Creative Cuts - The Village Puppet Festival

After 40 years of entertaining children, teaching drama and making puppets, Catherine Steer-O’Neill, director of Little Big World Puppet Company, decided it was time for our region to have its own puppet festival.

During the 1980’s Catherine started making her own puppets from papier mache and developed a successful business with her band of folk tale glove puppet characters under the name Lucy Lollipops Puppet Theatre.

Puppetry is a lesser known art form here on the Sunshine Coast there are only a few puppeteers on the coast and it’s wonderful to get them all together in one place over a weekend to perform.

Everyone is performing for donation at Mapleton Hall 31 Obi Obi Road, Mapleton, November 9 and 10, from 10.30am – 4.30pm each day. There are 12 shows plus workshops and the whole weekend will be an array of small to large puppets roving in and around Mapleton Hall, plus busking and rock band, Led Angels, providing music!