Here are some links that will give you information on puppets and puppetry. Please note: Holy Hands Ministries and our volunteers provide these links as information only. We do not necessarily agree with nor endorse the information contained on the web sites.
One Way Street
One Way Street, Inc. is an inter-denominational children's ministry resource publisher and supplier specializing in equipping and training children's workers. As a company, they are dedicated to helping teachers and ministers spread the Gospel by providing quality, fundamental Christian resources.
Video Clips of Bunraku
Bunraku is the traditional puppet theatre of Japan, a high-level stage art of which Japan can be very proud. Bunraku was originally the name of the theatre in which this puppet drama was performed, but gradually it came to be used as the name of the art itself and is today used as the official name of the puppet theatre.
Puppettools
There is much more to puppets than meets the eye. Here is where you find out why.
Puppet Showplace Theatre
PST was founded as a storefront theatre by visionary educator and puppeteer Mary Putnam Churchill, who saw puppetry as a powerful medium for teaching children lessons, broadening their horizons, inspiring their creative imaginations, and introducing them to the magic of theatre.
San Diego's Balboa Park Puppet Guild
The Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater, long a mecca for children, is located in the Palisades area on the south side of Balboa Park, San Diego. The Puppet Theater was originally part of a single, large unit erected for the California Pacific International Exposition in 1935-36 and called the Palisades Building.
History of Bunraku
The bunraku (puppet theater) stage is specially constructed to accommodate three-person puppets. The puppeteers operate from a pit behind a railing at the front of the stage (Funazoko) They are robed in black and wear black veils to cover their faces.
The Old Trout Puppet Works
They are dedicated to making professional puppet productions that blur the distinction between adult and children's theatre. They launch forth to explore the outer edges of the puppet medium, and to create original, unique, and exuberant art. An Old Trout show strives for delightful allegory, joyful tragedy, and purity of spirit.
Folkmanis maker of puppets
Flokmanis offers a variety of puppets for productions or just plain fun.
Puppetry Traditions Around the World
This site is a great collection of links from all over the world. Great for seeing what is happening in puppetry in far away places.