Do you feel that you might need an added boost in creating content for online learning and/or sharing that knowledge with your children at home that is stimulating and fun for all? We invite teachers, parents, therapists and teaching artists to learn to look through the eyes of puppet, make simple puppets at home for storytelling & skill building, lighten the mood with role playing and learn to laugh even when we are feeling the most serious about a situation.

Friday, February 4, 2022 from 1:30-3:30pm via Zoom.

Friday, March 4, 2022 from 1:30-3:30pm via Zoom.

One additional date for mutually agreed upon date for private consulting available through the end of the school year within this three part package. Please let me know if you cannot make these dates/times and we can discuss other options.

Feel free to contact us about about options for your group to learn this most useful skill together virtually!

Do you feel that you might need an added boost in creating content for online learning and/or sharing that knowledge with your children at home that is stimulating and fun for all? We invite teachers, parents, therapists and teaching artists to learn to look through the eyes of puppet, make simple puppets at home for storytelling & skill building, lighten the mood with role playing and learn to laugh even when we are feeling the most serious about a situation.

In this workshop series participants will learn how to effectively use this art form, which has existed for centuries to depict characters that extend beyond our own form, and yet still exists at our fingertips. Here we allow the puppet to be a role model and peer that helps a child learn better, because they are at ease and less stressed about the process when we teach at their level with this playful visual addition of comfort, fun and love. The possibilities are endless and you can create your very own puppets as situations arise for conflict-resolution with your children. Approaching a situation with good humor is key.

This art form has rules just like anything else, so we invite you to join us online for one 90 minute introductory workshop via password-protected Zoom. During the 4-6 weeks you will receive links to more information and videos to pursue at your leisure, offering a flexible time schedule over the course of a month that allows you to try the art form out and then meet up again at the end of the 4-6 weeks to discuss successes, challenges and hopes for uses of puppetry. You will also be able to meet individually via Zoom two additional times for 1 hour each with the instructor who is a professional puppeteer that has also worked around the world in this art form that can be used with or without words to express an idea, depending on your approach catered to the individual child or population/age/learning abilities that you work with and would like to focus on here.

Adelka Polak, founder of Sova Dance & Puppet Theater based in western CT, is a puppeteer and teaching artist serving thousands of children & families from ages 3-83 every year throughout New England, NYC & has even performed in Taiwan, South Korea, Turkey, Denmark, Bulgaria & the Czech Republic.  She also served as an Expressive Arts Therapist for the Kennedy Center, Inc. in CT and with the Sunrise Group for a decade now integrating art and expressive movement into the lives of people with different abilities.  She works on creating Professional Development workshops for teachers & literacy coaches with Hartford Performs as well as Z. Briggs of Wonderspark Puppets and the Jim Henson Foundation.