In honor of the festival’s founder and Pioneering puppeteer, Eugene Lambert, who passed away last month, The Legendary Wanderly Wagon is set to fly into Wolf Tone Park, next to Jervis street. The Wagon will form the centre point to a weekend full of free outdoor shows by both National and International puppet companies.

Venues: Wolf Tone Park & Temple Bar, Sat & Sun 24th & 25th April.

More details coming soon!

As you may, or may not know, this year the International Puppet Festival Ireland is moving to a new home – Temple Bar! Yes that’s right, we’ve outgrown out home in the Lambert Puppet Theatre in Monkstown and need to spread our wings a little and where better then the capital’s cultural quarter, smack bang in the middle of Dublin city?

We’re also changing dates. For the last 15 years the festival has been in September. This year however it will be happening in April, from the 19th to the 25th to be exact!

So we have a new home, new dates some fantastic shows and performers….now all we need is a sponsor! We’re delighted to announce that we have been prioritised by the arts council who, despite tight budgets, will again be giving us funding for this year’s puppet festival. That said we still need a little help from corporate Ireland. We’re ideally looking for one headline sponsor (and its not a huge amount of money either!) but we would also be delighted to talk to smaller co-sponsors who may be willing to give us a hand.

Our main audiences are children, parents, educators (pre-school, primary and secondary school programmes) and non-local visitors but we can tell you more about our market research and your potential exposure when you get in touch!

If your company is interested in sponsoring this year’s International Puppet Festival Ireland 2010, in Temple Bar from the 19th to 25th of April please get in touch with Festival Director Ronan Tully at director@puppetfest.ie or call 01 442 9010