Randwick Puppet Festival 2020 is coming to a venue close to you! You will find great puppet performances, puppet making workshops and even a puppet picnic at Randwick Environment Park where you can rub shoulders with the biggest puppets you have ever seen.
All the shows are family friendly except for the Puppet Cabaret for the grown-ups. You’ll find some old favourites like Dreamer who returns to the Randwick Literary Institute but this time from space! Miss Muffet emerges from a giant pop-up book and Showko brings her brilliant stand-up comedy show Showko: Absolutely Normal to the Randwick Community Centre. Pop in to the library to see the exhibition The Magic of Puppets and to hear Richard Bradshaw talk about his life as a famous shadow puppeteer. Check the website for venues. and bookings. See you there! BOOK NOW!
It’s been a while since we’ve had a puppetry gathering in Sydney! Come along and meet Jodi Thiele, a visiting puppeteer from Singapore who is doing wonderful puppetry and community work with Artsolute (https://www.artsolute.asia/)
Sydney-based puppeteer Kay Yasugi will also share about her recent 3.5 month trip to Korea and USA, where she did various puppetry projects: researching ‘Haenyeo’ women divers in Jeju Island, South Korea for a new show; as well as doing a research and training project at University of Washington, Bothell about Virtual Technology and its application to Shadow Puppetry. Kay also did a 2 week artist in residency with the shadow theatre company Manual Cinema, working on their new show ‘Frankenstein’. Kay’s US projects were made possible thanks to funding from the Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation in Sydney.
This will be a relaxed afternoon for sharing our love of puppetry, and all are welcome. If you have a puppet or a project you’re working on, feel free to bring that to share too, along with some nibbles 😀
WHEN: Saturday 10th November at 1-3pm
WHERE: Green Square Library (355 Botany Road, Sydney, 2017)
We have booked the ‘Aqua Meeting Room’, so that we can have our own quiet space where we can look at videos, happy snaps and talk puppets 🙂
COST: $5-$10 pp, depending on numbers.
Numbers are limited so please RSVP on our Facebook event or call Kay at 0405 335 228.
“Albert the Magic Pudding, made by Sydney Puppet Theatre, commissioned by Marian Street Theatre for Young People for a new theatre version of The Magic Pudding, written by Andrew James, directed by Margie McCrae with music by Sarah de Jong. 2010”
on Sunday 11 November @ Czechoslovakian Country Club,
320 Devonshire Road, Kemps Creek
Lenka Muchova invites all ‘kids’ 3 – 100 years old to celebrate famous Norman Lindsay’s book
@ 2pm Richard Bradshaw performs his magical ‘Bradshaw’s Shadows’ puppet show.
Ostrich shadow puppet by Richard Bradshaw
A puppet of Albert, ‘The Magic Pudding’ himself and the books written about him, posters, photos and documentaries will be presented
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is inviting applications from artists to join the 2019 FirstHand Puppetry Artist Training Program. The program commences in Feb 2019 with opportunities for training, mentorship and development before entering a puppetry performance project.
FirstHand offers training in the creation of puppetry and is suited to applicants with a strong skills base in performing for new theatre. Ideally you will have completed an undergraduate degree in a related field, but consideration will be given to applicants with a demonstrable level of other training or relevant experience.
FirstHanders will join a full-time training intensive (fee-free) in the last week of February 2019 with Artistic Director Philip Mitchell and Associate Director Michael Barlow. A two-week (part-time) mentorship follows leading to two weeks (full-time) paid engagement to create a short new devised performance in collaboration with Spare Parts Puppet Theatre.
You are invited to join our Annual General Meeting on Sunday 25th November. We will be conducting the meeting online via the Zoom app/program (which is similar to Skype). You are very welcome to join us!
Another email will be sent out soon with reports by the President, General Secretary and Treasurer, as well as nomination forms for those roles.
Please see the details below:
UNIMA AGM Date: Sunday, 25th November 2018 Time: 6:00 PM(AEDT) NSW, VIC, ACT, TAS
5.00pm QLD
5.30pm SA
4.30pm NT
3.00pm WA
**Using Zoom for the first time**
You will need to download the free Zoom app/program onto your computer, tablet or smartphone (very similar to Skype). If you go to https://zoom.us/j/9314462458 that should take you to the website where you will be prompted to install the program.
When it is time for the meeting, you click the same link (above) and it will take you straight to our meeting. Alternatively, you can open the Zoom app and click ‘join meeting’. Then type in the meeting ID: 931 446 2458
It will prompt you to select audio options – click on the green button so you can use audio via your computer. If you have any issues, contact General Secretary Kay Yasugi at secretary@unima.org.au
The Italian Commedia dell’Arte is the West’s oldest continuously living Theatre form. It has been practiced for several hundred years.Murphy’s Puppets: Italian Festival of Puppeteers
Sept & Oct (NSW)
MURPHYS PUPPETS joined its ranks 25 years ago, in both the Puppetry and the Mask branches.
If you would like a taste of this Puppetry tradition, MURPHYS PUPPETS have the following public performances:
Sunday 28th All day at Norton Street Festa, Leichhardt
Murphy’s Puppets: Italian Festival of Puppeteers
Sept & Oct (NSW)The Italian Commedia dell’Arte is the West’s oldest continuously living Theatre form. It has been practiced for several hundred years.MURPHYS PUPPETS joined its ranks 25 years ago, in both the Puppetry and the Mask branches.If you would like a taste of this Puppetry tradition, MURPHYS PUPPETS have the following public performances in NSW:SEPTEMBERSunday 9th, 2pm at the Festival of the Winds, Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach
The Italian Commedia dell’Arte is the West’s oldest continuously living Theatre form. It has been practiced for several hundred years.Murphy’s Puppets: Italian Festival of Puppeteers
Sept & Oct (NSW)
MURPHYS PUPPETS joined its ranks 25 years ago, in both the Puppetry and the Mask branches.
If you would like a taste of this Puppetry tradition, MURPHYS PUPPETS have the following public performances:
Sunday 14th All day at Brisbane’s FESTITALIA, Spencer Park, Newmarket
Murphy’s Puppets: Italian Festival of Puppeteers
Sept & Oct (NSW)The Italian Commedia dell’Arte is the West’s oldest continuously living Theatre form. It has been practiced for several hundred years.MURPHYS PUPPETS joined its ranks 25 years ago, in both the Puppetry and the Mask branches.If you would like a taste of this Puppetry tradition, MURPHYS PUPPETS have the following public performances in NSW:SEPTEMBERSunday 9th, 2pm at the Festival of the Winds, Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach
The Italian Commedia dell’Arte is the West’s oldest continuously living Theatre form. It has been practiced for several hundred years.Murphy’s Puppets: Italian Festival of Puppeteers
Sept & Oct (NSW)
MURPHYS PUPPETS joined its ranks 25 years ago, in both the Puppetry and the Mask branches.
If you would like a taste of this Puppetry tradition, MURPHYS PUPPETS have the following public performances in NSW:
Wednesday 3rd 2pm at Carlingford Library – Bookings Essential on (02) 9806-5850
Murphy’s Puppets: Italian Festival of Puppeteers
Sept & Oct (NSW)The Italian Commedia dell’Arte is the West’s oldest continuously living Theatre form. It has been practiced for several hundred years.MURPHYS PUPPETS joined its ranks 25 years ago, in both the Puppetry and the Mask branches.If you would like a taste of this Puppetry tradition, MURPHYS PUPPETS have the following public performances in NSW:SEPTEMBER
Sunday 9th, 2pm at the Festival of the Winds, Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach
The Italian Commedia dell’Arte is the West’s oldest continuously living Theatre form. It has been practiced for several hundred years.Murphy’s Puppets: Italian Festival of Puppeteers
Sept & Oct (NSW)
MURPHYS PUPPETS joined its ranks 25 years ago, in both the Puppetry and the Mask branches.
If you would like a taste of this Puppetry tradition, MURPHYS PUPPETS have the following public performances in NSW:
Saturday and Sunday, 22nd & 23rd all day at the St Ives Medieval Faire, St Ives Showground
Murphy’s Puppets: Italian Festival of Puppeteers
Sept & Oct (NSW)The Italian Commedia dell’Arte is the West’s oldest continuously living Theatre form. It has been practiced for several hundred years.MURPHYS PUPPETS joined its ranks 25 years ago, in both the Puppetry and the Mask branches.
If you would like a taste of this Puppetry tradition, MURPHYS PUPPETS have the following public performances in NSW:
SEPTEMBER
Sunday 9th, 2pm at the Festival of the Winds, Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach
The Italian Commedia dell’Arte is the West’s oldest continuously living Theatre form. It has been practiced for several hundred years.Murphy’s Puppets: Italian Festival of Puppeteers
Sept & Oct (NSW)
MURPHYS PUPPETS joined its ranks 25 years ago, in both the Puppetry and the Mask branches.
If you would like a taste of this Puppetry tradition, MURPHYS PUPPETS have the following public performances in NSW:
Sunday 9th, 2pm at the Festival of the Winds, Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach
