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puppet shows

  •  Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater - September 6-24, 2000, in New York City. Performances, lectures, symposia, and exhibitions to promote the power of puppets to educate as well as entertain.
  •  I-Fest - annual event sponsored by One Way Street, an inter-denominational children's ministry resource publisher and supplier. August 2-7, 1999.
  •  International Puppet Festival - annual festival usually held the last week of August, featuring professional puppet theatre groups from around the world.
  •  Punch & Brodie Puppet Productions - "live animation" (puppetry) for video production and live events, specializing in corporate video, conventions, and educational materials.
  •  Puppet Animation Festival - in Perth, Scotland, UK
  •  Puppet Fusion - in Raleigh, North Carolina
  •  Puppet Workshop - manufactures and supplies all kinds of puppets and puppet theatres, as well as operating a puppet museum, performing, and giving workshops.
  •  Puppetjungle.com - offers an assortment of animal and character puppets by Folkmanis.
  •  Puppetools - on-line credit courses, training videos, custom publishing, teacher education, school reform, The Einstein Curriculum.
  •  Those Funny LIttle People - offers "mini musicals" performed by puppets.
 
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  •  Adzooks - information on puppeteers, puppet shows, and puppetry in education, promotions, and entertainment, and a resource for puppetry in theater, education, festivals, and advertising.
  •  Haynes Marionettes
  •  Pat Brymer Creations - Emmy Award-winning creator of puppets and costume characters for the television and entertainment industry.
  •  Perry Alley Theatre - Emmy-nominated puppeteers Andrew and Bonnie Periale create unusual performances, national publications, and are the designers of the Velcro Puppet Playhouse.
  •  Pro-Kids
  •  W.P. Puppet Theatre Society - strives to inspire, educate, entertain, provoke, and delight audiences young and old through a blend of mask, dance, storytelling, and projections.
  •  Wayne Martin Puppets - combining the ancient art form of puppetry with a sensory overload of color, music, and roller-coaster pacing.
  •  Center for Puppetry Arts
  •  Cleaford Puppet Scripts - puppet scripts for all-age worship, etc. Hints on using puppets for simple ventriloquism and in puppet theatre. Instructions for building a portable puppet theatre.
  •  Karakuri - text and photos of Japanese mechanical puppets.
  •  Kinetosaurs - dinosaur sculptures that move.
  •  Mary's Puppetry Home - offers puppetry tips, & tricks of the trade from a career puppeteer.
  •  Puppet Press, The - bimonthly puppeteers news-magazine.
  •  Puppetry Home Page - lists resources related to puppets.
  •  Puppets NorthWest - find out what's going on, who's doing what, and where to get supplies.
  •  World of Puppets - information about puppets from around the world. With lesson plans for teachers.
 
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  •  Puppet Animation Festival - in Scotland
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  •  Friends Puppet Co. Vancouver, WA - Friends Puppet Company has thrilled audiences with their delightful character education puppet adventures. Children and adults, alike, will learn and laugh as the Friends teach important Bible lessons.
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resources
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directories


online fun


organizations

  •  National Capital Puppetry Guild
  •  Puppeteers Cooperative, The - provides information on how to make giant puppets for parades and pageants.
  •  Puppeteers of America - a national non-profit organization founded to encourage and promote puppetry as a means of communication and perforance art; both professional and amateur.
  •  UNIMA-USA - the US Chapter of Union Internationale de la Marionette, the world's oldest theatre organization dedicated to the art of puppetry.
  •  Folklore India - a not-for-profit organisation working towards the improvement of the lives of more than 1200 families of mostly puppeteers, dancers, musicians, acrobats, and magicians living in slums; artists perform at weddings, parties, festivals, exhibitions, seminars, conferences and workshops and on the capital's streets as well as at local and international cultural fairs.  Folklore India has also started developing international exchanges with artists from other countries.  Contact Atramuddin Qureshi, 1013 Ram Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Jaipur 302016 INDIA; phone +911413966913, adqureshi21@hotmail.com

puppeteers


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shopping for puppets

  •  Chinese Shadow Puppets for sale
  •  The Lincoln Puppet Factory Home Page
  •  The Character Shop - Main Entrance - A pretty cool company that deals with animatronic puppets. Mostly for commercials.
  •  Animal Makers - featuring large inventory of artificial animals, birds, reptiles, and insects for use by photographers, film and television production companies.
  •  Arms Length Productions - full service design company specializing in the design, fabrication and animation of puppet and 3-dimensional characters.
  •  Animal Express - sells stuffed animal plush hand puppets. Also supplies puppets to schools and other organizations for fund raising efforts.
  •  Axtell Expressions, Inc - professional and toy puppets for ventriloquists, puppeteers, magicians, and clowns.
  •  Cleaford Puppets - hand crafted puppets used for family services, school assemblies, or any other activity your imagination can handle.
  •  Clewer Puppets - make puppets for therapy teaching and performance.
  •  Dragon Wings - offering handcrafted fairytale dolls, marionettes, and Renaissance and Victorian era costume accessories.
  •  Dummy Doctor, The - supplier of ventriloquial dummies, puppets, and marionnettes for professional performers since 1966. Also offering repair, restoration and appraisal of puppets of all types and vintages.
  •  Fabric.com...No Easier Way To Buy Fabric
  •  Folkmanis Puppets - manufactures realistic plush animal and character puppets inspired by nature and literature.
  •  Gruppet Puppet - adult-sized hand puppets for grown-ups and growing up.
  •  Kiwi Puppet Company, The - brings native New Zealand animals to life in the form of puppets. These characters featured in the books: 'Possum and the Party' and 'The Kiwi Egg Mystery'.
  •  Legends & Lore - puppets, crafts, coloring pages, and other stuff.
  •  Manhattan Toy Company - makers of Pappa Geppetto, Wimmer Ferguson, Manhattan Toy, Manhattan Baby, Whoozit, and Hoopla toys.
  •  MarionettePuppets.com - offers puppets for shows, interior decorating, or hanging around.
  •  Mastercraft Puppets - hancrafted puppets for the beginner or professional.
  •  More Magic and Illusions - magic, juggling, and ventriloquism supplies. Including props, posters, books, and videos.
  •  Nick Barone's Puppetbuilder.com - provides custom built puppets for professional puppeteers, offers workshops, and lists puppetry building tips.
  •  P.I.P. Handicrafts - puppets, woodcarvings, and other handicrafts.
  •  Pakaluk Puppets - handmade puppets of all types for use as gifts or teaching aids at reasonable prices. Custom designs are available.
  •  Pamdemonium Puppet Enterprises - makers of handmade puppets, marionettes, stages, and accessories.
  •  Paul P Smith Art - making horse and unicorn marionette puppets for education and entertainment.
  •  Pelham Puppets Online - dedicated to collectors of Bob Pelham`s toys, featuring identification hints, valuation advice, and classified listings.
  •  Playful Puppets, Inc. - puppets that swallow objects for teachers, librarians and speech pathologists for teaching reading, ABCs, colors, shapes and demonstrating tongue articulation.
  •  Plushpups - manufacturer of puppets and plush toys.
  •  Pup-Pets - online store offering animal and insect puppets.
  •  Puppet Artists - make handpuppets, fingerpuppets, full size soft-form sculptures, earring holder heads, and moveable mouth animal puppets.
  •  Puppet Gallery - puppet offerings include hand, string, wrap-a-round, ventriloquist, and rod.
  •  Puppet Partners - specialize in making people and inanimate object puppets. Sells marionettes, ventriloquist dummies, and accessories.
  •  Puppet People - offers a range of hand-made puppets and accessories, including theatres, scripts, and props.
  •  Puppet Place - hundreds of popular puppets in stock with selections from the best known manufacturers. We can also custom craft limited quantities of traditional puppets to your requests.
  •  Puppet Productions - provides puppets, programming, staging, robots, training videos, and other educational supplies for Christian ministries.
  •  Puppet Shop at The Rocks - a dazzling cave of wonders with a collection of marionettes, toys, statues and masks.
  •  Puppetgirl - sells handcrafted puppets.
  •  puppetpatterns.com - offers stuffed body puppets and a variety of patterns.
  •  Purciful's Magical Toys - features puppets, theaters, bears, professional face paints, and construction sets.
  •  Stage Hand Puppets
  •  Tookkatoon Thai Souvenir Limited Partnership - offers Thai classical puppets also known as Hun Krabog. Also in Thai.
  •  Uwe Sörensen Marionetten - handcrafts marionettes as singlepieces, made to order.

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