Morph Puppet Festival

16/08/2022

Did you come along to MORPH Puppet Festival?
Help our chances of running the festival again one day by filling out this quick survey.
Thank you so much for your time!
From the MORPH Team x

We would be very grateful if you could spend a minute giving us some feedback on your experience at our festival so that we can learn and make improvements if we organise another one. If you're a parent/guardian, you can invite your child(ren) to answer some of the questions if they were the reason....

17/07/2022

15/07/2022

WE'D LIKE TO GIVE A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO THE WORKERS. Everyone who gave their time to ensure Morph Puppet Festival was a success! THANK YOU SO MUCH 👏🥰

THE VOLUNTEERS...
Bowen Penn
Cat Levine
Dave King
Erin Halliwell
Gill West
Hannah Hunter
Hector Danilo
Jada Rolston
Jan Danilo
Jessie Mortensen
Karen Hawtin-Chapman
Kerikeri Rotary members
Les Robinson
Liam Penn
Lydia Baillie-Bellew
Maura Baillie-Bellew
Pippa Mortensen
Rubee Mortensen
Sam Penn
Scott Hunter
& the lovely Turner Centre Volunteers

And the awesome TURNER CENTRE TEAM...
Iris Klapwijk
Ginny Pearson
Sue Pilling
Spencer Fairhurst
Gerry Paul
Merv Pinny

We hope we've remembered everyone, and would also like to thank those who kindly offered their help too.
And many thanks once again to all the people who came along to enjoy the festival. We hope you had fun!

Check out the highlights on our website:
https://morphpuppetfestival.com/

12/07/2022

⭐️It takes an army of goodness to make projects like SHADOW WORLDS come alive. Lucky for us, that's exactly what we had!

Huge thanks to everyone who contributed, and everyone who decided to come along and take a peek at this unique shadow puppet experience celebrating Matariki* 👀

Spark, Far North Creative Communities Scheme, Turner Centre, Belltech Events, The Magic Play House, Kerikeri Homeschoolers, Springbank School, Kerikeri High School, Jessie, Pippa & Rubee, Hannah, Erin, Liam, Bowen & Sam, Jan, Les & Hector 🙏

(*Look further down our feed to see what we did!)

11/07/2022

WHAT WAS 'POETRY BY MONSTERS' LIKE? 👀
Our lovely photographer and fellow organiser, Claire 'Flash' Gordon, was unfortunately out of action for MORPH! and we didn't even attempt to try capturing the brilliant play, POETRY BY MONSTERS, on our phone cameras! Luckily, Peter de Graaf from the Northern Advocate came to watch 📸
Take a look at stills from this mesmerising Company of Giants creation, inspired by artwork by Soju Shots.
With thanks to PDG x

(P.S. The article mentions the Hipstamatics, but sadly we were unable to confirm enough ticket sales due to the current surge of winter bugs and covid. We hope to bring them back in better days!)

Puppet show delivers Northland kids a message about looking after the environment.

10/07/2022

And this is the last of the festival paraphernalia leaving the Turner Centre where we've spent most of the last four days... two signs, three flags and some sleepy humans! Many thanks to everyone who joined us over that time, and a special shoutout to the families who came to just about every single event! We had so much fun, and we really hope you did too 😍
We have so many people to thank for helping us pull this event together, and lots of pictures still to post, so stay tuned over the next week.
Nighty-night from the Morph! Team 😴

10/07/2022

After a day packed full of some very productive workshops by Company of Giants and artist, Soju Shots, we think there are some families who now have a monster or a robot living in their house (or both!) 😈🤖 Thanks for coming along, everyone!

These workshops were made possible with help from Creative Northland, BOI Whangaroa Community Board and the Turner Centre, and the awesome creative skills of Company of Giants and Soju Shots 🥳

09/07/2022

Everyone was very surprised when the cats found a huge possum in the tree at The Magical Midnight Adventure!
Thanks to Kerikeri Youth Theatre and The Magic Play House for this beautiful play 🥰

Kerikeri Theatre Company The Magic Play House

09/07/2022

⭐️ Magical Shadow Worlds! ⭐️
Thanks to all the local schools who created the nine Matariki star tales. You did an awesome job!

08/07/2022

And we're open! Come on down, meet and play with the puppets and become a Morph Puppet Master!
$10 entry / age 5 and under FREE

TURNER CENTRE TODAY

08/07/2022

SHADOW WORLDS Tonight from 6pm at The Turner Centre
⭐️If you're booking to come to this free event tonight, you'll need extra information on how to prepare audio for your visit.
PLEASE EMAIL US at [email protected] after you have registered. We have already emailed the info out to everyone who has registered so far.
Thank you 🙏

Shadow Worlds Come and watch nine tales of Matariki told in magical shadow puppet plays, and set to the beautiful audio of Spark's 0800MATARIKI, with creative inte...

08/07/2022

Oh wow! Just snuck into the wings of a POETRY BY MONSTERS rehearsal ahead of tomorrow's debut. Look what I saw 👀 So exciting!!! Still tickets available. Don't miss it!
SAT 11AM / 2PM / 4PM
THE TURNER CENTRE Kerikeri
https://www.iticket.co.nz/go-to/morph-puppet-fest