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)

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.