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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On 4th September 2014, Kay Yasugi visited Sydney University to speak with the Third Year Primary Education students about using puppetry with ESL (English as a Second Language) students. She ran the puppetry lecture with Kate Harris, who is a primary school teacher and tutor at Sydney University. The session included a wide range of [...]
On 31st May 2014, Pupperoos ran a training workshop for Children and Youth Ministry workers called “An Introduction to Puppetry in Ministry”. The workshop was held at Randwick Presbyterian Church and aimed to help participants learn to use puppetry to create engaging talks, skits and dramas to bring the Bible to life for young people [...]
In the Autumn school holidays of 2014, Pupperoos performed a series of holiday puppet shows at the Powehouse Discovery Centre in Sydney. The 50 minute show was called ‘Puppet Pandemonium’ and it was interactive puppetry ‘show and tell’ with puppet-making demos, storytelling, live music and lots of audience participation. Kay’s puppet friends included Bina the [...]
Following the success of the ‘Creating Puppets for Plays’ workshops in Sydney for the War Horse Australia Arts Learning Programme, Kay Yasugi from Pupperoos was invited to run a puppet making workshop in Brisbane at Griffith University in July. The group learned how to work with cane and together they created a variety of beautiful [...]
