Tag Archives: Puppets

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Nov 3-10 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Aug 11-Nov 10 at 10am

Puppet Friends in Storyland
Watkins Nature Center at Watkins Park presents a nature-themed puppet show and a chance to meet an animal.

Appropriate for ages 2 to 3, with an adult.

Each session is two Fridays from 10:00 to 10:45am:

November 3 & 10, 2023

Watkins Nature Center, Location: 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro MD 20774, Phone: 301-218-6702

Puppet Friends in Storyland.

Join us for an interactive lesson with a hands-on activity. Your little one will play, laugh, and dance with their puppet pals while they work on social skills, early literacy development, listening, communication, fine motor skills, attention span, and their creativity!

Enjoy a nature story time! Listen to animal puppets as they read you a story about their family, and then join them and a naturalist as they led you through a nature themed craft! A different show each month!

Tickets: $10 for 2 sessions. Click here.

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Oct 6 & 7 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Oct 6 & 7 at 10am

Puppet Friends in Storyland
Watkins Nature Center at Watkins Park presents a nature-themed puppet show and a chance to meet an animal.

Appropriate for ages 2 to 3, with an adult.

Each session is two Fridays from 10:00 to 10:45am:
October 6 & 13, 2023
November 3 & 10, 2023

Watkins Nature Center, Location: 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro MD 20774, Phone: 301-218-6702

Puppet Friends in Storyland.

Join us for an interactive lesson with a hands-on activity. Your little one will play, laugh, and dance with their puppet pals while they work on social skills, early literacy development, listening, communication, fine motor skills, attention span, and their creativity!

Enjoy a nature story time! Listen to animal puppets as they read you a story about their family, and then join them and a naturalist as they led you through a nature themed craft! A different show each month!

Tickets: $10 for 2 sessions. Click here.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen at Clarice Smith, Sep 14, 5:30pm

The Evidence of Things Not Seen at Clarice Smith, Sep 14, 5:30pm

ACTnow: The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Reanimating Traditions of Black Puppetry and Object Performance
Lecture

Thursday, September 14, 2023 • 5:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

A dialogue on puppetry and object performance as a powerful means of resistance to the objectification of Black bodies. Nehprii Amenii, writer and director of Food for the Gods and Dr. Paulette Richards, author of Object Performance in the Black Atlantic will ground the audience in the historical development of African-American puppetry and discuss the power of puppetry to redress cultural erasure and foster community healing. Light refreshments will be available.

Join us for the public performance December 7-9, 2023 at The Clarice: Nehprii Amenii: Food for the Gods

Free lecture, registration required. For more information and to register to attend, click here.

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Sep 1 & 8 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Aug 11-Nov 10 at 10am

Puppet Friends in Storyland
Watkins Nature Center at Watkins Park presents a nature-themed puppet show and a chance to meet an animal.

Appropriate for ages 2 to 3, with an adult.

Each session is two Fridays from 10:00 to 10:45am:
September 1 & 8, 2023
October 6 & 13, 2023
November 3 & 10, 2023

Watkins Nature Center, Location: 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro MD 20774, Phone: 301-218-6702

Puppet Friends in Storyland.

Join us for an interactive lesson with a hands-on activity. Your little one will play, laugh, and dance with their puppet pals while they work on social skills, early literacy development, listening, communication, fine motor skills, attention span, and their creativity!

Enjoy a nature story time! Listen to animal puppets as they read you a story about their family, and then join them and a naturalist as they led you through a nature themed craft! A different show each month!

Tickets: $10 for 2 sessions. Click here.

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Aug 11 & 18 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Aug 11 & 18 at 10am

Puppet Friends in Storyland
Watkins Nature Center at Watkins Park presents a nature-themed puppet show and a chance to meet an animal.

Appropriate for ages 2 to 3, with an adult.

Each session is two Fridays from 10:00 to 10:45am:
August 11 & 18, 2023

Watkins Nature Center, Location: 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro MD 20774, Phone: 301-218-6702

Puppet Friends in Storyland: Scarlet Skunk & Francois the Flying Squirrel

Join us for an interactive lesson with a hands-on activity. Your little one will play, laugh, and dance with their puppet pals while they work on social skills, early literacy development, listening, communication, fine motor skills, attention span, and their creativity!

Enjoy a nature story time! Join Scarlet Skunk & Francois the Flying Squirrel in the month of August as they read you a story about their family, and then join them and a naturalist as they led you through a nature themed craft! A different show each month!

Tickets: $10 for 2 sessions. Click here.