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Puppetry: A World History - Great new puppet book!
Recommended highly in the Puppetry Journal (Puppeteers of America publication) this new 272 paged, 350 illustrated book by Eileen Blumenthal seems like a magnificent book to own! (ISBN 0-8109-5587-3) Check it out at www.puppeteers.org click on Puppetry Store. Ask for it for Christmas!
Our new web site!
Check out our new face lifted web site www.wppuppet.com. (A whole new photo spread too!) Special thanks to Iron Lava Corp www.ironlava.com for their work.
 Don’t forget!
Just Kids Advanced Puppet Club – October 23rd
Dancing Cloth Marionettes ’don’t get your strings tangled…’ Challenges children ages 7-12 years to build some sophisticated puppets and learn some skills in performance!
Check our web site at www.wppuppet.com for details...
 How will you spend your St Patrick’s Day? It’s Casino time! Help needed.
W.P. Puppet Theatre Society has been awarded a casino spot on March 16 and 17 2006. Since puppets need to eat but are disallowed from working casinos, we are looking for human volunteers to help us!
The shifts are:
a) Thursday, March 16th (10:30 am – 7:00 pm)
b) Thursday, March 16th (6:00 pm – 2:00 am)
c) Friday, March 17th (10:30 am – 7:00 pm)
d) Friday, March 17th ( 6:00 pm – 3:00)
We require people to fill the key spots of General Managers, Banker, Counting Room Supervisor and the other positions of Cashiers, Chip Runners, Counting Staff.
You should be aware that our casino proceeds will be pledged to new programs, bursaries, subsidies and other opportunities that serve the community we serve.
Please reply by email to wppuppet@telus.net or phone 228 3373 and indicate which shift you are committing to and if you have a preference for position. We require a minimum of 25 human volunteers.
Artistic Director Report
The 2004-2005 season was a full and busy one. In addition to 77 school and community performances and 289 hours of residencies, WPTS ran eight Just Kids Puppet Club sessions for a total of 82 children, 4 performances of “Frogs in a Blue Bucket” for our Neighborhood Tour series reaching about 200 people, the Hocus Pocus Puppet Party and the 2005 Puppet Power – Puppets Promote Literacy Conference. WPTS was proud to perform at the International Animated Object Festival in Calgary, the Literacy Week celebrations in Yellowknife and taught at the Puppets Education Magic Conference in Boston as well as a number of Teacher’s Conventions. In all over 18,000 children and adults attended W.P. Puppet Theatre events!
Feedback from our audiences included comments such as “The students were enthralled” “Our kid’s loved it, we’ll be coming back!”, “Awesome” and “My favorite part was when the grumpy frog blowed up!” (Original spelling).
Thank you to everyone who supported WPTS - we look forward to a great 2005-06 Season. Including:
Giant puppets in Naramata
This past summer Wendy Passmore and Tam Godfrey spent a week playing ‘midwife’ and ‘midhusband?’ to these wonderful giant puppets. Between problem solving, designing and working up a few muscles participants, both young and old agreed it was an outstanding creative process.
  
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