Poynter speaks with journalists behind “Head-lines,” a news show for children that’s run by puppets. The project is a collaboration between the Los Angeles Times and the Bob Baker Marionette Theater.
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Creative pandemic-era solutions, including Zoom puppet classes, mobile marionette shows, even wedding planning helped the Bob Baker Marionette Theater thrive.
PUPPETEERS and clown puppets entertain family audiences as they have for 58 years in Los Angeles.
Bob Baker Marionette Theater (BBMT) is celebrating because its fundraising campaign “Keep Imagination Alive” has already met and even exceeded its $365,000 goal. BBMT began the campaign in November in a desperate move to pay rent and keep the lights on, said Winona Bechtle, director of development. She added that the board and staff had fully expected the campaign to last far into this year, and only hoped to raise a third of the goal by the end of 2020.
Thanks to the community of fans who supported the puppet theater with contributions ranging from $5 up to some really, really generous gifts, said board treasurer and Brookside resident Vivian Gueler, BBMT can now, with the goal met, return from pure survival mode to concentrate on grant writing to help fulfill its programming and educational goals for 2021, said Bechtle.