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Puppet Paradise will be held June 28 – July 1 at the Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, hopefully with supplemental events all week long!
CALL FOR ARTISTS!
Artists interested in submitting for slam pieces please submit via the Artist Submission Form.
Our next meeting is Sunday, May 20h, 2018 at 6:00 PM at the Center for Puppetry Arts. The meeting will feature Nancy Riggs presenting a reading of a puppet play written by her grandmother, Martha Ellis, that won First Prize in the Junior League Playwriting Contest of 1934. Nancy will also talk about the puppetry produced by Junior League organizations around the country, particularly here in Atlanta. The organization still provides volunteers for the Center for Puppetry Arts.
At the guild meeting, we'll also have:
Sound like fun? Then be sure to join us for our next meeting. Watch for more details to be posted here and on our Mailing List.
The Atlanta Puppetry Guild provided puppetry demonstrations at the Center for Puppetry Arts during their celebration of the World Day of Puppetry on Saturday, March 24th, 2018.
For a sampling of this event, please see our 2016 World Day of Puppetry Report, courtesy of guild member Paulette Richards.
Puppet Palooza is an afternoon of puppetry fundraiser event for the Atlanta Puppetry Guild. Proceeds will go to the guild's scholarship fund, to help puppeteers further their craft, and to the Clarkston Community Center.
This year's Puppet Palooza will be held at the Clarkston Community Center (3701 College Ave, Clarkston, GA 30021).
$10 per person (parents bringing kids, and kids under 2 get in free)
Take I-285 to Exit #40 (E. Ponce De Leon / Church Street) and go east to N. Indian Creek Drive. Turn right, and the community center will be on your left behind the Clarkston Public Library.
Heidi Carpenter (In Jest Puppets ) has been awarded the Carol Daniel Memorial Scholarship to support her attendance at the 2017 National Puppetry Festival of the Puppeteers of America. Congratulations to Heidi, and remember, you too could receive a scholarship in a future year. You just have to be a member of the guild to be able to apply.