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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Videos, Automata Workshop 2023-24

See some of the beautiful work created by our students in our Online Automata Workshop Jenny Dale Stables, Final Project Troy Hourie,...

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FREE! First class, Puppet Technology Video Course

Are you someone who wants to learn to design and carve marionettes that not only look amazing but also have professional quality joints...

Sep 4, 20241 min read

FREE Automata workshop: Simple Mechanisms

To launch our 2024-25 Automata workshop series, we are offering the first for FREE! Learn how to make simple mechanisms for Automata and...

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See our August Puppet Show!

See the fantastic puppet show created by our August students with the marionettes they created in our workshop

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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...

Student Blog

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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

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