In addition to new work, the Center will present beloved classics, some with a twist, such as the award-winning The Little Pirate Mermaid (June 29-Aug. This new work, by Center Puppet Designer and Director Jason Hines, is based on the life and work of two legendary inventors with very different visions of the future. The Center’s stages will be busier than ever this season with 14 productions for children and adults, including the world premiere of Tesla vs. Our new regular museum events Sketchbook Saturdays, for artists of all ages, and Puppet Runway Shows, continue as a way for patrons to bring their creativity to life in our museum space. New museum acquisitions, works from active puppeteers and artists, Center-made puppets and bite-size pieces of puppet history will be on display in the Center’s atrium, including It’s a Big, Big World (June 7-August 14), Contemporary Spotlight on Raymond Carr (Aug. We are excited to create new opportunities for patrons to engage with our museum collection throughout the season. In 2023, we look forward to an exhibition that showcases puppets from the 2009 Spike Jonze production of Where the Wild Things Are, based on the popular book of the same name written by Maurice Sendak. The exhibition is an exploration into the puppetry and history behind some recognizable and lesser-known characters from holiday film and TV specials. Other upcoming special Museum exhibitions include Festive Features (Nov 15 – Jan 8, 2023), filling the Center with holiday cheer during the run of our popular Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer™ production. Created by Jeghetto and co-written with Pierce Freelon, 5P1N0K10, the stage version, is a post-apocalyptic Afrofuturistic puppet show, which features an original score by Hip Hop producer Hir-O.Hoper. The gallery will feature interactive large-scale puppetry installations and backstories of characters that come to life in Jeghetto’s 5P1N0K10 – A HIP HOPERA stage production, presented as part of the Center’s New Directions Series from June 23-26. For the exhibition, Jeghetto takes over the Center’s Dean DuBose Smith Special Exhibition Gallery to transport visitors to the Afrofuturist world of 5P1N0K10 (pronounced Spinokio). Puppetry NOW launches in June with an exhibition by Tarish Pipkins, known as Jeghetto, a self-taught multi-media artist with roots in music who has performed puppetry arts in video including with Missy Elliott. The season kicks off with a new Museum exhibition series focused on contemporary artists of color called Puppetry NOW, a brand new Puppet Discovery Camp for 8 and 9 year olds, and a reimagined Online Puppetry Playdate using a variety-show interactive format. The Center for Puppetry Arts is excited to announce its 2022-2023 season, with a full schedule of museum, onstage and online programs, and several new museum programs and events. The center’s yearly performance of “Rudolph” is always its most popular show.īoard member Cheryl Henson, daughter of the late Jim Henson, said the figures have come to the right place. In 2010 the center debuted a puppet show based on the Rankin/Smith film.Ītlanta’s puppet builders viewed the film frame-by-frame to recreate scrupulously accurate puppet versions of the figures. The Midtown puppetry center is a logical home for Rudolph and Santa. 13 and gave them to the center on semi-permanent loan. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and his boss Santa have piloted their sleigh to Midtown’s Center for Puppetry Arts.Īn anonymous donor bought them for $368,000 at auction Nov. The puppet hero of the 1964 animated children’s feature. The most famous reindeer of all has flown to Atlanta.
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