See what students in our 2025-26 Automata Workshops made!

How many puppet festivals would you guess a country of 10 million people could support? According to the Czech Loukar (Puppeteer) magazine, there were 26 puppet festivals in the Czech Republic taking place in 2025. As with so many things in the Czech Republic, this is a definite underestimation. I know of several smaller festivals that did not make their list, nor did they include festivals that are not specifically puppet festivals but are magnets for the puppet community (like Letni Letna...

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.