Get the puppetry party started in this welcome back seminar for the Gen Con Puppetry Program, 2023! Learn what we're doing this year, plus make your own easy-peasy puppet to take with you!
Let’s get on our feet and share stories with puppets! We’ll have lots of fun learning introductory puppetry skills and using body language to express our emotions. Everyone will have a chance to play!
Description:
This is a hands-on puppetry experience especially designed for kids, so let’s get together & show a story! Storytelling is one of life’s essentials - for the teller & the listener. In this workshop, participants will be both, learning by watching, listening, & doing! With puppets, often “show” can be more fun than “tell”! Together we will explore energy, movement & attitude to express our emotions. We will see how emotions can create body language that shows what we feel. The specific body language we discover will be transferred into a simple feather puppet to tell a story that will be shared with the group. Kristin has 25+ years of experience as a professional puppeteer for film, television & theatre (Sid the Science Kid, Frances, & Cartoonito). She's also worked as a teaching artist throughout the Los Angeles area, sharing her love of puppetry with students in the elementary grades.
In this workshop, Art Vega and Danny Montooth will teach arm rod technique for hand-and-rod style puppetry, and how to best utilize single arm-rods and dual arm rods.
Description:
Bring a puppet and don’t drop your rods! Art Vega & Danny Montooth are teaching this arm rod workshop for those curious about best practices and effective performance with arm rods. We’ll discuss grip options, strategies for clean and specific performance, and some advanced techniques. Please bring your own puppet with arm rods if you have one. (There will be a limited number of puppets available to borrow if you don’t have one). Looking forward to seeing you there!