If you're in/near Toronto this weekend, be sure to come down to Cameron House Saturday afternoon for One Night Slam 3, our third afternoon of live puppetry and puppet films and...
If you're in/near Toronto this weekend, be sure to come down to Cameron House Saturday afternoon for One Night Slam 3, our third afternoon of live puppetry and puppet films and...
I love this simple. but very fun digital short by Mathieu Rene, who is a mad puppet...
There's a federal election today in Canada (our fourth in seven years!). As Canadians head to the polls today, the gang at The Krellant tries to discover what's on the minds of a group of young...
Happy Easter everyone! It seemed appropriate today to do a rare Sunday post about a really charming Canadian preschool web series called Bunny...
I like this installment of Monster Factory's web series (see previous post) a lot....
Puppetry is used to create an interesting metaphor in this PSA for Tourettes Syndrome Foundation of Canada....
The Ottawa Citizen ran a profile of talented Canadian puppeteer Matt Ficner this...
Here's a trailer for Bobo and Kipi in the Congo, a Congolese children's series that combines puppets, animation and live-action and follows the adventures of a group of animals who live in the heart of...
One Night Slam is a new, ongoing series of puppet slams hosted by Unraku that are being held in different, unusual “mystery” locations around Toronto during 2011. Some will take place in prominent public locations around the city, while others will be more intimate and unfold in the studios of artists around the city. The...
For the holidays this year Unraku was asked to have a puppet host Talk With Santa, a live local TV show on Rogers Cable in several Southern Ontario TV markets that children can call in to and talk with Santa. Hosting duties fell to Puppet What...
This short from Edmonton's Rapid Fire Theatre answers the question "what happens when a man is haunted by really tiny...
This is the kind of puppetry I love. I love the way that this puppet moves realistically and believably. I also love the way the puppet and the puppeteers are integrated in to the performance. It's from a dance performance called Dark Matter, created by Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM and renowned Canadian choreographer Crystal...