The PDX Puppet Collective and The Puppetry Guild of Portland Present The World’s Greatest Table Top Puppet-Athlon
by PDX Puppetry Collective

Join us for an exciting evening of fun, adventure and for the ultimate
athletic challenge for table top puppets! Willing audience members have the option of entering their names in a lottery upon arrival at the performance. Participants who took Table Top Puppetry Boot Camp will be
permitted 3 entries as a reward for their hard-earned training for the Puppet-Athlon. The lottery will determine the 15 participants who will take up the World’s Greatest Table Top Challenge!
 
Participants will be broken into 5 teams of 3. Each team will have a puppet provided for the Puppet-Athlon Obstacle Challenge course.  The course will be a series of extreme obstacles and tasks that the Puppeteers must guide their puppet through. Each team will be provided a coach to support and encourage them throughout the event, and the audience will cheer them on! Judges will score the participants on their performance and completion of the course, their consistency of character, teamwork, and the team’s ability to incorporate all the
“surprise challenge prompts” that are provided prior to the start of the event. 

Performance type: Table Top Puppetry

Cherie Panek has worked for over twenty years as a freelance puppeteer, actor and director.  She is inspired by the nuanced movement and emotional intricacy of table top puppetry. In 2016, Cherie co-founded the PDX Puppetry Collective which holds bi-weekly Puppet Labs and builds a network of practitioners to develop their craft collaboratively. Cherie is inspired by art that is socially conscious. She hopes to create an artistic community that urges people toward new depths of knowledge where artists can embrace the change and challenges emergent from more intentional connection with the world and the stories lived within it. She is forever grateful to her theatre mentor Lenny Pinna.

Doors open at 1:30 pm.

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