May 2018

Upcoming Puppetry Workshop for Teachers in Sydney!

3rd May, 2018|Blog, Puppetry and Education, Workshops|

We're excited to announce that we've organised a one-day Professional Development Puppetry workshop for teachers, and we'd love you to join us! Run by puppeteer and primary school teacher Kay Yasugi (Pupperoos), this hands-on workshop aims to help teachers explore how puppetry can be used to stimulate enriched literacy projects and act as a springboard [...]

October 2017

 A Dog Puppet with an Important Story to Tell

20th October, 2017|Blog, Puppet commissions, Puppetry and Education|

Last year, Kay made this beautiful dog puppet for the Year 10 Drama Ensemble performing at the 2016 NSW Public Schools State Drama Festival in Sydney, Australia. The drama piece was inspired by this amazing story of a cat who was reunited with his family after being separated in Lesbos, as well as this online article about [...]

June 2016

Shadow Workshop at London School of Puppetry

7th June, 2016|

On 26th -31st August 2015, the London School of Puppetry (LSP) ran a week-long program on the Art of Puppetry in Education and Therapy, focusing on shadow puppetry.This video shows how the participants explored shadows through play. They experimented with body shadows, dancing with cellophane, making shadows with nature and found objects, operating large and [...]

Shadow Workshop for Teachers: The Art of Puppetry in Education and Therapy, UK

7th June, 2016|Blog, Puppetry and Education, Workshops|

On 26th -31st August 2015, the London School of Puppetry (LSP) UK ran a week-long program on the Art of Puppetry in Education and Therapy, focusing on Shadow Puppetry. I ran this course with Caroline Astell-Burt, who is the school's Director of Studies and author of "I am the Story", a wonderfully practical manual for puppetry [...]

A Very Hungry Caterpillar! Giant Puppets in the UK

7th June, 2016|Blog, Charity, Festivals, Workshops|

https://youtu.be/0lS2DZNFmnM In July 2015, I volunteered as a puppet maker for the Cock and Bull Festival, a music festival near Bath (UK) run by Jamie’s Farm, a charity that's transforming the lives of vulnerable children in challenging urban schools. The organisation provides a unique combination of farming, family and therapy through a short stay residential and follow up [...]

Spiders, Masks and a Giant Moon: Visiting Théâtre du Loup in Geneva

6th June, 2016|Blog, Workshops|

I was very excited to visit Théâtre du Loup in Geneva in July 2015. Arguably the ‘Bread and Puppet’ of Switzerland, the dynamic community theatre company was founded in 1978 by Veronique Berthet, Eric Jeanmonod and Sandro Rossetti. A large part of the company’s history was creating puppets to parade in the streets, and in the [...]

Here be Dragons: The Dragon Project with Shopfront

6th June, 2016|Blog, Puppetry and Education, Workshops|

In May-June 2015, I ran a 9 week puppetry project at Athelstane Public School (a primary school in south Sydney), collaborating with the youth theatre company Shopfront as part of their Room 13 program. Room 13 is supported by Arts NSW & Australia Council for the Arts Fresh AIR 2014-2016 Artist in Residence program funding. The aim of [...]

Chickens and Monkeys and Ducks – Oh My! Making Puppets for The Wizard of Oz

6th June, 2016|Blog, Puppet commissions, Puppetry and Education|

Pupperoos got their biggest commission to date when a Sydney-based school approached me to create a whole zoo of animal puppets for their high school musical production of The Wizard of Oz in February 2015. I made 1 Mother duck, 2 hens, 3 flying monkeys, 4 giant butterflies, 6 ducklings, 6 crows, several shadow puppets and a [...]

Puppets and Puppies: Woof-Fest 2015

6th June, 2016|Blog|

On 8th March 2015, Pupperoos was invited to a furry, friendly (and predominantly four-legged) festival in Western Sydney called “Bungarribee Woof-Fest”. We ran a dog-themed sock puppet workshop as part of this annual dog festival in Doonside, which is hosted by the Western Sydney Parklands Trust. The festival is located at Bungarribee, which has a large [...]

UNIMA Puppetry Master Class with Simon T. Rann from Compagnie Philippe Genty

6th June, 2016|Blog, Workshops|

In February 2015, Master Puppeteer Simon T. Rann from Compagnie Philippe Genty ran two master class workshops in both Melbourne and NSW. I attended the NSW workshop which was run as a wonderful weekend away in Mittagong (1.5 hrs south of  Sydney). The course aimed to explore visual theatre, especially the use of puppetry and object [...]

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