Geppetto Dreams Puppet Company Economic Stimulus Plan

Due to the rapidly failing health of our largest benefactor, and the scarcity of grants in the failing economy, Geppetto Dreams Puppet Company is forced to close its doors September 27th 2009
  In the same month that we received our first critics choice for “best place for fluffy dreams”http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Awards/BestOfAustin/?Year=2009&Display=Long&BOACategory=Kids&Poll=Critics Best of Austin edition from our good friends at the Chronicle. Can you spell irony? But although we will no longer be able to run our workshops, films series, and kids programs we will still be performing. So help us out by coming to a Garage sale with items so eclectic, so cool, and so weird you could only find it in Austin ! Make your own fluffy dreams!
 
On sale from our coffers, stage props, stage risers, light board & dimmer box, folding chairs,  tons of blank sock and muppet style puppets, tons of finished sock and muppet style puppets, puppet  mouth mechanisms and other assorted puppet guts and pieces, kids puppet theater, flats, costumes, doll wigs, glass eye’s,  Unfortunately we are also forced to sell of most of ourProfessional puppets from our goblin show
The puppets and rigging from our burlesque puppet show “A Night at Miss Mimi’s”
Our Black light Pirate show The Dead Pirate society, and assorted black light/ shadow puppets, are all up for sale
There is a ton of Craft Items such as fun foam, scissors, paints, felt, fabrics, amazing feux fur, Pompoms, glue guns, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, sock/muppet puppet fixins, how to and art reference books, office equipment, cameras, video editing computer, work tables,  Geppetto Dreams DVDS, Show Posters, grab bags, chafing dish we 3 inserts, a case of  clear plastic forks, a almost new BBQ/Smoker, and about 30 evil Teddy Bears. And that’s just what we’ve put out so far!
 
In fact there’s so much stuff, and due to the landlady wanting us out in 3 weeks we have added an extra weekend so from 8 am to 8pm Sept 19-20th and again on the 25 and 26th at 1715 E 7th St 78702 you can help us with our quest to bring great puppet theater to the people and visitors of Austin as all proceeds will help us pay our bills and finance our two upcoming shows
For info/press photos/ questions, or if you’re a millionaire in need of saving a non-profit you can contact Ricki at or 512 438 4632
 
Love your face Austin
Ricki

Sorry to hear about your loss......I hate to hear any puppet company going down....I wish I lived in Austin I would be there to buy up some stuff....I wish you luck with all future endeavours and hope you keep in touch with us here about your future projects.

Daryl H

I cannot believe I did not know about this. We travel to Austin frequently.
Ricki - do you have pictures of items you will be selling? I am interested, and since it is a 3 to 3-1/2 hour trip trying to decide if we need to bring a trailer. I am sending you a personal message.

This saddens me  :'( I don't know what to say.

Billy D.

Very very sad to note about the closure of a puppetry
centre....hope you will be able to recover some money
through Garage sales...All the best for your next plan
of action.

Bhanu

I'm sorry to hear about this... Will you be selling anything online, like at ebay? Perhaps us international puppet makers can provide some economic stimulus too!

Where can we buy some of your item's? I am sure many puppeteers here would love to buy some of your items that are for sale.

This is really sad to hear about this. I hate it when a whole company has to shut down due to such problems as health issues or failing economies. Truly heartbraking. But I am glad that you will continue to perform. At least there is a chance that maybe in the future you could come back. But maybe this loss will reveil something bigger in the future. Who know's.

Good luck on your sale. And if you do end up selling some items online, maybe I will be able to help out a little. Until then, the best of luck to you guys.

Oh, and I do hope that even if you have to sell everything, but still perform, that you will continue to make youtube video's because we have to keep the puppet art out there on sites such as youtube. The more we are there and the more the chances of the puppets comming back on the big screen. At least that is my hopes.

Saddened. It's such a shame to see such a good show turn its lights out.

I hope things pick up somewhere else.

Can you post some pictures of the things you need to sell?

Godspeed.