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Have you thought about trying puppetry, animation or visual theatre but don’t know where to start? Through Manipulate Arts you can try your hand at these skills for the first time, as a way to express your creative ideas and have fun.

For a basic introduction to puppet-making techniques that you can try at home, please check out our Puppetry at Home series, originally commissioned during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and watched thousands of times in homes, schools and community settings since.

If you would like to participate in creativity in your local community, you can see examples of the types of creative engagement project that we run on these pages. If you would like us to bring a project like this to your community, or if you have another idea for a project you would like us to run, please get in touch with us.

If you currently have or are considering a professional career in these artforms, please head over to our Artists section, where you can find out all about the range of opportunities that we run for creative professionals.

Puppetry, animation and visual theatre are all incredible tools for igniting the imagination, breathing life into the inanimate, and for bringing about some serious fun.