Tag: Georgia

Virtual options still available!

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Still not allowed to have visitors into your school? Can’t afford to pay travel costs to bring Piccadilly Puppets to your group? Need an option for virtual content for those last-minute short-term shutdowns?

Puppeteer holding a carrot rod puppet
Puppetry 101 Streaming class

Our virtual content is still available!

All of our shows can be used to help teach Fine Arts and English Language Arts standards. Use Butterfly Ballad to enhance your Science lessons or Cherokee Tales for Social Studies. Other titles include Cat and Mouse Tales and Puppetry 101. Check out our Show pages for more info.

Prices are very reasonable, and you can easily share videos with students at home as well as in the classroom! Watch a video at whatever time is most convenient, then schedule a live demonstration and Q&A session with a puppeteer (optional).

Most content is on YouTube through a private link you will be sent once you purchase a show. Prices start at $20 per classroom. You can check out a few free videos first. (Note: many promotional videos made from live shows are lower quality than the shows filmed in 2020, so if you are watching a video with a live audience, don’t use that video to determine the quality of what is available for purchase).

New film of Cherokee Tales!

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Sequoyah holding the Cherokee syllabary
Sequoyah holding the Cherokee syllabary

Piccadilly Puppets has a great new way to bring educational fun to your Social Studies unit on the Cherokee nation. Kara Morrison, a southeastern playwright of Cherokee heritage, has helped us to rewrite our puppet show, Cherokee Tales, and we have filmed a 15-minute version that you can share with your students now!

In this updated virtual puppet show, Sequoyah teaches students about Cherokee culture and history. The storyteller uses tabletop hand and rod puppets to tell Cherokee myths about the creation of Cherokee land and how the brave Spider brought fire to the animals. Then the students learn about the Trail of Tears with the help of shadow puppetry. This 15-minute version is appropriate for grades preK4-2nd.

After your students watch the video, we can join them for a live chat through Zoom or the platform of your choice to demonstrate the puppets and answer questions, if you choose.

Here is a short promotional video:

Cherokee Tales promo

We also have videos of other Piccadilly Puppets favorites: Butterfly Ballad, Imagination Station, Cat and Mouse Tales, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors. These are mostly new recordings of our standard 30-minute shows.

We are still performing in-person as well!

For more information, call (404)636-0022 or Contact Us!

World Water Day March 22 and Earth Day April 22

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Piccadilly Puppets has environmentally-themed puppet shows for these special days!

Splish, Splash: Water Stories explores our most precious resource in a fun and educational way! Large hand-puppets are used in the Australian folktale of “Tiddalick the Frog” and the Creek legend “Rabbit Plays Tug-of-War,” which demonstrate that water is important to all cultures. The original shadow puppet piece, “The Adventures of Drip and Drop,” shows the water cycle from the point of view of the raindrops. As the closing song says, “Everybody needs a little water!”

Big green Tiddalick the Frog hand a rod puppet and blue Eel rod puppet posing in front of a lake
Splish, Splash: Water Stories

Developed for the opening of the Callaway Gardens Butterfly Center, Butterfly Ballad traces the metamorphosis of Katy and Kevin Caterpillar from egg to caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly. Join them on their fascinating migration to Mexico and marvel as they return to the United States to lay their eggs, beginning the life cycle all over again. The story, narrated by Mother Nature and performed with hand and rod puppets, culminates in a discussion of what each individual can do to maintain the balance of nature. Students learn a few Spanish words along the way; a bilingual version is available on request.

Mother Nature with Katy Butterfly from Butterfly Ballad
Mother Nature with Katy Butterfly from Butterfly Ballad

Back to School!

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Kindergarten students show shadow puppets that they made in a workshop.

Piccadilly Puppets has many educational shows and workshops! Bring us to your school this year! We have discounted prices for Title One schools.

Bring Piccadilly Puppets to your town with a Vibrant Communities Grant!

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grantWould you like to bring Piccadilly Puppets to your school, library or non-profit organization in Fall 2018 or Spring 2019? If your organization is located in a county in which no organization received an FY18 GCA Project, Partner or Arts Education Grant, you can apply for a Vibrant Communities grant from the Ga Council for the Arts. The grants are for arts programming; why not have us do puppet shows and/or workshops?

For more info including a list of counties that qualify:

http://gaarts.org/images/PDFs/FY19-VC-guidelines-FINAL.pdf

Summer shows continue!

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We have been busy in June, mostly with camp performances, but here are a couple of upcoming public performances:

Tuesday, June 20  2:30 pm Once Upon a Time in China (ages 3-10)  Fayette County Public Library  1821 Heritage Parkway Fayetteville, GA 30214  (770)305-5251

Tuesday, June 27  11:00 am  Wish Tales (ages 3-8)   A. Mitchell Powell Jr. branch, Coweta Public Library  25 Hospital Road Newnan, GA 30263  (770)253-3625

Also, don’t forget our Puppet Camp through the Johns Creek Arts Center (ages 6-10) July 10-14:

http://johnscreekarts.org/education/camps/2017/jul/puppetry-camp-ages-6-10-july-10-14-johns-creek-presbyterian-church-location

Help Spread the Joy of Puppets on Ga Gives Day!

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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/

Puppets in Hapeville & Gainesville in May

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Saturday, May 9  Hapeville Makers Market

Cherokee Tales will be at 10:30 am in the Hapeville Train Depot. FREE!         Recommended for ages 3-10.

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Saturday, May 16 Rubber Duck Derby

DD Logo.new.12.taglineThe 17th Annual Rubber Duck Derby benefits the Boys & Girls Clubs of Hall County. We will be at this event all day! Come by our tent to see a puppet demonstration, try out a puppet, or make a paper bag puppet. You won’t want to miss the race! Watch 20,000 rubber ducks race to the finish to win great prizes for their adoptive parents – including YOU, if you choose. Piccadilly Puppets is proud to support this event. 10:00am-4:00pm at Clark’s Bridge Park. FREE!

http://rubberduckderby.com/5Kdashandderby.html

Ga Gives Day, & a Show in Alpharetta!

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Two exciting events this week: Ga Gives Day, and a public performance Saturday morning, November 15. Read on for more info!

November 13 is Ga Gives Day!

Give to your favorite Nonprofits in Georgia!
Give to your favorite Nonprofits in Georgia!

GA Gives Day is a special 24 hour online giving event and Piccadilly Puppets is a proud participant. Check out our profile below and donate to the cause today. Although we spotlight one day to promote our causes, you don’t have to wait until the 13th – and you can continue to make a contribution after the big day has come and gone! Click if You Care.  https://www.gagivesday.org/c/GGD/a/piccadillypuppets

If you have already donated, thank you! Please share our profile with everyone you know. Like GA Gives Day on Facebook.com/gagives and follow the movement on Twitter @GAgives

Cherokee Tales at Off Broadway Dance Theatre on Saturday morning, November 15

Cherokee Tales - chief Grey Eagle

Off Broadway Dance Theatre                                     12350 Crabapple Rd. Alpharetta, GA  30004

10:00 am     (770)664-2410 

Tickets $7

Part of the Little Starz Series!

Piccadilly Puppets participates in Ga Gives Day on November 13!

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Georgia Gives Day is an unprecedented opportunity for people across the state to come together and support the nonprofits of Georgia. Please give to us on November 13!
Georgia Gives Day is an unprecedented opportunity for people across the state to come together and support the nonprofits of Georgia. Please give to us on November 13!

On November 13th, our community will come together for a special 24-hour online giving event called GA Gives Day and we need YOU to join us! Piccadilly Puppets hopes to raise $2000 in 24 hours to help us produce a new show (and keep the lights on at the same time). This is YOUR chance to make a real difference, right here in our community.

Of course, you don’t HAVE to donate to Piccadilly Puppets. There are hundreds of other wonderful organizations taking part, too.

Just click to donate on our page: https://gagivesday.org/c/GGD/a/piccadillypuppets

The site is actually up & running all year long, so it doesn’t have to be done on Wednesday.