Jacob's Dream

The Paddling Puppeteers are excited to introduce this new Climate Change and Sustainability show.

Cool Captain Climate meets Nanook the polar bear in the arctic, and learns about the changes happening in the north due to climate change. He then flies back to southern Ontario and teams up with Jacob of Camp Kawartha to build a nature and sustainability centre.

The Importance of Urban Forests

The Puppeteers and the Peterborough Ecology Park developed this Urban Forest show. A host of puppets tell the story of the many reasons that trees are important in our cities. Join “Voilet” and “Marlin” for a walk around the “neighbourwood” and hear their orginal songs about the beauty and benefits of trees.

Honest Frankie's Shoreline Review

Join Honest Frankie the Frog and a host of characters in a music-filled look at the natural history of Ontario's shorelines. Characters include, Jean-Luc the Voyageur, Blue Heron, the very shy Caddis-Fly Larvae, Mordecai Cattail, and many more!

This show has thrilled audiences for ten years at Provincial Parks, folk festivals, water festivals, schools and gatherings large and small across the Province of Ontario.

Shifting Gears

Join in the fun as Billy Idle matures from a gas guzzling single-car commuter to an expert in active and efficient transportation, learning valuable lessons along the way. Look for an appearance by crowd pleaser, Cool Captain Climate, Peterborough's most energetic and rocking environmental superhero.

Shifting Gears can be adapted to just about any audience, with themes that can fit in classrooms, workplaces and festivals. Shifting Gears has entertained audiences in schools, in workplaces such as Otonabee Conservation and Seimens Milltronics — even at Peterborough Civic Hospital. Its debut, at the Peterborough Folk Festival, established Billy as a character that audiences simply adored. As the Puppeteers hear, over and over again, “Billy Idle rocks.”

Compost Education Show

The Peterborough Ecology Park, in conjunction with the Paddling Puppeteers is pleased to present this puppet show all about waste reduction through composting. Meet your host “Herman the Worm” as he walks you, or wiggles you, through the compost puppet show. He also will impress with his famous “rot and roll” hit “What's in the Compost.” Other stars in the show include “Waltzing Matilda the Millipede,” “Sully the Sow Bug,” the bacteria puppets and other colourful characters.

By the end of the show the audience will come to know the magical process of how fruits and vegetable cuttings and other organic matter (that goes in the compost) turns into beautiful rich soil for the garden. Just think without the help of Herman and his friend there would be no soil at all!