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This two day applied puppetry workshop explores using existing narrative structures to underpin storytelling with puppets, objects and materials.

Explore making a story using The Paper Cinema’s unique techniques. We will share some of our work, then guide you through our process, aiming to produce a short piece by the end of the course.

Learn the principles of puppetry and how to bring a bunraku-style (3-person) puppet to life. Suitable for beginners, performers as well as teachers interested in developing the benefits of puppetry in their school.

Make your very own rolling, scrolling light-up shadow machine, otherwise known as a ‘crankie’, and perform a shadow puppet show. No prior experience needed!

Make your own glove puppet for exploring folk tales, fantasy, myth, comedy, contemporary stories, and the realms of your own imagination.

Fresh from the World Puppet Festival and a UK premiere, Ascension is a visceral and cerebral spectacle for adults and teens.

One table, one puppet, one big adventure!  Put on our headphones and enter a magical world.

Giant creatures roam Northumberland Street to open the festival. Featuring performances by Seb Mayer, Judith Hope, A Bird in the Hand, Tim Davies and Creature Encounters.

Rattlebox Theatre presents part of the famous Anglo-Saxon epic ‘BEOWULF’ in this small but perfectly formed adaption! This show employs engaging storytelling, combined with clever puppetry; using many beautifully made puppets, sets and props.

Beautifully realised through puppetry, folk music, and live camera work. Find the epic in the tiny in this celebration of trees, nature, and finding space in a buzzing community.

Come and join Garlic Theatre to craft your very own simple colourful butterfly rod puppet!

This is "Carnival of the Animals" but not as we know it. Dissected for body part potential to create the "ultimate animal" we take inspiration from the music by Camille Saint-Saëns, a little help from Charles Darwin and a whole lot of cardboard to mash up a show full of puppet possibility.