Capture the Imagination with Puppetry^

Nurture your creativity and practice your own simple puppet show with main character, goal, problem and solution. Puppetry encourages adaptability by roleplaying alternative perspectives and problem solving.

Participants will enjoy simple puppet shows and be inspired to make an inanimate object come alive and speak, creating a story.

A script writing and performance workshop geared for adult participants by Jean Kuecher on Saturday, October 3, at 1:15 PM.

The goals of this workshop:

• Enrich and Nurture Creative Thinking

• Stretch the Imagination

• Strengthen a Love of Language

• Motivate Reading

• Heighten Visualization

• Use of Critical Thinking

• Use Listening Skills and Communication Skills

• Incorporate Art into Literature

• Learn Story Mapping and Practice Collaboration.

Jean Kuecher, puppeteer and producer of the Marionette Playhouse, delights audiences with marionette, hand puppet and black light puppetry performances. Jean performs for schools, libraries, birthday parties, churches and corporate events.

Jean has a master’s in education and is a registered trainer with the Texas Early Childhood Professional Development System. As a teacher she used puppetry to enhance her classroom curriculum. As a school counselor she developed weekly marionette shows on self-awareness themes.

She is a member of the Greater Houston Puppetry Guild, Chicagoland Puppetry Guild, Western Michigan Puppetry Guild and the national Puppeteers of America.