Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving. It invites individuals to celebrate the holiday season by giving back and creating change in their communities. The date of Giving Tuesday is on Tuesday, Dec 1st, 2020, and is purposefully after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. W.P. Puppet Theatre’s Giving Tuesday Fundraiser is raising funds to … Continue reading Giving Tuesday: Give the Gift of Creativity and Wellness
VIEW for the Holidays: The Gift of Creativity and Mental Wellness Mask -Body Puppet maker – workshop course VIEW for the Holidays is an online Mask-Body Puppet maker-workshop course. Attending this program will not only be fun, but will also allow participants to see themselves from a different perspective. Engaging in art and exercising … Continue reading Get Creative and Gain Perspective with VIEW for the Holidays
VIEW for the Holidays: The Gift of Creativity and Mental Wellness Mask -Body Puppet ONLINE maker – workshop course Sign up for our VIEW program online through December and January and foster your creativity, build friendships and have fun. VIEW is an award-winning puppet infused program that promotes awareness and discussion about mental wellness. Especially … Continue reading VIEW for the Holidays: The Gift of Creativity and Mental Wellness
by Jenna Pruner Which came first? Puppets or Halloween? It’s likely puppets were invented around 4000 years ago in India when the concept of a “string holder” appeared in some Sanskrit plays. Additionally, Chinese puppet history reaches back 3000 years, and archaeologists have discovered evidence of Egyptian puppets from 2000 years ago, but they couldn’t … Continue reading Halloween’s for the Puppets
Senior Advocates and Community Builders Volunteer Description: Need for Testers Our Need: Responding to the Covid Health pandemic WP Puppet Theatre is pivoting our award-winning program VIEW from the Inside: To be presented online to provide increased financial, geographic and social/functional accessibility. To build community and empathy, between seniors and young adults through their joint … Continue reading Inviting Senior Volunteers…
WP Puppet Theatre’s first View from the Inside programs, in 2015, were done at Pathways to Housing, Circle of Support and Studio C. The participants, who were often marginalized, racialized and struggling, took an immense risk to work outside their comfort zones. They created self-portrait mask-body puppets to tell their stories. They were vulnerable … Continue reading Courage Journey
It was a busy year until… it wasn’t. In addition to pivoting our Puppet Power 2020 conference to be completely an online event here below are some of our key activities. Read Annual Report here. KEY ACTIVITIES Wendy took the Indigenous Relations Training Program at University of Calgary We welcome Nik, Sara and Barb to … Continue reading 2019-20 Review
We are excited to be launching our Online: Shop We’ve got one of a kind items that you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere else such as a pile of (paper mache) skulls or a blue felt display system. There are also one of a kind puppets (some charming ones made by children too) and … Continue reading Launching our OnLine:Shop
Let’s go Fly a Kite! “A kite can be thought of as an upside-down marionette” says long time WP Puppet Theatre volunteer and set/puppet builder Tam Godfrey. He shares this short video “How to Make a Simple Sled Kite” describing how to make this kite with just a compost bag, bamboo skewers and tape. Enjoy … Continue reading Kites are just upside down marionettes