Larrikin Puppets is a nominee in the 2018 Moreton Bay Region Business Excellence & Innovation Awards! We’re very happy to be a nominated business in the Moreton Bay Region Business Excellence & Innovation Awards this year. Puppets are quirky and puppet businesses are niche, so it’s nice to receive a…
Read MoreFlashback – USA, 2016 Australian kids entertainers Larrikin Puppets (based on sleepy Bribie Island – North of Brisbane in Queensland) spent three months in the USA for professional development in 2016. Much of this time was spent meeting Jim Henson puppeteers, and participating in some formal training. In…
Read MoreLarrikin Puppets are visiting the Banana Shire as part of the First 5 Forever program, a State Government initiative. They are performing in Biloela at the “Family Fun in the Park” event (14 Sep), and in Baralaba (11 Sep), Moura (12 Sep) and Taroom (13 Sep). The First 5…
Read MoreAfter performing in Hervey Bay at the Teddy Bear’s Picnic – a community family fun day organised by Condy Park Kindergarten, we set off on our journey to our next destination – Boyne Valley. We travelled on unsealed dirt roads to our accommodation in Ubobo last night, then…
Read MoreTroggg has a brand new puppet van! Eventually we’ll get it all wrapped with our colourful branding and imagery. We do so many regional trips and tours these days. It was time for an upgrade from the hatchback. You can book Larrikin Puppets for puppet shows, story…
Read MoreTroggg and Flossy wish you a Happy World Puppetry Day and a Happy Harmony Day from the second destination on our 2018 Regional Queensland tour – Maryborough! #Troggg #Flossy #LarrikinPuppets #puppetry #puppetshow #puppets #QLD #Australia #puppetsontour2018 #worldpuppetryday #worldpuppetrydaytour2018 #harmonyday #bribietorockypuppetrytour #Maryborough…
Read MoreThis week, we took the time to visit Puppet People: A Snapshot of Australian Puppetry – an exhibit at the Tony Gould Gallery in the Cremorne Theatre, QPAC. We saw puppets by Peter Scriven (Marionette Theatre of Australia), David Hamilton, Phillip Edmiston (The Queensland Marionette Theatre), Bill & Barbara…
Read MoreIn 2017 Larrikin Puppets turned 5 years old. And what great adventures we had this year! Here are all of our puppet highlights from each month of 2017. January – Three final puppet shows at Woodford Folk Festival, after a full week of performances there.
Read MoreElissa and I have had another very busy period in the lead up to Christmas, with puppet shows in childcare centres, libraries, staff Christmas parties, and a series of larger festival events and a shopping centre. This has included a couple of memorable shows in Central Queensland. At…
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We perform puppetry at a lot of events with cakes. As you can imagine, birthday cakes are the main attraction at the birthday parties we visit. But we see cakes at Christmas functions, special events where Troggg is the puppet MC, childcare centre celebrations and various other…
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