A MOUTH PUPPETRY INTENSIVE
$625 CDN for the course plus $65 for materials = $690 total. There is only space for 12 participants, so sign up soon! If you are interested in this course, please email Kanja at puppetguy-2001@yahoo.com
Monday November 25th, from 5 to 9 p.m. – Instructor Mike Petersen To kick off this film and television Intensive, Mike Petersen will place his fleet of soft “trainer puppets” ont
o your hands and give you the simplest tricks he knows – the short-cuts to bestowing life and creating the illusion of thought. You’ll learn the basics of lip-sync and gestures, and we’ll develop a vocabulary of camera-ready movements and emotions. In short: we’ll talk the talk and walk the walk!
Tuesday November 26th to Friday 29th, 5 to 9 p.m.– Instructor Kanja Chen Have you ever wanted to build your very own professional puppet? Do you love
creating animal puppets and want to learn skills that will help you design a whole cast of characters? Look no further; welcome to The Furry Friends Puppet Building Workshop! Led by professional puppeteer and puppet builder Kanja Chen of Fraggle Rock fame, this workshop will guide you through the entire process of designing and fabricating your own furry animal puppet. Over four evenings, you’ll learn about design, materials, tools, pattern-making, cutting, sewing, gluing, and adding unique features to bring your puppet character to life.
Saturday November 30th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Instructor, Kanje Chen Join Kanja for a “puppetastic” day of puppetry television monitor work for film and television, using the puppet characters you’ve just built. Through hands-on exercises, games and lessons, you’ll learn to bring your puppets to life in engaging and technically sound ways—skills sure to elevate your next project.
THE INSTRUCTORS’ IMPRESSIVE BIOS
Mike Petersen has performed with Mermaid Theatre, Festival Antigonish, Kaleidoscope Theatre, Poland’s Teatr Arlekin, Theatre Direct, Theatre Beyond Words, YPT, and Shaw Festival. Film and television credits include Fraggle Rock, Labyrinth, Toopy and Binoo Vroom Vroom Zoom, The Mighty Jungle, and the Emmy-nominated pre-school series Miss Persona.
Kanja Chen is a puppeteer, producer and writer who has worked on Emmy-winning Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (AppleTV+), The Boys (Amazon Prime), The Fabulous Show with Fay & Fluffy (Family Jr.), and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (CBS). Kanja currently writes, performs and produces for CBC’s brand-new preschool series Go Togo!