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 . www.authorhouse.com
Puppet Project
A fun how-to section updated regularly for you to make your own puppets and theaters! Click here to create your own puppet and play!
Grand Little Theater of Puppets
Purchase a Toy Theater for your home, school, library
www.youandmepuppets.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.
For more information or to purchase a theater, contact Judith O'Hare. click here
Awared winning puppeteer/educator
Judith O’Hare is the fourth recipient of The Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin award for puppetry in Education given by the Puppeteers of America." 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.
"If you want your children to be intelligent read them Fairy Tales; if you want them to be more intelligent, read them more Fairy Tales", Albert Einstein .
BULLYING PREVENTION THROUGH PUPPETRY ARTS
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Puppet Play followed by
Group Discussion
with
Robin D'Antona & Judith O'Hare
Give children the messages we want them to hear through interractive puppet play. The puppet preformance is followed by group discussion encourages children and adults to talk freely about bullying behavior and how we can keep everyone safe, Follow-up materials are included to keep the discussion going.
Programs last 1 hour, performed for small groups and repeated throughout the day -- so everyone has a chance to experience this geat show with a very important message!
For more inforamtion contact:
Dr. Robin D'Antona @ 781-799-9896 or
Judith O'Hare @ 781-944-0965
Orlando Puppetry in Education and Therapy Retreat
Feb 10-12,2012
Puppeteers of America Puppetry in Education andTherapy Committee and
a weekend retreat in Orlando, Florida,
Feb 10-12,2012
Spend a day with Michelee Puppets, see their bullying prevvention production, followed by workshops with their staff and work hands on to create an Edu SLAM 5 miniute piece for performance
Workshops with Orlando Arts education artists, evening at the Orlando Arts Fest
More info coming, if interested go to Contact and send me a note.
jaohare@gmail.com
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