Welcome to the County Arts Lab registration page for:
Age range - 18+
Saturday March 29th, 2025 from 1-5 pm
Location - The County Arts Lab, Unit 2E, Picton Armoury Building
Have you ever wondered how a puppet comes to life? This course offers hands-on television puppetry training for adults. Learn fundamental basics of technical puppet manipulation, lip-sync, using a puppet monitor and working with a director within a supportive environment to develop your own character. We’ll also have some laughs, leaning into improv to let your inner puppeteer out to meet the world. A variety of puppets will be provided - all you need is your imagination.
Bring: Pad and paper, comfortable clothing (sweats) and sneakers. If you have a puppet of your own, please bring it along.
Please Note: Classes take place in unit 2E of the Picton Armoury (Main Street level). The most convenient access is through the Main Street entrance, but you can also enter through the back/Mary St. entrance and use the interior stairs to reach the main floor (please note there is no elevator in the Armoury). There is an accessible parking spot on Main Street in front of the Armoury building (Crepe Escape/south side).
Meet Ali! Ali Eisner has worked extensively for three decades as a Television Puppeteer, Creative Producer, Director, Screen Writer, Story Editor & Composer in Children's Television. The 2019 JUNO Award winning and 3-time-GEMINI Award nominee has created/worked on a variety of network shows for CBC, TV Ontario, Family Channel, Disney Jr., The Jim Henson Company, Nick Jr and NBC. Ali also identifies as Trans/Non-Binary and strives to shine a light on the LGBTQ+ community through their broadcasted works. Their hope is that we can all learn to be ourselves, together.
Offline registration - We prefer to take payment and registration through this form, but if you are not comfortable with this option and it is more than 2 weeks before the course begins, please check the "Offline" box in the Billing Information section below. We will contact you with alternative payment options. Payment must be received at least one week before the course begins.
Processing fee - This covers transaction and ticketing fees. We've decided to use Regfox, the most affordable ticketing platform we could find, which will collectively save our participants over $1000 in processing fees per year.
Policies and Waivers - We've included these as part of the registration process (thank you for your patience!) to save some paperwork on your end and get straight to creating when we are in person!
We encourage those who are able to pay a little more to choose this price ($20/hr). By doing so, you are helping build a community that prioritizes access to the arts for all, and allowing us to cover more of our operating costs, which include Artist Instructor fees, rent, and more.
This price ($15/hr) allows us to cover most of the costs of running the course.
This price ($10/hr) is available to those who find the other two options too high for their household.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: County Arts makes every effort to ensure that all community members, including those who (or have family members who) are more medically vulnerable feel that they can safely teach and learn at the County Arts Lab. We also want to ensure that those who are unable to wear masks have access to our programming.
We recently moved to masking on a class by class basis. Please select the option below that best describes your comfort level with regard to masking. (Please note, if anyone in the class selects the third option, we will ask that everyone who is able to do so wear a mask.) If you have any questions, please reach out to Programs Assistant Heather McCorquodale at [email protected].
