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Puppeteers of AmericaSouthwest Regional Pepper Puppet Festival
and the
42nd Annual Houston Puppet Festival
September 16th and 17th 2022, Friday and Saturday
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
With an evening reception on Thursday, September 15th, 4:00 to 8:00 PM at Hasta La Pasta Restaurant, Spring, TX.
LOCATION: Cypress Creek Christian Community Center,
6823 Cypresswood Dr., Spring, TX 77379
Marionettes, Hand Puppets, Shadow Puppets, Body Puppets, Ventriloquism!
PUPPETEERS PERFORMING:
Karen Konnerth, Calliope Puppets, New Orleans, LA.
Pix Smith, Dallas Puppet Theater, Dallas, TX
Ellen Scott and Robbie Lueth, Hand to Mouth Puppet Theatre, Austin, TX
Rick Strot and Allen Reeves Ware, Ware House Puppets, Waco, TX
Two Days of PUPPET WORKSHOPS: Make puppets and learn to use them!
Top Ten Reasons to Use Puppets in the Classroom, Make Loch Ness Puppet, Nancy Renfro Puppets, Ventriloquism, Make your Favorite Stories into a Puppet Show, Ventriloquism 101, Make Flip Face Puppets, Carving Czech Style Marionettes, Make Peter Rabbit Glove Puppet, Puppet City: Memorable, Standards Based Social Studies Through Puppetry, Make a Monster Puppet, Make Newspaper Puppet, Retell Stories with Puppets, Make Talking Sock Puppet, Make Grocery Bag Puppet, Make Spider Glove Puppet, Shadow Puppetry Illusions, Mix-methods of The Ware House Puppets, The Variety Marionette Show: Why and How, and more!
PUPPET STORE: Buy Puppets and Puppetry Books (Cash or Checks Only)! Lunch Included!
Educators and Librarians Earn 7-14 Texas Education Agency Continuing Professional Education Clock Hours (7 hours per day)
PER DAY COST: Adults: $70. Youth: $50. Group Rate: Bring 5 staff: get $10 off each!
Info: http://puppetfest.org 832-585-1111 or 281-799-1398.
[email protected] or [email protected]
Friday, September 16, PERFORMANCES – Free Admission
2:30 – 3:30 Forum Theater Puppet Performance
“The Goat in the Chili Patch” Rick Strot and Allen Reeves Ware, Ware House Puppets, Waco, TX
The Ware House Puppets present “The Goat in the Chili Patch,” a Mexican Folktale, retold by Rick Strot, and developed for the puppet stage by Rick Strot and Allen Reeves Ware. Poor little Pepe has a problem; a mean goat has invaded his Mamacita’s chili patch and will not leave. See what hilarity ensues as Pepe enlists the help of his barnyard friends to chase away the mean goat. In the end, Pepe learns a lesson about judging someone on appearances.
About the Artists: Allen Reeves Ware holds Doctorate and Master’s degrees from Baylor University with a focus on educational theatre and puppetry. Dr. Ware created the Ware House Puppets with fellow educator and friend Rick Strot, a School of Education Senior Lecturer at Baylor University. Both gentlemen are members of The Puppeteers of America (PoA), and active with PoA’s Puppetry in Education and Therapy, for which Dr. Ware serves as a committee member. Together they entertain children and families with fun stories that carry simple but important lessons. Strot and Ware bring decades of puppetry experience to The Ware House Puppets, and they are pleased to return to the show that began their creative partnership as they present “The Goat in the Chili Patch.”
4:30 – 5:30 Forum Theater Puppet Performance
“Strings Variety Show” Pix Smith, Dallas Puppet Theater, Dallas, TX.
Large-scale marionettes perform to lively and familiar music all operated in full view of the audience. After the show, our special backstage look has inspired not only new puppeteers, but even other performers!
About the Artist: Pix is the director of the Dallas Puppet Theater and has been performing since beginning with Fred Cowen in 1980. The Dallas Puppet Theater is in its 36th season of production family entertainment, and exists to promote and advance the performing, visual and creative art of puppetry. Pix has performed throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, and at a local library near you.
Info: http://puppetfest.org 832-585-1111 or 281-799-1398.
[email protected] or [email protected]
Southwest Regional Pepper Puppet Festival and the 42nd Annual Houston Puppet Festival, September 15, 16, & 17, 2022
Cypress Creek Christian Community Center
6823 Cypresswood Dr., Spring, TX 77379
Saturday, September 17, PERFORMANCES – Free Admission
2:30 – 3:30 Forum Theater Puppet Performance
“The Bumper Crop” Ellen Scott and Robbie Lueth, Hand to Mouth Puppet Theatre, Austin, TX
Young Wally Wheeler wonders when he swallows a watermelon seed, if vines could grow out of his ears. It’s his wildest dream, but just watch it come true in this visually stunning, outrageously funny show.
About the Artists: Ellen Turner Scott and Robbie Lueth began their puppetry journey in the 1970’s, performing for Austin Public Library with their Traveling Puppet Theatre. They launched their own company, Hand To Mouth Puppet Theatre, in 1989, and continue performing throughout Central Texas. Robbie teaches high school and Ellen is a puppeteer with Literature Live, the Austin Public Library Puppet Troupe. Ellen is also the owner of Nancy Renfro Studios, Inc., a Puppet Resource Company. with 250 puppet character designs and 18 books on puppetry and puppet activities.
4:30 – 5:30 Forum Theater Puppet Performance
“CALLIOPE KATE AND THE VOICE OF THE RIVER” Karen Konnerth, Calliope Puppets, New Orleans, LA
Karen Konnerth with her Calliope Puppets invites children and adults on a journey down the Mississippi River in an original tall tale, “Calliope Kate and the Voice of the River” (now available in book form from Pelican Publishing). Accompany fearless Kate on her parents’ shanty boat as she straightens out the winding river, rides a giant catfish, and finally battles a hurricane with the musical instrument of her dreams - the loud and cacophonous steamboat calliope! Then, as Kate heads off up the river, her Ma and Pa join forces to tell a comical fishing story from the Brothers Grimm.
About the Artist: Karen is artistic director of world traveling Calliope Puppets, presenting thoughtfully interactive puppet theater for forty years for children, families, and art lovers of all ages featuring handmade puppets in a wide variety of techniques. She is also an award-winning arts integration specialist, with over thirty years’ experience developing and implementing arts integrated (puppetry, creative writing, visual art) curriculum in elementary school classrooms and now sharing this experience with teachers through participatory workshops on strategies to engage students and deepen learning across the curriculum, using simple and easily available materials. Teacher workshop presentation sites include the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as well as the U.S. Embassy English Language Specialist Program in Central America, Asia, the Middle East, and South Africa.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cypress Creek Christian Community Center, 6823 Cypresswood Dr,Spring,TX,United States