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Summer Member Meeting - June 30th
Next Guild Meeting June 30th!
Friday June 30th 6:30pm at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science!
We are thrilled to partner with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science who will be hosting our next meeting. We will meet at the museum after hours where we will have a private meeting space, access to the museum for FREE, and a cash bar! We are hoping to see some puppetry related artifacts from the anthropology department as well! The museum is being very generous in offering us free tickets, so we need to give them a head count prior to the meeting.
If you would like to join us for a night at the museum please sign up on the following Google form no later than June 27th. We are trying to get a good sized group together for this! If you have family members who want to join please reach out to Katy. We will most likely be able to accommodate those guests. Or even better use this as a chance to convert another friend to the guild! And as always you are welcome to bring any puppets you want to show off or workshop with fellow puppet nerds.
Also please note we are having this meeting on a Friday rather than our usual Tuesday. For members who plan to be at Fan Expo Denver our meeting is happening that weekend so you can get a full weekend of nerds and puppets!
Summer Puppet Palooza and Puppet Slam - Saturday, August 5th
The Rocky Mountain Puppet Slam and Puppet Palooza are back!
Katy Williams Design is happy to announce the next Puppet Palooza and Puppet Slam! Like we did in 2021 we will be partnering with Green Box Arts in Green Mountain Falls CO. We will be doing the Palooza AND the slam in one day!
On August 5th the Rocky Mountain Puppet Palooza will be from 10-2. We will take a break then start getting ready for the Rocky Mountain Puppet Slam at 7:30.
The Puppet Palooza is an outdoor children's festival celebrating all things puppetry, performance, and education It features performances throughout the day, vendors, free crafting stations, and the Colorado Puppet museum! The event is free with a suggested donation. Katy is still looking for performers, vendors, sponsors and volunteers for the Palooza.
Info and details on how to get involved in Puppet Palooza is located here!
The Rocky Mountain Puppet Slam is a night of short form curated puppet acts, for adults! If it is under 5min and about puppetry it will be considered!
If you would like to submit a piece to the Slam please email: katy@katywilliamsdesign.com
Spring Member Meeting - March 29th
Next Guild Meeting March 29th!
Next Guild Meeting March 29th!
Next Guild Meeting March 29th!
Date & Time: March 29th 6pm
Location: Katy Williams Design
2523 Main Street, Co Springs
(Plenty of Street Parking)
Can't join in person? Use this LINK to join us on Zoom!
Please feel free to bring any puppets you are working on and would like to share! We would love to hear what you are up to!
Join us for some great updates about your favorite puppet guild! And a workshop all about patterning 3D objects!
We will talk all about the National Puppetry Festival, upcoming shows, and celebrations of you!
We are thrilled to feature our RMPG President, Katy Williams, at this month’s meeting. She will be presenting "3D to 2D: Basic Foam Patterning"". We are offering this class in person, remotely via the zoom link, and open to the public! Non RMPG members can attend this workshop for $10 (to cover materials). The workshop is free for RMPG members.
Zoom link for RMPG members here
Link to pay and sign up for non-members here
Learn how to turn any 3d object into a pattern! It could be a sculpted clay creature, a porcelain doll head, or even a gigantic easter egg! Katy has used this trick recently on puppets like Ghost Fish and Milky White. In this workshop we will create a very simple head shape using clay and Styrofoam balls. From there you will learn how to create a pattern of the object. Then we will show the process of making it larger and recreating it in foam.
There will be a demo for those attending virtually, and the opportunity to follow along in real time for those who attend in person. Participants will leave with a small pattern of their object and lots of new skills! If you would like to follow along at home please prepare the following materials: Styrofoam sphere or easter egg, masking tape, clingwrap, sharpie, scissors.
As always if you want to bring any puppets you are working on, the meetings are a place of learning and celebration! We would love to see what you are working on.
This workshop is based on the teachings of Lex Rudd. Please check them out!
https://alexisrudd.com/index.php
More about the Presenter
Next Guild Meeting March 29th!
Next Guild Meeting March 29th!
Katy Williams
Katy Williams is a Colorado based puppeteer, fabricator, producer, director, and the owner of Katy Williams Design. Katy loves all puppetry, and specializes in life like large scale creatures, suitcase crankies, and front facing shadow puppetry. Her mission is to spread the joy and accessibility of puppetry in the Rocky Mountains, and she has been extremely influential in implementing puppetry in theatres all over Colorado.
Last May Katy decided to relocate to Colorado Springs, where she has her own wonderful at home studio, a yard for her pup Taevo, and hometown friendships. At the same time Katy finally quit her corporate job to pursue puppetry full time.
Recently Katy's has been up to:
- Winter Wonders with Theatreworks, their third collab!
- Ghost Fish with Theatre Across Borders
- With Theatre Across Borders, developing a brand new show from the imagination of fifth graders about inclusivity and the skeletal system. Check it out in the Springs in April at the Millibo Art Theatre.
- Devising new family puppetry work, Flotsam, with the Millibo Art Theater with Christoper Keller and Julie Talty.
- Staying busy with renting out Milky White puppets, Hand to God, and hopefully many more!
- Performing in the new Opera for Kids, Colorado Sky as a shadow puppeteer this June.
- Remounting Sleepy Hollow this fall in collab with Theatreworks, Green Box, and Downtown Colorado Springs Partnerships.
- And of course, the Rocky Mountain Puppet Slam!
- Stay tuned by following Katy on facebook and instagram at Katy Williams Design.
September 23-24 Puppetry Slam @ the M.A.T.
Fall 2022 Puppetry Slam at Millibo Art Theater, September 23 and 24- please check this show out!
Dragon Theater Sept. 9 @ the M.A.T.
RMPG Members performing - please check this show out!
