Puppets Up! is an annual two-day international festival devoted to the art of puppetry and the creation of fun held in Almonte, Ontario, Canada each August. The festival is proudly endorsed by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
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Almonte (Town of Mississippi Mills) Ontario, July 21, 2011 — Two students from Sheridan College’s Advanced Special Effects, Makeup, Prosthetics and Props program have arrived in Almonte for a two-week field placement under the supervision of the Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival.
This special course is one of a few of its kind in North America and the only one in the Ontario college system. Through intensive lab …
Read more...Almonte (Town of Mississippi Mills) Ontario, July 20, 2011 — The Puppets Up! International Festival (August 6 & 7) has posted both its official show schedule and a visitor guide to the festival web site at www.puppetsup.ca.
The festival schedule includes performance times for this year’s 12 visiting troupes. The guide includes key information and links to help festival goers, especially those with young children, plan their fun in …
Read more...Almonte (Town of Mississippi Mills) Ontario, July 19, 2011 — UNIMA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette), the international puppet organization that represents over seventy countries, will hold its board meeting in Almonte during the Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival on August 6 and 7, 2011.
Manuel Morán, founder and Artistic Director of the Society of Educational Arts Inc. (SEA) and head of the Teatro SEA (Society of the Educational Arts, Inc.) – Los …
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I just can’t wait for all the crazy street fun that’s going to happen in Almonte at this year’s Puppets Up! Festival. I got a sneak peak at the line up of curb-side entertainers, and it’s too exciting! I can’t sleep just thinking out it. There are jugglers, stilt walkers, face painters, clowns, balloon twisters, musicians and of course….puppets! Talk about fun for the whole family! Jeepers! Oh….And I’ll …
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Almonte (Town of Mississippi Mills) Ontario, July 12, 2011 — For seven years running, the Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival has allowed its well-scrubbed, family friendly reputation to be dragged through the mud – for a couple of hours anyway. Once again, the fresh-faced, youth-oriented festival is turning its Saturday evening stage over to some very bad puppets and some very bad puppeteers.
Puppets Up! presents Au …
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