Puppet Recipes

Puppet Recipes is a new project to celebrate our 25th anniversary.  We look forward to seeing you on February 2 when you can try out our first recipe!

We have two subscriptions:

• Basic  “Puppet Recipes” 

• Yearly “Golden Czech Hands” which gives you access to recordings of past workshops. 

BASIC PUPPET RECIPES

Monthly Workshops: 

On the first Sunday of every month, you can join our live workshop on a different puppet topic.

You will ALSO learn to build Mirek’s amazing gadgets - inventions he created to make his life easier in the workshop (wooden platform, a chisel holder, etc).

After each workshop you will get a “recipe card” with diagrams and a project that you can complete before the next month.

GOLDEN CZECH HANDS SUBSCRIPTION

If you have the annual Golden Czech Hands Subscription, you will get access to the following videos in our library of Zoom recordings.

Puppet Recipes

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Schedule

You will receive Zoom link by email a day before the session starts.

February 2, 5-6:30 PM	Frog marionette: construction of body, legs, and controller  Mirek’s special gadget: Wooden platform RECIPES: build a simple frog marionette + Make a wooden platform
March 2, 5-6:30 PM	Tricky Carving 1: Carving Eyes, creating different expressions Mirek’s special gadget: Holder for chisels RECIPES: Carve an eye + Make a chisel holder
April 6, 7-8:30 PM	Tricky Carving 2: Devil head with horns, beard Mirek’s special gadget: pencil holder for drawing a straight line RECIPE: Carve your own small devil + make a pencil holder
May 4, 7-8:30 PM	Let’s make a puppet show: make a puppet show for our 25th anniversary in September RECIPE: Make an outline of a 3-min show
June 1, 7-8:30 PM	Magic of Automata: Report from the UK Automata Fest with one new fresh automata to build RECIPE: Build a new simple automata mechanism
June 29 7-8:30 PM	A what? A Stomper! Meet this little known marionette RECIPE: Make a simple stomper
August 3, 7-8:30 PM	Complicated stringing: Flying Trapeze RECIPE:Make simplified version
Sept 7, 7-8:30 PM	25th anniversary Puppets in Prague Slam RECIPE: Create a 3-min show to present at our celebration!
Oct 5, 7-8:30 PM	Painting: Different approaches (acrylic, oil, how traditional puppeteers painted their puppets) RECIPE: Paint a puppet head
Nov 2, 7-8:30 PM	All about controllers: standard human marionette controllers vs.animal controllers vs. special trick marionettes RECIPE: Make a controller
Dec 7, 7-8:30 PM	Guide to the tradition of Czech mechanical Christmas nativity scenes and how to carve them RECIPE: carve a figure for your own nativity scene
Jan 4, 7-9 PM	Moving Eyes RECIPE: make a simple prototype