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Late Night Puppet Slam
Hilarious & slightly naughty skits from some of the funniest puppets around. This is an adult puppet show, prepare accordingly.
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- Fri 450 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Puppet Karaoke
With an amazing cast of puppet characters & professional puppeteers to boot, you'll not want to miss watching or even participating in Puppet Karaoke. Bring a puppet, let loose, & join in on the fun.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 160 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Puppet Open Mic
Got a joke, song, or short sketch you've been dying to put in front of an audience? Make us laugh, cry, or stare in utter confusion for up to 3 minutes! You do the work, your puppet gets the glory!
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- Sat 160 tickets
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Silly Science Puppet Show
Come one, come all to the Silly Science Puppet Show where we'll put forces of nature to the test & see if we can send a potato to space! Come find out this & more and beware the Ping Pong Pulverizer!
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- Sat 160 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Puppet DnD Very Much Not In a Castle
Join our guest DM, Mark Meer (some video game/castle guy), and enjoy watching or playing in this improvised quest with gamers and their puppets! 2 audience participants, plus 2 lawful good puppeteers!
- Wed 0 tickets
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- Sat 160 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Puppet Bedtime Stories
Join professional puppeteers & voice actors for a snuggly hour of bedtime stories. Come in your PJ's, soft clothes, or cosplay and settle in for a loving wind-down to your busy day.
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- Thurs 100 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Isle of Misfit Events
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Puppeteer Social
Come connect with puppeteers from your area and around the country. Plus you can bring an unwanted puppet-themed item for the unwanted-puppet-stuff giveaway!
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- Sat 160 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Puppets & Muppets Trivia
Calling all members of the Muppet Generation! Test your knowledge of Sesame Street, The Muppets, Fraggles, all things Puppets, Henson, and beyond in this super fun hour of silliness and mayhem!
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- Fri 160 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Puppet Costume Contest
Come one, come all to the first-ever Gen Con Puppet Costume Contest! Come see puppets wearing their favorite cosplay! Enter your own puppet into the mix and find out who will take home the prizes!
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- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 160 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Puppetry Program Kickoff & Make & Take
Come make a paper puppet with the Puppetry Program professionals & then terrorize your friends with it! It's all free & you'll get to hear all about what we're doing for the weekend!
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- Thurs 100 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Kids Activities
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Giant Purple Dinosaur Singalong
Bring your kids on down for a very special performance from everyone's favorite purple dinosaur and get ready to sing, dance and love every moment!
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- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 160 tickets
Puppet Story Time With Miss Becca
Bring your littles and join Miss Becca and her friend Gnosh the Bugbear puppet for a story time and singalong to start your day!
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- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 40 tickets
Learn Puppetry with Brandon Smith
Join Sesame Street's Brandon Smith and learn how you can grow up to be a puppeteer! You'll learn the basics of puppetry & have a hoot to boot!
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- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 20 tickets
Seminiars
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How to Become A Puppeteer
If you're hoping to bring puppetry into your videos, career, gaming, library, or classroom, this seminar is for you! Get inspired by our panelists & learn how to incorporate puppetry into your life.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 160 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Puppet Building Techniques
Puppet building pros with seriously great credits will talk about various puppet building techniques for multiple styles of puppets, such as the wedge method, flat patterning, sculpting, and more!
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- Thurs 160 tickets
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- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Inclusion in Puppetry
Join Puppeteers from the BIPOC and Disability communities as we discuss the highs and lows of what it means to be a puppeteer from a different culture or living with a disability.
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- Sat 160 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Riding the Wave: the Ups & Downs of a Career in Creativity
Jennifer Barnhart takes an honest look at balancing artistic risk & personal comfort. Be inspired by how she chose when to leap or hold back, & how those choices helped her build a sustainable career.
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- Sat 160 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
To Introduce Our Guest Puppeteer...
...that's what we'd like to do. Emmy-nominated puppeteer, Jennifer Barnhart has brought some of your favorite characters to life on stage and screen & you just need to read the longer description!
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- Thurs 160 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Bringing Puppetry to TTRPGs
Come discover how puppetry can enhance your tabletop RPGs through immersive storytelling, engaging NPCs, and hilarious interactions with you and your gaming group, & even help you game with kids!
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- Thurs 160 tickets
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Cosplaying with Puppets
Join seasoned puppeteers & cosplayers to discover how incorporating puppetry into your cosplay can enhance your entire convention experience!
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- Fri 160 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Shadow Puppetry
Shadow puppets tell stories and create an atmosphere that can be projected onto any surface if you have the right light source. Come see our demonstration of shadow puppet projection techniques.
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- Fri 160 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Workshop
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Intro to Hand Puppets
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.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 30 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Ease Into Puppetry with Jennifer Barnhart
Join Jennifer Barnhart for an engaging, practical, hands-on puppetry workshop. You'll learn the essential skills that make puppets feel believable and alive. Oh, and it's going to be a hoot, to boot!
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 25 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Choreography for Puppetry
Having puppets dance involves far more than the "kermit flail" --come find out what it takes to organize the puppeteers to make the puppets look amazing!
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- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Hand Sewing for Beginners
Would you like to get a start making puppets or other crafty things, but don't quite have a grasp on sewing by hand? Good news! This sewing for beginners workshop is perfect for you!
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- Thurs 20 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Make a Sandwich Puppet
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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- Fri 20 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Make a Toy Theater
Make a beautifully illustrated tabletop theater from cardstock with puppets and sets for a complete production. Learn about the history of Toy Theater with paper artist Timothy Taylor.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Puppeteering for Camera
If you've wanted to try your hand at puppetry, start here! If you have been doing puppetry for a while, the camera gives you feedback that helps your performance. Learn the basics and keep growing!
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- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Puppeteering for Social Media
You've got ideas plus the world's most watched platforms at your fingertips! Now's the time to learn how to connect with your audiences through puppetry & make it meaningful!
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- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Just Lip Sync (For Puppetry)
Learn how to move your puppet's mouth to make puppeteering easier, believable, and more engaging! Learn with Sesame Street performers, Jennifer Barnhart & Stacey Gordon, and have loads of fun!
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Character Development for Puppetry & Beyond
The quality of a character should go far beyond a their looks & voice. Learn how to give your characters depth, how to make them emote, and how to connect in a way that deepens your performances!
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- Fri 20 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Control Your Puppet's Hands
Everyone's obsessed with those little sticks on puppet hands & wants to know if there's a trick to use them. We're here to reveal those tricks and send you on your way with some brand new skills!
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- Fri 20 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Make a Talking Pizza Puppet
Create your own mouth-watering pizza puppet with puppet-maker, Stacey Gordon! Gluten and dairy-free, you'll top your pizza with anything from your imagination & then make it come to life!
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- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Puppetry Voices for Kids & Teens
Come learn how to create voices for puppets & cartoon characters that will wow your friends and impress your enemies! Taught by Jennifer Barnhart known for Sesame Street, Helpsters, & more!
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- Sun 20 tickets
Puppetry for Television & Film with Jennifer Barnhart
Learn TV puppetry with Jennifer Barnhart! This hands-on workshop builds on-camera performance skills and gives you the tools to grow your puppetry journey. Gain the camera skills and do the thing!
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- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 15 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Make a Marionette
Learn the basics of marionette construction, from building to stringing! Participants will construct and customize a human marionette and learn how to string the puppet with an airplane controller.
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- Fri 15 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
No More Side Quests: Brain-Friendly Planning for Puppeteers & Creatives
Level up with tools & strategies that work *with* your brain, not against it. You'll pick a project & leave with a customized roadmap & tools that turn your creative ideas into finished main quests!
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- Sun 15 tickets
Voices for Puppetry & Beyond
Both puppetry and RPGs allow us to be just about any character we'd like. Jennifer Barnhart will help you spruce your characters up by finding dynamic voices to give your storytelling a distinct edge.
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- Fri 15 tickets
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Make a Rockin' Robin Puppet
Join puppet-building wunderkind Richard Gomez and make a moving-mouth Rockin' Robin puppet! This one is definitely worth waking up early for! See our longer description for a list of required skills.
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- Fri 15 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Gordon's Handy Secrets: Make Posable Puppet Hands
Puppet builder, Gordon Smuder, shows you how to make adorable, posable puppet hands for arm-rod style puppets. Participants will leave with two working puppet hands, one arm rod, and two thumbs up!
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- Fri 12 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Writing for Puppetry
Puppetry wunderkind, Richard Gomez, will teach you how to write a script for puppets that tells your story in a clear & concise way while adding all of the puppet-y fun your script deserves!
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- Fri 12 tickets
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