Snuff Puppets

🐦 See you in a few weeks Darwin!

🐌 Mirabelle the giant Snail sliding outside Bendigo Art Gallery! x

[I.D. Giant three meter long Snail puppet sits in front of the historic Bendigo Art Gallery with 6 people standing behind it]

🐌 Mirabelle the giant Snail will be sliding around Bendigo Art Gallery 🕚 Tuesday 2 July, 11:45am - 3pm

Please don’t ride on the tail ~ Mirabelle is hungry...

[I.D. Photo of a giant 3 meter long Snail puppet with a young kid riding on the Snail's tail]

🐌 Mirabelle the Snail will be in Bendigo on Tuesday!

The Bendigo Art Gallery have lots of activities to spark your child's imagination these school holidays!

Puppet snail Mirabelle, who is 2.6 metres long and weighs 145kg, will be making a special appearance at the Gallery on Tuesday July 2 from 11.45 to 12.15pm, 12.45pm to 1.15pm and 2.30pm to 3pm (free to attend).

The Gallery's Winter City of Brights school holiday program has a range of age appropriate sessions, with many free sessions including Open Range Art, Puppet Making Workshop and Paris Paste Up with Mr Dimbles.

There's also a First Nations Inspired Necklace Making Workshop ($12 entry).

The program runs from Tuesday July 2 to Thursday July 11 and can be viewed at:

https://www.bendigoregion.com.au/bendigo-art-gallery/bag-events/city-of-brights-winter-holiday-workshops

👶 Happiness is best when shared.

There are 2 days left to make a tax-deductible donation to S***f Puppets by Aussie EOFY June 30.

S***f Puppets believe art is for everybody. Sharing is at the heart of what we do. We do as much as we can for free and keep ticket prices low when we must charge.

We work with artists & community groups to tell stories with giant puppets. We support artist development through residencies, and run workshops to empower everyone to express their creativity.

Last year, thousands of people encountered our giant puppets in their communities. Your generosity ensures that our puppets can keep touching lives.

Click here to give now 👉🏽 https://snuffpuppets.com/DONATE

[I.D. An 8-meter tall Baby puppet reaches into a smiling crowd and shakes hands with a man.]

🛎️ ENROL in Townsville S***f Skool - a fun one-day performance workshop with S***f Puppets & North Australian Festival of Arts

Thursday 26 September 2024

Enrol 4 free 👉🏾 www.nafa-tsv.au/event/snuff-skool

"A great feeling to be part of a performance team"
– S***f Skool graduate

🐦 S***f Puppets SEAGULLS will also be flying around, 28-29 September.

[ID: A person in a white t-shirt stands in a spacious hall, gazing up at a towering 3-meter tall puppet of a girl named Kelly Boom. Kelly is dressed in a vibrant yellow dress adorned with a large floral pattern.]

👋🏿 Hello! We believe Art is for Everybody & most of our shows are free or with low tix prices.

This year we're facing a financial shortfall...

You can help. S***f Puppets is a not-for-profit registered charity. Donations $2+ are tax-deductible. With EOFY coming, now is a good time to donate!

❌ snuffpuppets.com/DONATE

[ID: Big Baby puppet looking up into a clear blue sky, with text: "You can improve the life of a S***f Puppet today - DONATE"]

🐙 Find Your Voice Collective members have spent this week mastering the art of creating giant puppets - with S***f Puppets - that will eventually be used for festivals and events across the south-west.

As part of the People's Puppet Project, participants have been designing and making 12 animal-themed puppets including an octopig, house cat, hawk, eagle, elephant, pelican, border collie and vampire wolf.

A giant trumpet - the logo of the Find Your Voice Collective - is also in the process of being constructed.

S***f Puppets co-artist director Nick Wilson said the Australian theatre company had been going since the early 1990s.

"It's 33-odd years of making giant puppets all over the world, travelling to loads of concerts doing roaming and main stage and also workshops called People's Puppet projects where we build whole new puppet shows with communities in a short amount of time and then go and present them in public spaces," Mr Wilson said.

"We've done them all over the world in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, South America and regional Australia.

"We're really excited to be here in Warrnambool doing the latest one, working with all these amazing creatives and bringing to life all these really exciting imaginative characters that they've come up with."

The giant animal heads are scaled up versions of the clay models that participants created.

"First they're scaled up, then they're assembled like a big jigsaw and then they're covered with fabric and then they'll be painted," Mr Wilson said.

The bodies of the animals are being made with the help of volunteers from the Warrnambool Theatre Company.

Find Your Voice Collective producer Kate Hancock said participants would do performance training before doing any public performances.

"There is a lot involved in being a puppeteer in terms of physicality and managing heat and stress and interaction with the general public," she said.

"This is just the first stage of a long-term project.

"It's designed to travel down Liebig Street, to be performed on the Civic Green out the front of WAG, at the Port Fairy Folk Festival in line with our choir and other performances."

Visual artist Xavier Knights was inspired to create a house cat puppet which he likes to call ZoZo.

Ms Hancock said participants had looked at the concept of spirit animals, or animals they were drawn to or relate to.

"Xavier has always been house cat. It's sort of his brand as a visual artist," Ms Hancock said.

The puppet project was made possible with a $39,810 grant from from Create Australia, $15,000 from the Fletcher Jones Family Foundations and $5,000 from Regional Arts Victoria.

Find Your Voice Collective creative director Tom Richardson said as with all its projects, the goal was to increase visibility and challenge stereotypes.

Photo: Isabelle Hoskins with the Octopig creation that is in the process of being made.

'Designed to travel down Liebig Street': Giant puppets brought to life 'We've done them all over the world.'

🐦 Our giant Seagulls are flying up to Darwin Festival 14-18 August 2024!

Family Fiesta | Darwin Festival Family Fiesta guarantees non-stop fun and adventure for the whole family as part of our packed Palmerston weekend of Festival entertainment

⭐ Today we presented a People's Puppet Project Power Point Presentation (PPPPPP) at Showcase Victoria!

"S***f Puppets have produced 40 giant community workshops worldwide over the past 30 years."

People’s Puppet Projects 👉🏿 https://snuffpuppets.com/what-we-do/peoples-puppet-project

Showcase Victoria 👉🏿https://showcasevictoria.com.au/production-profiles/peoples-puppet-projects

People's Puppet Project - S***f Puppets Community development workshops

We honor the life of Kate Callingham x

All of S***f Puppets’ staff, Board and membership were deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the loss of Kate Callingham in an accident this weekend.

Kate has been serving on our Board since 2022. She brought empathy, wisdom, warmth, incisive thinking, strategic capability and much more to our company.

Like many in the arts and council community across Melbourne, we will miss her kind energy and spirit.

We send our deepest sympathy to Kate’s family and friends.

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Friends of Kate are invited to honour her memory by donating to this memorial fund - gofundme.com/f/kate-callingham-memorial-fund

📣 In 2023, S***f Puppets presented 74 live performances with 16,500+ audience members, six community workshops, & viral videos reaching 20 million+ people worldwide.

Check our Annual Report 👉🏿 www.snuffpuppets.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/S***fPuppetsAnnualReport2023.pdf

I.D. Front cover of 'S***f Puppets Annual Report 2023', with a photo of a 15-meter long pink Cochlea inflatable in a city park.

🐸 Buffo the cane Toad at 'Get a Taste of Creative West' in Footscray!

🐸 Magpie, Mozzie & Buffo the poisonous cane Toad will entertain crowds at 'Get a Taste of Creative West'

2:30 - 6pm
Saturday 6 April
Footscray Library Carpark
Paisley x French St Footscray

Presented by City of Maribyrnong

- www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/library/Events/Get-a-taste-of-Creative-West

🐉 The tale of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ 🐉 The Legend of Ancient Vietnam 🐉 1:25pm Sunday 28 January 🐉 Hampshire Road Sunshine

🐦 Seagulls at Circular Quay (Rocks end) today: 11:30am, 1pm & 2:30pm Sydney Festival