Where next with our new-found puppet festival energy? Up to UConn next week for Living Objects: African American Puppetry Festival and Symposium. The roughness of these is therefore all my fault, just fyi. On the way home, I stuck a recorder between myself and Jack and started to capture some of our thoughts about our experiences. The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival was founded by Blair Thomas and Company, in partnership with a variety of city-wide arts organizations including UChicago Arts, to establish Chicago as a prominent center for the art of puppetry. Tedium and Other Sensations by The Neo-Futurists with Mocrep and Theater Oobleck.Due to constraints on travel imposed by COVID-19. Shank’s Mare by Tom Lee and Koryu Nishikawa V The 2022 Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival offered both less and more than its title promised.Nasty, Brutish and Short Puppet Cabaret.We were able to see 6 shows altogether plus the first of two symposia and a late night cabaret by the multi talented Yael Rasooly. 1 review of The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival This is the largest puppet film fest in the country. We arrived in Chicago on Friday and stayed through the first weekend (this timing did mean we missed the opening show, Ajijaak on Turtle Island, although we had already seen it in Philly and highly recommend it). (Much more can be said about this essay stay tuned.) The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is a mission-driven program of Chicago-based theater company Blair Thomas & Co. It set the stage for puppetry being more than just socks (although socks can be cool) and underscored that the ways we chose to relate to other is powerfully connected. In anticipation, Jack ordered You, Me and the Violence by Catherine Taylor. Neither of us had been before (this was the 3rd) and it was Jack’s first puppet festival overall. Experience the third annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival in 2019 with more than 24 shows from 11. ![]() This year’s Hanukkah/Christmas presents to each other were tickets to the first weekend of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, which ran from Jan 17-27 2019. Join us Saturday, January 21 for the exciting Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival at Navy Pier The Free Neighborhood Tour with Little Uprisings: My Night in the Planetarium is based on the award-winning book by Innosanto Nagara, a graphic artist and acclaimed author/illustrator of A Is for Activist and Counting on Community.
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