About the Hive

The  Puppetry Hive  is a by-invitation artistic collective of professional puppeteers, emerging puppeteers and other arts professionals who incorporate puppetry into their work.  The Hive‘s aim is to foster the ongoing development of the art form through the pooling of resources and knowledge, to nurture collaboration between artists of different practices: all to encourage greater creativity and new economic partnerships,  for the benefit of  puppetry  in Canada and the world.

We hold in-person and online gatherings,  share an email newslist and collaborate.

Buzz from the Hive

What we’re talking about, what we’re doing.

Feb 3, 2022 Bread and Puppet Theatre

This week, wel’re looking at a  couple of videos of Bread and Puppet’s work.. Bread & Puppet Theater – Blue Sky Puppet + Mask Dance – July 2012 Insurrection + Resurrection
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Puppetry Hive Oct 14

I’m getting to the point of not being able to remember what videos we have or haven’t sent you over the course of Covid! But here’s a  video of some traditional Turkish Karagoz shadow
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Puppetry Hive Oct 7- Local Tour

For this week’s Hive videos, we thought to stay Toronto local, with videos of recent (or recentish) work by Clay and Paper, Shadowland, Jumblies, and us Puppetmongers (collectively, we call ourselves the Raucous Caucus) From   Shadowlands, 
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Very Small Puppets, Puppetry Hive Oct 3

Size is the theme for this week’s videos – very small puppets, and a few bigger ones. https://youtu.be/wCNZy2bNRi8https://youtu.be/AgE0ZTbZA80https://youtu.be/LR7vCes0wCw
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Puppetry Hive-Week of Sept 23

This week’s  Hive  videos include a piece by some Polish theatre students,   Medic  , extracts from Montreal’s Théâtre de la Pire Espèce’s Persée…and The Pits: An avocado searches for its other
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Marionettes! Puppetry Hive Sept 16

Back to marionettes this week, with a couple of  videos  of Salzburger Marionettentheater performances for marionette  aficionados amongst you… Excerpts from Die Zauberflöte – and Sound of Music.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0X6pSeBT0Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nthKXL4BGFU
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