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) 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 [...]
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 [...]
From 18th-20th July 2014, a myriad of French and international performers showcased their puppet shows to enthusiastic crowds of both children and adults. There were tiny puppets in trees, giant puppets in markets, dark tales in the forest, strange mechanical bicycles on the street and lots of meals with puppeteers and puppetry enthusiasts. Set in [...]
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 [...]
