(CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society

A decade of the Puppet Slam Network

Posted on September 2, 2016August 17, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Baltimore, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Arizona Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Installation, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Judson Church, LA, Lantern Church, Links Hall, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Mad Cow Theatre, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Phoenix, Press, Providence, Puppet Showplace Theater, Puppet Slam Network, Puppeteers of America, Puppetry, Puppets, Revolving Museum, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, WA, Space Ark, Spoken Word, St. Ann's Warehouse, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Theatre for the New City, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Uconn, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Video, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

On September 2nd, 2016, I finished my tenure at the Puppet Slam Network (PSN), which I co-founded in 2005 with Heather Henson through support from her production company, Ibex Puppetry.

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Who’s the Puppet Now?, Calgary

Posted on March 12, 2015December 27, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, Calgary, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, Sean Dennie, Written, Xstine Cook

Marsian De Lellis, Calgary, 2011, photo: Sean Dennie — Marsian De Lellis, Calgary,
2011, photo: Sean Dennie

In March 2015, Who’s The Puppet Now?, a coffee table book of Sean Dennie’s photos was published. Created by the Calgary Animated Objects Society, the edition included a photos from my performances, Growing Up Linda – Fudgie’s Death during its run at the International Festival of Animated Objects and Object of Her Affection at REDCAT.

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Portland Press Herald, (Puppet Slam Network)

Posted on January 28, 2013December 29, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Baltimore, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Arizona Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Installation, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Judson Church, LA, Lantern Church, Links Hall, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Mad Cow Theatre, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Phoenix, Press, Providence, Puppet Showplace Theater, Puppet Slam Network, Puppeteers of America, Puppetry, Puppets, Revolving Museum, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, WA, Space Ark, Spoken Word, St. Ann's Warehouse, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Theatre for the New City, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Uconn, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Video, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

On January 28th, 2013, The Portland Press Herald briefly covered my work with the Puppet Slam Network as part of a larger story on Blainor McGough, curator of King Friday’s Dungeon in Portland, ME.

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The Puppetry Journal (Press)

Posted on May 1, 2012January 3, 2020 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Baltimore, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Arizona Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Installation, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Judson Church, LA, Lantern Church, Links Hall, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Mad Cow Theatre, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Phoenix, Press, Providence, Puppet Showplace Theater, Puppet Slam Network, Puppeteers of America, Puppetry, Puppets, Revolving Museum, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, WA, Space Ark, Spoken Word, St. Ann's Warehouse, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Theatre for the New City, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Uconn, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Video, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

In the Spring of 2012, The Puppetry Journal ran a substantive cover story on the world of puppet slams, featuring my work as co-founder of The Puppet Slam Network and my interviews with puppet slam artists. The Puppet Slam Network fostered connections for independently produced puppet cabarets, so that puppet artists knew where they could perform, venues could find puppet artists, and audiences could enjoy an intimate, tactile, and compelling form of entertainment. Continue reading “The Puppetry Journal (Press)” →

Puppet Slam Network: Informational Posts

Posted on September 3, 2011August 17, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Baltimore, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Arizona Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Installation, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Judson Church, LA, Lantern Church, Links Hall, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Mad Cow Theatre, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Phoenix, Press, Providence, Puppet Showplace Theater, Puppet Slam Network, Puppeteers of America, Puppetry, Puppets, Revolving Museum, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, WA, Space Ark, Spoken Word, St. Ann's Warehouse, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Theatre for the New City, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Uconn, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Video, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

In the fall of 2011, I started a series of informational posts on the Puppet Slam Network website about organizing evenings of short-form puppetry and object theatre for adults.

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Handmade Puppet Dreams, Calgary (appearance)

Posted on March 13, 2011August 21, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, Calgary, Film, Fudgie's Death, Growing Up Linda, Heather Henson, International Festival of Animated Objects, Marsian De Lellis, Object/Fetish, Plaza Theatre, Puppetry, Puppets, Video, Xstine Cook

On March 13th, 2011, I introduced a screening Handmade Puppet Dreams at the Plaza Theatre in Calgary,

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Calgary Herald (interview)

Posted on March 12, 2011August 15, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, Animism, Art, Artist Talk, Calgary, Club Sapien, Comedy, Curatorial, Dolls, Eugean Seo, Film, Fudgie's Death, Heather Henson, Hunter Wells, interview, Joel Egger, Kari Rae Seekons, Lantern Church, Lee Vargas, Live Feed, Marsian De Lellis, Object Sexuality, Object Sexuals, Object/Fetish, Performance, Performance Art, PJ McWhiskers, Plaza Theatre, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, Sean Dennie, Surrealism, Theater, Video, Xstine Cook

On March 12th, 2011, The Calgary Herald published an interview that described my work as “light years away from the child-oriented Muppets universe that Jim Henson introduced.”

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Growing Up Linda, Calgary

Posted on March 11, 2011August 15, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, Art, Artist Talk, Calgary, Club Sapien, Comedy, Curatorial, Eugean Seo, Film, Fudgie's Death, Growing Up Linda, Heather Henson, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Kari Rae Seekons, Lantern Church, Lee Vargas, Live Feed, Marsian De Lellis, Object/Fetish, Performance, Performance Art, Photographs, PJ McWhiskers, Plaza Theatre, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, Sean Dennie, Surrealism, Theater, Video, Xstine Cook

On March 11th and 12th, 2011, I performed Fudgie’s Death at International Festival of Animated Objects in Calgary.

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CJOB, Winnipeg

Posted on July 7, 2010August 16, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Baltimore, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Arizona Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Installation, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Judson Church, LA, Lantern Church, Links Hall, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Mad Cow Theatre, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Phoenix, Press, Providence, Puppet Showplace Theater, Puppet Slam Network, Puppeteers of America, Puppetry, Puppets, Revolving Museum, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, WA, Space Ark, Spoken Word, St. Ann's Warehouse, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Theatre for the New City, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Uconn, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Video, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

On July 7th, 2010, Dan Walechuck appeared on CJOB (Winnipeg) to talk about The Puppet Slam Network and the Winnipeg Puppet Slam, in which I performed Fudgie’s Death, a segment from Growing Up Linda.

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CalArts, Office of the President (support)

Posted on February 4, 2008August 15, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Addiction, Anne Yatco, Baltimore, Biopic, Birthday Trauma, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Comedy, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, Eugean Seo, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Food, Fudgie's Death, Gainers and Feeders, Great Small Works, Growing Up Linda, Hunter Wells, Ibex Puppetry, International Toy Theater Festival, Janie Geiser, Joel Egger, Juliana de Abreau, Kari Rae Seekons, LA, Lantern Church, Lee Vargas, Liz Hara, Los Angeles, LSD Kills, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, National Puppetry Conference, NYC, O'Neill Theater Center, Object Theatre, Orlando Fringe, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Pop-Ups, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, REDCAT, REDCAT Studio, Shadow Puppetry, St. Ann's Warehouse, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, UNIMA-USA, Valencia, Venue 13, Video, Waterford, Winnipeg Puppet Collective, Xstine Cook

In 2008, I was the recipient of funding from the Office of the President at California Institute for the Arts for the workshop of Growing Up Linda and premiere at Venue 13 in Edinburgh.

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