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October 25 Newsletter
Read about our puppet happenings in our October 2025 Newsletter ! Find out about: Sign up for our Summer 2026 Workshops Sign up for upcoming Automata Workshops What is being cooked in our upcoming Puppet Recipes
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Student Blog
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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