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Make your own at our next 2-hour online Puppet Recipe. August 3, 7-9 p.m. CET / 1-3 pm EST The Acrobat is a unique Czech marionette which was part of every traditional puppet show in the 18th and 19th centuries. You still find them in contemporary performances and they surprise audience members of all ages. Find out the secrets of how to design and construct this unusual marionette. After the workshop, make your own with our "recipe" including instructions on how to make a s

The Stomper Marionette was one of the most popular types of Czech circus marionettes and known for its stretching body and loud stomping. At this recording, you can learn about the marionette's history, how it is constructed and instructions on how to build your own smaller toy theatre version.

Meet puppets from our June workshop and read about our puppet happenings in our July 2025 Newsletter ! https://wix.to/AaxmtGt

These are the puppets made by ten intrepid puppet makers from around the world! Puppets made by (starting at L): Juby Reynolds, Jen...

Read about our puppet happenings in our June 2025 Newsletter ! https://wix.to/R2j8j0d

How many puppet festivals would you guess a country of 10 million people could support? According to the Czech Loukar ( Puppeteer )...

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.

Did you miss the Automata Fest, organized by the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre in Hastings with some of the world's leading Automata makers?...