String Fling
SAVE THE DATE: String Fling 2025
Mark your calendar for the 25th String Fling on March 29, 2025!
What is String Fling?
String Fling is the annual fundraising event for the Center for Puppetry Arts, raising nearly $250,000 each year to support the Center’s operations, including theatrical productions, museum exhibitions, and arts-infused educational programming.
After 45 years, the Center continues to distinguish itself as a unique treasure in Atlanta with innovative performances, workshops, and exhibitions showcasing local to international artists and featuring timely stories to popular culture favorites. The organization produces 500 fully-staged puppetry performances per year through its Family Series, favorites for school groups, children, and their guardians, and its New Directions Series, for teen to adult cultural consumers. The Center has significant impact in the performing arts, with alumni working at Disney, The Jim Henson Company, Sesame Street, and in theaters on Broadway and around the world, as well as in the film industry.
In addition to 2 permanent galleries that house our Global Collection and the Jim Henson Collection, the museum presents 3-4 rotating exhibitions, and pop-up displays each year. Our educational efforts include online and in-person workshops, teaching artist-led activities, master classes and lectures, outreach programs, field trips, and accessibility initiatives that strive to ensure everyone can enjoy the magic of puppetry. As a pioneer in the field of web-based learning for the past 20 years, the Center develops award-winning curriculum-based interactive online experiences, reaching all 50 states and nearly 90 countries around the world.
Your attendance and support through String Fling help make all of this possible, and keep puppetry alive and thriving! Please consider donating or getting involved!
For more event information about 2025 String Fling sponsorships, please contact:
Stephanie Carter, Development Manager
Past Sponsors & Patrons
Producer
Delta
Georgia Power
Love Family Foundation
Mill Creek Residential
Salesforce
Director
Acuity Brands
AT&T
Cadence Bank
Gail and John Chandler
Domain Capital Group, LLC.
Fifth Third Bank
Christopher Hardwick
Merchant & Gould P.C.
Pete the Cat
PNC Bank
Beth and Ross Schiavo
Dana and Aaron Sugar
Tower Beer, Wine & Spirits
John Tester and Joseph Brooks
Kathy Waller and Kenneth Goggins
Warner Bros. Discovery
John and Ellen Yates
Puppeteer
Affairs to Remember
Jeffrey and Vanessa Blake
Judy and Ed Garland
Sydney and Joel Langdon
Lucy and Vir Nanda
Betsy and Louis Oliver
The Realff Family
Dean and Bronson Smith
Marionette
Anonymous
Arnall Golden Gregory
Margo Brinton and Eldon Park
Chateau Elan Winery & Resort
Haddow & Company
Joseph and Janet King
Catherine and Kenny Kraft
Susan Pease Langford
Perkins + Will
Brian and Amy Reed
Arnie and Janet Silverman
Allen W. Yee
Sponsor and Patron list as of 10/3/23
Past Event Committee
Sydney Langdon, Co-Chair
John Tester, Co-Chair
Iymaani Aytes
Joseph Brooks
Priscilla Carter
Judy Garland
Susan Langford
Catherine Love Kraft
Betsy Oliver
Sundeep Reddy
Tanya Tviet
Kathy Waller
A few highlights from last year’s String Fling!
About the Center
Our Mission is to inspire imagination, education, and community through the global art of puppetry.
Our Vision: To be the premier puppetry center in the world through our performances, museum and educational programming. Click below to learn more.