Puppet Palace Projects Company

 

 

Why should the kids have all the fun

Fringe Puppet Venue

Fringe YEP shows for schools

Workshops

Major Projects

Links

Contact us

Email keith: artbeatkp@aol.com

Mob: 0418 839 264 Tel: (08) 8352 46 18

 

Puppet Palace Projects Company was recently launched in Adelaide at La Boheme Cabaret Space. Guests enjoyed drinks, eats and a short puppet cabaret. Puppet Palace coordinators, Lachlan Haig and Keith Preston (both well known as Australia's foremost Punch Professors) presented a short outline of how Puppet Palace will operate:

"Puppet Palace aims to support the coordination, promotion and development of Puppetry in South Australia as well as network with puppetry at a national level. We are concerned at the lack of activity, direction and resourcing of this important art-form in the current S.Aust arts scene.

By creating a puppet project company we aim to create the means to realise our visions for a vibrant puppet community in this State. Consequently, we have developed a FIVE-POINT plan to rejuvenate  and develop the noble art of Puppetry. We are committed to a puppetry that is socially relevant, diverse, inclusive and that values  both new ideas and traditions.

Our motto is 'Why should kids have all the fun!' and one of our secondary aims is to present exciting puppetry for adults as well as children"

The Puppet Palace Project Company's  'FIVE POINT PLAN' for the development of SA puppetry identifies a number of key projects presented in partnership with key organisations:

1.      Presenting and further developing the Puppet Palace puppet VENUE annually at The Adelaide Fringe Festival (in partnership with The Garden of Unearthly Delights) This project was started in February 2007. The 2008 Program will feature 35 puppeteers from 18 different puppet companies.
2.      Presenting workshops
 Running the Pooka Puppet Company Workshops at The Odeon supported by Carclew Youth Arts)
3.      Taking the Puppet Palace CONCEPT to other festivals and venues as well as presenting and supporting local and visiting Puppet shows throughout the year in Adelaide.
4.      Be a  network & forum for Puppetry. SUPPORT and an advocate for puppetry in South Australia
5.      Assist the development, management and funding of NEW PUPPETRY PROJECTS in South Australia

 

Puppet Palace Projects Company is pleased to be working closely with SA puppeteers, UNIMA Australia (UNESCO sponsored International body for Puppetry) Adelaide Fringe, SA State Libraries & Sue Harris Puppets, Garden of Unearthly Delights,  Pooka Puppet Company, Woodford Folk Festival Queensland....and are developing further new partnerships with major SA arts organisations for  development and presentation of future puppetry programs.