Since 1998…
Each year we write, create, build and perform a large summer pageant-play-extravaganza. These performances last about an hour and a half, include an ensemble of professional musicians who create an original score of music and involve a cast of puppeteers, which has included as many as twenty-eight performers. Our summer extravaganza is attended by over 25,000 people!
Through our annual summer performance and other events, Paperhand Puppet Intervention helps create a community that shares picnic blankets, ideas, experiences and a love of wonder.
Each year we write, create, build and perform a large summer pageant-play-extravaganza. These performances last about an hour and a half, include an ensemble of professional musicians who create an original score of music and involve a cast of puppeteers, which has included as many as twenty-eight performers.
Our Summer Show is attended by over 25,000 people each year, with most of our shows selling out!
We open our studio to the community every Saturday in June and July for Work/Play Days where folks of all ages and persuasions get messy building puppets and props for the Summer Show.
Through our annual summer performance, Paperhand helps create a community that shares picnic blankets, ideas, experiences and a love of wonder. We hope you can join us.
Off Season Performances
Where Our Spirits Reside - 2023
The Meanwhile Clock - 2022
Unfolding Seeds - 2021
We Are Here - 2019
In the Heart of the Fire - 2018
Of Wings & Feet - 2017
The Beautiful Beast - 2016
A Drop in the Bucket - 2015
The Painted Bird - 2014
Invisible Earth - 2013
The Longest Night 2012 & Ongoing
City of Frogs - 2012
The Serpent's Egg - 2011
Islands Unknown - 2010
Love & Robots - Winter 2009
Living Sea of Memory - Summer 2009
Hungry Ghost - Winter 2008
I am an Insect - Summer 2008
A Shoe For Your Foot - 2007
As the Crow Flies - 2006
Garden of the Wild - 2005
Wood, Stone, Fire and Bone - 2004
The Dream & the Lie - 2003
Listen to the Sky- 2002
Uprising - 2001
The Crawdad's Conundrum
Our Early Days
Over 20 Years In the Making
In 2020, we didn’t get to present a show, but we did make a coffee table book that tells our origin story and looks back through two decades of giant puppet wizardry. It’s the perfect gift for a Paperhand Puppet fan!