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Puppeteers of Puget Sound Meeting Nov. 10 at 7:30pm
Hand Puppetry Performance and Workshop
Free to members, $5 at door for non-members.
Puppeteers of Puget Sound Meeting, Tuesday Nov. 10 at 7:30pm. (NOT NOV. 12)
Thistle Theatre Studio, Magnuson Park. 6310 NW 74th St, Seattle, WA 98115.
On bus lines and free parking.
Puppeteer Mary Shaver will perform Issun Boshi: the Tiny Samurai, the Japanese tale of the small overcoming the large and being the hero. Following the performance, Mary will lead a hand puppet manipulation workshop, including a hand puppet manipulation hand out. By the end of this workshop we promise your puppetry skills will be improved!
Mary Shaver is an artist, master puppeteer, and educator who spent twenty-five years living in Asia and Europe while traveling extensively worldwide. She performs, lectures, and consults; starred for three years on the award-winning children’s television show “Pepe’s Magic Tales”; has created for movies and major television networks. Honey Goodenough, of Puppet Slam fame and a 2015-2016 UNIMA board member, considers Mary Shaver an inspiration for her puppet career.
Please RSVP to Jean Enticknap via email jme@bigplanet.com
Vox Fabuli Announces Fall Puppet Classes
Vox Fabuli Announces Fall Puppet Classes
What: Basic Puppet Building – Animals
Saturday, Sept 6th or
Saturdays, Sept 27th – Oct 11th
Beginning Stage Puppeteering
Sundays, Sept 28th – Oct 12th
1-4pm
Cost: $160 per class
Where: Inscape Arts Building, Studio 230
815 Seattle Blvd South
Seattle, WA 98134
*Classes recommended for ages 15 and up
*Class sizes limited to 8
Registration links
Basic Puppet Building: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/829227
Beginning Stage Puppeteering: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/829296
Vox Fabuli Puppets introduces a brand new puppet building class as part of their Fall 2014 class line-up. “‘When are you going to teach us how to make puppets?’ is a question I get asked fairly often,” said Vox Fabuli owner Rachel Jackson. “It was a matter of creating a pattern that was appropriate for a class. This summer I finally got time to sit down and do that.”
Basic Puppet Building – Animals
~ 1-Day Class: Saturday, September 6th from 10am-5pm
~ 3-Week Class: Saturdays, Sept 27 – Oct 11 from 11am-1pm
Walk in with a sad, naked hand and walk out with a fabulous new puppet friend in this basic class. Dip your toe into the wide, weird waters of puppet construction: cutting, sewing (hand and machine) and hot gluing your way to a finished puppet. Instructor Rachel Jackson will guide you step-by-step as you create one of five animals: Dog, Cat, Bear, Bunny or Unicorn.
Beginning Stage Puppeteering
Sundays, Sept 28 – Oct 12, 1-4pm
In this fun, dynamic class, you’ll learn the foundations of good stage puppetry – focus, physical commitment and basic puppet operation. Students learn the fundamentals of Muppet-style puppeteering through a combo of easy exercises, wicked challenges and practical scene work. Over the 3 weeks, you’ll get lots of hands-on time with professional puppets plus a simple practice puppet to take home so you can keep working on your skills. Working in the realm of visible puppeteering, we’ll explore both arm-and-rod and live hand puppets.
~ No puppet experience required.
~ Please dress comfortably and be ready to move.
About Vox Fabuli Puppets:
Rachel Jackson’s Vox Fabuli Puppets specializes in twisting the familiar into dark and humorous shapes. Rachel has been puppeteering on various Seattle stages since 2008, where her work has been called “mad and masterful” by The Seattle Times. The mind behind the hit “MANOS – The Hands of Felt”, she more recently brought her talented hands to “Team of Heroes: No More Heroes”, “Whedonesque Burlesque” and “Audrey & Nelson: a puppet sex musical”.
Skid Row Puppet Show presents Costuming for Puppets Workshop
Skid Row Puppet Show presents Costuming for Puppets Workshop with costuming artist Deborah Skorstad.
Attendees will get an overview of the fundamentals of costuming puppets and then put this information into practice.
In the morning session we will discuss integrating costuming into your show, research and history of costuming, and scale of costuming. We will look at resources for historical puppet costumes, examples of costumed puppets, and patterning will be featured.
In the afternoon we will take what we’ve learned during the morning and put it into practice. Come with questions, projects, puppets to costume, or costuming conundrums to discuss for this hands on afternoon.
If you’re joining us for the whole day: please bring a sack lunch or a dish to share for family style knoshing.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 28, 2013
9:30 am – 4:30 pm PST
University of Washington School of Drama Costume Shop
Seattle, WA, USA
DEBORAH SKORSTAD is a Seattle based costume designer, educator, tailor/draper and craft artisan. She designs costumes for professional and educational theater, dance, aerial performance, magicians and puppets. She is currently lead costumer at the University of Washington’s School of Drama costume shop. She teaches an Introduction to Theatrical Costuming class, an Intensive Cosplay Costume class and is the adviser to the Costume Club at the UW. From 1993 -2001 she was the costume shop manager at Seattle Children’s Theater where she over saw the costume production of over 49 shows and had the great fortune to work often with Douglas Paasch. In 2005 she was invited to fabricate the costumes for Ping Chong’s “China” 3 Tales of Cathay co-produced by the Seattle Rep and the Kennedy Center. In 2007 her design won a juried competition for Pike Place Market’s Centennial icons, The Fintastic Five: 5 walk-about, realistic salmon. She designed the costumes for Brian Kooser’s productions of Dracula-A Case Study (Theater Off Jackson 2007), Micheal Jackson and Bubbles (UFO The Puppet Show 2008), Bloody Henry (Seattle University 2009), Miss Esther Bangs (Seattle Erotic Arts Festival 2010) and was assistant to Lynn Jeffrie’s Shadow Puppet Intensive 2012 funded by the UW Innovation Fund.
Workshop participation donation $5-25 sliding scale (donations help to rent the space, pay our instructor artist, provide some materials, and foster future workshops)
To Register or join the mailing list.
Questions? email: puppetbrigade@outlook.com or 206-334-8965
Learn more about Skid Row Puppet Show: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Skid-Row-Puppet-Show/
Fall Puppetry Classes at Tin Can Studio
Fall Puppetry Classes
October 20 and 27, 1-3pm
taught by Rachel Jackson of Vox Fabuli Puppets
at Tin Can Studio
COST: per class: $35 pre-reg/$40 day-of
*Special Discount: $60 total if you pre-register for both classes*
To Register or for more info: http://fallpuppetclasses.brownpapertickets.com
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BEGINNING PUPPETRY
1-3pm, Sunday, October 20th
In this fun, dynamic class, you’ll learn the foundations of good stage puppetry – focus, physical commitment and basic puppet operation. We’ll focus on how to make your puppet seem alive and connect with the audience. You’ll get lots of hands-on time with professional arm-and-rod puppets plus a simple practice puppet to take home so you can keep working on your skills.
(No puppet experience required.)
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INTERMEDIATE PUPPETRY – “Finding Your Puppet’s Character”
1-3pm, Sunday, October 27th
You know how to make your puppet talk, but what does she sound like?
You can make him move, but where is he going? And how does he get there?
In this fun, intermediate puppeteering class, you’ll learn the basics of characterization – voice, physicality and emotion – and how to apply them to your puppet. You’ll get tons of tips for making character choices and see what a big impact they can have on your puppet’s performance.
(Beginning Puppetry class or equivalent puppet experience recommended.)
To Register or for more info: http://fallpuppetclasses.brownpapertickets.com
Puppeteers of Puget Sound present: Improv Workshop
Puppeteers of Puget Sound
a Guild of the Puppeteers of America
Presents: Improv Workshop
The Puppeteers of Puget Sound is pleased to announce a 3 hour Improv Workshop taught by Sam Longoria. Sam is a Producer and Director and Actor, experienced in Film and Stage, Comedy and Drama.
Sam attended college in Seattle and Portland. After working on the film “Ghostbusters” (1983), he studied in Theatres and Schools in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
Sam owned an Improv Comedy stage, (The WILD SIDE Theatre in Hollywood), Directing, Performing and Teaching there, for a dozen years. Six shows a week = 3,125 shows! Sam will share what he knows, to help you discover and build your creative and performance skills.
Improv practice supercharges Stage, Film, and Puppetry!
THE WORKSHOP:
Three 45-minute sections with 15-min break in between
Section One: Principles and exercises
Section Two: Games and rehearsal
Section Three: Scenes and space work
DATE AND TIME:
Thursday, May 30, 7-10PM
CLASS LIMIT: 15 please register early! Free to paid members of Puppeteers of Puget Sound or pay $12 at door and you will get an individual POPS membership!
REGISTRATION:
Jean Entickap of Thistle Theatre is registrar for workshop.
Two methods:
Register by email to jme@bigplanet.com
Or call Thistle Theatre and leave message: (206) 524-3388
LOCATION:
Temporary Thistle Theatre Studio:
Pinehurst Shelter
12029 14th Ave NE
Seattle WA 98125
Puppet supply swap/sale and tabletop Bunraku workshop !
There’s a Puppeteers of Puget Sound meeting Thursday, May 31 at 7:00 pm. The meeting will be held at the Thistle Theatre studio, 6310 NE 74th St, Bldg 30 northeast entrance.
Puppeteers are invited to bring supplies to swap and can “shop” for supplies.
Thistle Theatre is downsizing its studio for a move while building 30 is remodeled. For sale will be fabrics, trims, accessories, sculpt or mold, props and more. The proceeds from the Thistle Theatre sales go into the Children’s Ticket Subsidy Fund.
Jean Enticknap will lead a workshop and Q and A about tabletop Bunraku-style puppets.
See you at the meeting,
President Gyan Davies
P.S. Please take home anything you bring that doesn’t get taken!
