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    Since 1977, Carranza Puppets has been dedicated to bringing quality marionette and hand puppet shows to children that are educational as well as entertaining. This traveling company primarily serves the Houston area, and also travels the states of Texas and Louisiana.

   Using exquisitely handcrafted marionettes, Carranza Puppets goes to elementary schools and performs school assembly programs. These programs include original music orchestrated especially for each year's production. The programs are also available for libraries, corporations and civic organizations.

   Contact Carranza Puppets at 281-890-5210 for more information about bringing this quality presentation to your school or library.


The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is pleased to announce that Carranza Puppets has been accepted onto the 2012-2014 Texas Touring Roster. TCA provides GRANTS to help with the costs of bringing in artists from this Roster (such as Carranza Puppets) for performances. How do I access the grant program?

To access the grant application process, you must first sign up for a user name and password by calling TCA at 800/252-9415, and speaking to a Program Staff member.

2012-2013 Assembly Program
 
  "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp" is from The Arabian Nights, also called The Thousand and One Nights, which is a large collection of stories, mostly of Arabian, Indian, or Persian origin.

The frame story, Persian in origin, turns on the woman-hating King Schahriah (Shahyar) who marries a different woman each night, thus insuring her faithfulness. Scheherazade (Shahrazad), however, beguiles the King with a series of stories for a thousand and one nights, withholding the ending of each story until the next night. Through her stories Scheherazade dissipates the King's anger and teaches him to become a better person and a wiser King. In this way she saves her life and the King eventually falls in love with her. Read More

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