Contribute to our Calendar

     If you are having an upcoming Puppet Slam or Cabaret, please contribute to our monthly Puppet Slam Calendar. Each month, we put out a calendar with basic information on Puppet Slams happening that month and also a brief look ahead into the year. Our calendar is sent via direct email to around 3,000 people (and growing). We also repost and retweet this information on social networks, blogs and through community distribution lists. 

VIEW PREVIOUS CALENDARS HERE

     To collect information efficiently and create accurate copy for the month, we ask that you email your  Submissions generally 1 week before the month of the event. We also ask that you update future events and let us know of any changes, postponements, or cancellations as soon as possible before the Submission Deadline. All Puppet Slams who have received a slam grant are required to send in Calendar Submissions.

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Please email back to puppetslam@mac.com  by the following dates (Note: Do not try to submit through Google Docs):

For Slams happening in:	Submissions due no later than:
January 2012	Monday, December 19th, 2011
February 2012	Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
March 2012	Thursday, February 23, 2012
April 2012	Friday, March 23, 2012
May 2012	Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
June 2012	Friday, May 25th, 2012
July 2012	Friday, June 22nd, 2012
August 2012	Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
September 2012	Friday, August 24th, 2012
October 2012	Monday, September 24th, 2012
November 2012	Thursday, October 25th, 2012
December 2012	Monday, November 19th, 2012

January 2012: The Slampocalypse will not be televised!

 

Warm up your Winter Woes and kick off the New Year with a puppet slam or cabaret! Whether you see 2012 as The End, or a new beginning, one thing is certain: The Slampocalypse will not be televised! (unless of course you know of an affordable documentary film crew with a soft spot for performing objects)

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New Year Slam #Phoenix

Friday, January 6^th at 8:00PM

Saturday, January 7^th at 8:00PM

Great Arizona Puppet Theater

302 W. Latham Street

Phoenix, Arizona 85003

(602) 262-2050

Facebook Page: Adult Puppet Slam

Facebook: Adult Puppet Slam

$8 Advance/ $10 Door

Arizona's quirkiest, edgiest puppeteers come together for some raunchy fun! Independent performers do short pieces, which are usually funny and always adult! Puppet Slam nights at the Great Arizona Puppet Theater are for guests 18+.

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Puppet Slamwich #Baltimore

Saturday, January 14^th at 7:00PM & 9:30PM

Black Cherry Puppet Theater

1115 Hollins Street

Baltimore, MD 21223

410-752-7272

www.puppetslamwich.blogspot.com

$7

 

Pepito the Clown hosts performers from New Jersey, Brooklyn and Baltimore, including marionettes by Princeton Puppet People, worm songs by Laure Drogoul, a preview of Black Cherry’s new show, and captivating performances by Eric Avery & the Ragdoll Engine Collective.

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The Fussy Cloud Puppet Slam #Seattle

Saturday January 14^th at 8:00PM

 

Theater Off Jackson (Upstairs Gallery)

409 7th Ave S

Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 340-1049

www.facebook.com/FussyCloudPuppetSlam

$10

Dreary as it is during Seattle's long Winter, we're drumming up a second edition of The Fussy Cloud Puppet Slam.  Gavin Cummins and Rachel Jackson return along with Elizabeth Westermann, Jenelle Weidlich, Beau Bond, and more!  

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Blood from a Turnip #Providence

Friday, January 20^th at 10:00PM

 

95 Empire Performance Collective

95 Empire Street

Providence, RI 02903

(401) 831-9327

Facebook: Blood from A Turnip

$7

 

Since the day Blood from a Turnip began in February of 1997, BfaT, as the salon is affectionately called, has offered professional puppeteers and those new to the art form an opportunity to present big stories, in miniature.

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Puppet Showplace #Brookline

Saturday January 21^st at 8:00PM

Puppet Showplace Theatre

32 Station Street

Brookline, MA 02445

(617) 731-6400

www.puppetshowplace.org/slam

$15/$13

It’s never too cold for puppets!  January’s Puppet Slam features live music and a new gender-bending puppet performance by Elephant Tango Ensemble, the magnificent Liz Joyce, and more!

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UConn Puppet Slam #Storrs

Saturday, January 21^st at 8:00PM

Studio Theater, University of Connecticut Department of Dramatic Arts

802 Bolton Road

Storrs, Connecticut 06269-1127

(860) 486-4025

Facebook: Uconn Puppet Slam

Free

See exciting and innovative works for puppets and objects by professional puppeteers from the Northeast, as well as new productions by students from UConn’s Puppet Arts Program

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Puppet Playlist #NYC

Monday, January 23^rd at 8:00PM

Tuesday, January 24^th at 7:30PM & 9:30PM

 

The Kraine Theater

84 E. 4^th Street

New York, NY 10003

(212) 777-6088

www.puppetplaylist.com

$8/$10

 

New York’s only all-original puppet slam returns. This month’s theme, by popular demand: The Beach Boys, featuring brand-new works of puppetry & musical interpretations by some of New York’s most exciting singer-songwriters!

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My Journey to The National Puppetry Festival, Georgia, Atlanta 2011

Unbelievable.

In so many words, I will not be able to put down in writing my experience at the National Puppetry Festival this past week. It was my first, and I am hooked for life.

Puppeteers are a very unique type of human. I have met quite a few of them, starting two and a half years ago, with the introduction to my lovely Erin Orr. She opened up this world of people to me, leading me to work with her, Lake Simons, Rima Fand and many other lovely, incredibly talented and generous people on my Wolfy film. But this past week, I got it in a full dose, morning to night, five consecutive days.

Puppeteers like to breath life into any object, animate the simplest of things to the most complex. Yes, I knew that already. I’ve done it all my life without realizing it, and also without any reciprocal action from those around me. I didn’t think anything was wrong with me (I thought something was wrong with them); I just knew that I was different, and that was that. These past five days, I have found that there are others like me, humans who respond to scarf or a simple stuffed puppet, with a genuine spirit of play, awe, tenderness and joy. I was shocked. I mean, we’re talking adults here, and they love it, they add sounds, they look at how it’s made, they’re curious, and they are really attentive people. This bunch is the most supportive, loving and accepting group of individuals (and audience) I have ever met.

Two years ago I performed a short Wolfy piece live at Lake’s living room, in front of eight people. Last week I performed it live, including singing (!!!), for the first time in front of a large audience. Even though I consider myself a filmmaker-puppeteer, I am branching out and I love it. I couldn’t have done it without their support.

I felt at home.

I’ve crossed the ocean with a dream and one suitcase. I have tons of stuff now, and I can finally, finally say, I have found my family.

Make puppets. Play. Share.

Leat Klingman