The City of Calgary has joined other cities around the world proclaiming this coming Wednesday, World Puppetry Day. The charge to proclaim a civic-wide day to celebrate puppetry was led … Continue reading Interview with Artistic Director on CBC’s Daybreak Alberta →
Calgary Proclaims March 21st World Puppetry Day! The City of Calgary has joined with other cities around the globe to proclaim and celebrate World Puppetry Day, March 21st. Mayor Naheed … Continue reading Calgary Proclaims March 21st World Puppetry Day! →
WP Puppet Theatre’s Puppet Power Conference, June 1-3, in Calgary is thrilled to welcome puppeteer Sonia Norris. Sonia will present the talk, (Re)animating Communities with Inanimate Objects: Handspring Puppet … Continue reading Conference explores how puppetry can transform lives and (re)animate communities torn apart by Apartheid in South Africa →
As an audience, there are certain assumptions and conventions that come into play when we view a movie, a play, and to an even greater extent – a puppet show. … Continue reading Puppet Conference explores the psychological relationship between audience and puppets →
Using the power of puppetry to impact social change.