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Free! Simple Mechanisms
To launch our 2026-27 Automata Fundamentals Online Workshop, we are offering the first session for FREE! Learn how to make simple mechanisms for Automata and learn about our plans for the entire year. Learn how to make beautiful automata in Simple Mechanisms that you can easily make at home with scrap wood, clothespins, and other materials that are easily sourced. On September 20, you will get guidance from expert toymaker/puppet maker Mirek Trejtnar on the basic principles
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See Circus Šup Šup !
See our funny, enchanting, breathtaking CIRCUS MARIONETTE SHOW performed at the Letni Letna New Circus and Theatre Festival, one of Prague's most popular and magical summer festivals. Puppets made and performed by Vernon Freer, Kate Kenney, Elena Humphrey, Arlee Chadwick, Ori Goldbert, Cynthia Galand, Sophia Keel, Madeline White, Matteo Ontiveroz-Alfaro, Miller Shor. Show directed by Josef Choze Jelinek. Photos by Juan Castaneda, Instagram handle: @castersonic And see photos
Aug 271 min read
Come to the (Wooden) Circus!
For the 16th year, students in our Circus Marionette Workshop are bringing their freshly carved puppets to the magical Letni Letna New Circus and Theatre Festival, one of Prague's most popular festivals. And we are taking the show on the road to the gorgeous Baroque Teatrum Kuks Festival. See our dress rehearsal in the Heroldovy sady park across from the Vzlet Theatre. NOT IN PRAGUE? JOIN OUR LIVESTREAM! Saturday 22 August, 4 pm on Instagram, @puppetsinprague WHEN AND WHERE
Aug 161 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.
Jun 271 min read
Take a tour of our workshop!
See this recording of our livestream during the June 2026 Marionette Carving Workshop
Jun 171 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.
May 81 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
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