For follow-up material for a recent online demonstration/talk about toy theatres, I found a couple of interesting videos…
Continue readingMore about Toy Theatres – April 29 Hive Session
Puppetry Hive-April 22, 2021
For this week, here’s a mixed bag of interesting puppetry things that David-the-video-finder has found:
By Alex and Olmsted (this is the company that Pete Balkwill of the Old Trouts is to interview online soon) – Milo the Magnificent Teaser Trailer…
Transforming Chair Puppet
Hobey Ford’s magical creations..
And I wonder if the little puppet’s controls were influenced by Lenart Andras’s Micropodium (who we saw performing at the Milk Festival some years ago)…
Hive Bulletin –Specialized graduate diploma in contemporary puppetry
Information about l’Universite du Quebec a Montreal’s next 2 year Specialized graduate diploma in contemporary puppetry program crossed our desk today and so we wanted to share with Puppetry Hive members.
Please do share it with anyone else you think would be interested!
Focus on Toronto local puppeteer, Jamie Shannon (April 8 Hive Session)
We’ll be looking at some samples of work by local puppeteer, Jamie Shannon
Continue readingNotice to Hive Members: Spring Puppet Forum: “Working on Race and Ethnicity in Puppetry” with Dr. Jungmin Song, 4/8 at 7 p.m. ET
For its third installment of the 2021 Spring Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host “Working on Race and Ethnicity in Puppetry” with curator Dr. Jungmin Song and Ballard Institute Director John Bell on April 8 at 7 p.m. ET.
Continue readingNews from Sandglass Theatre–April 1
This week we are looking at the work of Sandglass Theatre
Continue readingHive Watch Party- March 25
Here are your Thursday videos for March 25.
Continue readingLotte Reininger Night at the Hive
This week, for our Thursday night viewing and discussion, we’re going back in time to Lotte Reiniger’s stop motion shadow films. She was a German film director who moved to Canada, and was making short and full length stop motion animated movies before Disney.
Continue readingObject Theatre Focus this Week-Mar 18
This week, we’ve chosen Object Theatre as the video theme.
Our own object theatre production, The Brick Bros Circus, is currently streaming this week (optional PWYC ticket) until March 24.
Continue readingLambe Lambe Puppetry Presentation October 18, 2017
Roberto Sainz de la Peña, from Chile, joined the Puppetry Hive on the evening of October 18 for a potluck supper gathering and gave a presentation on the Lambe, Lambe puppetry tradition and his own artistic practice.
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