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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.

October is National Arts and Humanities Month

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Presidential Proclamation — National Arts and Humanities Month, 2012 | The White House

 

“When children read their first book, pick up their first instrument, or perform in their first play, they demonstrate the power of the arts to ignite wonder and imagination. This month, let us pledge to invest in America’s next generation by ensuring our children have the opportunity to participate in and enjoy the arts and humanities. If we give them the tools to create and innovate, they will do their part to disrupt our views, challenge our perceptions, and stir us to be our best selves.”

 Piccadilly Puppets invites you to not only participate in the Arts this month, but to help a child to participate as well. Take a child to a show, give them art supplies, enroll them in dance class, book a puppet show for a group of children!

Great Plains Puppet Train

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I just spent four days participating in a terrific puppetry festival called the Great Plains Puppet Train. It was hosted by the Eulenspiegel Puppet Company in the small scenic town of West Liberty, Iowa.

Nancy in front of the Owl Glass Puppetry Center, home of Eulenspiegel Puppets.

I attended eleven puppet shows, plus a puppet slam (short pieces for adults), several workshops, and a barn dance!

Here is a little girl puppet from Mwathyrika, Papermoon’s show.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many of the shows were wonderful, but the highlight was a performance titled Mwathyrika from the Papermoon Puppet Theatre of Yogyakarta, Indonesia (They call it Yogya, which sounds a little like Georgia!). They are in the US through a State Department cultural diplomacy program called Center Stage.

Dance students perform at the Children’s Festival, with the New Strand Theatre in the background.

 

On Saturday, our festival was rolled into the West Liberty Children’s Festival. The day was beautiful, but cold and windy! There were five family-friendly puppet shows in the New Strand Theatre, and lots of activities on the street.

Welcome to our New Website!

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We hope you will like the new Piccadilly Puppets website! The best feature of the new website is the ability to easily post news about upcoming performances! We perform 150 shows or more throughout the year, but many of these shows are not open to the public. By checking this page frequently, you can find out about the ones that are open to the public – sometimes even FREE! Then, help us spread the word!