Check out our CAOS friends: Slamalicious (now with more pirates) - new online interactive puppet slam is on July 17! Tickets.
Participants came from:
81 Calgary
211 Canada
88 USA
32 England
4 Australia
88 rest of world including Spain, Brazil, Tehran, Holland, India, Argentina, Finland
121 purchasers (plus guests)
848 total orders,
9 bursary award winners
12 Artists from Calgary
10 Artists from Canada & overseas
42 separate presentations with 15 ‘main stage’ presentations
27 one on one performances
IT'S A WRAP!
PUPPET POWER 2020
This year’s Puppet Power 2020: Puppets Go Existential conference theme was chosen against a backdrop of Fridays for Future, a rise of machine learning and algorithms, Mars exploration program, genetic engineering on mosquitos, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, nanotechnology, burning Amazon jungles…
The year 2020, suggested a special time for clarity to examine some of the existential considerations of our time: Climate Action, Artificial Intelligence, Culture & Identity and Hope & Human Agency.
Three months ago, a new existential event brought even greater urgency to examine our vulnerabilities and spurred our decision to offer our biennial conference 100% online.
Thanks to you all for your help in getting me there virtually, and for this tremendous opportunity!
I so enjoyed presenting and have been absolutely inspired by all the other presentations today –
So many mind-blowing, paradigm shifting moments in the presentations I’ve seen.
Join our Board
W.P. Puppet Theatre Society is inviting people with a passion for puppetry, the arts and community issues, such as mental health and wellness, education, climate action, hope and human agency, diversity and inclusion to join our Board of Directors.
Always inspiring to see the variety and complexity of art at the Esker Foundation. They're opening soon but there is also have a wide range of resources online,
Expect Theatre, in partnership with CBC, has created a series of podcasts that raise the profile of Canadian playwrights by highlighting hit, award-winning theatre.
At its root, puppet theater addresses issues of identity and existence. Figures of Speech Theatre demonstrates the power of puppets as metaphoric beings, images of the transcendent nature of life.
