Tag: Great Arizona Puppet Theater
Downtown Digest: Enjoy lunchtime jazz, alien puppets this week
Hello lovely people! It’s me, T.J. Triolo, your guide to downtown Phoenix. I’ve got another roundup of some nice events here for you to...
DECONSTRUCTED: The Adult Puppet Podcast
Deconstructed is a Downtown Devil podcast where we deconstruct events, developments and hyperlocal stories in downtown Phoenix. I’m your host, Keerthi Vedantam, and we...
Puppet theater fundraises for Imagine This! show with Kenilworth students
The Great Arizona Puppet Theater is looking for community support as it aims to fund its annual Imagine This! puppet show in collaboration with...
Imagine This! spurs creativity in Kenilworth students
Pandora’s Box, lost turtles and talking dogs were featured among the 14 short puppet shows written by students at Kenilworth Elementary School and performed...
Adult puppet slams provide local puppeteers opportunity for artistic liberty
Leave the kids at home--this puppet show is adults-only. The Great Arizona Puppet Theater puts on a monthly Adult Puppet Slam to give its puppeteers a chance to show off all their skills. The theater is a member of the national Puppet Slam Network.
Phoenix Festival of the Arts features two murals by 120 artists in second year
The second annual Phoenix Festival of the Arts was held Friday to Sunday at Margaret T. Hance Park, giving local artists another opportunity to come together and work on the large-scale murals that are a centerpiece of the three-day festival. For this year’s festival, Medina said two murals would be completed with the help of 120 local artists. While one mural was worked on just as it was the previous year, the other had a more direct theme.
Local puppeteer teaches values to children through classic tales
Nancy Smith, director and puppeteer for the Great Arizona Puppet Theater, and her husband, Kenneth Bonar, use puppet shows of fairy tales to teach good values to children.