Puppet image credit: Robbie Hunsinger

A FREE puppet community meeting for you! Join us to see cool puppets-in-process of creation; all stages of development are invited to share a community space for experimentation.

Everyone is welcome! Bring a project, prototype, sketch, or idea, no matter how rough, or just come for the conversation! No RSVP required; ADA accessible space :)

𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝙶𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚜
The Chicago Cultural Center will be our special host! Come visit for the final days of the incredible exhibition, 𝘗𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺: 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘗𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘜𝘱 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 before it closes its nearly four-month run (co-presented by The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival @chipuppetfest)

𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝙿𝚒𝙿𝚜?
Puppets in Progress (PiPs) is an informal gathering for testing out new puppet and object-based performances. Bring whatever you’re working on and get encouragement and feedback from other disciplines & puppet-folks!

𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙋𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙮
Chicago is home to a rich and growing ecology of puppet artists whose work bridges disciplines and communities of makers. This sampling of puppets by local artists challenges expectations about puppetry and inspires the public to tell their own stories. Take the rare chance to look closely at sculptural works usually only seen in motion at a distance. Celebrate material and formal invention, trace networks of collaboration, and discover some of the exciting questions and possibilities that are animating Chicago puppet artists today.