Bring your handmade stop motion puppets for a party! Don't have puppet? We'll show you how to make a simple paper puppet to join the party.

About the Club

Have a puppet you’ve been meaning to finish? Have a cool puppet you want to show off? Puppets landed at any production stage are welcome at the Puppet party.

This is the inaugural event for our bi-monthly Puppet Party Club!

This event is a drop in party/work session to develop or craft your own puppet projects with like minded individuals! This event serves as a place to work on your puppet, do some body doubling, learn from each other, listen to some good music and enjoy snacks!

Free for Members!

$50.00 for non-members.

• Meet & greet the puppets
• Informal knowledge Sharing
• Working stations in the multi-purpose space with music and snacks.
• Paper puppet making for anyone who wants to make a puppet from scratch.
• Under camera Puppet Parade: Animation station where members can animate a puppet walk cycle!
• Wrap up

About the Instructor

Charlotte Lavoie-Auspert - TAIS Studio Coordinator

Charlotte is an artist based in Montreal, now living in Toronto. Her mixed-media works are fuelled by her passion to question, understand and represent the human experience. She specializes in stop-motion animation, mashing together paper, puppets and printmaking to explore the bounds of materiality. She has had her work showcased at Toronto’s International Festival of Authors (TIFA), the 32nd Annual Intercollegiate Visual Arts Show (RIASQ), Toronto’s Alliance Française, Toronto’s Animated image society (TAIS), Carlton Cinema, Animation Festival of Berlin (FAB) and the Canlandiranlar International Film Festival in Istanbul. She has received awards for her various works namely the Madi Pillar Award (2023), Jury’s First place award (GradEx 2025) and the Bluma Appel Award (2025).

Myfanwy Ashmore - TAIS Managing Director

Myfanwy Ashmore is a media artist working in sculpture & new media technologies, holding an MFA from York University (1998), living in Canada. Their work has been exhibited extensively, including 2024 Digital Portraiture: Empathy In Virtual Worlds, with Cory Arcangel & Paper Rad, Angela Washko, JODI, Brody Condon, Eddo Stern, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight, Is it This Gallery,[Senne] Brussels, Belgium, Show #32: Video Game Art 1970-2005, curated by Paul Slocum Including work by Cory Arcangel, John Horton Conway, JODI, Hacking/Modding/Remixing as Feminist Protest, Curated by Angela Washko, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 (Episode 4 minute 20) Ways of Something: Lorna Mills) The Whitney Museum of American Art & (Permanent collection), Game Show at Surrey Art Gallery (Surrey), Arcadia University Gallery (Part of “The Big Nothing” Philadelphia), DeadTech Gallery (Chicago), Poster Project Seoul, Terraforms: Game Mods at Babycastles (NYC), Avatar: The New You, Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney), Zero Gamer (London Games Festival Fringe), Http Gallery/Furtherfield (London) and Play boys with GameBoys Smart Project Space (Amsterdam). She has taught new media and animation courses at Guelph University, York University, Toronto Metropolitan University and led workshops at Paved Art Media Art Centre (Saskatoon) and ISEA 2014 Workshops (Abu Dhabi and Dubai). She has been the recipient of numerous grants from The Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Other awards include being a finalist for the prestigious K.M. Hunter Award through the Ontario Arts Council and finalist for the coveted Glenfiddich Artist Residency Prize. Myfanwy became the Managing Director at TAIS in July 2019.