about the language of wood and wooden puppetry. "After carving table-top puppets, glove and rod puppets, simple and more complex marionettes I witnessed the joy felt by the children. There was no way back." Adriana participated in our 8-month Online Automata Course last year, and this summer she came to Prague
Jul 9, 20242 min read
Part 2, Chris Bain: The Bare Bones
by Christina Bain, Scotland Our student blog continues! Welcome to Part 2 of NO STRINGS ATTACHED. In this post, Christina Bain, who...
Jun 1, 20244 min read
Part 1, Chris Bain: No Strings Attached
Somewhere in the strange depths of my memory and imagination I thought of rich puppet traditions and images of Prague and the Czech Republic
Apr 15, 20243 min read
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