In 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…
Read MoreBrett 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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Puppet People: A Snapshot of Australian Puppetry 10 October 2017 – 27 January 2018 Tony Gould Gallery, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), Brisbane A wonderful free exhibition celebrating Australian puppetry was held at the Tony…
Read MoreThe Magic of Mary Poppins Comes to Maryborough Brett and Elissa spent the weekend in Maryborough, Queensland, approximately 255 kilometres north of Brisbane on the Fraser Coast. Maryborough is famous as the birthplace of author P.L. Travers (Helen Lyndon Goff), creator of the beloved…
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…
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