Acceptance letters!

Thanks to everyone who applied to the Action Puppet Force slam for the 2011 Orlando Puppet Festival! We reviewed more than 20 performance submissions and sent out 12 acceptance letters today to puppeteers all up and down the East Coast of the US.  Thanks to a generous grant from IBEX Puppetry's Puppet Slam Network, we were able to offer more than $1000 in travel stipends to help "alien" puppeteers cross county and state lines to join us.  We'll be posting a roster of performers after we receive RSVPs from our slam hopefuls.

Our Guild is hard at work:  We're building a custom hand-puppet set to fill with funny bits during all the set changes, writing a running narrative for our puppet host team, and even composing a theme song!

In other news...

Mother Goose & daughter, Suzie

Our last Guild meeting quickly caught some of our strays up to speed on Slam topics before we turned our attention to member Nathalie Jacobs, who was kind enough to share her years of expertise in sculptural papier mache and other techniques as an engaging workshop for us all.

Nathalie's puppets and sets are miracles of personality and movement.  They're not only light and easy to work with, they're stunning works of handcrafted art even when they're sitting still.  You can see some of her handiwork, from her Thanksgiving show "Peanuts for Noel", by clicking here.