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Spring Puppet Forums feature Activism, Women Artists, and Digital Puppetry

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

The Ballard Institute’s popular Puppet Forum programs about contemporary issues in the world of puppetry will take place on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 (except for Sunday, March 30) through May 1. Most will take place at the Ballard Institute on UConn’s Depot Campus, except where noted. The schedule of other Spring Puppet Forums includes the following: – Wednesday, February 13:…

Friday Evening Puppet Forums Bring the Wide World of Puppetry to UConn This Fall

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

Join us on selected Friday evenings this fall for exciting and scintillating discussions about the complex, colorful, and thought-provoking world of puppetry around the globe–from Hartford to Mexico City, from New York City to Java–as performers, playwrights, filmmakers, artists, and scholars appear in our compelling Fall Puppet Forum series. All forum presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Ballard Institute on…

Join Us for the Fall UConn Puppet Slam! This Saturday, November 10th at 8 p.m.

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

On Saturday, November 10th the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and the UConn Puppet Arts Program will host the Fall UConn Puppet Slam! This evening of fascinating new works for short-form puppetry will bring together active puppeteers from across the United States, and current Puppet Arts Program students, in an amazing array of entertaining and compelling work that will…

Ballard Institute to host Symposium on Chinese Shadow Theater, October 26-27

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Ballard ~ 1 Comments

In conjunction with our current exhibition Red Gate: Pauline Benton and Chinese Shadow Theater, the Ballard Institute will host a two-day popular and scholarly symposium on Chinese shadow theater as a global cultural artform, on Friday and Saturday, October 26th and 27th. This unusual and exciting event will feature the following scholars: – Dr. Fan Pen Li Chen, Associate Professor…

Join Us This Sunday in the 2012 Celebrate Mansfield Parade!

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

We invite you to join us Sunday, September 23 at noon in downtown Storrs, to take part in our contingent of the “Celebrate Mansfield Parade.” We will be processing with the puppets we have made with area residents in community puppet-building workshops Our community puppet-building workshops were led by master puppeteer Sara Peattie of the Boston-based Puppeteers Cooperative, whose…

UConn Puppetry Programs Make a Strong Showing at World Puppet Congress and Festival in China

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

UConn’s famed puppetry programs are once more having a global impact, this time in Chengdu, China at the 21st UNIMA (Union International de la Marionnette) Congress and World Puppetry Festival. – Eight rod puppets designed and built by Puppet Arts Program director Bart Roccoberton are on display in the Puppet Shadow Theatre exhibition of the National Shadow Puppetry Museum in Chengdu….

Burns School Student Videos at Billings Forge Community Works Cap “World of Puppetry in Hartford” Project

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Ballard ~ 0 Comments

The Ballard Institute’s “World of Puppetry in Hartford” project concluded in May with an exciting video project at Billings Forge Community Works in Hartford’s Frog Hollow neighborhood with 8th-grade students from the Burns School and the Compass Youth Collaborative program. The students worked with puppeteer Sara Peattie, Billings Forge resident artists James Holland and Alycia Bright Holland, and Ballard Institute…

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Spring Puppet Forums feature Activism, Women Artists, and Digital Puppetry

Friday Evening Puppet Forums Bring the Wide World of Puppetry to UConn This Fall

Join Us for the Fall UConn Puppet Slam! This Saturday, November 10th at 8 p.m.

Ballard Institute to host Symposium on Chinese Shadow Theater, October 26-27

Join Us This Sunday in the 2012 Celebrate Mansfield Parade!

UConn Puppetry Programs Make a Strong Showing at World Puppet Congress and Festival in China

Burns School Student Videos at Billings Forge Community Works Cap “World of Puppetry in Hartford” Project

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