Make your own awesome unique ant puppet to perform and bring home with you!
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Z. Briggs of WonderSpark Puppets will guide you step-by-step through the process of making your own Ant Puppet. This workshop is appropriate for all ages and all materials will be provided. Come make and play together!
Hilarious & slightly naughty skits from some of the funniest puppets around. This is an adult puppet show; prepare to be offended.
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Quirky edgy puppet shows from quirky, edgy puppeteers! Puppeteers from around the country are converging on Gen Con for the best 4 days in gaming--and puppetry! But here's the best part: they're saving up all of their adult material just for this puppet slam! All of those things that we can't do in front of kids? We're going to do in front of you. (Okay maybe not *all*--but a bit of it!) Be prepared to laugh, to cry, to think, to gasp, to laugh again, to weep, and then laugh some more. You'll see beauty, you'll see talent, you'll see silliness, and you'll see hilarity.
Make a moving-mouth sandwich puppet with puppeteer, Stacey Gordon. Seriously, this will be the greatest, no-calorie sandwich you will ever make. Gluten free.
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Puppeteer, Stacey Gordon will guide you through making a moving-mouth sandwich puppet. You'll learn skills that can take you into puppet building beyond sandwiches, but why not begin (or continue) your puppet building journey with a delightful lunchtime treat. Sandwiches are inedible & not sentient and are guaranteed to not murder or your money back. Glue gun skills required (use at own risk). No sewing required. All sandwich fixin's included in workshop price!
Making Connections Through Puppetry: Puppetry for Parents & Educators
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Learn how puppets can be an effective learning tool and bridge for communication and motivation with neurotypical and neurodiverse populations. Puppet included!
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Making Connections Through Puppetry is a professional development workshop series that teaches educators, therapists, counselors and parents how to use puppets when working with neurodiverse and neurotypical children. Puppetry can be used as an effective learning tool and bridge for communication and motivation. Applied skills with puppetry include: joint attention, pretend play, social/emotional learning, de-escalation, impulse control, emotional regulation & more. Professional puppeteer Lindsey “Z.” Briggs will teach participants the basics of puppetry performance and technique as well as discuss ways to utilize puppets to make connections with children, especially those who can be hard to reach, and build bridges of trust, kindness and joy. Each participant will receive a unique customized puppet to use throughout the workshop and in their work going forward.
This hands-on puppeteering workshop is perfect for beginning & early-intermediate puppeteers, librarians, teachers, or anyone who just wants a refresher on their puppetry skills.
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Learn what makes puppetry such a magical experience & why puppeteer Stacey Gordon is passionate about teaching others to be effective storytellers, communicators, counselors, & educators through puppetry. In this workshop you will be led through skills such as focus, breathing, posture, movement, lip sync, listening, & emotion to help make your characters come alive & your audiences more receptive.
Learn how to make an amazing finger puppet using needle felting with wool. Participants will receive a needle felting kit to keep.
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Have you heard about needle felting and always wanted to try it? Have you done some need felting but want to bring your skills up to the next level? Join Z. Briggs of WonderSpark Puppets as she leads you step-by-step through the process of making your very own finger puppet. Each participant will receive a needle felting kit that includes a felting pad and needles, as well as access to lots of colored wool for your project.
Perception Check: Live Comedy D&D with Felted Friends!
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Perception Check is a live-play comedy TTRPG show featuring Puppet players Chunk & Cucumber from Perception Studio!
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The Felted Friends Chunk and Cucumber are here for their first Gen Con and are bringing their comedy D&D show Perception Check with them from Perception Studio, along with their DM Ryan! Featuring Special Guest Sarah Moore from Sarah's Table! Ditch the kids and come laugh with us!
Experience this pretend tea party with your little ones and puppets! You'll drink pretend tea, play real puppet games together, laugh, craft, and singalong as you enjoy the magic of puppetry!
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Grown ups and little ones will have fun together at a real-life-pretend-tea-party thrown for their puppets! (Plush toys allowed, too, we won't discriminate!) Skills Required: sitting, pretending, laughing, playing, wiggling, coloring, sipping, pinkies up, jumping, singing, and playing! One ticket required for *each* person in attendance. Puppets attend for free! Don't have a puppet? That's okay! We'll have a limited supply of puppets for you to borrow while you're in attendance, but it's highly recommended that you bring your own so you won't have to say goodbye at the end of the party!
Pro puppet builders will discuss the various types of arm-rod construction with methods and benefits of each. (That's the stick that the puppeteer holds to control the hands) Ask questions!
Join professional Sesame Street puppeteers & voice actors for a snuggly hour of bedtime stories. Come in your pj's, soft clothes, or cosplay and settle in for a nice wind-down to your busy day.
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Come in your pj's, bring your favorite stuffed animal, blanket, pillow, or lovey, and settle in for a relaxing wind-down from a very busy day of gaming and con-going. Let Z Briggs and Stacey Gordon soothe you into a sleepier state so you can wake up refreshed and ready for the next morning.