Print Pals Paper Puppets: Paper Puppets for Neurodivergent Kids
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Join Sesame Street's Stacey Gordon to create your very own customized paper puppets to create almost anything your imagination can come up with! Designed to be sensory friendly and easy to make.
Join professional puppeteers & voice actors for a snuggly hour of bedtime stories. Come in your PJ's, soft clothes, or cosplay and settle in for a loving wind-down to your busy day.
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Described by the press as the best hidden gem at Gen Con, you can come in your pj's, bring your favorite stuffed animal, blanket, pillow, or lovey, and settle in for a relaxing wind-down from a very busy day of gaming and con-going. Let our puppeteers with special puppet guests soothe you into a sleepier state so you can wake up refreshed and ready for the next morning.
Puppet building pros with seriously great credits will talk about various puppet building techniques, such as the wedge method, flat patterning, sculpting, and more!
With an amazing cast of puppet characters & professional puppeteers to boot, you'll not want to miss watching or even participating in Puppet Karaoke. Bring a puppet, let loose & join in on the fun.
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Puppet Karaoke is a relaxed, fun evening where professional puppeteers, newbies, and everyone in between can put on a show together that you won't soon forget. Come to watch or come to participate. Either way, you'll have a great time. I mean, just imagine a sandwich singing your favorite Taylor Swift song. Glorious. Some puppets will be provided, however we highly encourage you to bring your own--because GEERRRMSSS! No actual singing required. In fact, we prefer you not.
Got a joke, song, or short sketch you've been dying to put in front of an audience? Make us laugh, cry, or stare in utter confusion for up to 3 minutes! You do the work, your puppet gets the glory!
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You've got a giant desire to be on a stage--but also you've got a giant desire to not have the attention on you. We get it--that's why we've created a puppet open mic, so you can do all of the work and have the puppet get all of the glory! Try your stuff in front of an audience. Or come to be in the audience and see what happens! BYOP if you intend to perform.
Come connect with puppeteers from your area and around the country. Plus you can bring an unwanted puppet-themed item for the unwanted-puppet-stuff giveaway!
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We can't wait to reunite with our puppetry fam & meet new people at this year's puppeteer social! This is a time for human puppeteers & those interested in the art of puppetry to socialize, talk shop, & connect. Feel free to bring any current work you want to talk about & we'll do our ever popular, unwanted-puppet-stuff giveaway!
If you've wanted to try your hand at puppetry, start here! If you have been doing puppetry for a while, the camera gives you feedback that helps your performance. Learn the basics and keep growing!
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Learn how to puppeteer for the camera from professional puppeteers. You'll start your puppetry class going over basics like how to position your body for range of motion and comfort, puppet posture, eye focus and lip sync, followed by moving through the frame, positioning, working with a monitor, and finally jamming to a song. All skill levels welcome.
All puppeteers of color and allies are welcome to this seminar as we discuss the highs and lows of what it means to be a puppeteer from a different culture.
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While puppetry is a beautiful and inclusive artistry, in recent years, the push for visible racial diversity is at an all time high. This panel is a safe space to discuss what progress the puppetry community has made in making POCs (Puppeteers of Color) feel comfortable in creative spaces, as well as what the community needs to work on to make it that much more inviting to those who feel outnumbered in the room where it happens.
Come make a paper puppet with the Puppetry Program professionals & then terrorize your friends with it! It's all free & you'll get to hear all about what we're doing for the weekend!
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Project is aimed at 10+, but kids ages 6+ can achieve it with the help of a grownup. Skills required: coloring, detailed cutting of paper on a curve, using tape, manipulating paper with two hands, using a stapler, following verbal and visual instructions, & using glue.