Roaming Performances 2010

13 January 2011

Check out the best of our roaming adventures for 2010. We tromped around Melbourne, north to Mackay and across the globe to China, Taiwan, Denmark and Korea. View our mad antics on Flickr as best roaming picks for 2010.

Peoples Puppet Project in Hwacheon Korea

03 December 2010

South Korean collaboration with Tuida
After our successful trip to Seoul for the Performing Arts Market (PAMS) in October, we are heading back to Korea.

December will see the first phase of Snuff Puppets' collaboration with the performance group Tuida. Snuff Puppets and Tuida will run a People's Puppet Project workshop together with the local community in the rural village of Hwacheon. The workshop collaboration is the first step in making a new work to tour together with Tuida in 2011.

See our workshop photos on Facebook.

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People's Puppet Project in collaboration with Tuida
@ Hwacheon, Korea
www.tuida.com
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Snuff Party 2010

18 November 2010

Snuff Party is be a night of entertainment and artistic experiment - loosely based on the Human Body; inside and out, literal, metaphorical, metaphysical, magical and shocking. Come and celebrate with us. Be entertained, enlightened, dance, drink, fall over, laugh, cry, be a puppet for a minute or the night.

We're showing our work-in-progress from a recent creative development lab as we open our doors to be part of Open Studios www.openstudiosinthewest.net. Also featuring special guests with surprising acts. Bar, party and dancing on until the wee hours. The world is your Snuff Puppet.

Experiments start at 8pm $10/$5 (conc.) on the door
Cheap beer courtesy of Moritz!

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Snuff Party - Sat 27th November - 8pm
@ Snuff HQ – The Drill Hall
395 Barkly St Footscrazy
www.facebook.com/snuffpuppets

Our Peoples Puppet Project in Taiwan

08 November 2010

Snuff Puppets are heading to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to our People's Puppet Project with a group of Taiwanese artists. In a joint collaboration, Snuff Puppets and Kaohsiung artists will design, build and perform with their own puppets.

Our efforts will culminate in a series of outdoor giant puppet performances as part of the 2010 Kaohsiung International Puppet Festival. Check out our Facebook page for updates on the ongoing puppet building and rehearsal process. www.facebook.com/snuffpuppets

Go forth and parade…
… then after our hard efforts in the workshop, The Boom Family will also be dropping by Kaohsiung, en-route home from their visit to see the Danish Queen Margrethe in Aarhus.
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Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st November 2010
2010 Kaohsiung International Puppet Festival
@ Kaohsiung, Taiwan
http://2010puppetry.kccc.gov.tw

BOOM meets Queen

02 September 2010

And more excitement than one family can handle... the Boom kids will be on their best behaviour as they round up to meet the Queen at the Aarhus Festival opening celebrations…. maybe even Princess Mary will stop by to give Grandpa a kiss?

Following the opening the waltz the Boom Family and our hoofing Cows create corruptible carnage around the showgrounds over 10 days of festivities. You can catch them romping around the both the Aarhus and Skanderborg Festivals.
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27th August – 5th September 2010 @ Århus Denmark
Aarhus Festival www.aarhusfestuge.dk
Skanderborg Festival www.smukfest.dk

People's puppet project Denmark

10 August 2010

Snuff Puppets are driving our workshop vehicle to Denmark to design and construct spectacular giant puppets with local artists. A two-week People’s Puppet Project workshop is being held at the Peter Sabroe School in Århus.

The 30 workshop participants are a bunch of young local artists who will collaborate with Snuff Puppets. Together we'll design, build and concoct a giant puppet theater work.

People’s Puppet Project @ Peter Sabroe School, Århus Denmark

Head to Fed Square this weekend

07 July 2010

Catch up with us all this Friday 9th July to Sunday 11th at 10am, 12pm and 2.30pm.

On the loose our those naughty Boom kids and with their dozy Grandpa trailing closely behind. And across the square you'll find rampaging Cows and their flirtatious line dancing Cowboy who's likely to snuggle up with Mum if you give him half a chance.

Skeletons at The Burton Club

21 June 2010

Roll up for a night of the weird and wonderful when the doors to the Burton Club swing open. Featuring Snuff Puppets own ghastly skeletons plus the fast-paced rhythms of Johnnie and the Johnnie Johnnies and Zombie hula hoopers Hoopnotised.

Take a peek at Tim Burton: The Exhibition at ACMI then head to the Burton Club for free entertainment. What more could you ask for?

Burton Club Thursday 1st July from 6–10pm @ ACMI at Fed Square

Puppets at Fed Square

12 May 2010

Head to into the city in July for an explosion of shameless Snuff Puppet shenanigans. Dressed up like a bull that’s won first prize at the show, is the bootlicking line-dancing Cowboy parading his herd of life-sized cows round the square. An awkwardly shy though curious bunch, don’t be surprised if the cows let themselves loose….

Come the meet the Boom Family – meddlesome Mum and dawdling Dad are taking the kids, Scotty and Kelly, out on the town but while Grandpa’s determined to dilly-dally around they’ll be getting no place fast.

See you there from the 5th - 11th July, checkout Puppets at Fed Square.

Boom Family on holiday at Shanghai World Expo

31 March 2010

Roaming the streets at the Shanghai World Expo is the world-traveled Snuff Puppets’ Boom Family. It’s a timely holiday for the family who are coming out of retirement to entertain the crowds.

Closely following the Booms are those pestering giant seagulls followed by a clambering herd of life-sized cows. Puppet madness and mayhem are sure to ensue.

Catch up with Snuff Puppets on Flickr

14 March 2010

See the latest snapshots of Snuff projects in progress, our artistic collaborations with artists and workshops with community groups around the world.

www.flickr.com/photos/snuffpuppets

Snuff Puppets head to APAM

14 February 2010

Snuff Puppets are off to the Australian Performing Arts Market in Adelaide 22nd to 26th February. Catch our run down on the Peoples’ Puppet Project.

Snuff Puppets in Yogyakarta

07 June 2008

From 22nd June to the 5th of July we ran our second People's Puppet Project in Java. Collaborating with 10 professional artists and 50 students, we created a spectacular performance based on stories from the Ramayana. The show was presented in the district of Bantul to an audience of 3000 people.