Time: 9:00 am–3:00 pm
Celebrate National Day of Puppetry in Bridgewater, NJ, on Saturday April 21. The Garden State Puppetry Guild hosts "The Magic of Puppetry," an all-day puppetry festival, partnering with the 4-H Club of Bridgewater. Join Guild members from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm for morning workshops and afternoon performances displaying a wide variety of puppetry styles at the Ted Blum Somerset County 4-H Center, 310 Milltown Road, Bridgewater, NJ, 08807.
Morning workshops give children and their families hands-on experience creating and manipulating handkerchief puppets and rod puppets. There is also a movement and voice workshop for hand puppets. Registration for workshops begins at 9:00 am, April 21 at the 4-H Center. There is a materials fee of $15.00 per child, which includes all three workshops. Workshops are geared for grade-schoolers.
Bring your lunch so you can stay, enjoy and participate in the free afternoon puppet shows, which begin at 1:00 pm. Shows will include Penny Rapicano's Fun on a String marionettes, Lois Corwin's Double Ducky Theater featuring hand puppets, An Introduction to Ventriloquism with Michael Terletsky, a shadow puppet show "The Amazing Leo" about a magician by San D Hasselman, and theater participation games for the children using puppets created in the morning workshops.
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