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Conference Background
The world has many challenges to be fearlessly faced and addressed: challenges that must be tackled by individuals, families, communities and countries; challenges on local or global levels in the areas of environment, the economy, politics, health, security, education, the arts and more.
Our biennial puppet conferences, the first of which was in 2001, have included the following themes:
“Puppets as a Therapeutic Medium”
“Embracing Multiculturalism”
“Puppets Promote Literacy” and
“Puppets as Agents of Social Change”.
These Puppet Power conferences attracted participants from all areas of the helping professions as well as educators, artists, activists and students. Our goal through these conferences is to provide greater knowledge and increased comfort in using the medium of puppetry more frequently in various professional and community applications. |
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Conferences provide inspiration, education and practical skills through keynotes, hands-on workshops, peer mentoring, panel discussions and more. They also offer many chances to dialogue with and meet our invited speakers in person, receive one-on-one help in workshops and make new friends from around the world.
Digging Deeper
In 2007 WP Puppet Theatre presented a very successful and inspiring Puppet Power conference that looked at puppetry used in social action. Now we want to “dig deeper” by examining the potential of puppetry to frame the questions, understand the complexity of the problems and look at the issues with “new eyes”.
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