WORKSHOPS

Puppet Characters

Create a Character Workshop

(as seen by hundreds of children's librarians - join the cool crowd!)

Are you ready to try your hand at making your own puppet character? Release your inner puppeteer - you know you have one! Explore the possibilities of your own puppet or try your hand at one of Johanna's original puppets. She will introduce you to basic manipulation skills, vocal technique, and simple teaching strategies.

Advanced Puppet Manipulation

Learn techniques Johanna has perfected over the last 20 years of teaching and performing, and after working and studying with the Bread and Puppet Theatre, Eric Bass of Sandglass Theatre, the O'Neill Puppetry Conference, Michael Earl, Gina Pavlova, and many movement artists from all over the world. Use a variety of puppets to learn a basic vocabulary of puppet movement.

Standards through Puppets

Teaching and Assessing the Standards through Puppetry

Engage your students while meeting the standards. Join Johanna in a workshop which covers all four of the fine arts in one amazing, engaging, and standards-based lesson. Johanna will share lessons she developed with children aged 8-12 for the NEA. We'll cover as many standards as we can and use lots of recycled and found materials. Learn strategies to create experiences that children will love and simple ways to keep the arts in the classroom.

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Workshops

Puppet Characters

Create a Character Workshop

(as seen by hundreds of children's librarians - join the cool crowd!)

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Advanced Puppet Manipulation

Advanced Puppet Manipulation

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Standards through Puppets

Teaching and Assessing the Standards through Puppetry

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