{"id":5781,"date":"2015-07-16T17:14:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T17:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2015-07-16T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T17:32:14","slug":"national-festival-celebrates-the-art-of-puppetry-uconn-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/07\/16\/national-festival-celebrates-the-art-of-puppetry-uconn-today\/","title":{"rendered":"National Festival Celebrates the Art of Puppetry | UConn Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/07\/PuppetsWYATT_CENAC-794x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5784\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/07\/PuppetsWYATT_CENAC-794x1024-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"PuppetsWYATT_CENAC-794x1024\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/07\/PuppetsWYATT_CENAC-794x1024-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/07\/PuppetsWYATT_CENAC-794x1024.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>From August 10 to 16, UConn will be alive with puppet shows, classes, workshops, exhibitions and events for the 2015\u00a0National\u00a0Puppetry Festival. \u00a0A special exhibition of puppetry books, artwork,\u00a0and illustrations from the collections\u00a0of Archives and Special Collections will be on display from August 1 to 31 in the McDonald Reading Room in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.\u00a0 Find out more in today&#8217;s UCONN Today article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/07\/national-festival-celebrates-the-art-of-puppetry\/#.Vafh6hciMJ0.wordpress\">National Festival Celebrates the Art of Puppetry | UConn Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: #ffffff;font: 14px\/20px sans-serif;margin: 0px 0px 1em;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #444444;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline\">Puppeteers from 12 nations on five continents and from 40 U.S. states will converge on the UConn campus during the week of Aug. 10-16 for the 2015 National Puppetry Festival, a whirlwind week of puppet-related activities including workshops, master classes, and performances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: #ffffff;font: 14px\/20px sans-serif;margin: 0px 0px 1em;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #444444;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline\">The festival is presented by Puppeteers of America and is expected to be the largest and most extensive gathering of its kind. It will also mark the 50th year of the internationally renowned UConn Puppet Arts Program, which was founded by the legendary Frank W. Ballard. The last time the festival was hosted by UConn was in 1970.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: #ffffff;font: 14px\/20px sans-serif;margin: 0px 0px 1em;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #444444;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline\">Highlights of the festival will include 30 public performances by more than 25 national and international puppeteers, 30 professional workshops, six visual art exhibitions, \u201cReel Puppetry\u201d film series, a giant puppet parade, and nightly Festival Pub Showcase. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: #ffffff;font: 14px\/20px sans-serif;margin: 0px 0px 1em;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #444444;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From August 10 to 16, UConn will be alive with puppet shows, classes, workshops, exhibitions and events for the 2015\u00a0National\u00a0Puppetry Festival. \u00a0A special exhibition of puppetry books, artwork,\u00a0and illustrations from the collections\u00a0of Archives and Special Collections will be on display &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/07\/16\/national-festival-celebrates-the-art-of-puppetry-uconn-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-1vf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5788,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions\/5788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}