Credit: Puppet by Kendall Buckingham (@ken.buck.ham) from May 2026 PiPs

June Puppets-in-Progress with Pookie Puppet Slam!

Sunday, June 28, 2026
10AM–1PM (PiPs)
1PM–3PM (Pookie Puppet Slam)
Near the Humboldt Park Boathouse (exact location TBA—check our Instagram for the most up to date info)

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 the free slam to follow with our friends, Pookie Puppet Slam: @pookiepuppets.

What is PiPs?
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! Puppets in Progress has sister branches in NYC at @greenfeatherorg & Minneapolis at @intheheartofthebeast.

About our guests & the slam to follow PiPs!
Pookie Puppet Slam is low-stakes, high-fun puppet slam; frequently free, DIY, & in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, Pookie is a warm puppet slam that uniquely uses a lottery system for their curation.