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The Puppetry Arts Guild of Utah and the SCERA Center for the Arts are pleased to present the 19th Annual Utah Puppetry Festival on Saturday, April 10th, 2009.

Find out the details here.

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The Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe, based at the University of Missouri, will be performing at the Pardoe Theatre at Brigham Young University in Provo, on January 16th and 17th.

Bunraku is an amazing form of traditional Japanese Puppetry, more properly called ningyō jōruri.

Martin Holman, is the coordinator of the Japanese studies program at University of Missouri and the director of the troupe.  He studied Japanese at BYU, and is the first non-Japanese to ever be trained in and perform ningyō jōruri in Japan.

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New Organization!

The board met on September 20, 2008 to discuss guild business and we laid out plans for the coming year. As many of you already know, the Utah Wyoming Puppetry Guild is now known as the Puppetry Arts Guild of Utah, or PAGU (pronounced “pa-joo”.)Non-profit incorporation plans are on track and are being handled by Nat Reed.
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Attention Utah Puppeteers!  We received the following email from the 2009 National Puppetry Festival:

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We had a lot of fun at the 17th Annual Puppetry Workshops last week on April 26th. Here are a few photos from the event:

Making Origami Dragon Puppets with Donna Price

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We will be holding the 17th Annual Puppetry Workshops all day on April 26th. Also don’t miss the Puppet Variety Show later that afternoon. Details, Maps, and Registration forms are available at:

http://utahpuppetry.com/17th-annual-puppetry-workshops-variety-show/

The workshops in past years have been a blast. Watch for pictures and video from the event here on the Utah Puppetry blog after the 26th. Hope to see you there!

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Welcome to the new website! Here on the blog section of the site we will be posting pictures and videos of guild events, as well as Utah puppetry news, announcements, and links to fun and useful puppet resources on the web.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of puppetry in Utah!

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