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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.
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June 25 Newsletter
Read about our puppet happenings in our June 2025 Newsletter ! https://wix.to/R2j8j0d
Jun 4, 20251 min read
All the Puppet Festivals! June in Prague
How many puppet festivals would you guess a country of 10 million people could support? According to the Czech Loukar ( Puppeteer )...
Jun 3, 20255 min read
June Puppet Recipe, Taste of the Automata Fest: Video and Puppet Recipe
This Puppet Recipe brings gives you a chance to see what was at the Hastings Automata Festival, which brought together some of the best automata makers in the world. Mirek then explained how he constructed his own piece, and showed another simple automata mechanism used by Paul Spooner in his famous Frog Princess automata.
Jun 2, 20251 min read
A Taste of the Automata Fest
Did you miss the Automata Fest, organized by the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre in Hastings with some of the world's leading Automata makers?...
May 29, 20251 min read
2029 UNIMA Festival in Prague!
UNIMA was started in Prague in 1929. And the 100th anniversary will be celebrated by holding their 25th Congress here!
May 29, 20251 min read
Recording Puppetry Day Celebration
See the recording of our 2025 Puppetry Day Celebration on April 27! Find out from our students how they built beautiful AUTOMATA and...
May 24, 20251 min read
May Puppet Recipe, Tricky Carving 3: Video and Puppet Recipe
So many beginner carvers do not understand how deep in the face they must make a puppet's nose, cheeks, mouth, and the corners of the eye. This puppet recipe teaches you how to find the correct depth.
May 5, 20251 min read
Mirek's Amazing Pencil Marker
Learn to make this special gadget invented by MirekTrjetnar that allows you to draw a straight line in the center of wooden blocks!
May 2, 20251 min read
PIP Puppetry Day Celebration
Join us online on April 27 for a belated World Puppetry Day Celebration! See the work students have completed with us this year and share...
Apr 20, 20251 min read
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