We will be performing Butterfly Ballad at Southlake Mall on Thursday, May 19 at 6:00pm. After that, it’s summer camp shows for awhile!
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We are a professional non-profit touring puppet company. We perform puppet shows for children ages 2-10 and their families at birthday parties, schools, churches, festivals, etc.
Happy Earth Day!
Piccadilly Puppets has two great shows with an environmental theme:
Butterfly Ballad teaches the kids about the life cycle of the butterfly though the antics of Katy & Kevin Caterpillar, who become Monarch butterflies. Mother Nature narrates the story and asks the kids how they can help her take care of nature. We will be performing this show at the UWG Sustainability Expo at the Carrollton Amphitheater on Thursday, April 21 at 5:30 pm. We also have a lot of school performances of this show this month.
Splish, Splash: Water Stories teaches the importance of water to all cultures though folk tales from Australia and the Muscogee people, and includes a shadow puppet dramatization of the water cycle. It concludes with a fun song, “Everybody needs a little water!”
Celebrate World Puppetry Day!
We will be taking part in two events on Saturday, March 19!
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
From 11am-3pm
$10 per person
8652 Campbellton Street, Douglasville
Saturday, March 19th is the magical Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, where this year the Piccadilly Puppets will be hosting a puppet making workshop alongside the flamingo croquet, story-telling, cookie-decorating, egg-hunting and tea-partying fun! For $10 per person you can spend as long as you want between 11AM-3PM in the company the Mad Hatter, White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat, Red Queen, White Queen and, of course, Alice in Wonderland. An annual family celebration, this Cultural Arts Council festival is eagerly awaited by parents who attended as children and who now want to introduce their children to this magical world. Tea times are 12 noon, 12:45, and 1:30.
World Day of Puppetry at the Center for Puppetry Arts
From 12noon-5pm
1404 Spring St., Atlanta
We will be helping the Atlanta Puppetry Guild provide free puppetry demonstrations in the lobby of the Center for Puppetry Arts. Other free activities include making a sock puppet & meeting Sockly, the Center’s 8-foot-tall sock puppet mascot. You can also purchase tickets to a show or the museum; see the below link for details.
Celebrate the Chinese New Year with a puppet show at the Children’s Museum!
We will be performing Once Upon a Time in China on Saturday, February 6 at 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM as part of the Chinese New Year Celebration at the Children’s Museum of Atlanta. There will also be storytelling, dance and a dragon parade!
http://childrensmuseumatlanta.org/calendar/meet-the-holidays-chinese-new-year/
Thanks to Fulton County for supporting our shows in 2015!
Funding from the Fulton County Board of Commissioners through the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council helped us to perform for thousands of children in 2015 throughout the county – from Milton to East Point!
Fulton County is the leading public funder for the arts in the State of Georgia. Our grant from the Fulton County Arts Council supplements our main source of income, which is the fees we charge for performances. This enables us to hire skilled, professional puppeteers and pay them a competitive wage, while still keeping our prices affordable to most groups. Please join us in thanking the Board of Commissioners and the Arts Council, and join us February 6 as we team up with another great Fulton cultural institution: The Children’s Museum of Atlanta. We will be presenting Once Upon a Time in China as part of their Chinese New Year celebration!
Saturday, February 6 11 AM and 1 PM
275 Centennial Olympic Park Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30313
Merry Christmas!
Floyd the Fox (from Foxy Christmas) wishes everyone a Merry Christmas!
Help Spread the Joy of Puppets on Ga Gives Day!
Thursday, November 12 is GA Gives Day!
“You were fantastic…Please come back and do another puppet show!”
That’s what Taylor, a second-grade student at Jackson Elementary wrote us in a letter after our performance of Cherokee Tales. The children had obviously enjoyed the performance, laughing at all of the funny parts, chanting along with Chief Gray Eagle. They might not have even realized how much the show fit into the Native American unit of their curriculum! Thanks to a grant, we were able to perform at that school for a reasonable price. We need support from individuals, too – people like you that see the value of puppets and arts in education.
Ga Gives Day is a chance to highlight the many non-profits working to make our state a better place to live. Georgia is at the bottom of the country in government support of the arts, but YOU can help bridge the gap so that kids of all backgrounds and income levels can experience our shows! Click the link below (any day, not just on Thursday):
https://www.gagivesday.org/c/GGD/a/piccadillypuppets/donate/
Mable House Storytelling Festival October 17!
This is always one of our favorite events! A full day of family fun and adventures in history! Wonderful storytelling and plenty of activities. We will perform Cherokee Tales at 11:30 and 1:15 in the Sweet Potato House.
On the grounds of the Historic Mable House:
5239 Floyd Rd SW, Mableton, Georgia 30126
We’re booking shows for the school year, and performing in Morrow and Augusta!
For the first time in decades(!) Piccadilly Puppets is not booking school shows through Young Audiences/Arts for Learning, but we are still available! You can book puppet shows for your school directly with us. Call (404)636-0022!
Saturday, September 12 4-6 pm Cool Kids Read at Southlake Mall
Join us for plenty of fun activities including: Balloon Art, Free Bookmark Crafts, Storytime with the Clayton County Library, a Book Swap and plenty of Prizes!! Piccadilly Puppets will perform Once upon a Time in China at 5:15.
While you’re at the event, you can help us set a record for the most kids reading aloud in a shopping center! We’ll be reading from Dr. Seuss’ new book, “What Pet Should I Get?”
http://www.southlakemall.com/events
Sunday, September 13 2:00 pm “Artrageous! Family Sunday” at Morris Museum of Art, Augusta
Butterfly Ballad and other fun activities!
http://www.themorris.org/calendar/calendar.html
Lots of fun to be had at the Grant Park Summer Shade Festival!
Piccadilly Puppets will be at the Summer Shade Festival on Saturday, August 29!
We’ll be making puppets all day long, and at 3:15 we will perform Butterfly Ballad.
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