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Annual Puppet Fair at Fairyland
Sat., Aug 26 Fairyland, Puppet Fair 10:00-4:30 Fairyland699 Bellevue Avenue, OaklandOakland, CA Your Guild has been participating in Puppet Fair at Fairyland since 1956! Join us for this action-packed day of puppet shows, a puppet exhibit and events, provided by Fairyland. Admission: Admission to Fairyland is free to Guild members […]
May 28th Guild Meeting – Marionette Master, Kevin Menegus Shares His Talents
Don’t miss this 1st “Live” Guild Meeting in a while. Spread the word & invite your friends. This will also be a hybrid Live/Zoom Meeting will be made available to guild members via email prior to the event. When: Sat., May 28th , 2 – 4:30, W here: John F. […]
Guild Event: The Joshua Show
1st Guild “Live” Event in Over 2 Years! Join us for the The Joshua Show in Napa on Sunday, May 8, at 3pm. Joshua Holden has graciously offered to meet with the Guild after the 3 pm show and do a short “backstage” tour. It’s Mother’s Day, so what better […]
April 1st – April Fools Puppet Showcase!
Its spring time, join our next guild meeting and celebrate April Fools Day! This zoom event features a showcase of short videos by our local SFBAPG puppeteers, update from the guild board, and a Meet & Greet where you can share more feedback to the videos or say hi to […]
November Meeting with Swazzle
Join SFBAPG for a virtual workshop tour and puppet building demonstration with Swazzle. The puppet company Swazzle co-owners Sean and Patrick Johnson will give SFBAPG members an exclusive virtual tour of the Swazzle Puppet Studio. Participants will get an exclusive peek behind the curtain of the workshop that built puppets […]
August 2021 Guild Meeting “In Person” at Fairyland’s Puppet Fair
Fairyland’s “Day of Puppetry” is an annual event (except last year) filled with a variety of joyful puppet shows and activities. This day will be extra special, as this will be our first opportunity in over a year and a half to get together with puppet friends and enjoy live […]
August Online Event
Sign up Below for our August Special Event – Featuring 3 Great Topics When: Sun., Aug. 15th 4-5ish pm on Zoom. Join us for an exceptional hour combining 3 areas of interest for puppeteers an award-winning Zoom show performed by teens highlights of July’s Puppet Experiment submissions a look at the […]
Puppet Experiment – Extended
Puppet Experiment is extended! The Theme of July and August: Found Materials from your Natural Environment The world has collapsed, and you managed to survive as an urban Robinson Crusoe. And now, you need to create your puppet project! You have to “hunt” your puppet materials in nature; wild nature, […]
July 2021 Newsletter
Hello from John Arnold, your guest editor. Don’t miss this month’s newsletter, we have a letter from your new guild president, the start of a new Puppet Experiment-Found Objects in your environment, programming around the corner in august, an article about Sergei Obraztsov, amazing 3d printing techniques used by Images […]
2021 May Guild Meeting
May Guild Meeting: Presenting Stinky Tales® plus the Basics & Tips of Grant Writing Sun. May 16 from 3-5 pm Sign Up Below Times may vary slightly 3-3:30 SF Bay Area Guild Meeting led by Camilla Henneman – Puppet News & Events! 3:30-4:15ish Stinky Tales® with Doug & Annie Zesiger […]
January 2021 Newsletter
January 2021, with the promise of a new year and hopefully a new outlook, is upon us. The guild is planning a fantastic and quite special virtual holiday event that you won’t want to miss. Read all about it in the newsletter. Your January 2021 Newsletter for printing and/reading.
December 2020 Newsletter
Check out the December 2020 newsletter. I know I say this every time, but this time I’m saying it again because it’s true…THIS IS ANOTHER GREAT NEWSLETTER! Thanks to all our wonderful contributors, our newsletters are just getting better and better. So read it and learn and enjoy! AND!!! Don’t forget […]
November 2020 Newsletter
Check out the November 2020 newsletter. There’s some great stuff here, including a free workshop in 3 weeks, a wonderful article on creating a “signature puppet” for preschool classroom work, and some photos of what you may have missed at the guild Halloween event! Thanks to all who contributed! View it […]