IBEX Puppetry

Happy Mother's Day, everyone!

2014 SLAM GRANT DIRECTIONS & SURVEYS (due 10/1/13)

Our friend & Handmade Puppet Dreams Film Series artist Jamie Shannon will be teaching at a film-centered art program this summer in Toronto! What a wonderful opportunity to expose your children to the excitement of creating puppetry on film.

Holy My Little Pony, it's today! The Broomstick Pony Derby kicks off to benefit Urban ReThink in just a few hours. Come join us there for racing, funny hats, dancing, good food, and all the pony puns you can handle, neiiiiiighbor!

Tod Caviness, ace reporter, shares the skinny on this weekend's biggest events--including the Broomstick Pony Derby! Head to Urban ReThink tonight for the last pony-making workshop or cobble together your own steed at home and head to the races themselves this Saturday, May 4th.

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Attention, Thornton Park District: We have a lost , hairless dog at our office. He's very sweet, and he needs his home. Please inform us if you know where he belongs.

Check out some photos from last years' Broomstick Pony Derby, and get inspired for this one! Tomorrow is the pre-party and May 4th is the big derby day! Support our creative neiiiiighbor friends Urban ReThink and be a part of this new Orlando tradition.

Arizona friends, you have many options to see our Handmade Puppet Dreams Film Series, with screenings in Tuscon (Volume II) with Puppets Amongus May 3rd-5th and in Phoenix at Great Arizona Puppet Theater (Volume I) May 4th-5th! Contact the theaters for showtimes and ticket information.

One of my favorite puppet films that we screen through our Handmade Puppet Dreams Film Series is Steve Johnson's EVERLOVING. Audiences always are in awe of how this film was made, I like to say it was filmed "underwater, upside down and backward" but I wasn't there and only heard stories from my buddy, Fred Fraleigh . I like to offer audiences more information about the making of the films, in gallery form & slide shows (as this is the aspect that excites me the most) and we couldnt find anything (other then the storyboards by Kevin McTurk. The film was always such a mystery to me. Well, now thanks to the good folks at The Stan Winston School of Character Arts (thanks Matt Winston), they have posted a detailed blog about how this mysterious film was actually make. Yahoo enjoy!

IBEX Puppetry supports the work of United Arts of Central Florida! Won't you?

Happy National Day of Puppetry! If you're in the Atlanta, Georgia area, head over to the Center for Puppetry Arts for a full day of activities, culminating with a screening of the latest edition in our Handmade Puppet Dreams Film Series!

IBEX staff can help aspiring Broomstick Pony Derby riders of all ages in constructing their very own mount at Urban ReThink this Thursday, April 25th from 6:25pm-8:25pm! (Photo courtesy of Angie Hart)

Ibex Puppetry's Endangered Species Parade celebrates the unity of all living beings on Earth Day.

Thank you, Orlando Sentinel, thank you Central Florida Earth Day 2013, and thank you to everyone who came out to play, dance, and celebrate with us on Saturday!

From 11am till 5pm today we'll be at Lake Eola Park for Central Florida Earth Day with FREE puppet crafts, entertainment, & workshops (find us near the flagpoles; just look for our giant gator). Watch the video below for a preview of our Musical Garden and Endangered Species Parades!

What's Ibex Puppetry got in store for you this weekend, Downtown Orlando? Follow the link below to find out!

Central Florida Earth Day happens this Saturday, April 20th at Lake Eola Park. We'll be there with our free Endangered Species Parades, Musical Garden, movement workshops, puppet crafts, endangered animal education, and a 400lb surprise!

Join us at Central Florida Earth Day this Saturday, April 20th in Downtown Orlando for our FREE Endangered Species Parades, Musical Garden, movement workshops, puppet crafts, endangered animal education, and a chance to take your picture with a 400lb gator!

Join us at Central Florida Earth Day this Saturday, April 20th Lake Eola Park for our FREE Endangered Species Parades, Musical Garden, movement workshops, puppet crafts, endangered animal education, and a gigantic special surprise!

Don't miss the exciting inaugural year of the Los Angeles Puppet Festival! We'll be there with Handmade Puppet Dreams Film Series films, puppets, and filmmaker Q&A thanks to the generosity of the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry, who are presenting an extended screening event FREE to the public.