6/12/08
As some of you may know, every year we have performances from the conference at the end of the week. This year we will be having the following performances:

• Friday - 7pm
  • all Guest Artists and their participants, all Emerging Artists, Video Anarchy, Marionettes, & Artists in Residence
    
    
• Saturday - 10:30am
  • all Participant Project pieces
    
    
• Saturday - 7pm
  • all Guest Artists and their participants, all Emerging Artists, Video Anarchy, Marionettes, Artists in Residence, & 5 Participant Project pieces

Tickets for the Friday and Saturday night performances can be purchased at the online O'Neill Theater Center Box Office, Tickets are not needed for the Saturday afternoon showings.

We have some more photos to share with you here:

Click the above photo to view more images from the Conference

Tech has begun and the schedule has been set. The lights will dim at 7PM tomorrow night. Everyone here has invested their hearts and souls into this show. Each day at the O'Neill seems like a week. The amount of work that has been squeezed into this week is enormous! Words can not express the excitement and anticipation felt here as we collectively look forward to sharing these new works of puppetry with the world.

6/10/08
The Three Day intensive has ended at the O'Neill Puppetry Conference and we are thrilled by the memories of their final performances.

Jim Kroupa led a the intensive workshop on mechanism building - participants worked ten and eleven hour days to create mechanisms, develop them into puppets and then perform them to showcase their work on the final night. Needless to say, it was intense.

Robert Smythe and Martin P. Robinson led a mind blowing movement workshop intensive. Participants spent two sessions a day with Robert where they explored story lines, movement for stage and making strong choices as a puppeteer. Once a day the participants met with Martin to learn puppet manipulation for television. Both proved to be challenging and exciting experiences for the participants who are still buzzing about their time
with their mentors.

Click the above photo to view more images from Roberts Workshop

Both workshops closed with pub time. Jim's group performed their puppets to great applause. They were awesome. Robert's group led the pub goers in an exercise that was both fun and challenging as well as a fitting lead in to the main conference which is currently in process.

Click on the above photo to view more images from the Pub Performances on Friday Night

The official conference has now begun here at the O'Neill Theater Center. Participants are being asked to stretch, grow, think differently and try something new. All are daring to risk, and it's so exciting!

What a gift.

6/5/08
Thanks to one of our staff members we have some lovely photos from the first day of the Intensives. Click on the photo below to check them out!

6/4/08
Aloha!
We have just opened the 18th Annual National Conference at the O'Neill Puppetry Conference. It a wonderful start many old and new friends are coming together to learn from Jim Kroupa, Robert Smythe and Martin Robinson. The workshop is humming with mechanical wizards in the making, and Robert has the performance workshop poised on the verge of greatness. There will be a performance of some of the worked developed here this week during the 3-day Preconference at Blue Gene's Pub on the grounds of the O'Neill Center on Friday, June 6 at 10:00pm. Join us if you can!
See you soon!
- Pam Arciero

5/1/08
Please note we have had a change in our 3-Day Preconference Intensive Workshops. Robert Smythe and Martin Robinson will be splitting the Performance Worshop. Robert will be teaching Fundamentals of Puppet Performance and Martin will be teaching Video and Television Puppetry Performance. Jim Kroupa is still teaching the Mechanisms workshop.

Due to the change in workshop and instructors, the $50.00 late fee for those who wish to attend this new workshop will be waived.

4/10/08

• We are pleased to announce Marianne Kubik as this summers Movement Coach
  
  
• Ulysses Jones & Megan McNerney will be our Artists in Residence

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2/29/08
Phew! We have been busy over here getting things together for this summers conference. As proof - the site has a bunch of new additions:

• Video Anarchy has their workshop description posted! An exciting film project lead by Martin Robinson and Tim Lagasse.
  
  
• Guest Artist Paul Mesners workshop description and bio have been posted.
  
  
• The Gallery section of the website now has images posted. We are also working on video and should have some clips availbale very soon for your perusal.
  

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1/22/08
The World of Puppetry is a small one. Though it has far reaching effects, and everyone knows what a puppet show is, there just aren’t many places to learn and explore the Puppet Theater.

The O’Neill Puppetry Conference provides a venue in which to collaborate, experiment, explore and develop ideas and talents relating to Puppet Arts. Open to puppeteers, theatre designers, actors, musicians, directors, artists, producers, playwrights and students, our goal is to develop new works for the Puppet Theater, while advancing the standards and skills necessary for the puppet artist.

These eight days are an intense experience of being with puppet artists committed to the art form and to the creation of new works. We remain committed to creating a nurturing and supportive environment in which your visions can be realized by bringing in preeminent guest artists, a professional staff, and providing the physical support to assist and guide the puppet artist.

I invite you to dream, explore, invent, express, create, learn and grow with us this summer.

I promise you an experience that you will never forget.

Pam Arciero