Dive deeper into the world of puppetry with these Winter and Spring Courses for 2026!
Learn from Toronto’s best puppeteers, and guest artists from around the world. Whether you are just starting to dabble in puppetry, or honing your skills, there are courses for everyone.
Head to the Toronto School of Puppetry website for up to date information on adult learning courses.
Please note, registration deadlines are one week before each class begins.
June 1-2 at Puppetmongers Studio, Toronto
This annual mini-conference-and-festival showcases artists taking new and ground-breaking directions in puppetry. It is an event for exciting innovations and explorations, presentations, demonstrations and discussions, culminating in an evening cabaret of short fresh new performances. A stimulating event for everyone interested in current developments in puppetry.
If you are interested in presenting a talk, a discussion, a demonstration, a show & tell, or a short performance, either live of online, please contact Puppetmongers – email ann@puppetmongers.com
Fresh Ideas in Puppetry is officially accredited by UNIMA Canada, and supported by our wonderful donors and funders the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council.
📸 Photo from the 2022 Fresh Ideas in Puppetry conference from Teatr Fraktal, Poland
The application deadline is January 26th, 2026.
The materials & workshop fee is $300
What is PXL? A mentorship program for individual artists and/or small groups to work on projects in puppetry or that integrate puppetry into multi-media arts projects.
Puppetry is an art form that combines literature, music, mime, dance, drama, and the visual arts to make a sum greater than its parts. It is among the last great under-explored frontier of the arts! Our Puppetry eXploratory Laboratory (PXL) is modeled on the famous XPT program at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta.
For full details and to apply to the program, visit the Toronto School of Puppetry website
About Last Landscape:
In a sometime somewhere devoid of nature, posthuman ‘workers’ enter an empty space and assemble a series of artificial landscapes out of found objects, striving with their bodies to recreate the natural world from memory. But is it the deep past we see, or some genetically modified future?
The world premiere of Last Landscape blends Bad New Days’ signature brand of physical theatre with an eco-dramaturgical, DIY aesthetic to create a slowly transforming, imagistic meditation on extinction, ecological grief and interspecies care, where colossal puppets of prehistoric megafauna roam free. On the brink of environmental collapse, Last Landscape offers hopeful possibilities for how we might share this big green miraclemarble.
Last Landscape was nominated for 8 Dora Awards in 2025, winning 2 for Scenic Design & Sound Design
Puppetmongers is proud to have contributed to the design for Last Landscape with puppet design and builds of the dog and geese puppets!
Last Landscape prioritises sustainability in every stage of its creation—from the artistic vision to the materials used in production . Because of its eco-dramaturgical ethos, Last Landscape was recently awarded the prestigious Ray Ferris Innovation and Sustainability Grant from the Ontario Arts Foundation and the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.
Congratulations to all artists involved!
