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Folded-Face Puppets: Workshop for Families

  • Puppet Showplace Theater 32 Station Street Brookline, MA, 02445 United States (map)

Sat May 6 | 11:00 am


Registration

$20 per child
$10 per adult

The May 13 workshop has been canceled .

About the Workshop

This hands-on workshop is inspired by paper arts innovations of the ‘70s. Participants will learn to engineer paper to create their own moving mouth puppets, inspired by an “Ocean of Possibilities” theme. Dive under the sea to draw the big mouth of a hammerhead shark then add triangular teeth to complete the design, or switch to pink to add flippers and a fluke to create a swimming dolphin! Cut yellow tentacles with orange spots to make the suction cups of a dancing octopus! Anything is possible and this project is great for all creative levels.

All ages welcome, recommended for 4 - 7 and their grown-ups

Don’t miss PuppetKabob’s show She Thinks She's Queen Elizabeth But She's Dirty Gerts to Me, May 6 - 14! More info & tickets →

About the Instructor

Sarah Frechette is a touring puppeteer, arts educator, and stop-motion animation fabricator, splitting her time between Vermont, Europe and Portland. She trained with master puppeteer Albrecht Roser at his studio in Buoch, Germany; and is a graduate of UConn’s Puppet Arts Program. Sarah has toured internationally as both PuppetKabob and Night Shade, with an original repertoire of shows and her ensemble of roser-style marionettes across the U.S., Germany, France and China. Her show The Snowflake Man was awarded an UNIMA-USA citation of excellence. Over the past year, Sarah co-produced and hosted Vermont's first ever Creemee Dreemee Puppet Slam; and performed at Highlight NYE in Burlington, VT; the Boulet Brothers (Dragula) Halloween Ball in Los Angeles. CA; Lake Eden Arts Festival's 50th anniversary celebration in Black Mountain, NC; and in Seattle, WA at the Left Coast Puppet Love Fest. All while also honing her skills by working on miniature costumes and large-scale puppets for stop-motion animation films like Netflix's Wendell & Wild!