Brett and Elissa recently took two weeks off for a “reef to rainforest” holiday. They visited family up in Townsville before exploring the Whitsundays and the Great Barrier Reef (including snorkelling at Hook Island, swimming at Whitehaven Beach and cocktails on Hamilton Island). Then they went down south…
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A free puppetry exhibition called “Puppet People: A snapshot of Australian Puppetry” is being held at the Tony Gould Gallery at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (Brisbane) from 10 Oct 2017 – 27 Jan 2018. Some of the puppets on display at the exhibition have been lent by South Australian…
Read MoreBrett and Elissa spent the weekend in Maryborough, which is a country town located on the Mary River in Queensland, Australia, approximately 255 kilometres north of Brisbane. It’s part of the Fraser Coast. Maryborough is the birthplace of author P.L. Travers (1899 – 1996),…
Read MoreIf you’d like to take the kids along to see a puppet show these school holidays, here’s where to find Larrikin Puppets: Saturday 24 June: The Woodford Show Woodford Showgrounds 38 Neurum Road, Woodford Puppet Shows at 9:30am…
Read MoreOn Saturday, 10 June 2017, Elissa and I had a lovely time with our children’s entertainment and activity provider industry peers at the 2017 National What’s On 4 Kids Conference and Awards. The guest speakers at the conference taught us a lot about our industry and all the…
Read MoreTriple J Unearthed High Indigenous Initiative Winner Tia Gostelow has a brand new single out called, “That’s What You Get”. The song’s music video features puppets, and Larrikin Puppets (Brett Hansen & Elissa Jenkins) performed puppetry in it!…
Read MoreSupport Larrikin Puppets entry into 2017 Queensland Small Business Week social media competition by liking our video Larrikin Puppets wants to bring play to workforces with Puppets At Work, our new corporate arm. To help make this happen, please support our entry into the 2017 Queensland Small…
Read MoreLarrikin Puppets had the great honour and privilege of being chosen as corporate entertainment for the cast and company of My Fair Lady (Opera Australia), directed by Dame Julie Andrews. Our puppet show was held on the rooftop terrace at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) on…
Read MorePreviously we wrote a blog post about how Larrikin Puppets was nominated in the national What’s On 4 Kids Awards in the ‘Best Party Entertainment’ category. Well, thanks to all of your votes, we are now a finalist in that category! Thank you very much, everybody!…
Read MoreCaboolture film maker Gabor Kukucska set himself a challenge to make 52 short documentaries in 2017. That’s one per week! These documentaries are about inspirational people. And one of these people is Queensland puppeteer Brett Hansen – founder of Larrikin Puppets. From childhood…
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