Puppetry in Education and Therapy: Unlocking Doors to the Mind and Heart
Edited by Judith O’Hare and Matthew Bernier
In Puppetry in Education and Therapy: Unlocking Doors to the Mind and Heart, one finds enormous variety, ingenuity, and creativity in the types of puppets, and the ways they are used in education and in therapy... click here for more information and to purchase the book
Grand Little Theater of Puppets
Purchase a Toy Theater for your home, school, library
www.grandlittletheater.com
This tabletop puppet theater was inspired by the work of Judith O’Hare and based on European toy theaters that were popular in the 19th century. The Grand Little Theater of Puppets has the charm of the toy theaters of the past, but adds a new magic of functionality and playfulness that is sure to delight children and adults alike. Each set comes with a theater, one set of pop-up scenery and puppets for a well-known story. Also available is a shadow screen and shadow puppet set. It is perfect for the classroom, the library, religious education, and the home.
Memories of a Chinese Grandmother
nearing last performance
After many years of performing this large participatory production we will be doing the last performances in 2008. To book for this school year, contact us now at jaohare@gmail.com
PuppetAward Recipient 2007
Judith O’Hare received The Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin award for puppetry in Education 2007 at the Puppeteers of America national festival in Minneapolis on July 22, 2007. The aware presenter Jody Wren read the following: For the past seventeen hears, Judith has organized and led Puppets Education Magic for educators, librarians, hobbyists, and therapists. This was first held at the Puppeteers of America National Festival held at MIT, in Cambridge in 1989. Originally it attracted local educators, but over the years others from out of state have attended. In recent years workshop leaders and participants have come from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Colorado, Washington, California Florida, Hawaii, Canada, New Jersey, N.Y, and Israel to name a few.
Judith is the Puppeteers of America’s Education consultant, a participant and leader of seminars, symposiums, and workshops for educators at national and regional festivals. Student teachers and practicing teaches who have enrolled in her graduate college courses at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA and the Northeast Consortium, agree that her courses are valuable and fun, and her lessons are easily applied to classroom situations.
In the past Judith has also traveled outside the Northeast region to work with students, teachers and puppeteers across the USA and also to China, Tanzania and Kenya where she produced a Teacher’s Manual with the local teachers. Her most recent accomplishment was to co-edit the book, Puppetry in Education and Therapy: Unlocking Doors to the Mind and Heart.
NORTHEAST/MID-ATLANTIC
PUPPET FESTIVAL
JULY 10-13,2008
University of Maryland
July 10-13
A Day for the Teaching Artist
July 10
Workshops and Performances
Puppets Education Magic
workshops for educators
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