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		<title>Puppeteer&#8217;s Regional Festival!                       June 26-29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hitch Up Old Dobbin and Head For Howe, Indiana! Our Great Lakes Region sponsors a 2012 Regional Puppetry Festival on the shady, campus of the illustrious Howe School. By mid- June, the countryside will be looking almost at fine as your beddy-bye at the end of a day of puppet workshops, classes, and performances by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of the Dragon Is Here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Day of Puppetry Set for April 28th&#8230; OK, we admit it&#8217;s an unlikely international mash-up, but the generous hospitality of Chicago&#8217;s Irish-American Heritage Center (4626 N. Knox, 60630) calls us back to offer up a program on Saturday morning, April 28, 2012, that will surely succeed in some &#8220;dragon dance action&#8221; even with shamrocks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagopuppet.org/2012/02/year-dragon-here/</link>
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		<title>C2E2 Adds A Puppet Slam, Saturday, April 14!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chicago&#8217;s geeky version of the weird pop culture and comic event is up April 13-15 And this year a new puppet slam, to be hosted by Sea Beast Puppetry, is in the works! The oddments and oddballs of this national rolling expo, engaging those who may never have HAD a day job to quit, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagopuppet.org/2012/02/comic-con-move-over/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Puppetry Self-Marketing 101&#8243; and The School of Hard Knocks, March 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nobody&#8217;s looking for a puppeteer in today&#8217;s wintry economic climate.&#8221; complained the unemployed Craig Schwartz, the character portrayed by John Cusack in &#8220;Being John Malkovich.&#8221; We all struggle to get our art and ideas out in front of paying clients, and Sunday, March 11 from 2-4PM will be CPG and friends&#8217; opportunity to share what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagopuppet.org/2012/02/puppetry-self-marketing-101-set-ofr-march-11/</link>
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		<title>The O&#8217;Neill National Puppetry Conference June 6-17 Wants YOU!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Applications are due March 15, 2012 and a neatly folded twenty dollar bill will assure you get our official Letter of Unqualified Reference&#8230;not that any sincere puppet lover needs it to get in. The conference is a wonderful way for newbies to learn as Participants ($995) and for those with more experience to come as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagopuppet.org/2012/02/oneill-national-puppetry-conference-june-6-17-you/</link>
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		<title>Theatre Zarko Opens at Steppenwolf&#8217;s Garage Rep 2012!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We continue to admire and delight in Michael Montenegro&#8217;s Evanston-based Theatre Zarko, and apparently the secret has slipped out. This special run of their new &#8220;He Who&#8221; runs  Fri. February 3, 2012 — Sun. April 8, 2012 in rotation with two other shows in the Garage Rep series, so check Box Office (312-335-1650) for dates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagopuppet.org/2012/02/theatre-zarko-chosen-steppenwolfs-garage-rep-2012/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Houdini Box&#8221; Is On Stage!..and getting raves!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blair Thomas and Chicago Childrens&#8217; Theater team up for &#8220;The Houdini Box&#8221; The Houdini Box  is a &#8220;world premiere musical&#8221; based on the (mighty fine) book by Brian Selznick about a 10-year-old boy who can’t seem to emulate his hero, Harry Houdini, until a chance meeting with the magician.  Blair Thomas both creates puppetry and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Hero&#8230;Puppet Bike!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason Trusty is a Chicago legend in street-wise puppetry! Jason Trusty, Inventor and Puppet Fan We&#8217;re indepbted to time Out chicago and author Wes Behrens for this fine 2010 profile PUPPET MASTER Trusty is the original man behind Puppet Bike’s curtain. Photo: Andrew Nawrocki Part MacGyver and part Joseph Cornell, Rogers Park resident Jason Trusty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagopuppet.org/2012/01/hero-puppet-bike/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Feast: An Intimate Tempest&#8221; Opens This Week at CST!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Shakespeare Employs Puppets Again, antagonizing Equity Actors Local 113 opening Weds.January 18 – March 4, 2012 CST strikes out in new directions with masterminding/ co-creation by the endlessly inventive team of Jessica Thebus and Frank Maugeri. Additional designs by Andrea Everman (silhouettes), Jesse Mooney-Bullock (3D work) and Unsung Puppeteers backstage offer up &#8220;a menagerie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chicagopuppet.org/2012/01/tempest-same/</link>
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		<title>CPG Tree House Now Open to Puppet Lovers&#8230;maybe you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We let down the CPG tree house ladder only a few times a year (365) to invite those with a deep love of puppetry, or merely a guilty conscience from having read these posts and our Facebook real-time updates to JOIN UP! You, yes YOU!&#8230;are only keystrokes away from the &#8220;Join CPG&#8221; page of this [...]]]></description>
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