Unleashing Imagination: Puppets in the Classroom

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Shelley King is a professional puppeteer and arts educator, based in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. She specializes in teaching people of all ages and abilities to create and use puppets in their personal and professional lives. Explore the power of puppetry to build connections, share stories, provide care, solve problems, entertain, educate, support healing, advocate for change, and simply have fun.

All materials are provided! 

All workshops are tailored to meet the needs of each group.  

• A 1 hour workshop allows each individual enough time to make their own sock puppet. 
• A 1 1/2 hour workshop includes a puppet performance, the making of a puppet by all participants & techniques for building puppeteering skills.
• A 2 hour workshop includes everything in a 1 1/2 hour workshop plus 30 extra minutes for participants to practice some puppet improv to help hone their skills as a puppeteer.
• Longer workshops & projects of several hours, right up to several months; can also include script writing, stage design & building, set design & creation, in-depth experimentation & practice with different styles of puppetry, and a performance for an audience of your choice.