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Thanks to everyone who visited Nashville’s Downtown Puppet Festival. Nashville Public Library has a long marionette tradition, dating back to 1938, when legendary puppeteer Tom Tichenor put on his first show, Puss in Boots, at the downtown library. Today, more than 70,000 children are entertained each year by Wishing Chair Productions.
Around here, we say that Books Are Only Half the Story. Events like the puppet festival are part of the great library story that reaches across every age, every community in Nashville. The Nashville Public Library invites you to join the story and learn more about how you can experience, explore and engage with the library.
You can also follow the library on Facebook and Twitter for event details and fun facts about the library.
Nashville's Downtown Puppet Festival would not be possible without the hard work of our library staff, event coordinator Elaine Wood, and especially our volunteers. A word of thanks to our incredibly supportive sponsors: McNeely, Pigott and Fox Public Relations, Tickets Nashville, Homewood Suites, the Henson Foundation, and of course to the Nashville Public Library Foundation who make so many of our wonderful programs possible.
Wishing Chair productions, of course, will continue to perform in the Children’s Theater at main. Take a look at their schedule.
About the troupes and performances
Puppet Festival program
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