What is a puppet slam, you ask? Puppeteers of all stripes perform their acts for an allotted amount of time and are judged by a panel of judges. Audience participation is strongly encouraged. For maximum surprise-factor, the puppet-wielding competitors are only revealed to the audience and to each other at the slam.

The night is hosted by Slam Master, Dusty Hagerüd, Vancouver’s go-to puppet doctor and MOA’s current artist-in-residence. Dusty is MOA’s Artist-in-Residence until September 2019, during which time he’s been creating his fuzzy and fabulous puppets in MOA’s Great Hall.

For (immature) mature audiences only.

Program

6:00 pm Bar and meet the puppets (MOA Cafe Courtyard)
7:00 pm Doors open (Haida House)

MC biography

Dusty Hagerüd is originally from Fernie, BC, and a member of the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Nations of the Lower East Kootenays. Since childhood, he has been enchanted by the world of puppets, and draws inspiration from the animated puppets of Jim Henson, Noreen Young and Paul Fusco. As the creative director and founder of Color Sound Lab Puppet Makers, Dusty has been performing and designing puppets for 20 years, in a broad range of styles from marionettes, hand and rod puppets to 2-D paper puppets, Bunraku and shadow puppets.