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| | Puppeteers of America members may choose a festival pass A or pass B (do not mind pass times, they cover the entire festival period). Each pass assures entry to every festival performance, but they have two different schedules, please review carefully. The festival pass also includes 3 workshops, which will be available for registration through Puppeteers of America starting June 15th. The deadline to purchase festival passes is July 15th.
Pass B Schedule Below:
PASS B
Wednesday 9/16
Iniskim Film Showing 7:30pm
Thursday 9/17
Puppet Procession 6:45pm
Puppet Crimes 7:30pm
Festival Cabaret 8:30pm - late
Friday 9/18
Puppeteers of America Workshops 9am - 4pm
Access Through the Arts Forum 4:30pm
About Ram 7:30pm
Festival Cabaret 8:30pm - late
Saturday 9/19
Tomte 11am
Access Through the Arts Forum 12:30pm
The House 4pm
Lunch with Sonia 7:30pm
Festival Cabaret 8:30pm - late
Sunday 9/20
Access Through the Arts Forum 12:30pm
Animalia 2pm
HUMAN 4:30pm | Buy tickets |
| | Puppeteers of America members may choose a festival pass A or pass B (do not mind pass times, they cover the entire festival period). Each pass assures entry to every festival performance, but they have two different schedules, please review carefully. The festival pass also includes 3 workshops, which will be available for registration through Puppeteers of America starting June 15th. The deadline to purchase festival passes is July 15th.
Pass A Schedule Below:
PASS A
Wednesday 9/16
Iniskim Film Showing 7:30pm
Thursday 9/17
Puppet Procession 6:45pm
About Ram 7:30pm
Festival Cabaret 8:30pm - late
Friday 9/18
Puppeteers of America Workshops 9am - 4pm
Access Through the Arts Forum 4:30pm
Lunch With Sonia 7:30pm
Festival Cabaret 8:30pm - late
Saturday 9/19
Access Through the Arts Forum 12:30pm
Tomte 2pm
Puppet Crimes 4pm
The House 7:30pm
Festival Cabaret 8:30pm - late
Sunday 9/20
Animalia 11am
Access Through the Arts Forum 12:30pm
HUMAN 4:30pm | Buy tickets |
| | A documentary exploring Indigenous knowledge, buffalo restoration, and the creation of a large-scale lantern puppet performance inspired by the return of bison to Banff National Park. The film follows artists and knowledge keepers as they collaborate through storytelling, performance, and relationships with the land.
After the Screening, we are thrilled to welcome David Lane, collaborating puppeteer for this project, for a special talk back about the process. | Buy tickets |
| | The Sandglass Festival Gala is a special evening of entertainment, food and beverage, and a silent auction as we welcome audiences and artists to our 13th international festival! Your Gala ticket price supports the entire festival and helps make it possible for these international artists to come to Vermont and celebrate with us. (Tickets are for the Gala only.)
Thursday, Sept 17th, 5 - 6:45pm
All ages welcome.
Venue: Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, 10 Vernon Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | About Ram By Anurupa Roy, Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust
Using masks, animation, and live performance, Katkatha revisit the Ramayana to explore human responsibility, moral courage, and transformation.
Thursday, Sept 17th, 7:30pm
Friday, Sept 18th, 7:30pm
Recommended for ages 12+
Length of Show: 60 minutes, no intermission
Venue: New England Youth Theater, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro VT | Buy tickets |
| | Puppet Crimes By Sandglass Theater’s Jana Zeller
Hand puppets traverse 400 years of rebellion, showing how humor, cunning, and courage reflect enduring human qualities.
Thursday, Sept 17th, 7:30pm
Saturday, Sept 19th, 4pm
Recommended for ages 12+
60 minutes, no intermission
Venue: Sages Pub, 6 Flat Street, Brattleboro VT | Buy tickets |
| | “Intro to Japanese Puppetry” with Tom Lee
This hands-on workshop introduces the cultural context and techniques of Japanese three person puppetry (referred to as sanninzukai or bunraku-style) using a traditional Japanese training puppet.
Friday, September 18th, 9:00am-10:30am
Maximum 15 participants
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Rose Room, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | “Marionette Manipulation” with Tanglewood Marionettes
Learn how to work a marionette using a professional-quality puppet that has been balanced and tuned like a fine instrument!
Friday, September 18th, 9:00am-10:30am
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Luna Room, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | “Miniature Carved Foam Workshop” with Hobey Ford
In this workshop, Hobey Ford will guide participants in carving small foam rubber puppets, and attaching rods to manipulate them.
Friday, September 18th, 9:00am-10:30am
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Davey's Locker, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | “One Piece of Paper Puppets” with Cheryl Capezutti
Participants in this workshop will test drive Capezzuti’s one-piece-of-paper design templates that allow anyone to make all kinds of puppets with just one sheet of paper, part of her research into the pedagogy of puppetry education at the University of Pittsburgh.
Friday, September 18th, 9:00am-10:30am
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Green Room, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | “Cut, Fold, Perform!” with Sarah Frechette
Turn a single fold into an expressive character by blending paper engineering and puppetry arts. Discover how simple office paper can be cut and folded into kinetic characters or living set elements.
Friday, September 18th, 10:45am-12:15pm
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Luna Room, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | “Improv for Puppeteers” with Electric City Puppets
Introductory improv theatre techniques to help puppeteers rehearse, develop characters and unlock spontaneous performance beyond the confines of a script.
Friday, September 18th, 10:45am-12:15pm
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Rose Room, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | “Materials, Methods, and Practical Applications of Mold Making and Casting in Puppetry” with Chuck Nesci
This workshop will introduce puppeteers to mold making and casting.
Friday, September 18th, 10:45am-12:15pm
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Davey's Locker, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | “Needle Felt a Finger Puppet Head” with Nicole Wander
Learn the basics of needle felting in this 3-hour workshop while creating a whimsical finger puppet head. There will be a $35 material fee due to the instructor upon arrival at the workshop, cash, check, or venmo only.
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Green Room, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | "Community Workshop/Collaborative Giant Puppet Explorations" with Matt Sorensen
Work in teams to design, create, animate, and collaborate with large-scale brown paper puppets.
Friday, September 18th, 1:00pm-2:30pm
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT
Max 40 Participants. | Buy tickets |
| | “Animating the Puppet the Bunraku way” with Anarupa Roy
A study of the anatomy of the human and puppet to animate materials. The workshop will enter the space of animating a Bunraku style puppet through the lens of corporeal mime and building one’s own newspaper and tape puppet.
Friday, September 18th, 2:45pm-4:15pm
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | “Hello Darkness” with David Lane
Journey into the dark with objects from the illuminated puppet show, Cave of Dreams and explore what makes this form of puppetry so unique and compelling.
Friday, September 18th, 2:45pm-4:15pm
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Davey's Locker, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | “Paper Clay Puppet Head Sculpting” with Cynthia Houghton
During this hands-on workshop you will be guided through a puppet head sculpting technique with paper clay and will have a head to take home.
Workshop is limited to 8 participants.
Friday, September 18th, 2:45pm-4:15pm
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Green Room, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | “An Exploration in Marionettes” with Madison Cripps
Dive into the basics of the marionette. Build a simple string puppet and discover its particular voice through guided exercises. There will be a $25 material fee due to the instructor upon arrival at the workshop, cash or check only.
Friday, September 18th, 2:45pm-4:15pm
Venue: New England Youth Theatre, Luna Room, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT | Buy tickets |
| | Lunch with Sonia By Loco7
A dance puppet theatre piece, inspired by true-life experiences that explores the topic of Death with Dignity and themes of life, love, and loss.
Friday, Sept 18th, 7:30pm
Saturday, Sept 19th, 7:30pm
Recommended for ages 12+
55 minutes, no intermission
Venue: Next Stage Arts Project, 15 Kimball Hill, Putney VT | Buy tickets |
| | Tomte By Tom Lee
A luminous story of a Nordic gnome who nurtures a family through the long winter, inviting reflection on those who we don’t see that hold and take care of us and the silent, quiet care that keeps us together.
Saturday, Sept 19th, 11:00am
Saturday, Sept 19th, 2:00pm
Recommended for ages 4+
35 minutes
Venue: Hilltop Montessori School Auditorium, 99 Stafford Farm Hill, Brattleboro VT | Buy tickets |
| | The House By Sophie Krøg
A mechanical, darkly comic thriller in which the house becomes a reflection on inheritance, secrecy, and the social conditions that shape human behavior.
Saturday, Sept 19th, 4:00pm
Saturday, Sept 19th, 7:30pm
Recommended for ages 8+
55 minutes, no intermission
Venue: New England Youth Theater, 100 Flat Street, Brattleboro VT | Buy tickets |
| | Animalia By Hobey Ford
A sculptural exploration of metamorphosis and ecology, emphasizing humans’ interdependence with the living world.
Sunday, Sept 20th, 11:00am
Sunday, Sept 20th, 2:00pm
Recommended for ages 4+
50 minutes, no intermission
Venue: Hilltop Montessori School Auditorium, 99 Stafford Farm Hill, Brattleboro VT | Buy tickets |
| | HUMAN Written & Directed by Nehprii Amenii
Co-Commissioned by Sandglass Theater
An octopus ponders whether humanity can be recreated after extinction, raising questions of empathy, care, and relational ethics.
Sunday, Sept 20th, 4:30pm
Recommended for ages 8+
60 minutes, no intermission
Venue: Latchis Main Theater, 50 Main Street, Brattleboro VT | Buy tickets |
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