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Why should kids have all the fun? The Center for Puppetry Arts Adult Education
Series offers an array of exciting workshops with scholars, performers,
curators and artists. Designed for ages 14 and up, this comprehensive
series is a must for adults who want to learn more about the fascinating
world of puppetry. The Center also offers Teacher Workshops upon request.
July
2008 | August 2008 | November
2008 | March 2009 | May
2009
Teen & Adult Education (ages 12 & up)
Wood Carving & Nuu-Chah-Nulth
Tradition
A Conversation with Paul Mesner
Adapting Classic Literature for
the Puppet Stage
American Puppet Modernism
Lecture & Book Signing
Dragon Art Studio Backstage Tour
Celebrating the Life of Hans
Christian Andersen
Teacher Workshops
Puppetry in the Classroom
Teacher Workshops
In-Service Workshop: Puppetry Across
the Curriculum
Puppetry in the Classroom
Taught by George David of Vancouver Island, WA
Saturday, July 26, 2008, 1-4pm
Join wood carver George David of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth tribe (previously
known in English as Nootka or West Coast) which is related to the Makah
tribe on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. He has taught through the
University of Washington for 15 years and has presented lectures in various
museums across the country including the University of Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology. David is a master carver of totem poles,
masks, puppets and other forms of sculpture. David’s family created
most of the totem poles and other carvings at Tillicum Village on Blake
Island in Puget Sound. He is also skilled at drum-making and two-dimensional
design, as well as traditional songs and music.
Location: Downstairs Theater
Cost: $7; $5 Center Members
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Presented by Paul Mesner of Kansas City, MO
Sunday, August 3, 2008 4-5pm
After the 3pm performance of Sleeping Beauty, meet puppeteer, author
and performer Paul Mesner as he discusses the challenges and rewards of
pursuing a life in puppetry. For more than 15 years Paul has become a
fixture in the Kansas City theater and arts scene and in the national
community of puppeteers. His company has received many grants and awards,
among them the UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence in Puppetry.
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: Free with all-inclusive admission ticket to the 3pm performance
of Sleeping Beauty on August 3, 2008.
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Presented by Michael Haverty
Sunday, August 17, 2008 4-5pm
Following the 3pm performance of The Ugly Duckling on Sunday, August
17th, meet writer/director Michael Haverty for a discussion on how to
adapt literature, non-fiction and plays for the puppet stage. Michael
will cite examples from his adaptations of The Ugly Duckling, William
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and several others in discussing how
imagination, research, and writing techniques are used to find your own
voice and story within the work of others.
Location: Downstairs Theater
Cost: Free with all-inclusive admission ticket to the 3pm performance
of The Ugly Duckling on August 17, 2008.
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Presented by Dr. John Bell, Director, Ballard Institute and Museum of
Puppetry (BIMP), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Saturday, November 15, 2008, 8-9pm
Join internationally renowned puppeteer, professor and puppet theater
historian, Dr. John Bell, to explore the history of puppet, mask and performing
object theater in the United States over the past 150 years. Discover
how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures, commercial theater,
modern art idealism and mechanical innovation created uniquely modern
and singularly American approaches which have reinvented the ancient arts
of puppetry as essential performance modes of the twenty-first century.
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; $5 Center Members
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Presented by Brenda Xu of Vancouver, WA
Sunday, March 8, 2009, 4-5pm
Stay in your seats after the 3pm performance of Old Man and the Monkeys
& other Chinese Tales for a behind-the-scenes look at this beautiful
show performed with exquisite Chinese rod puppets. Learn how Dragon Art
Studio, one of the few professional Chinese puppet theater companies in
the U.S., blends puppetry and music with elegance, humor, special effects,
meticulously-engineered mechanical puppet parts and Western technology
to create a beautiful theatrical event.
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: Free with all-inclusive admission ticket to the 3pm performance
of Chinese Tales on March 8, 2008.
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Presented by Eric Brandt Nielsen of Valdosta, GA
Presented in conjunction with the Danish American Chamber of Commerce
of Georgia
Sunday, May 3, 2009, 4-5pm
Eric Brandt Nielsen provides an insightful look at the life of Hans Christian
Andersen, who was born in Odense, Denmark in 1805. The son of a shoemaker
and an illiterate washerwoman, he spent his childhood in abject poverty.
He left home at age 14 for Copenhagen beginning a career in theater. He
is known today as the first writer to elevate the fairy tale to literary
art. Nielsen is a full professor in the Communication Arts Department
at Valdosta State University. He holds a B.F.A. in theatre and an M.F.A.
in modern dance choreography from the University of Utah. He created the
dance program at VSU in 1986 and was the founding director of the VSU
Repertory Dancers.
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: Free with all-inclusive admission ticket to the 3pm performance
of The Little Mermaid on May 3, 2008.
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Enhance your thematic units by employing puppetry as a teaching tool in
your classroom. This half-day or day-long workshop focuses on resource
materials, puppet building, simple staging ideas and curriculum-based
performance. Perfect for teachers at all grade levels. Please call
404.881.5136 to schedule.
Cost: $20-$40 per person; minimum 15 participants.
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Teachers, media specialists and youth group leaders can learn the basics
of puppet construction using readily available materials. An excellent
"make it, take it" workshop that will provide many ideas for using puppetry
in teaching activities across the curriculum. Please call 404.881.5136
to schedule.
Cost: $300 - $500 plus mileage; 1-3 hours (1 hour minimum); maximum
50 participants.
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