Puppeteer like the pros. Master Puppeteer Victor Yerrid will teach the essentials of monitor-style puppetry – lip-sync, eye focus, rod work, & full body movement. Highly interactive, limited spots!
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From newbies to experienced-bies, everyone can learn to puppeteer like the pros. Have you ever wanted to learn to puppeteer? Guess what? You totally can! Performing puppets is a blast and it is my true belief that anyone can learn to do it. Remember Chef Auguste Gusteau’s best selling book Anyone Can Cook? From Ratatouille? OF COURSE you do! Well, this workshop is just like that except instead of making food you will be making delightful puppet shows. Also, there won’t be any rats on your head pulling your hair. Not real rats anyway. I can’t make any promises about puppet rats. So come have some FUN with us. Puppetry can be hard work at times, but if you aren’t having a good time then you are definitely doing something wrong. Let’s grab some puppets and goof around together. You know you wanna!
Puppeteer like the pros. Master Puppeteer Victor Yerrid will teach the essentials of monitor-style puppetry – lip-sync, eye focus, rod work, & full body movement. Highly interactive, limited spots!
Description:
From newbies to experienced-bies, everyone can learn to puppeteer like the pros. Have you ever wanted to learn to puppeteer? Guess what? You totally can! Performing puppets is a blast and it is my true belief that anyone can learn to do it. Remember Chef Auguste Gusteau’s best selling book Anyone Can Cook? From Ratatouille? OF COURSE you do! Well, this workshop is just like that except instead of making food you will be making delightful puppet shows. Also, there won’t be any rats on your head pulling your hair. Not real rats anyway. I can’t make any promises about puppet rats. So come have some FUN with us. Puppetry can be hard work at times, but if you aren’t having a good time then you are definitely doing something wrong. Let’s grab some puppets and goof around together. You know you wanna!
Z. Briggs of WonderSpark Puppets will teach an introductory course about hand puppetry technique. Each participant will receive their own puppet to take home!
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Hand puppets can be an amazing tool for storytelling. Learn the basics of excellent hand puppet manipulation and performance from Z. Briggs of WonderSpark Puppets. Z. and her husband Chad Williams have been performing throughout New York City for over 12 years. For those interested in learning about puppetry, or honing their puppetry skills. All skill levels welcome. Each participant will receive their own customized puppet to take home!
Join a delightful conversation with Victor Yerrid about his adventures in film and television. From The Jim Henson Company to Adult Swim and all of the silly in between, there's load of fun to be had!
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Stacey Gordon will be interviewing Victor Yerrid about all of the amazing things he's done and where he'd like to go next! From an internship to Sesame Street to working on shows like Bear in the Big Blue House, Crank Yankers, Sid the Science Kid, Robot Chicken, and Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and working in films like Team America World Police and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Victor Yerrid's career has brought him to oh so many wonderful places! Come find out why he's one of the nicest puppeteers in all of puppetland!