Philosophy

This site is designed to be a stepping stone to information about puppetry in Australia. A place to start if you are doing a project at school, want to
visit a puppet company in your area, would like to buy a puppet, need to find an agent, would like information on grants, or which government
department you need to contact to perform in schools. All these links and more are right here

Sean Manners, of Pelican Puppets, started this site after attending The Puppet Summit in Melbourne in October 2002. He noticed that although as a
whole puppetry in Australia was a vibrant, growing profession, there did not seem to be anywhere to go to easily find information about the industry.
Australia does not have a one stop shop such as The Puppet Centre in Britain. The web seemed an ideal place for such a thing. Part of the wonder
that is puppetry is communication, and this website is designed to try and fulfil a need for communication within the Australian puppetry profession to
help spread its wings and take flight.