I was fortunate enough to do some background puppeteering for Big and Small. The show is another of The Grogs great productions. Amazing puppets, some very cool green screen bunraku puppetry and one of the best crews I have ever worked with. It makes me wish that I had more free time as a teacher [...]
I have known about this show for over a year now and it is finally on CBC. The Mighty Jungle is a live action puppet series for pre-schoolers. The show stars Frank Meschkuleit, Wendy Welch, Jamie Bradley, Cheryl Wagner and Mike Petersen, The Mighty Jungle is a new series, that uses the imagination and story [...]
I just received and email from some amazingly talented performers in Toronto. Rob and Soli Joy are truly exceptional and I was very happy to see that they have launched their new website (which looks great by the way). My family was also invited to their CD launch party for their newest CD called “Happy Birthday, [...]
This little nugget of puppety goodness, though its been in circulation on the web for a while, recently resurfaced over at PuppetBuilding.com. The article was originally published in a 1969 issue of Women’s Day Magazine and includes a play, The Purple-Necked, Black Bearded Blatch, written by Jerry Juhl, and patterns and instructions for four puppets, [...]
The truth is that I like this song more than I should probably admit. I found it surfing the Internet a little while back. The puppets are built and performed by Michelee Puppets as a part of their “Extreme Health Challange” show. Now, I have never seen their shows and I have just discovered them [...]
Want to see a puppet show with great music amazing puppetry and all around quality family entertainment? Look no further than “Happy Birthday Alistair Ant!” by Alistair Ant Productions here in Toronto, Ontario, CANADA. This show is performed by husband and wife team Rob and Soli Joy. Their shows are amazing. Children 2 – 6 [...]
I was fortunate enough to run across this very cool puppet project that proposes to teach kids a variety of educational concepts using puppets and rap music called The Kids Block. Now I have seen many show ideas that have tried to use this approach and have failed. One of the biggest strikes against other [...]
I actually knew about this show when it was being filmed last summer, but I only had a chance to see a few episodes last weekend. Wilbur is the newest puppet show that has been added to the CBC lineup. The series is intended to teach 2- to 4- year-olds about reading and uses a [...]
I was in a secondhand bookstore the other day and came across a couple of DVDs of the Thunderbirds. Thunderbird DVDs and other merchandise isn’t rare. A quick search on Amazon.com will confirm that. I must say I’ve been very pleased with the purchase and find the episodes very inspiring. The Thunderbirds had a relatively [...]
Well the truth is that it is soon my son’s birthday and I have been looking for cool gifts for a little boy…that have to do with puppetry if possible. Now that may sound totally selfish, and if he wasn’t crazy about puppets it would be. But the truth is that my son loves puppets. [...]
