About the event

Sandglass Theater is thrilled to announce the 12th edition of the Puppets in the Green Mountains (PGM) international festival, September 7th-15th, 2024. Local and international artists and community leaders bring to life this year’s theme: Just Around the Bend. The festival celebrates the thriving art of Puppet Theater as a means of enhancing perspectives, generating compassion and celebrating the human spirit. Puppets in the Green Mountains: Just Around the Bend offers something for everyone with family shows, shows for adults, workshops and forum discussions, all in and around the Brattleboro area of Southern Vermont.

Sandglass Theater’s Puppets in the Green Mountains international festival is a premier attraction in Southern Vermont. Over the last 28 years, the PGM festival has grown substantially. What began as a homegrown event to present unique and inspiring Puppet Theater from around the world, now welcomes thousands of participants. This year’s festival will include artists from Germany, Spain, Canada, Puerto Rico, and across the USA, and a world premiere of a new Sandglass production. PGM embraces its role as a meeting ground for international exchange, an educational platform, a space for connection and dialogue, and a celebration of Puppet Theater.

Puppets in the Green Mountains 2024 gives audiences a focused lens through which to reflect and explore what is Just Around the Bend as we navigate evolving technologies and strive to honor living/embodied knowledge. The festival offers meaningful engagement for any theater lover, maker, educator, or those looking for art that examines our roles and responsibilities in this world. Renowned companies from around the world offer us glimpses into their relationships with objects, technologies, and memory through an expert sense of play and performance. Working closely with regional leaders, Sandglass Theater presents a program that goes beyond the stage and aims to foster meaningful conversation around these performances and the themes they address.

Visit our Puppets in the Green Mountains website for info and tickets.