Marionette Carving Workshop 2026

About the Workshop

Create a wooden marionette of your design, on wire or strings. Work with a team of puppet masters to create a marionette of your design! Learn techniques of designing puppets, making technical drawings, woodcarving, painting, and designing a puppet costume, and how to manipulate puppets and Czech puppet history. Each student will go home with an original hand-carved marionette - plus the skills to make more. Plus go with us to the International Skupa Puppet Festival in Plzen and see some of the best puppet shows in the Czech Republic and Europe. We will go to exhibitions and visit puppet studios. All in Prague, one of the top cultural cities of Europe, with a rich puppet tradition still very much alive. WORKSHOP FEE The price is 1,400 Euro. Price includes all materials and also tickets to museums and puppet shows. Payment to be made upon acceptance to the workshop. Maximum number of students: 11 DAILY SCHEDULE The daily schedule is intensive: students work all day on their puppets and often attend puppet theatre performances in the evenings. The workshop includes 1-2 days on puppet manipulation at the end. There will be 3 days off to see Prague. ACCOMMODATIONS/FOOD Students usually stay in nearby apartments which we can help arrange. Participants can cook meals in a small kitchen in the workshop, or eat in local Czech restaurants (approx. 12 Euro for lunch). CANCELLATION POLICY The deposit is nonrefundable. If you cancel a more than 1 month before the start of the workshop, you can transfer the deposit to another PIP workshop ; you will be charged a 200 Euro fee and you will be charged for the price of the new workshop if the price changes. If for any reason PIP needs to cancel the course, you will get a full refund minus the bank transfer fees.