This class was created to help skilled professionals without a teaching background translate their knowledge into clear & meaningful curriculum.
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If you want to present at a place like Gencon but don’t know where to start, or simply want to make your presentations better then this is the class for you. “How to Teach a Workshop” was created to help skilled professionals without a teaching background translate their knowledge into clear & meaningful curriculum. Topics covered include writing a lesson plan, marketing your class, time/classroom management, supplemental material development, & teaching theories such as Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence & differentiated instruction. Participants should leave with the skills necessary to plan a lesson & map out all of the prep work & skills necessary to execute their class successfully.
Have you ever wanted to put on your own Puppetry show (theatre, web, etc)? We'll turn an idea into a show & teach the skills to help you promote that show.
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Have you ever wanted to put on your own Puppetry show (theatre, web, etc)? We'll turn an idea into a show & teach the skills to help you promote that show. Though improv, writing techniques, & round table discussions you can get started on the foundation of any puppet show...scripting. On the business side we'll help you craft a methods to help market & promote your show. Attendees, please bring a notebook or computer, pencils, & be ready to play! This seminar will teach you how to develop, write, & maybe market for your puppet performance.
Seasoned storyteller, Diane Hocking, will entertain preschoolers with the story book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Then, you & your child will make a fun caterpillar sock puppet to keep!
Puppet Builder Gordon Smuder talks detailing for television-style puppets. Eyes, ears, noses, teeth, tongues, you name it!
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Professional Puppet Builder (& previous Gen Con Puppetry Track GOH) Gordon Smuder gives up all his secrets for detailing foam & fleece (Muppet-style) television puppets. Bring a note pad (or a sketch book!) because the info will be flowing hot & heavy!
This workshop explores the wide world of soft sculpture materials that can be used to make a circuit & will show participants how to integrate these circuits into a working rod puppet.
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In this class students will be able to learn to use a wide variety of materials to make circuits in their puppets. Supplies available to participants will include conductive thread, conductive fabric, conductive paint, & conductive tape. When these materials are combined with LED’s, batteries, switches & a circuit all kinds of fun are in store. Participants will learn how make a proper circuit & the fundamentals of how they work. Then participants will be able to make a puppet using these materials that will utilize electricity. Everyone will get a hand-out showing where to get all the materials available to them in class. The focus of this class is to teach about circuits & the materials available to create them in soft sculpture mediums. Beginners in circuitry are welcome but a basic working knowledge of crafting skills are needed to leave with a completed puppet.
Hilarious & slightly naughty skits from some of the funniest puppets around. This is an adult puppet show, so prepare yourself accordingly.
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Quirky edgy puppet shows from quirky, edgy puppeteers! Puppeteers from around the country are converging on Gen Con for the best 4 days in gaming--and puppetry! But here's the best part: they're saving up just about all of their adult material just for this puppet slam! All of those things that we can't do in front of kids? We're going to do in front of you. (Okay maybe not *all*--but a bit of it!) Be prepared to laugh, to cry, to think, to gasp, to laugh again, to weep, and then laugh some more. You'll see beauty, you'll see talent, you'll see silliness, and you'll see hilarity.
Let's Go Cry With Strangers! (A Show With Puppetry)
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Valerie Meiss presents a unique musical performance, full of stories of life's little tragedies and adventures. A collection of original music & puppet vignettes.
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Valerie Meiss (TinyWonder, Hellblinki) presents a unique musical performance, full of puppetry and stories of life's little tragedies and adventures, here and on the other side of the world: "Our heroine returns from a year of wandering: heart wide open, and guts spilling out. It’s been an incredible year, though: new places, new people, adventures, ghosts, mysteries, invisible cities, soulmates without words, transcendental telephones, and random bouts of laughing and crying with strangers. A collection of original music and puppet vignettes. Presented audibly and visually. Laughter and tears."
Lotte Reiniger is an unsung treasure in puppetry & animation with a career spanning 50 years & 30+ films. Animation historian Whitney Grace will reveal Reiniger's career & contribution to history.
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For 3 years during the 1920s, in an attic in Potsdam, a young woman crafted what is today the oldest surviving animated feature film. Equipped with scissors, cardboard, sheets of lead, glass panes & a camera, animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger filmed Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed) using a technique of frame-by-frame silhouette animation she developed. As the result of a number of factors--her gender, her German ethnicity, World War II & a lack of funding--Reiniger became a footnote in animation history. Yet her 60-plus films plainly show her skill & dedication to her craft. This detailed account of her life & work describes her significant contributions to animation, puppetry, Weimar cinema & modern filmmaking
Kids get to make & take a kid-friendly monster puppet with a moving mouth--kind of like a sock puppet, but better. Don't forget to bring your helpful grown up!
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Puppeteer, Stacey Gordon, will lead elementary-school kids in making a simple fabric moving-mouth puppet that they can bring to life & take home with them. Each child should be able to sit for 45 minutes, use a ruler & scissors correctly, as well as be able to follow simple, one-step directions. Each participant ages of 6 to 8 will need to be accompanied by one dedicated, helpful grown-up.
Make a moving-mouth sandwich puppet with puppeteer, Stacey Gordon. Seriously, this will be the greatest, no-calorie sandwich you will ever make. Gluten free.
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Puppeteer, Stacey Gordon will guide you through making a moving-mouth sandwich puppet. You'll learn skills that can take you into puppet building beyond sandwiches, but why not begin (or continue) your puppet building journey with a delightful lunchtime treat. Sandwiches are inedible & not sentient. Glue gun skills required. No sewing required.