Come discover how puppetry can enhance your tabletop RPGs through immersive storytelling, engaging NPCs, and hilarious interactions with you and your gaming group, & even help you game with kids!
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Puppetry can make most things better: grocery shopping, funerals...but have you ever considered adding puppets to your tabletop gaming?? If you were a fan of Smile Time and want to live out your “wee little puppet man” tabletop fantasy, or you're tired of being limited to 3-inch miniatures, come discover how adding puppets to your gaming group can be a super fun, hilarious, and entertaining way to enhance your game play! Whether you're NPCs to life, or just taunting your DM, puppetry is definitely going to get people in your group to make room in their calendars so everyone can FINALLY continue that quest!
If you're hoping to bring puppetry into your videos, career, gaming, library, or classroom, this seminar is for you! Get inspired by our panelists & learn how to incorporate puppetry into your life.
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How do you start in puppetry? How do you get your first show? Do you have to do puppet shows to be a puppeteer? How can you convince people that puppets aren't just for kids? What kinds of puppets are acceptable to use? What age group is too old for puppets? You've got so many questions, and we've got the answers!
Join Puppeteers from the BIPOC and Disability communities as we discuss the highs and lows of what it means to be a puppeteer from a different culture or living with a disability.
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While puppetry is a beautiful and inclusive artistry, in recent years, the push for visible and invisible diversity and is at an all time high. This panel is a safe space to discuss what progress the puppetry community has made in making POCs (Puppeteers of Color) & people with disabilities feel comfortable in creative spaces, as well as what the community needs to work on to make it that much more inviting to those who feel outnumbered in the room where it happens.
Puppet building pros with seriously great credits will talk about various puppet building techniques for multiple styles of puppets, such as the wedge method, flat patterning, sculpting, and more!
Riding the Wave: the Ups & Downs of a Career in Creativity
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Jennifer Barnhart takes an honest look at balancing artistic risk & personal comfort. Be inspired by how she chose when to leap or hold back, & how those choices helped her build a sustainable career.
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As creatives, it's hard to know when to take a risk and when to protect your stability. Jennifer Barnhart will share stories from her career navigating creative risks, having steady work, needing this crazy little thing called "healthcare," and how to pursue a creatively satisfying life without sacrificing the necessities of life, or your own comfort.
Jennifer's career spans many genres, including regional theater, puppetry, television, film, commercials, and voice over work. She deeply understands the ins & outs behind sustaining a long-term career as an artist. Let Jennifer inspire you with her insight on when to take a leap of faith, when to play it safe, and how to find the middle ground that puts your life in the Goldilocks Zone.
Shadow puppets tell stories and create an atmosphere that can be projected onto any surface if you have the right light source. Come see our demonstration of shadow puppet projection techniques.
...that's what we'd like to do. Emmy-nominated puppeteer, Jennifer Barnhart has brought some of your favorite characters to life on stage and screen & you just need to read the longer description!
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As we were saying... Jennifer Barnhart is a force of nature when it comes to not only a long-lasting career on stage & television, but also when it comes to being a wonderful human being. You'll know her best from television shows like Sesame Street (Gladys the Cow, Zoe, Maggie Cadabby, and Granny Bird, among others), Between the Lions (Cleo), Julie's Greenroom, Johnny and the Sprites, & Bear in the Big Blue House. Or you might know her from the original cast of the Tony Award-winning musical, Avenue Q (Mrs. Thistletwat & Bad Idea Bear)... Or from her regional theater roles like Lady Macbeth, Goneril, and Mrs. Cratchitt (The Arden, Goodspeed, Alabama Shakespeare Festival). But... she's also lent her talents to SNL, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Pause with Sam Jay, and House of Cards, and Law & Order, SVU and SO MANY MORE THINGS! For real, you just need to come & hear about it!