Workshops at the Puppet Festival!

Name: Workshops at the Puppet Festival!
Start: 2024-11-02T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-11-03T13:15:00-04:00
Location: Community School of Music and Arts

Schedule

Sat Nov 02 2024 at 09:00 am to Sun Nov 03 2024 at 01:15 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Community School of Music and Arts | Ithaca, NY

Check out these fabulous workshops at the Puppet Homecoming Festival. Workshops for kids and adults available. All workshops will take place at The Community School of Music and Arts.
MORE info and PHOTOS: lilypadpuppettheatre.org/puppet-festival-workshops
Puppet Festival Workshops!
Sat Nov 2 (9am-10:30am @ Community School of Music and Arts) Light and Heavy, Big and Small with Katya Popova
In the course of the workshop we will create big puppets from very light paper, with very heavy sack feet (sand or grains), as well as simple smaller marionettes and table top puppets. KISS (keep it simple stupid) is our mantra! This workshop is great for kids or grown ups alike. For all ages!
About Katya- Katya Popova is a Boston based artist, working at the intersection of painting, performance, and design. Katya received training in the fine arts in Moscow, Russia, before studying graphic design in the US. In addition to working as a graphic designer and illustrator, Katya has a background in physical theater and puppetry, often collaborating with sound artists. Her works explore what could have been by tracing the physical gestures and material qualities of everyday things.
In the past ten years, she has presented her work at numerous street festivals, shows and galleries, participated in artist residencies, and worked on projects with the Bread and Puppet Theater.
Katya is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA and received an MA at Boston University. Presently she teaches courses on Visual Art, Design, and Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music. Price $25.

Sat Nov 2, Parade Puppets for Your Community (9am – 12:15pm @ Community School of Music and Arts) with Cheryl Capazzuti
Participants in this workshop will design and build a parade mask that can be easily transformed into a giant puppet. This workshop will focus on accessible and light-weight construction techniques using recycled materials for making the heads of giant puppets. Capezzuti will bring her set of interchangeable and swap-able puppet bodies so we can take our work on a test run at the Puppet Homecoming Parade on Sunday afternoon.
She will share the tools, skills, patterns, and techniques that she uses to make hundreds of puppets with people of all ages in her Pittsburgh community. As a bonus, participants will learn a selection of dances for giant puppets, inspired by her favorite project to date, Giant Puppet Dance Club. Ages 10 and up.
Cheryl Capezzuti has been making giant puppets and community-interactive public art experiences in Pittsburgh for more than 25 years. She is best known for the artist-made, people-powered First Night Pittsburgh Parade which features about 300 giant puppets, puppet-mobiles, dozens of musicians, pedicab puppets and over 400 volunteers making it happen. She’s been an Artist-in-Residence at the Pittsburgh International Airport where she made puppets to parade through the airport completely out travelers’ discards and she’s been commissioned by the City of Pittsburgh to tell its history using giant puppets for the Bicentennial Parade. She teaches at Falk Lab School at the University of Pittsburgh where her Giant Puppet Dance Club may be the most unexpected student program. Between parades, her puppets are housed at the Braddock Carnegie Free Library, one of Andrew Carnegie’s first libraries, and can be checked out by anyone with a library card for events, celebrations and just for fun. Learn more at www.puppetsforpittsburgh.com. Price $35.00
Sat Nov 2, Puppet-athalon (10:45-12:15 @ Community School of Music and Arts) with Mary Nagler
Are you athletic? Have you aspired to be? Have you ever fantasized about being in the Olympics and winning gold? Here is your chance to make your dream come true! Popular at Regional Festivals on the West Coast, and at Dragon Con, the Puppet-Athlon is sweeping the Nation!
Training begins at the Puppet -Athlon workshop (Sat Nov 2, 10:45am -12:15pm) with some of the participants competing on the Puppet-Athlon course on stage before a cheering crowd (Potpourri show Sat, Nov 2, 10pm at CSMA)! Judges will decide who will win Gold, Silver, or Bronze, and go on to take their place in Puppet -Athlon history!! Ages 10 and up. Price $15.
Sun Nov 3, Heads-Up (9am-10:30am @ Community School of Music and Arts) with Laurencio Ruiz
This workshop consists of creating a whimsical Luchador or Luchadora (wrestler) Mask Puppet Head with two paper cups that can bring home. The eyelids will be pre-cut to facilitate time managing and eye-moving effect. Additional materials will be supplied to participants to create their own puppet face. Great for children 5+. Parent assistance needed for children under 5. Workshop duration: 30 to 45 minutes.
Laurencio Ruiz is a lecturer of scenic design and puppetry at the Penn State School of Theatre. He holds an M.F.A. in Scenic Design from Penn State School of Theatre, and a B.A. in Graphic Design from Universidad Autónoma de Mexico, where he also studied visual arts. His experience as a trans-disciplinary designer and artist includes sets, costumes, puppets, masks, and props for cabaret, theater, television and film in Mexico and the U.S. Since his involvement with puppetry, he has been creating, directing, and performing original puppet shows at the Eugene O’Neil Theatre Center as an Emergent Artist, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philly Fringe Festival among other venues. He also received the Excellence and Variety Award in the field of short form adult puppet theatre by the National Puppet Slam Network, presented at the National Puppetry Festival in UConn, 2015; the KCACTF Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Scenic and Costume design for ‘Picnic’ in 2012, and for ‘Medea’ in 2006; the PSU College of Arts and Architecture Creative Achievement in Theatre Award in 2001. Price $17.
Sat Nov 2, Sock Stick Puppets (10:45-12:15 @ Community School of Music and Arts) with Ryobina
Not your usual sock puppet! Make an easy to create stick puppet using a sock and materials you can easily find at home, such as sticks, paper, fabric, pipe cleaners, yarn and markers! You can use any extra materials you might find, like buttons, lace, or feathers! There is no sewing or gluing necessary, but both are optional. Younger people might need some help, but this is a fun class for any age; grown ups are allowed to play, too! Your puppet can be a person or an animal, and very simple or fabulously fancy!
Ryobina is a figment of her own imagination. A whimsical storyteller, puppet builder, and performer who creates strange and silly worlds. She makes short films, organizes Puppet Slams and events, and teaches puppet building & performing workshops. She creates theatrical productions with Honeyball Puppetry; RoRo Art is her toy-making business; and Puppet What What is the irrepressible sock puppet who bosses her around. Price $25.
This program is made possible (in part) with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.
This program is also made possible (in part) with funds from the Tompkins County Tourism Program.