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! Stick around for a brief introduction to Elastic Arts & our first Chicago Black puppeteer symposium!
What is PIPs? [2pm-4pm] 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!
Special Presentation: [4pm-6pm] Chicago Black Puppeteer Symposium! Join us in an informal discussion moderated by Samuel Lewis with some of Chicago’s Black puppeteers to talk about what it means to be a puppeteer as a career in Chicago, the vast scope of experiences working in and leading up to this field, and to celebrate our triumphs as working artists year-round in this city.
About our Hosts! Elastic Arts Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports a community of musicians, artists, performers, and audiences in our Avondale/Logan Square neighborhood and throughout the city. Elastic is an organization that exists to create space for all artists to create, but especially ones who are not welcome elsewhere because the content of their work is experimental, unorthodox, non-traditional, out of bounds, or reflective of racial, ethnic, sexual or political identities that are unwelcome in (or threatening to) dominant cultural institutions.
