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World Day of Puppetry

Sunday, March 22, 2026
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That Puppet Palooza

Start
April 17, 2026

End
April 19, 2026

Location
Unicoi State Park and Lodge, Helen, GA

That Puppet Palooza

Celebrate Puppetry in the Park at That Puppet Palooza!
April 17-19, 2026
Unicoi State Park and Lodge, Helen, Georgia

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Southwest Regional HOT (Heart of Texas) Puppet Festival

Start
October 02, 2026

End
October 03, 2026

Location
Puppet Pizzazz & Sawyer Yards Art Complex, Houston, TX

Southwest Regional HOT (Heart of Texas) Puppet Festival

October 2-3, 2026

Calling on all puppetry enthusiasts to save the first weekend in October 2026 for Hot Puppets, a Southwest Regional Festival to be held at the Sawyer Yards artist complex in Houston. Get ready for several exciting puppet shows, workshops, and parties!

The festival will begin at 5:30 pm on October 2. Participants will meet at Puppet Pizzazz, owned and operated by Greg Ruhe. Attendees will sign in and get name tags while enjoying beverages and appetizers, and puppetry entertainment. The participants will follow a parade of giant puppets to the Sawyer Yards Art Complex for the first puppet show. After the puppet show, participants will return to Puppet Pizzazz for a party including dinner and puppetry entertainment.

The following day Saturday, October 3 will run from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm at Sawyer Yards Arts Complex. The day will include morning coffee and pastries, lunch, three workshop sessions and two puppetry shows and a puppetry store. The group will meet up again at Puppetry Pizzazz for another party including a dinner and puppetry entertainment.

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