Paulette Richards and Chicago Puppet Festival Artistic Director Blair Thomas. The Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium is co-curated by Dr. ![]() In Van Volkenburg’s honor, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival presents four discussions featuring festival artists and key topics from the works presented in the Festival. Posted 6:00 AM 12 days of puppetry Artists from Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Finland, France, Norway, Japan, South Africa, Spain and the United States - including Chicago, New York and. as part of the Fine Arts Building's free. The festival opens with Plexus Polaire’s Moby Dick, which. Little Theater director Ellen Van Volkenburg needed a program credit for the actors she had trained to manipulate marionettes while speaking the text of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and she coined the word “puppeteer.” That marked the dawn of the movement that has brought us to the rich art form now practiced around the world. The public is invited to explore the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival's expanded fourth floor facilities on Friday, October 8 from 5-8 p.m. The 5th Chicago International Puppet Festival showcases an eclectic array of puppet styles created by artists from 10 countries. Ishmael Falke performs in 'Invisible Lands' by the Livsmedlet Theatre during the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival at the Chopin Theatre on Jan. For 12 consecutive days, Chicago will be the puppetry capital of the world, home to more than 100 performances and events around the city that promise to astonish and delight. Before 1912, the year the Little Theater of Chicago was founded in the historic Fine Arts Building, the term “puppeteer” did not even exist. The Chicago Puppet Lab is a developmental lab for Chicago artists creating new, original puppet theater work. The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is returning in a big way, January 18-29, 2023, at venues large and small throughout the city. The Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium brings together practicing Festival artists with scholars to consider the intersection of puppetry with other disciplines and ideas. ![]() The 2022 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival and The School of the Art Institute Chicago presented The Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network on Saturday 22 January and Saturday 29 January 2022.
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