Throughout the year, we offer educational opportunities for learners of all experience levels. For professional puppeteers and curious tinkerers, we teach skill-building classes to learn multiple approaches to puppetry arts such as puppet construction, manipulation, and performance making, as well as scripting and storytelling. For our young people, we provide exciting opportunities to foster a love of puppetry while supporting social emotional learning through self-expression, storytelling, and character development. Visit our website to learn more about our educational offerings.
“What I love most about teaching kids about puppetry is how I can see the world through their eyes in the characters they create. I once met a lovely alien puppet with a pearl necklace and cotton candy hair and when the young artist rushed to proudly introduce it to her parents at the end of the session, I learned that it resembled her grandmother!”
— Leslie Burton, Artistic Director
Taco monsters were brought to life in a family workshop.
Piles of fur became creatures in this adult class.
On Halloween we haunted Brookline with ghosts and ghouls.
The theater will be a-buzz with kids this summer during our Puppet Adventure Program (ages 8-11) with our Resident Artists, Honey Goodenough and Sarah Nolen, and there is still space for more students in Kids Puppet Studio (ages 5-7) the week of Aug 1-5, with puppeteer and teaching artist Rotem Goldenberg.
Brad Shur explains who he designed this class for in a short video on our website! Go to the video →
If you’re curious about puppetry and want to try your hand at developing a short show of your own, sign up for Puppet Slam Camp with former Resident Artist Brad Shur, best known around here for his interactive show Cardboard Explosion! This virtual class for adults and teens begins July 30th.
None of these programs would be possible without the support of donors like you. Please consider making a gift today to help fund arts education and inspire creativity at all ages.
