From WYNOT Productions’ ‘Conversations With an American Icon’ at the 2018 Fall Rocky Mountain Puppet Slam. Photo by John Moore. To see more, click the link below.

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The goal of this new quarterly Denver tradition is to showcase new and emerging puppetry works

The fall 2018 Rocky Mountain Puppet Slam was held October 6 at the Diebolt Brewing Company in north Denver. This was the third installment of a new ongoing puppeteering tradition recently launched by Katy Williams, who introduced the concept in a DCPA NewsCenter guest column in March.

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A puppet slam is night of curated short-form puppet and object theatre. You might see a comedic hand-puppet piece, a dramatic and moving marionette, a haunting shadow performance or even a human-sized killer robot. You never know. The goal is to showcase new and emerging puppetry works.

The lineup, emceed by Matt Bethune and The Great Contorto, included:

• Julie Talty performing here_kitty
• The Wizard’s Den performing Enlightenment Now
• WYNOT Productions performing Conversations with an American Icon (in this case, a bald eagle)
• Audacious Theatre performing from its stage production of Van Helsing’s Daughter
• Andryn Arithson performing The Oyster and the Pearl
• SLVLC performing Robopera vs. Graviton
• Katy Williams and Erik Fellenstein performing Jack and the Apocalyptic Moon Journey

For information on future puppet slams, go to katywilliamsdesign.com

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