After a long hiatus, the Wisconsin Puppetry Guild held a planning meeting Sept. 10 at Joan McCarthy’s home in Middleton.
We decided to focus on two big meetings during the coming year, one in the Fox Valley and one in Madison.
Dates need to be firmed up and Joan is working on a newsletter, but tentative plans are for an April 14 or 21, 2012, meeting in Madison and a Sept. 8, 2012, meeting in Oshkosh. (We first considered it just the opposite --- April in Oshkosh, September in Madison. But we want the Oshkosh meeting to be an outdoor event, to see Jeff Decker’s Sherman the Dragon, so September might be better.)
We want to try to get back to our original model of a performance and a workshop at each meeting and of having them in public libraries to encourage new members.
We also want to offer optional get-togethers around the state when puppeteers are performing. We’d go out for lunch or supper together. One such possibility is in January, when Joe Cashore will be performing in Dubuque, Iowa – which is just 15 minutes from the Hazel Green Opera House.
We also want to improve the link to our blog via the website, which needs updating.
And we want to resume sending at least some of our newsletters out in paper form.
You input is encouraged.
Thanks.
Sandye Voight
President for life unless you want to arm wrestle
