Welcome to the Bristol Experimental Puppet Festival, a cross-city festival unearthing the treasure trove of Bristol’s underground puppet world. Together with many local collectives and artists from all around the world, we will come together in June 2026 to create magical puppet mayhem and wonder.
Our puppets have long dreamed to take to the streets with their friends, and during this 10 days we will collaborate with the inanimate realms and make the impossible everyday. We have the power to move the world around us and the puppets are calling us to MOVE!
We will breathe life into the living fabric of our city with its own creativity and rebelliousness. We are daring to sound the horns to all those who love puppets to come out of the cracks and create something truly miraculous that can be felt in every corner of the city, as everything comes alive.
We have events in collaborating venues and collectives at PRSC, The Cube Microplex, Puppet Place, Cafe Kino, The Loco Club & More
This is a 100% DIY puppet festival run by volunteers and you can help too ! get in touch if you would like to volunteer, photograph or offer space for artists to perform, or sleep! email us at bristolexperimentalpuppetfestival@protonmail.com