Toronto School of Puppetry

Dedicated to building and strengthening puppetry culture through sharing skills and techniques.  Supporting the development of new work by emerging and established artists. For people from all walks of the arts who are interested in learning about and integrating puppetry into their artistic practice. 

 Our studio, located in Kensington Market, at 219 Augusta Avenue in Toronto, is wheelchair accessible.

PROGRAM FOR ADULT LEARNERS – SPRING 2026

Regarding age of participants: These are classes for adults, but older teenagers are welcome. If young teens, or even pre-teens want to join, please discuss this with the instructor before enrolling, and ideally a parent or guardian would enroll with the child.

THE BASICS OF MARIONETTE MAKING & ANIMATION with Puppetmongers Theatre.  Sunday March 22nd, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at our new studio in Kensington Market.  Everyone will create their own simple cloth marionette and learn the basics of marionette manipulation. More information   Fee $100 – click – here to enroll

INTERMEDIATE MARIONETTE MAKING & ANIMATION with Puppetmongers Theatre.  Saturday March 28^th & Sunday 29^th, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at our new studio in Kensington Market.  Each participant will create their own marionette, working with wood and other materials, with working joints and functioning controls.  More information     Fee $200 – click here to enroll

 

GRANT WRITING FOR FUN AND PROFIT with Rag & Bone Puppet Theatre of Ottawa.  Online Saturday April 11^th from 1.30 to 3:00 pm.  From finding the right program for your project, describing yourself and your work, making a budget, and submitting support material.  More information     Fee $50 – click here to enroll

 

FILM MAKING FOR PUPPETRY with Robin Polfuss. Sundays April 12^th & 19^th from 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. at our new studio in Kensington Market.   Learn how to Make Movies with Puppets in this 2-day crash course! Create a short film from beginning to end. More information   Fee $200 – click here to enroll

MASK MAKING with David Powell of Puppetmongers Theatre.  Sunday April 26^th, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at our new studio in Kensington Market. Turn two-dimensional card stock and masking tape into long lasting, light weight, and flexible three-dimensional masks. More infomation    Fee $100 – click here to enroll

DISCOVERING THE INHERENT PUPPETRY IN OBJECTS with Ann Powell of Puppetmongers Theatre. Sunday May 3^rd, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at our new studio in Kensington Market.  Animating the inanimate: bringing objects to life as puppet actors. All the basics of puppet manipulation covered in this workshop can also be directly applied to any other form of puppetry.’   More information    Fee $100 – click here to enroll

CLASSIC SHADOW PUPPETRY with David Powell of Puppetmongers Theatre.  Sunday May 10^th, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at our new studio in Kensington Market.  Explore shadow puppetry using incandescent light (regular light bulbs), with shadow puppet making, manipulation and staging.  More information    Fee $100 – click here to enroll

SHADOW PUPPETRY WITH NEW LIGHT SOURCES with David Powell of Puppetmongers Theatre.  Sunday May 17^th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at our new studio in Kensington Market.  Play with halogen lamps, overhead projectors, document cameras, and other “new” technologies, to create new forms of shadow puppetry, manipulation and staging. More information    Fee $100 – click here to enroll

THE HERDS: Life sized animal puppets on a journey from The Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle – with Logan Robins.  Saturday June 13^th, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at our new studio in Kensington Market.  Logan Robins is back in Toronto and thrilled to be sharing all about their time as a part of The Herds, using puppetry as a tool for climate action, as well as foundational techniques of bringing life-sized, multi-puppeteer, puppets to life!  More information    Fee $75 – click here to enroll

Puppetmongers Theatre and the Toronto School of Puppetry would like to thank the following organizations for their support.

And our many generous private donors

In the spirit of reconciliation, respect and truth, we acknowledge and honour that Puppetmongers Theatre is located on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat people, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples.  We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.  We are deeply grateful to the original caretakers of this land, recorded and unrecorded.  We recognize our settler privilege, and acknowledge our shared history, and continue to work to understand our role and responsibilities as Treaty People.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility. We are committed to policies and practices that support the purposeful inclusion of all people. We work to ensure our programming is relevant, sensitive and reflective of the populations we serve.