50% accepted toward price for festival workshops.

With only newspaper and masking tape, learn to build a puppet and how to move it with sensitivity, then bring it to life through a short story. The doyenne of Montreal’s dynamic puppetry scene shares secrets and techniques on the art of animating objects.

Anne Lalancette  (Montreal)

In 2007 Anne created her first puppet show Le Grand Cirque Minuscule, a resounding success. She has extensive film, production, acting and voiceover experience, and rejoins the Old Trouts for the creation of Trunk Puppet.

50% accepted toward price for festival workshops.

Learn techniques on giving life and character to a puppet, how to represent feelings, and how to make a puppet breathe. Magali Chouinard will talk about her influences and creative process, leading participants through a playful workshop on puppet manipulation.  (Puppets supplied).

Magali Chouinard  (Montreal)

A multidisciplinary artist and creator of The White Woman, Magali Chouinard has presented in different festivals worldwide. Teaching arts and scenography for over 25 years, Magali now focuses on puppetry, building, manipulation, and initiation. She uses the poetry of images and puppets to represent a multifaceted human experience.

Artiste multidisciplinaire, Magali Chouinard a créé la femme blanche qu’elle présente dans différents festivals à travers le monde. Elle utilise l’image poétique et la marionnette pour symboliser les multiples expériences de l’intériorité.

 

50% accepted toward price for festival workshops.

This hands-on workshop takes you through a simple green screen shoot, including footage upload, green screen removal, and superimposing puppets into far-out environments. Bring puppets, dolls, or objects to play with, and learn to create movie magic from your own living room.

Berny Hi (Regina) Cinemagician Berny Hi demonstrates unique, organic, and evocative effects through controlled camera and projection techniques.

 

Chrystene Ells (Regina) An award-winning artist, filmmaker, and animator whose experience spans working on Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, and founding the International Puppet Underground Film Festival.

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Brave, sleep-deprived panellists Peter Balkwill (Famous Puppet Death Scenes / Trunk Puppet),  Berny Hi (Prairie Puppet Underground), Sandra Lamouche (Sagowsko),  Rowan Pantel (Prairie Puppet Underground), and Alice Nelson will face a challenge. They’ll be shown a photo of a person, place or event, and then have three minutes to brainstorm how puppets or objects could be used to interpret that photo. After the artists explain their interesting, exciting and random thoughts, the audience votes on a variety of awards. Moderated by Wendy Passmore. (Light brunch provided.)

Does puppet theatre help us understand our world? Artists Alice Nelson, Alain Moreau, Kenn McLeod & Chrystene Ells answer how a puppet, with a brain of fluff or wood, plays a role in sociology, psychology, and other ‘ologies’. Moderated by Wendy Passmore. (Light lunch provided.)

50% accepted toward price for festival workshops.

*Participants must have first seen In the Workshop

After viewing In the Workshop*, flock to the Legion, grab a set of carving tools to begin sculpting your own puppet under Tof Theatre’s guidance. Clearly an hour is not enough to complete a puppet, however, you will have the keys for finishing it up at home, and the inspiration to bring it to life.