Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry

See the UConn Puppet Arts Production of “Butterfly Dreams” May 12 and 13 before China Tour

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Ballard ~ 1 Comments

Join us this Saturday and Sunday, May 12 and 13 in the Studio Theater on the UConn’s Main Campus for rare performances of Butterfly Dreams, the remounting of an extraordinary 2001 puppet production created by UConn Puppet Arts students. The performances will feature an all-star cast of UConn Puppet Arts alumni–Ceili Clemens, David Regan, Bart Roccoberton, Joe Therrien and Hua Hua Zhang–and current…

Spring Forum Series will close with “Handmade Puppet Dreams, Volume 5″, Wednesday, May 9

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

Our Spring Puppet Forum Series will end on Wednesday, May 9th at 7:30, with a rare showing of Handmade Puppet Dreams, Volume 5, at the Ballard Institute on UConn’s Depot Campus. In Heather Henson’s new collection of fourteen (count’em!) independent puppet shorts by an international array of young filmmakers and puppeteers, you will see an astounding range of expression and a…

April 24th and 25th, New Works in Puppet Film by UConn MFA Candidates

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and The UConn Puppet Arts Program present new works in puppet films by Puppet Arts MFA Candidates Maya Ahuja, Ki Hong Kim, Travis Lope, Caitlin Shirts, and Fergus Walsh. There are 4 showings on Tuesday April 24th and Wednesday April 25th at 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm. The event is free and open…

Carol Sterling on New Opportunities for Puppetry in Education, at April 18 Spring Puppet Forum

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

Join Carol Sterling and students and teachers from UConn’s Puppet Arts Program this Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 at the Ballard Institute for a fascinating discussion of the opportunities and challenges of puppetry in education. Carol Sterling is a celebrated puppeteer, art educator, and longtime Director of Arts in Education for the Brooklyn Arts Council, as well as a recipient…

Chinese Handpuppets from Galapagos Puppet Theatre will open Spring Puppet Forum Series this Wednesday

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

Continuing to explore the rich legacy of Chinese performing arts in the United States presented in Red Gate: Pauline Benton and Chinese Shadow Theater, the Ballard Institute’s Spring Puppet Forum series will open this Wednesday at 7:30 with a special performance of classic Chinese handpuppetry by Margaret Moody’s celebrated Galapagos Puppet Theater from Boston. The Galapagos company will perform The Banana Princess, an episode from…

“Frank Ballard: Roots and Branches” exhibition re-opens with new additions

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

The popular Frank Ballard: Roots and Branches exhibition at the Ballard Institute has re-opened for the season, with many new additions to this rich review of the wide-ranging puppet forms that influenced the work of the founder of UConn’s puppetry programs. Roots and Branches features the work of significant American puppeteers of the early, mid-, and late-twentieth century whose work Frank…

Spring Puppet Forums at the Ballard Institute, Wednesdays April 11 – May 9!

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut’s Depot Campus announces its Spring Puppet Forum Series, to be held Wednesday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 at the Ballard Institute (except for the April 25th event, to be held at UConn’s Nafe Katter Theater). The Spring Puppet Forum Series will include puppet performances, talks on puppetry and…

“Frank Ballard: Roots and Branches” exhibition re-opens with new additions

“Red Gate: Pauline Benton and Chinese Shadow Theater” open now!

Video about University of Connecticut’s Puppetry Arts Program

See the UConn Puppet Arts Production of “Butterfly Dreams” May 12 and 13 before China Tour

Spring Forum Series will close with “Handmade Puppet Dreams, Volume 5″, Wednesday, May 9

April 24th and 25th, New Works in Puppet Film by UConn MFA Candidates

Carol Sterling on New Opportunities for Puppetry in Education, at April 18 Spring Puppet Forum

Chinese Handpuppets from Galapagos Puppet Theatre will open Spring Puppet Forum Series this Wednesday

“Frank Ballard: Roots and Branches” exhibition re-opens with new additions

Spring Puppet Forums at the Ballard Institute, Wednesdays April 11 – May 9!

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