Meet Scrambles. He’s featuring in all of our Christmas puppet shows!
Month: November 2018
Larrikin Puppets at the Moreton Bay Region Business Excellence & Innovation Awards
Tonight’s the night! We’re putting on our fancy duds, grabbing a couple of puppets and heading to the Moreton Bay Region Business Excellence & Innovation Awards Gala Dinner this evening! We’re finalists in the Quest Community News Business Marketing Excellence Award category. Fingers crossed! ?
Quest Community News Business Marketing Excellence Award
- Caboolture RSL
- Kindred
- Larrikin Puppets
- Sebel Margate
- Sesame Lane Care and Kindergarten
Troggg and Marina will be coming along with us to meet and mingle with the other business nominees and finalists at the gala dinner.
Scrambles and The Reindeer Pokey | Christmas Songs For Kids | Christmas Dance Steps
Elissa and Scrambles will be dancing “The Reindeer Pokey” with our audiences at a number of upcoming Christmas events. You too can learn the steps! Use your hoofs, antlers, tail and red nose. 🙂
Add this to your collection of Christmas songs for kids.
There are a number of different types of Christmas events where we can perform our puppet show!
Shopping Centres / Santa’s Arrival Events:
Live Children’s Entertainment and Puppet Craft Activities at Shopping Centres
Christmas Carol Events and Festivals:
Childcare Centres and Kindergartens:
Schools:
And Corporate Christmas Parties:
https://test.larrikinpuppets.com.au/corporate-entertainment/
There are many more Christmas songs for kids to enjoy at our puppet shows. We perform all over South East Queensland and Central Queensland too. Ask us about travel and accommodation for shows further away than that, such as interstate or overseas.
We love Christmas and we love making people happy with our puppets. Christmas is our busiest time of year so it’s important to get in quick and book many months in advance so you don’t miss out.
Larrikin Puppets service the greater Brisbane area, performing colourful and fun puppetry at your events!
Puppet Shows for:
Childcare Centres
Schools
Vacation Care / OSHC
Fetes and Festivals
Libraries (including “Library Story Time With Larrikin Puppets”)
Shopping Centres
Parties (kids and adults)
Corporate Events
Puppet MC for:
Corporate Events
Product Launches
Wedding Receptions
Award Ceremonies
Film Screening events
Trivia Nights
Puppetry for:
Film, TV and Theatre productions!
Puppetry Performance Workshops for:
Schools, Vacation Care / OSHC, Theatre, Film & TV!
Larrikin Puppets specialises in Muppet-style puppetry inspired by the work of the late, great Jim Henson.
Larrikin Puppets is WINNER of the 2015 BizCover NEIS Change Award.
Larrikin Puppets is FINALIST in the 2017 What’s On 4 Kids Awards.
Larrikin Puppets is FINALIST in the 2018 Moreton Bay Region Business Excellence & Innovation Awards.
Larrikin Puppets founder and principal puppeteer Brett Hansen has been formally trained in the USA by Jim Henson puppeteers from Sesame Street and The Muppets.
Co-puppeteer Elissa Jenkins received formal puppetry training at The Puppet Kitchen in Manhattan, New York.
Notable Performances:
Puppetry Arts Festival of Brooklyn (New York City)
Woodford Folk Festival
Bundaberg Pageant of Lights
Gladstone Harbour Festival
Redcliffe Sails Festival
Ipswich Festival
South Bank Parklands 25th Anniversary
QPAC Farewell Party for the cast and company of Julie Andrews’ touring production of “My Fair Lady”.
Theatre Involvement:
Show Of Hands – Anywhere Theatre Festival (2018)
Avenue Q – Shoebox Theatre Company (2018)
Avenue Q – Sunnybank Theatre Group (2017)
ImproMafia’s Not 4 Kidz – Brisbane Powerhouse (2016)
The Super Weekend Show – Studio Theatre & Cafe (2015)
Thank Troggg You’re Here: A Puppet Impro Spectacular! – Anywhere Theatre Festival (2014)
ImproMafia’s Puppets vs. People – Brisbane Arts Theatre (2012)
Avenue Q – Brisbane Arts Theatre (2012, 2014)
Film & TV Involvement:
Totally Wild – Network Ten (2018)
The Bureau of Magical Things – Network Ten / Jonathan M. Shiff Productions (2017)
That’s What You Get – Tia Gostelow music video / Why Not? Productions (2017)
The Puppeteer – InspireFlix (2017)
Kev – Why Not? Productions (2016)
Juiced TV – Children’s Hospital Foundation (2015)
5 for 35 – Richard Bell / For 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art / APT8 at GOMA (2015)
Heart of Thousand Souls – Luke Walker Productions (2014)
Cluck: The Web Series – Vincent Chen (2013)
Showreel – 31 Digital (2013)
The Late Nite Show – 31 Digital (2013)
Larrikin Puppets is a Blue Card holding business, regulated by the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000. We’re covered by Public Liability Insurance through Duck for Cover Entertainers’ Group Inc.
Larrikin Puppets This Weekend
Whether we win an award or not this Friday night at the Moreton Bay Region Business Excellence & Innovation Awards, we still have important work to do for the rest of the weekend:
A Christmas puppet show at Guppy’s Early Learning Centre Caboolture on Saturday afternoon, followed by a night time performance at Carols In The Park Bribie Island. And on Sunday the puppets will be celebrating Isabella’s 3rd birthday in Ascot.
Bookings have started coming in for 2019 so contact us today at test.larrikinpuppets.com.au 🙂
Larrikin Puppets at St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School in Caboolture
Today we’re at St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School in Caboolture to perform a Christmas puppet show for 96 Prep students!
We’ve started taking school bookings for 2019. Find us at test.larrikinpuppets.com.au
You can find all the details about our school puppet shows and puppetry performance workshops here:
Work With Larrikin Puppets (Australia Only)
Love puppetry? Love the arts and entertainment industry? Larrikin Puppets is seeking a bubbly, fun, tech-savvy casual contract Booking Agent with a passion for administration, tour management and telesales for 3-5 hours a week commencing February 2019.
This role will suit someone who’s already set up as a Virtual Assistant who can work from their own home office. You must have an ABN and be based in Australia. $25/hour.
We also welcome applications from students seeking practical experience in arts and entertainment. Join Larrikin Puppets in our latest phase of growth! Opportunity for more hours into the future if our strategy works!
Not afraid to pick up the phone and sell our awesome suite of puppet shows and workshops? In fact, do you relish the idea? Then email your expression of interest and resume to elissa@larrikinpuppets.com.au.
Larrikin Puppets at Redbank State School
Today we’re at Redbank State School to perform a puppet show for Prep to Grade 2, and to run three puppetry performance workshops for Grades 3 to 6!
We’ve started taking school bookings for 2019.
We perform our puppet shows and run our puppetry workshops at primary schools all over Queensland. As well as Redbank State School, we’ve also visited Birkdale State School, Baralaba State School, Nagoorin State School, Citipointe Christian College, Maroochydore State School, Belmont State School and many more – including the Australian International School in Kowloon, Hong Kong!
Book us for your school today!
Larrikin Puppets perform a puppet show for schools that can be both educational and very entertaining for students and teachers alike!
Puppeteers Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins and their funny characters provide top quality entertainment and fun for schools in and around Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.
See below for full details on how you can treat the students to a special session of puppetry at school!
We offer two types of sessions for schools. The younger students in Prep and Grade 1 enjoy the puppet show, while the older students from Grade 2 onwards tend to prefer our hands-on (or hands-in) puppetry performance workshop. Here are details about both:
Option 1 – Puppet Show:
Our puppet show is a colourful and fun 30 minute variety show of songs, skits, jokes and games. The style of puppetry is like The Muppets and Sesame Street. It’s all interactive and live (rather than pre-recorded). Kids are encouraged to sing, dance and play along.
The show is followed by an additional 5 minute presentation where we demonstrate to the audience how all the different puppets in our show work. Then there’s a bit of a meet-and-greet and photo opportunity where the kids can then get their photo taken with “Troggg” the friendly blue monster and his little sister “Marina”. These shows can be performed either in the school hall, in a classroom or in the library.
Our general comedy puppet show always goes down a treat, but you can ask us in your enquiry if you’d like any educational material incorporated into the show. We have performed puppet shows themed around healthy eating, food allergies, Autism acceptance, friendship, anti bullying, World Environment Day and World Puppetry Day.
Total Duration: 45 minutes.
Cost: All prices and details about our school incursions are here: https://test.larrikinpuppets.com.au/schools/
Cost Covers:
- Two Puppeteers.
- 30 minute puppet show of songs, games, jokes and comical interaction with the audience.
- 5 minute “How the puppets work” demonstration.
- 10 minute puppet meet-and-greet / Photo opportunity.
- Time allowance for travel to and from, set-up and pack-up of the puppet stage, props, puppets and sound equipment.
- Rehearsal time prior to the event.
- Quality characters.
- Quality puppetry.
Option 2 – Puppetry Performance Workshop:
We also offer a 1 hour workshop where Elissa and Brett teach Muppet-style puppetry performance for beginners. We don’t teach the building/craft side. Just the performance side. We bring along 40 workshop puppets for students to practice with in the class. We teach lip sync, eye focus, walking, arm movement, character voices, etc. Puppetry is great for building confidence, improving communication and making people laugh. Students get an opportunity to come up on stage and demonstrate what they’ve learnt in the class.
The workshops usually begin with a short puppet show to demonstrate how the puppets look when performed.
Total Workshop Duration: 1 hour.
Workshop Cost: All costs and details about our school incursions are here: https://test.larrikinpuppets.com.au/schools/
Brett and Elissa have current blue cards, are fully insured, professional, and punctual.
Content on healthy eating and food allergies has been sourced from consultations with expert naturopath and nutritionist Lauren Stark BHSc from Naturally For You Health & Wellness.
You can find more information about Larrikin Puppets on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest and Google Plus.
See the article that 612 ABC Brisbane’s Spencer Howson wrote for Bmag about Brett Hansen and Larrikin Puppets here.
Larrikin Puppets | Shoebox Theatre Company’s Avenue Q
A couple of months ago we ran two puppetry performance workshops in Toowoomba for local actors to learn some puppetry skills in preparation to audition for Shoebox Theatre Company’s production of Broadway puppet musical Avenue Q. This workshop made the local newspapers and Channel Seven News!
Having trained a few casts of Avenue Q over the years we were delighted to teach some new people the skills required to bring this wonderful production to life with good puppetry.
Now that the auditions are over, the show has been cast and all the puppets have been built (by Scott Richards at Maxx Puppets) and assigned to the cast members, we are running a revision puppetry workshop for them. We will run through all the basics like lip sync, eye focus, walking and arm movements, and then we’ll analyse specific scenes from the show and help with any specific puppetry queries they might have.
I love Avenue Q. I first saw the show when an Australian and New Zealand touring production came to QPAC in 2010. I’ve seen the off-Broadway production in New York City twice (the second time we were lucky enough to be taken on a backstage tour to meet all the puppets and have a look at the sets up close).
In 2012 I auditioned for a role in the Brisbane Arts Theatre production of Avenue Q, and ended up being cast as co-puppeteer for Trekkie Monster and Nicky, as well as being the puppetry trainer for the whole cast. My official title was ‘puppetry consultant’.
In 2014 I was asked to train a new Avenue Q cast at Brisbane Arts Theatre. New director, new cast, new production team.
In 2017 I trained the Sunnybank Theatre Group production of Avenue Q.
Now in 2018, this is Toowoomba’s first local production of Avenue Q with performances to take place in February of 2019.
Elissa and I look forward to attending the show at USQ Arts Worx during the season, happening 7-16 February 2019.
– Brett.
Larrikin Puppets at Nurseryland Alderley
Today’s puppet show is at Nurseryland Early Childhood Learning Centre in Alderley. 🙂
We’re taking childcare centre bookings for 2019! Troggg and friends would love to visit!
Larrikin Puppets Turns Six Years Old (November 11 2018)
Larrikin Puppets was launched six years ago today! Happy Birthday to us! We perform puppet shows at childcare centres, schools, festivals, libraries, parties, shopping centres and more! We also run puppetry performance workshops and provide a puppet MC service.
Book puppets for your event today!
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