Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Events at this venue
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FREE Community Puppet-Building Workshop
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry 1 Royce Circle, Mansfield, CT, United StatesIn this one-day workshop hosted by Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and led by alumnus Tom Tuke, we will design and decorate a miniature puppet city, Puppet-Town, and its residents. Participants will be encouraged to design characters for our city, and are invited to perform in a short puppet show, A Busy Day in…
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Pug’s Place by Jerry Harney
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry 1 Royce Circle, Mansfield, CT, United StatesPug’s Place by UConn Puppet Arts MFA candidate Jerry Harney is a musical puppet film that tells the story of Pug, the host of a children’s television show who every day is asked a question, and every day supplies an answer to the viewers at home. However, when Pug is asked the question “Why Do We Exist?” what follows…
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Badger Meets the Fairies by Margaret Moody Puppets
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry 1 Royce Circle, Mansfield, CT, United StatesJoin Margaret Moody for an exciting puppet show based on European fairy lore and Margaret Moody’s expertise in Chinese hand-puppet techniques. In Badger Meets the Fairies, Mr. Badger is thrilled to meet Blossom, a flower fairy, in his garden. He flies away with her to help the fairies build a playground. And then it gets complicated: the fairies won't use cement, and Mr. Badger…
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Pug’s Place by Jerry Harney
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry 1 Royce Circle, Mansfield, CT, United StatesPug’s Place by UConn Puppet Arts MFA candidate Jerry Harney is a musical puppet film that tells the story of Pug, the host of a children’s television show who every day is asked a question, and every day supplies an answer to the viewers at home. However, when Pug is asked the question “Why Do We Exist?” what follows…
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“Becoming Modern: U.S. Puppetry in the Twentieth Century” Forum
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry 1 Royce Circle, Mansfield, CT, United StatesThis forum will celebrate the Ballard Institute’s new exhibition of the same name, with acclaimed puppet scholar Dr. Claudia Orenstein of the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, UConn Puppet Arts Program Head Bart Roccoberton, and John Bell, Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry. The speakers will explore the ways that puppetry in the United…
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Farm Story by Tessa Beck Fey
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry 1 Royce Circle, Mansfield, CT, United StatesFarm Story is a marionette-based web series, by UConn Puppet Arts MFA candidate Tessa Beck Fey, that follows Farmer Daisy and her unconventional friends through the ups and downs of daily life, and the occasional magical interference. When a Skull is discovered in an overwhelmed farmer's Scarecrow, her friends use the opportunity to magically reanimate…
Free, donations greatly appreciated!