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2024 Fall Puppet Forum Series - Puppet Slams: Short-Form Puppetry for the 21st Century
Wed, Sep 18
|Storrs, CT
Part of its 2024 Fall Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry is pleased to host Puppet Slams: Short-Form Puppetry for the 21st Century, a discussion with Puppet Slam Network founder Heather Henson and Green Feather Producer Brenna Ross, as well as regional Slam directors.
Time & Location
Sep 18, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Storrs, CT, 1 Royce Cir #101B, Storrs, CT 06268, USA
About the event
As part of its 2024 Fall Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry is pleased to host Puppet Slams: Short-Form Puppetry for the 21st Century, a discussion with Puppet Slam Network founder Heather Henson and Green Feather Producer Brenna Ross, as well as regional Slam directors, moderated by Ballard Institute director (and puppet slam performer) John Bell.
Puppet Slams are live performances of curated, short-form puppetry acts for adult audiences that emerged from avant-garde puppet performance practices in the 1980s, with older roots in vaudeville and other popular practices.
The Puppet Slam Network, founded by Heather Henson and IBEX Puppetry (now Green Feather) in 2005, encourages the growth and diversity of the puppet slam scene, and currently supports over 50 slams in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.