By Brett Hansen • September 11, 2018
Larrikin Puppets are visiting the Banana Shire as part of the First 5 Forever program, a State Government initiative. They are performing in Biloela at the “Family Fun in the Park” event (14 Sep), and in Baralaba (11 Sep), Moura (12 Sep) and Taroom (13 Sep). The First 5…
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By Brett Hansen • September 10, 2018
After performing in Hervey Bay at the Teddy Bear’s Picnic – a community family fun day organised by Condy Park Kindergarten, we set off on our journey to our next destination – Boyne Valley. We travelled on unsealed dirt roads to our accommodation in Ubobo last night, then…
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By Brett Hansen • September 7, 2018
Troggg has a brand new puppet van! Eventually we’ll get it all wrapped with our colourful branding and imagery. We do so many regional trips and tours these days. It was time for an upgrade from the hatchback. You can book Larrikin Puppets for puppet shows, story…
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By Brett Hansen • March 21, 2018
Troggg and Flossy wish you a Happy World Puppetry Day and a Happy Harmony Day from the second destination on our 2018 Regional Queensland tour – Maryborough! #Troggg #Flossy #LarrikinPuppets #puppetry #puppetshow #puppets #QLD #Australia #puppetsontour2018 #worldpuppetryday #worldpuppetrydaytour2018 #harmonyday #bribietorockypuppetrytour #Maryborough…
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By Brett Hansen • January 22, 2018
This week, we took the time to visit Puppet People: A Snapshot of Australian Puppetry – an exhibit at the Tony Gould Gallery in the Cremorne Theatre, QPAC. We saw puppets by Peter Scriven (Marionette Theatre of Australia), David Hamilton, Phillip Edmiston (The Queensland Marionette Theatre), Bill & Barbara…
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By Brett Hansen • December 21, 2017
In 2017 Larrikin Puppets turned 5 years old. And what great adventures we had this year! Here are all of our puppet highlights from each month of 2017. January – Three final puppet shows at Woodford Folk Festival, after a full week of performances there.
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By Brett Hansen • December 21, 2017
Elissa and I have had another very busy period in the lead up to Christmas, with puppet shows in childcare centres, libraries, staff Christmas parties, and a series of larger festival events and a shopping centre. This has included a couple of memorable shows in Central Queensland. At…
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By Brett Hansen • October 7, 2017
We perform puppetry at a lot of events with cakes. As you can imagine, birthday cakes are the main attraction at the birthday parties we visit. But we see cakes at Christmas functions, special events where Troggg is the puppet MC, childcare centre celebrations and various other…
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By Brett Hansen • September 28, 2017
Brett and Elissa recently took two weeks off for a “reef to rainforest” holiday. They visited family up in Townsville before exploring the Whitsundays and the Great Barrier Reef (including snorkelling at Hook Island, swimming at Whitehaven Beach and cocktails on Hamilton Island). Then they went down south…
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By Brett Hansen • September 28, 2017
A free puppetry exhibition called “Puppet People: A snapshot of Australian Puppetry” is being held at the Tony Gould Gallery at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (Brisbane) from 10 Oct 2017 – 27 Jan 2018. Some of the puppets on display at the exhibition have been lent by South Australian…
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