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Hot News: Quinney Price Reduction :)

I'm looking at getting enough orders to make one final batch at the old original price of $100 plus shipping. After that whenever the following batch gets made in the future, I'll have to raise the costs to cover materials etc. So happily, this price is the same as 2006. 

If it's something you are interested in let me know within the next week as I'm trying to see if I have enough…

The first promotion of cultural Titeritar Co. will give you a beautiful doll made ​​of latex, foam and fabric. There is free your imagination. just visit the link below and participate.

http://yesganhei.com/sorteios/31106

Promoção Cultural

Promoção Cultural

I need a good puppet maker. preferably in Florida, if possible. So I can easily meet and discuss projectsand needs.

kevin.alen@gmail.com

Hello fellow puppet people! Here is the Kickstarter Puppet Project I have been working on for some time. Twig Theatre Project! Enjoy and please pass on to others if you feel moved!! Thank you so much!!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1701369296/twig-theatre-project

My time to seriously start planning MidWest Furfest - performance concepts. The variety show and puppet show. Concepts 1. last year done at the small puppet show Dog and Wolf singing a Monty Python song. 2. Mr. Rover's Neighborhood - to go with the "came from television theme" taking part Mr. Rogers return as a dog - start of his show leading in to possible singing attempt with the music to the Complete Cheers theme as a theme for Fur Fest. – the show name never is mentioned in the song. And…

Hi All ! 

I have to make a ballerina puppet for a new show and whilst I am quietly confident about my design (Bruce Schwartz inspired) and have done loads of research (if I see another ballet dancer anytime soon , as magnificent and beautiful as they are , I am likely to seek out a tall building or cliff top and learn to fly!) are there any pitfalls or perils I should be aware of? or any advice that would help before I start the build.

My gut feeling is simplicity, weight…

Dear Hubbers please rally your support around puppet hubber Tih Penfil , and her partner Shira, they have lost both of their Mother's within 48 hours of each other. A truly sad time for wonderful pupet friends

http://info.francetelevisions.fr/?id-video=000433054_CAPP_Tourettelevens06expodemarionnettes_250620121755_F3

A member of puppethub & facebook-

Well I am in Harry mode again. Took of time to clean up all my work areas. I have pulled out all of My marionettes and inspected them for repair issues. Now I am back to building. I am going to finish my Wild West Review. a rodeo style circus. I restarted Harry and have his hands , feet, and body to sculpt. I found two copies of Your Feets Too Big, for his music. I have all the designs for the tightrope. So things are look  up for Harry!

 

 

News From The Chicagoland Guild

Chicago's puppetry world is spinning so fast it's hard to hang on, keeping up

somehow with all the events that have made for such a wild ride this season.

CPG's Facebook page remains the city's main news source for "what's going on,"

and for links to the many new performers and groups that are the mainstay of

this whirling small-venue bring-your-friends scene. As we look back on this

Winter/Spring season, here's a quick…

The puppeteer supplies "soul" and "heart" to a puppet with his charactarization & performance. It is the very quality I look for in good puppetry.

The puppet is indeed a prop or even more specific - a tool. It is created with a certain look & abitlity to achieve movement. Those two qualities, by themselves, don't mean much. A beautifully made puppet can still be manipulated with simple mechanical moves & complete a performance. Such a performance does little to capture or…

For the last 5 months of 2011 I was busy performing a marionette of China Girl for the new Disney film of "OZ; The Great & Powerful" that is due in USA theaters March 2013.

With the help of special effects studio,  K.N.B. Effects Group, I built 2 marionettes of the character. They were identical except for variations in stringing that allowed them to do different specialized movements. As I have found in several instances of marionettes made from the same patterns, they each had…

Saturday is the 14th Annual National Day of Puppetry.  The Asheville Puppetry Alliance will present our celebration at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway from 12 noon till 4 PM.  

I am performing The Frog Prince.

Lisa Sturz from Red Herring Puppets put together a video.  Check it out at…

Dear Puppethubbers,

Looking for books on script-writing for Puppet-theatre. Are there any? Do you have some in your Puppet library. If you have please let me know name of book, Auther and publishers as well as date of publishing?  -  Thanking you  -  TOBY

www.puppetaweek.com

I'm editing a video from weeks 3 and 4, but I've been blogging about the process as I try and build a new puppet each week of this year. The first couple were pretty straight up Project Puppet pattern ones, the third week was a Penguin loosely inspired by the project puppet patterns, and the fourth week was a newspaper bunraku puppet. This week I'm making a Wil Wheaton puppet to turn into a Fairy Godmother for a…

Museum of the hard to believe, the seller is back on ebay again trying to sell worn out basic sock puppet product of WGN television as a toy of the real puppet that rests in the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.    Asking price of $999.99 for one used toy puppet.   …

http://www.oyetimes.com/lifestyle/34-art-and-culture/16391-mr-bruno-descaves-and-his-tropical-troupereview-5

a new book that might interest members of Puppet Hub:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo11674038.html

reviewed in the NY Times Sunday Book Review:…