Puppeteers of America
Southwest Regional Pepper Puppet Festival
and the
42nd Annual Houston Puppet Festival
September 17th and 18th 2021, Friday and Saturday
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
With an evening reception on Thursday, September 16th, 4:00 to 8:00 PM at Hasta La Pasta Restaurant, Spring, TX.
LOCATION: Cypress Creek Community Center, 6823 Cypresswood Dr., Spring, TX 77379
Marionettes, Hand Puppets, Shadow Puppets, Body Puppets, Ventriloquism!
PUPPETEERS PERFORMING:
Greg Ruhe, Puppet Pizzazz, Houston, TX.
Pix Smith, Dallas Puppet Theater, Dallas, TX
Ellen Scott and Robbie Lueth, Hand to Mouth Puppet Theatre, Austin, TX
Rick Strot and Allen Reeves Ware, Ware House Puppets, Waco, TX
Karen Konnerth, Calliope Puppets, New Orleans, LA
Two Days of PUPPET WORKSHOPS: Make puppets and learn to use them!
Make Professional Muppet Style Puppet, Make Shadow Puppets, Nancy Refro Puppets, Favorite Stories Puppet Show, Puppets In Prague: An In-Depth Experience From Design to Performance, Make Peter Rabbit Glove Puppet, Puppet City: Memorable Standards Based Social Studies Through Puppetry, Top Ten Reasons to Use Puppets in Classroom, Make a Monster Puppet, Developing Character Voices, Make Abiyoyo Puppet, Make Newspaper Puppet, Make Walk-Around Stage, Make Talking Sock Puppet, Make Grocery Bag Puppet, Make Spider Glove Puppet, Simple Stage Ideas, Shadow Puppetry Illusions, Mix-methods of The Ware House Puppets, The Variety Puppet Show: Why and How, and more!
PUPPET STORE: Buy Puppets and Puppetry Books! Lunch Included!
Educators and Librarians Earn 7-14 Texas Education Agency Continuing Professional Education Clock Hours (7 hours per day)
PER DAY COST: Adults: $70. Youth: $50. Group Rate: Bring 5 staff: get $10 off each!
Info: http://puppetfest.org 832-585-1111 or 281-799-1398.
adventureland77@gmail.com or jkpuppet@aol.com
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Puppeteers of America
SOUTHWEST REGIONAL PEPPER PUPPET FESTIVAL and the 42ND ANNUAL HOUSTON PUPPET FESTIVAL
REGISTRATION FORM
Open to the Public. Registration includes all activities and lunch.
Adult Name: __________________________________________________________________
Child Name: _______________________________________________Child Age: ________
Address: ____________________________________________________________________
City: ________________________________________________State: _____ Zip: _________
Phone: _____________________Email: _____________________________________________
I am registering for:
______ The Puppeteers of America Southwest Regional Pepper Puppet Festival on Friday September 17 and Saturday September 18, a two-day event. Participants of the Regional two-day festival will attend Friday and Saturday from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM. Includes an evening reception on Thursday, September 16. Earn 14 Texas Education Agency Continuing Professional Education Clock Hours.
______ Only Friday September 17, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, of the Puppeteers of America Southwest Regional Pepper Puppet Festival. You may attend the evening reception on Thursday, September 16. Earn 7 Texas Education Agency Continuing Professional Education Clock Hours.
______The 42nd Annual Houston Puppet Festival on Saturday, September 18. Participants of the Houston Puppet Festival will attend Saturday, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM. Earn 7 TEA Professional Education Clock Hours.
Calculate the cost of your Registration:
$140. Adult Attend Regional Festival September 17 and 18. $________
$55. Two Day Workshop to make a Professional Muppet Style Puppet $________
(Participants in this morning workshop will attend performances and afternoon workshops.)
$70. Adult Attend Regional Festival Friday Only, September 17. $_________
$70. Adult Attend Houston Puppet Festival Saturday, September 18. $_________
$50. Child (4-15 yrs) Attend Houston Puppet Festival, Sat. Sept 18. $_________
(Paid adult must accompany child under 12)
Registration at the door will be $10 more per person.
Group Rate for Educators and Librarians at Houston Puppet Festival on September 18:
I am part of a group of 5 registrants whose names are: ___________________________________________________________________________________
Subtract $10 from my registration per person, because I came with this group of five festival registrants. - $10.
Checks payable to: Greater Houston Puppetry Guild. no credit cards. TOTAL enclosed: $_________
Mail to the Registrar: Jean Pirtle, 29027 Hickory Manor Ln, Fulshear, TX 77441
Registrar Phone: 713-419-2391 Registrar Email: jeanpirtle1949@gmail.com
Festival Website: http://puppetfest.org Please return this form ASAP and before September 12, 2021.
The Greater Houston Puppetry Guild, a chartered guild of the Puppeteers of America, Inc., is an Approved Provider for the Texas State Board of Educator Certification.
September 17 and 18, 2021
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For Info: call 832-585-1111 or 281-799-1398 or email: adventureland77@gmail.com or jkpuppet@aol.com
Southwest Regional Pepper Puppet Festival
and the
42nd Annual Houston Puppet Festival
September 16, 17, 18, 2021
Cypress Creek Christian Community Center
6823 Cypresswood Dr., Spring, TX 77379
PERFORMANCES – Free Admission
Friday, September 17
2:30 – 3:30 Forum Theater Puppet Performance
“The Goat in the Chili Patch” Rick Strot and Allen Reeves Ware, Ware House Puppets, Waco, TX
The Ware House Puppets present “The Goat in the Chili Patch,” a Mexican Folktale, retold by Rick Strot, and developed for the puppet stage by Rick Strot and Allen Reeves Ware. Poor little Pepe has a problem; a mean goat has invaded his Mamacita’s chili patch and will not leave. See what hilarity ensues as Pepe enlists the help of his barnyard friends to chase away the mean goat. In the end, Pepe learns a lesson about judging someone on appearances.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Allen Reeves Ware holds Doctorate and Master’s degrees from Baylor University with a focus on educational theatre and puppetry. Dr. Ware created the Ware House Puppets with fellow educator and friend Rick Strot, a School of Education Senior Lecturer at Baylor University. Both gentlemen are members of The Puppeteers of America (PoA), and active with PoA’s Puppetry in Education and Therapy, for which Dr. Ware serves as a committee member. Together they entertain children and families with fun stories that carry simple but important lessons.
Strot and Ware bring decades of puppetry experience to The Ware House Puppets, and they are pleased to return to the show that began their creative partnership as they present “The Goat in the Chili Patch.”
4:30 – 5:30 Forum Theater Puppet Performance
“Strings Variety Show” Pix Smith, Dallas Puppet Theater, Dallas, TX.
Large-scale marionettes perform to lively and familiar music all operated in full view of the audience. After the show, our special backstage look has inspired not only new puppeteers, but even other performers!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Pix is the director of the Dallas Puppet Theater and has been performing since beginning with Fred Cowen in 1980. The Dallas Puppet Theater is in its 36th season of production family entertainment, and exists to promote and advance the performing, visual and creative art of puppetry. Pix has performed throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, and at a local library near you.
Saturday, September 18
2:30 – 3:30 Forum Theater Puppet Performance
“The Bumper Crop” Ellen Scott and Robbie Lueth, Hand to Mouth Puppet Theatre, Austin, TX
When he swallows a watermelon seed, young Wally Wheeler wonders if vines could grow out of his ears. It’s his wildest dream, but just watch it come true in this visually stunning, outrageously funny show.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ellen Turner Scott and Robbie Lueth began their puppetry journey in the 1970’s, performing for Austin Public Library with their Traveling Puppet Theatre. They launched their own company Hand To Mouth Puppet Theatre in 1989, and continue performing throughout Central Texas. Robbie teaches high school and Ellen is a puppeteer with Literature Live, the Austin Public Library Puppet Troupe.
4:30 – 5:30 Forum Theater Puppet Performance
“A Fable, a Fairytale and a Folktale” Karen Konnerth, Calliope Puppets, New Orleans, LA
Karen adapts traditional stories for puppets, specializing in thoughtful, verbal audience participation. Featured here, a lively Tortoise and the Hare, a shocking Emperor’s New Clothes, and a mouthwatering Three Pigs!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karen is artistic director of world traveling Calliope Puppets, presenting thoughtfully interactive puppet theater for forty years for children, families, and art lovers of all ages featuring handmade puppets in a wide variety of techniques. She is also an award winning arts integration specialist, with over thirty years’ experience developing and implementing arts integrated (puppetry, creative writing, visual art) curriculum in elementary school classrooms and now sharing this experience with teachers through participatory workshops on strategies to engage students and deepen learning across the curriculum, using simple and easily available materials. Teacher workshop presentation sites include the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as well as the U.S. Embassy English Language Specialist Program in Central America, Asia, the Middle East, and South Africa.
Info: http://puppetfest.org 832-585-1111 or 281-799-1398.
adventureland77@gmail.com or jkpuppet@aol.com
Puppeteers of America
SW Regional Pepper Puppet Festival
September 16, 17, 18, 2021
Hotel Rooms
Courtyard by Marriott, 11050 Louetta Road, Houston, TX 77070. 281-374-6464 or 800-321-2211.
“SW Puppet Festival Room Block”
9/16/2021 Thursday, 10 King rooms
9/17/2021 Friday, 10 King rooms
9/18/2021 Saturday, 10 King rooms
$72.00 per night. Plus state and local taxes of approx. 15%.
Complimentary on-site parking and Wi-Fi. Breakfast is not included.
Cut-off date for reservations is Thursday, August 26, 2021.
5.3 miles (12 minutes) to the Festival location at 6823 Cypresswood Dr., Spring, TX 77379.
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