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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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Learn more Simple Mechanisms
Learn more mechanisms based on traditional toy design at our Simple Mechanisms 2 Mechanisms by Cara Hayman and Chesley Cannon WHEN:...
Sep 26, 20251 min read
See our first Automata Fundamentals Workshop!
Watch the first session of our 2025-26 Automata Fundamentals Online Workshop! You will learn how to make 4 different types of simple...
Sep 15, 20251 min read
FREE Automata workshop: Simple Mechanisms
To launch our 2025-26 Automata Fundamtentals Online Workshop, we are offering the first session for FREE! Learn how to make simple...
Sep 12, 20251 min read
See the Circus!
See our funny, enchanting, breathtaking CIRCUS MARIONETTE SHOW performed at the Letni Letna New Circus and Theatre Festival , one of...
Aug 25, 20251 min read
Puppet Circus Comes to Town
Come to our PUPPET CIRCUS! Every year, students in our August Marionette Carving and Performance Workshop bring their freshly carved...
Aug 18, 20251 min read
Stomp Stomp Stomp!
Look at these stompers made after our June Puppet Recipe on the Stomping Marionette! In June we did an online workshop on how to...
Aug 8, 20251 min read
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