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Jan 15
Featured Featured January 15 - January 19

Plexus Polaire: Dracula: Lucy’s Dream

$40 – $48
Jan 15
Featured Featured 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm

Opening Night Prelude Reception

$125 – $250
Jan 15
Featured Featured 8:15 pm - 10:15 pm

Opening Night Postshow Party

$75
Jan 16
January 16 - January 26

The Puppet Hub

Free
Jan 16
January 16 - January 19

Théâtre de l’Entrouvert & Chicago Puppet Fest: Anywhere

$35 – $43
Jan 16
January 16 - January 19

Cabinet of Curiosity: The Cabinet

$35 – $43
Jan 16
January 16 - January 19

RoiZIZO théâtre: I Killed the Monster

$35 – $43
Jan 16
January 16 - January 19

Rolling Puppet Alternative Theatre: Made in Macau

$15 – $20
Jan 16
January 16 - January 26

Free Neighborhood Tour with Sandglass Theater Co. and Doppelskope

Free
Jan 16
January 16 - January 26

11 Special Workshops with Festival Artists

$60
Jan 16
January 16 - January 26

Potential Energy: Chicago Puppets Up Close

Free
Jan 17
Featured Featured January 17 - January 18

Feisty Elephant, Pam Arciero Productions, and Little Shadow Productions: Aanika’s Elephants

$25 – $35
Jan 17
January 17 - January 19

Tortoise in a Nutshell: Concerned Others

$25 – $33
Jan 17
Featured Featured January 17 - January 19

Yael Rasooly: The House by the Lake

$40 – $48
Jan 17
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Iniskim – Return of the Buffalo FILM

$15 – $20
Jan 18
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium Panel 1 – The Puppet that Brings Us Together: Thoughts on Intercultural Puppetry Arts

Free
Jan 18
10:30 pm - 11:30 pm

Nasty, Brutish & Short – Week 1

$15 – $20
Jan 19
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium Panel 2 – Humans and Objects

Free
Jan 21
January 21 - January 22

La ruée vers l’or: Arctic Tall Tales

$35 – $43
Jan 21
January 21 - January 22

Tram Arts Trust: Maati Katha

$15 – $20
Jan 22
January 22 - January 25

Free Neighborhood Tour with Poncili Creación

Free
Jan 22
Featured Featured January 22 - January 26

Baxter Theatre & Handspring Puppet Co.: J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K

$40 – $48
Jan 23
January 23 - January 25

Maraña: Organismo

$15 – $35
Jan 23
January 23 - January 25

Yael Rasooly: Edith and Me

$35 – $43
Jan 23
January 23 - January 25

Josh Rice Projects: Kayfabe

$40 – $48
Jan 23
January 23 - January 25

Nasty, Brutish & Short – Week 2

$15 – $20
Jan 23
January 23 - January 25

Look! Look! A Work in Development by Vanessa Valliere

$15 – $20
Jan 23
January 23 - January 26

All My Relations Collective: Skeleton Canoe

$25 – $33
Jan 24
January 24 - January 26

Julian Crouch & Saskia Lane: Birdheart

$25 – $33
Jan 24
January 24 - January 26

Anthony Michael Stokes: The Scarecrow

$25 – $35
Jan 24
January 24 - January 26

UnterWasser: Untold

$35 – $43
Jan 25
12:00 am - 12:45 am

Poncili Creación: The Midnight Show

$15 – $20
Jan 25
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium Panel 3 – Notes on Sounds and Words

Free
Jan 26
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium Panel 4 – The Image Aspect of the Puppet

Free
Jan 26
Featured Featured 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Closing Party: Narcissister LIVE!

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About the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival

The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival advances the art of puppetry by presenting sophisticated programs vital to the cultural life of Chicago. Engaging and inspiring the largest and most diverse audiences for puppetry possible, the Festival is the biggest event dedicated to puppetry in North America and traditionally offers more than 100 activities annually including performances, workshops, artist instensives, free neighborhood events and symposia to audiences up to 14,000 over 11 days each January. The organization is also home to other key initiatives, including the Chicago Puppet Studio and Chicago Puppet Lab, that nurture the development of puppeteers and deepen the field locally, nationally and internationally with the ultimate goal of promoting peace, equality, mutual understanding, and justice locally and globally.

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