Help a brilliant puppet artist realize his true potential!  Marsian DeLellis is fundraising for his show, Object of her Affection, an unconventional love story about a women who falls in love with inanimate objects.

SAVE A PUPPETEER! DONATE TODAY! 

Portland got really puppet-y last weekend.  Toby Froud’s film premiered at the Hollywood Theatre and Melvin the Birder had the honor of screening in the previews. We even got a shout in Portland Monthly Magazine! Go Puppet Power!

This is right.  In so many ways.  Crowd Favorite: the elephant with the paint.

CLICK HERE to apply for the TINY PUPPET THEATRE FESTIVAL

Due to some technical difficulties with the form, the Tiny Puppet Theatre Festival is extending deadline until May 20th.  Apply today!

10 more days to submit to the Tiny Puppet Theatre Festival happening in Portland, OR for the month of August.  May all the tiny things reign superior.

FILL OUT THIS FORM!

Photo by : Kennett Mohrman

::Tiny Puppet Theatre Festival :: Submission Open NOW!

Hello Puppeteers and Lovers of,

Submissions are now being accepted for Portland’s very first Tiny Puppet Theatre Festival.  We are searching far and wide for puppet shows that are small in stature and ready to perform this coming August right here in Portland, OR.  We are taking over the Good Gallery on Mississippi every weekend from August 8th - August 31st.  Shows should be anywhere from 8 - 15 minutes in length.  Some travel funding is available and lodging can be provided. 

Deadline : May 15th, 2014.

FILL OUT THIS FORM!

Good Luck, friends!

This is funny.  And puppety.

The featured artist for THE PUPPET SLAM THIS WEEKEND is Liz Hara. Liz is a NY-based puppet builder, wrangler, and performer.  She currently works for Sesame Street, and has also worked on the Broadway productions of The Lion King, Avenue Q, Shrek, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. 
An alumni of the O’Neill Puppetry Conference, she has performed her own work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the New Orleans Fringe, and the Puppeteers of America National Festival.  She loves dirty jokes and dancing, and her most important achievement to date is having eaten all 100 of Buzzfeed’s “100 Candies to Try Before You Die.”

Liz will be performing BOTH nights, two different shows. Tickets are selling fast, be sure to buy in advance!

BUY TICKETS HERE!

BUY YOUR PUPPET SLAM TICKETS TODAY!

We turned away dozens of puppet enthusiasts last time.  Don’t let this happen to you, buy those tickets!  Don’t think, just do. Puppet Power.

The Jim Henson Foundation is accepting Letters of Intent through MARCH 31st for their upcoming grant cycle.  Get on it, puppeteers!  Let’s make some amazing work in 2015.

2014 Great Plains Puppetry Festival Call for Submissions

A cool opportunity to perform in the mid-west.  Check it out, puppeteers!  Deadline is April 1st, so don’t delay.

It’s World Puppetry Day today!  If you’re a puppeteer/pupper lover and in Portland tonight, come on out to our Puppeteer Happy Hour!
Where: The Standard 14 NE 22nd Ave.

When: 6 -9pm TONIGHT Friday March 21

*Image above shows Aaron Lathrop and Gina Leigh.  They have not confirmed attendance at this Happy Hour.

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!!!

Poster by Ciara Gay

The Castiron Carousel Marionette Troupe presents a beautiful, dark marionette play, The Curious Chronicles.  Running every Sunday through March 30th.  Get your tickets HERE.

Portlanders - be sure to catch Kyle Loven’s show, LOSS MACHINE, next week at Artists Reperatory Theatre. March 7-9 only.  It’s his Portland debut with this show and it’s really something special.  TICKETS HERE!

DON’T YOU DARE MISS IT!

Tears of Joy Theatre explores the depths of sanity, morality and murder…with puppets. ONE SHOW ONLY - MARCH 1st @ 2pm - HOLLYWOOD THEATRE.  More info here.

Facebook Invite HERE.

Happy Friday, y’all!

Check out the CRANKIE FESTIVAL in Seattle this weekend!

***CALLING ALL PORTLAND / SEATTLE / CALI PUPPETEERS***

The next Puppet Slam will be a glorious conjunction with our great friends at Tears of Joy Theatre.  This slam will be TWO glorious nights - Friday April 11th + Saturday April 12th @ 8pm.  TWO SHOWS, TWO SHOWS!  All taking place at the Imago Theatre.  NEW VENUE, NEW VENUE!

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR LIVE SHOWS AND FILMS!

FOR LIVE ACT SUBMISSIONS: Please email your proposed puppet show in a short 2-3 sentence synopsis.  It can be a show you’ve already done or a new piece that you have yet to work on.  If we are not already familiar with your work, please send pictures of your past work or a website / youtube link.  All shows must be 2 - 8 minutes in length.


FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS:  Please send a youtube/vimeo link to katie@beadylittleeyes.com. You may also mail a DVD.

DEADLINE for SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 15th!



Send all submissions to: Katie@beadylittleeyes.com

Oh what fun! PUPPETS!

There is something about using the familiar template of children’s television and turning it on its head that makes us all here at HQ rub our hands together and laugh.  Laugh and laugh.  Just be sure to watch until the very end. Enjoy!