Upcoming Events
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Puppets for Demonstrations Workshop2:00pm
7/15
Puppets for Demonstrations Workshop
Wednesday, July 15th, 2020
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Storrs Campus Facebook Live
While the Ballard Institute is closed, the museum will offer short, puppet-building and craft workshops via Facebook Live (http://facebook.com/BallardInstitute/) every Wednesday and Friday at 2 p.m. ET! All past workshops are available on our Facebook and YouTube.
Join UConn Puppet Arts graduate student Felicia Cooper on July 15 for a Puppets for Demonstration Workshop! With so many opportunities to use striking images, voices, and sounds in public spaces, here’s a way to make it even louder! Perfect for neighborhood parades or activist events in your community, puppets have been a significant part of public demonstrations throughout history! Recommended for ages 9+.
Materials needed: big sticks, paper maché, cardboard, tape, newspaper, scissors, glue, fabric, and an idea!
This workshop is made possible with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts. -
Summer Forum #7: “A Long And Unexpected Love Affair (Wth Puppetry)” With Penny Francis4:00pm
7/16
Summer Forum #7: “A Long And Unexpected Love Affair (Wth Puppetry)” With Penny Francis
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Storrs Campus Facebook Live
Join the Ballard Institute for our sixth Summer 2020 Online Puppet Forum Series event on Facebook Live! These forums, hosted by Ballard Institute director and puppet historian John Bell, will consist of discussions with notable scholars and practitioners around the world about the past, present, and future of puppetry and puppetry studies.
On July 16 at 4 p.m. ET, in a forum entitled “A Long and Unexpected Love Affair (with Puppetry),” puppeteer and scholar Penny Francis will speak with John Bell about her work creating the Puppet Centre Trust in London, her book Puppetry, a Reader in Theatre Practice; her translation of Henryk Jurkowski’s ground-breaking History of European Puppetry; her puppetry teaching at London’s famed Central School of Speech and Drama; and her long-standing work with the international puppetry organization UNIMA.
Penny Francis is England’s pre-eminent figure in the international world of puppetry. A longtime teacher at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama puppet program, she is also the author, editor, and translator of many acclaimed books and publications about puppetry, and has played an essential role in the work of UNIMA, the world puppetry organization. Queen Elizabeth II decorated her as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) for her services to puppetry in 1998.
Forums will be available afterwards on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. -
Nature Puppets Workshop2:00pm
7/17
Nature Puppets Workshop
Friday, July 17th, 2020
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Storrs Campus Facebook Liev
While the Ballard Institute is closed, the museum will offer short, puppet-building and craft workshops via Facebook Live (http://facebook.com/BallardInstitute/) every Wednesday and Friday at 2 p.m. ET! All past workshops are available on our Facebook and YouTube.
Join UConn Puppet Arts senior Elise Vanase on July 17 to make some simple, beautiful puppets out of natural materials you can find in your own backyard! Recommended for ages 6+.
Materials needed: sticks, leaves, yarn, hot glue or tape, paint, googly eyes -
Let's Get Crankin' Workshop2:00pm
7/22
Let's Get Crankin' Workshop
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Storrs Campus Facebook Live
While the Ballard Institute is closed, the museum will offer short, puppet-building and craft workshops via Facebook Live (http://facebook.com/BallardInstitute/) every Wednesday and Friday at 2 p.m. ET! All past workshops are available on our Facebook and YouTube.
Join UConn Puppet Arts graduate student Felicia Cooper on July 22 for Let’s Get Crankin! A crankie uses a pulley system to create a scrolling image or moving panorama. Create an analogue movie to show your pals! Recommended for ages 7+.
Materials needed: paper (long scroll preferred, but pieces of paper taped together is okay too!), box, utility knife or scissors, tape, crayons/pencils/markers, dowels or sticks
This workshop is made possible with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts.
