Atlanta Puppetry Guild Meeting

IN PERSON at The Center for Puppetry Arts!!!

Please bring a snack to share, BYOB, and SHOW-AND-TELL is encouraged!

At 7:00 we will be screening a piece from the vast film collection in the Center's archives, details below! (It was tough to choose since there are so many fun things to watch, we will certainly do this again!)
This choice seemed a fitting tribute to Akbar!

African Folktales: More Puppet Suitcase Magic
By:Akbar Imhotep

Watch three brightly colored suitcases turn into puppet stages as this clever and humorous storyteller performs several African folktales.  You'll meet a man who wishes to be everything but himself in  "The Stone Cutter;" a gardener who's carried off by the biggest butterfly in the land in "The Attack of the Giant Butterfly" and other interesting characters.

This show ran August 15-September 3 1994/95 season

Atlanta Puppetry Guild Meeting

IN PERSON at The Center for Puppetry Arts!!!  (And ZOOM too!!)

We will have a swap-and-shop* opportunity in the parking lot before the meeting at 6:30.

---BONUS: The MUSEUM will be open for us to visit!!

Please bring a snack to share, BYOB, and SHOW-AND-TELL is encouraged!

* Bring any craft items, puppet related stuff you don't want and we'll share it with one another in the parking lot without having to carry it all upstairs!

The 2023 National Puppetry Festival will be July 18-22, 2023, at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

Our next meeting will be a virtual meeting on Sunday, April 24th, 2022 at 6 PM.

• General announcements and time for show-and-tell

Members, check your email for message from the guild mailing list that contains a link to sign up for the meeting via SignUp Genius.  Everyone who signs up will be sent details on how to join the meeting.

Our next meeting will be a virtual meeting on Sunday, February 27th, 2022 at 6 PM.

• Special Guest: Ron Binion

• General announcements and time for show-and-tell

Members, check your email for message from the guild mailing list that contains a link to sign up for the meeting via SignUp Genius.  Everyone who signs up will be sent details on how to join the meeting.

Our next meeting will be a virtual meeting on Sunday, December 19th, 2021 at 6 PM.

• General announcements and time for show-and-tell

Members, check your email for message from the guild mailing list that contains a link to sign up for the meeting via SignUp Genius.  Everyone who signs up will be sent details on how to join the meeting.

Save the Date!  Join Atlanta area puppeteer and puppet builder Kevin Pittman on Sunday, October 3rd at 2 PM for an online two-and-a-half hour workshop on Fabric Sculpture Puppet Construction with a bonus tour of his workshop and puppet creations.

Learn how to build fabric-sculpture characters in many forms including body puppets and mascot characters, hand-and-rod puppets, rod puppets, glove puppets, and even marionettes.  We will cover the full process from initial design to acquiring tools and supplies to building each component of the character and fitting it all together.  A gallery of Kevin's characters can be found on his website at www.forestpuppets.com providing a sense of the design styles that will be presented.  The presentation will begin with a short demonstration of some of Kevin's favorite creations and a look around his home puppetry workshop

Kevin is a part-time professional puppeteer and puppet builder who has been performing throughout the southeast since 2003.  He makes all of his own characters and has presented on puppet design and construction at many puppetry festivals including Puppet Gumbo 2008, Port City Puppet Festival 2010, Great Regional Puppet Festival 2016, Great Plains Puppet Train 2018, and the 2009, 2011, and 2013 National Puppetry Festivals.

Date:  Sunday, October 3rd @ 2 PM

Location:  Online

Cost:  $10 donation to the puppetry guild suggested, but pay what you can.  All funds raised go to the guild's scholarship fund.

Sign-Up:  Sign up via Sign Up Genius

Our next meeting will be a virtual meeting on Sunday, May 16th, 2021 at 6 PM.

• Special Guest: Leslie Carrara-Rudolph!!!!!

• Plus general announcements and time for show-and-tell

Members, check your email for message from the guild mailing list that contains a link to sign up for the meeting via SignUp Genius.  Everyone who signs up will be sent details on how to join the meeting.

Our next meeting will be a virtual meeting on Sunday, February 21st, 2021 at 6 PM.

• Special Guest: Decatur-native-who-hit-the-big-time Peter Linz

• Plus general announcements and time for show-and-tell

Members, check your email for message from the guild mailing list that contains a link to sign up for the meeting via SignUp Genius.  Everyone who signs up will be sent details on how to join the meeting.

Our next meeting will be a virtual meeting on Sunday, December 13th, 2020 at 6 PM.

We made it through 2020 and I want us to celebrate the GOOD STUFF that came out of this crazy year!?

Our special guests are Atlanta's own Aretta Baumgartner and David Stephens, who will tell us about the amazing and fun things they've each been working on this year!

We'll have plenty of time for Show-and-Tell!

Members, check your email for message from the guild mailing list that contains a link to sign up for the meeting via SignUp Genius.  Everyone who signs up will be sent details on how to join the meeting.