Fall 2024
Join us for The Fall Living Room Tour and Puppetry Workshops
The Living Room Tour events are intimate fundraisers in special settings. Always a wonderful time, each event takes place at a unique, private location. Your ticket includes drinks, dinner, dessert and a puppetry performance that will astonish and delight! Get Tickets (Nov 14-16)
Take a live online workshop from anywhere in the world! Whether you choose a 1-week intensive, or you prefer 1 night a week over several weeks, these workshops offer a range of puppetry styles with expert instruction to create within a fun, communal format. Register Now
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Chicago Puppet Festival Launches Online Archive
Whether you are a puppeteer, a scholar, or a fan, you are welcome to immerse yourself in our free archive to gain inspiration, read deeply about puppetry performances, learn new skills, or appreciate a culture that may be different from your own. This archive is helping to redefine the mainstream understanding of puppetry and foster enduring cross-cultural understanding in a pluralistic world.
This project is made possible by generous funding from the Walder Foundation.
in the heart of winter
An Oasis of Fascination & Artistry
The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is celebrated for consistently excellent and unforgettable puppetry experiences. It is an oasis of fascination and artistry — representing a breadth of style, quality of work and spectacular depth of artistic achievement from the US and abroad. In the heart of winter, the Festival spans 11 days and dozens of Chicago venues, sharing 100+puppetry activities with 14,000+ guests. The Festival includes performances, symposium, Catapult artist intensive, workshops, the Free Neighborhood Tour, and more. Since its launch in 2015, the Festival has highlighted artists from nations including Iran, Korea, Japan, Chile, South Africa as well as from Europe, Chicago and across the U.S. with the goal of promoting peace, equality, and justice on a global scale. We hope you will join us for the next Festival, January 15-26, 2025!
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How it Happens: With Your Support
The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival exists because of the generous donations of our partners and friends. To ensure the future vitality of the Festival, please make a donation online today!
