![]() ![]() Paulette Richards and Chicago Puppet Festival Artistic Director Blair Thomas. From bunraku, to shadow, to crankie scroll, pageant-style puppets and more. For 12 consecutive days, Chicago will be the puppetry capital of the world, home to more than 100 performances and events around the city that promise to astonish and delight. The Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium is co-curated by Dr. The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is returning in a big way, January 18-29, 2023, at venues large and small throughout the city. Entertainment Puppets are back in town for the largest puppet fest in the country, in all their creative and colorful glory By Rick Kogan Chicago Tribune at 5:00 am Expand. In Van Volkenburg’s honor, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival presents four discussions featuring festival artists and key topics from the works presented in the Festival. Little Theater director Ellen Van Volkenburg needed a program credit for the actors she had trained to manipulate marionettes while speaking the text of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and she coined the word “puppeteer.” That marked the dawn of the movement that has brought us to the rich art form now practiced around the world. Before 1912, the year the Little Theater of Chicago was founded in the historic Fine Arts Building, the term “puppeteer” did not even exist. Well be helping launch Tom Lee and Koryu Nishikawa Vs Akutagawa on January. The Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium brings together practicing Festival artists with scholars to consider the intersection of puppetry with other disciplines and ideas. We will be at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival from January 18-29. The 2022 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival and The School of the Art Institute Chicago presented The Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network on Saturday 22 January and Saturday 29 January 2022. Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Chicago, Illinois. The 2022 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival and The School of the Art Institute Chicago presented The Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network on Saturday 22 January and Saturday 29 January 2022. ![]()
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