Author: Brett Hansen

Larrikin Puppets Wins BEST KIDS LIVE SHOW At 2021 National Industry Awards

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Larrikin Puppets won BEST KIDS LIVE SHOW at the national 2021 What’s On 4 Kids Awards!

We also won two additional awards for Best Local School Aged Activity (5-12 years) – People’s Choice Winner and Highly Commended.

HUGE thank you all our fans who voted in the people’s choice component and to the judges who selected us as WINNERS for Best Live Kids Show!

  • Best Kids Live Show sponsored by What’s on 4 Kids.
  • Best Local School Aged Activity (5-12 years) sponsored by Australian Children’s Activities Association.
Best Kids Live Show Australia - Larrikin Puppets - Whats On 4 Kids - Award Winner 2021

Best Kids Live Show sponsored by What’s on 4 Kids

Nominees:
Larrikin Puppets – Judged Finalist
The Beanies Music – Judged Finalist
The Kreative Fairies – Judged Finalist

WINNERS

Peoples’ Choice Award
Winner: The Beanies Music
Highly Commended: The Kreative Fairies

Judged Award
Winner: Larrikin Puppets
Highly Commended:The Kreative Fairies

Best Local School Aged Activity (5-12 years) sponsored by Australian Children’s Activity Association

Nominees:
2 Bent Rods – Judged Finalist
Bayside Dance – Judged Finalist
CORE Kids Health & Education – Judged Finalist
Dance Kix – Judged Finalist
DANCE1 – Judged Finalist
DCM Dance Connect Move
Helensvale Calisthenic Dance Academy – Judged Finalist
IntotheMask Theatre – Judged Finalist
Juiced Up Groms
Larrikin Puppets – Judged Finalist
Radiance Dance Academy
Right Angle Maths Club

WINNERS

Peoples’ Choice Award
Winner: Larrikin Puppets
Highly Commended: CORE Kids Health & Education

Judged Award
Winner: 2 Bent Rods
Highly Commended: Larrikin Puppets 

New Music Video Collaboration Coming Soon!

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We’ve performed with puppets in music videos for Regurgitator’s POGOGO SHOW and Tia Gostelow.

We have another exciting music video collaboration announcement coming soon!

On Thursday, 29 October 2020 we had the great pleasure of meeting a group of very popular, award winning musicians and posing with our puppet characters for a photo shoot.

Our next meeting with these artists will be the filming of a crazy new music video for a song that will be a POP ANTHEM! Don’t be surprised if you start to see our characters Troggg, Flossy, Frazzamatazz and Freerange the Chicken all over the place very soon in photos and video clips associated with these VERY popular and talented acts.

Watch this space!

Puppetry on Cheeky Moon comedy series, “IT’S A CULT!”

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Short trailer of a web series I recently had the pleasure of performing the puppet character on! Can’t wait to share the whole series with you! – Brett.

A sneaky glimpse of the brand new comedy series by Cheeky Moon, premiering in 2021.
Could this mysterious self-help organisation be a cult? Find out next year on IT’S A CULT!

Starring Christine Milo, Rhys McCane, Bronte Pearce and Sam Monaghan.
With Luisa Prosser, Daren King and Mark Grimes as the voice of Professor James Gilmour.

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Follow Cheeky Moon below to catch upcoming episodes:
✅ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/cheekymoonfilms?sub_confirmation=1
➡️ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cheekymoon
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➡️ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/cheekymoonfilms
➡️ Web: http://www.cheeky-moon.com

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Written and directed by Claire Coe & Alastair Craig

Also appearing among the many splendid faces in this teaser: Amy Currie, Drew Lochrie, Rosa Sottile, Coen Gilbert, Dan Beeston, Tamara McLaughlin, Taylor Edwards and Jordan Schulte.

Directors of Photography in excerpts shown: Sean Smith / Dean Swindell / Owen Smith & David Aponas (Short Stack Productions)

Special guest puppetry by Brett Hansen of Larrikin Puppets.

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Larrikin Puppets Added to Little Rockers Radio Rotation

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Monday, 28 September 2020: From this week, three of our new kids songs – Dance Like A Unicorn, You Can Be Kind and I Know All The Things – will be playing on Little Rockers Radio, a social enterprise radio station for kids aged 6 and under plus their parents and carers. We’re a little bit excited here at Larrikin Puppets!!! And by a little we actually mean a lot! ☀️🌈🦄💖 

2017 What’s On 4 Kids Awards & Conference

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On 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 different ways we can share our services with parents and teachers.

We even got to meet TV stars Tina Harris and Mark Harris from Lah-Lah’s Big Live Band – as seen nationally on ABC Kids, Channel Seven and Nick Jr.

The awards night was a fun gala dinner where we recognised all the entertainers and activity providers around Australia who are doing great things for kids.

We were a finalist in the ‘Best Party Entertainment’ category.

Best Children’s Party Entertainment (Party Planners and Entertainers, Clowns etc) sponsored by Lah Lah’s Big Live Band

Winner – Kids Disco Parties

  • Happily Ever Laughter Children’s Entertainment
  • Larrikin Puppets
  • Strawberry Fundaes Kids Parties
  • Superstar Parties
  • SuperSteph’s Super Party Heroes
  • Unreal Kids Parties

To be a finalist is a big deal in itself! And while other categories all had five finalists, ours had seven! A huge congratulations to the winning finalist Kids Disco Parties. They provide kids around Melbourne with awesome dance parties at schools and birthday events each week!

We brought Troggg and Flossy along to bring lots of smiles and laughter to everybody in attendance at both the conference and the awards, and received a lot of very nice compliments, and posed in a lot of photos and selfies with everybody.

It was a very fun weekend at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane.

Brett.

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Over 400 Likes! Freerange the Chicken on TikTok

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This simple TikTok video of Freerange the Chicken from Larrikin Puppets miming along to a clucking, squeaky rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen received a little over 400 likes within a few hours of it being uploaded to the app.

We’d love to see you on TikTok. Please follow us there: @larrikinpuppets is our handle.

Do You Ever Have A Dream? Marina and Troggg on TikTok

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Do you ever have a dream? Marina tries to explain hers to Troggg on this silly little TikTok video. Please follow @larrikinpuppets on TikTok and like our videos there.

Part of the fun of TikTok is miming along to soundbites, music and dialogue from various sources. The challenge is to present your own take in a creative way. For us we felt that Marina would be the child’s voice talking about the dream, and Troggg would be the one listening and trying to stay attentive.