20 September 2025 (10:00 - 16:00)
21 September 2025 (10:00 - 16:00)
Enjoy family-friendly puppet shows, guided tours of our workshops, and our ever-popular puppet and mask-making activity kits!
With our hands-on craft activities, children and adults alike can colour, cut out, and create using a wide variety of fun and imaginative designs.
The free Puppets shows will be available each day, at 11am, 1pm, 3pm, no booking required, seating on a first come basis for shows.
For full details see our website https://www.maskandpuppet.co.uk/what-s-on
After each show there will be FREE organised tours to our workshops and FX Department with Malcolm Knight the founder of the Centre.
In our café there will be our very popular colour-in, cut out puppet and mask activity kits for children and adults with felt tips, scissors and hole punches provided and lots of designs to choose from £2.50 or 3 for £6.00.
Overview
SMPC is a specialist Arts Centre dedicated to masks and puppets and has been in its current building since 1989. The Centre houses a theatre with an annual Family and Children’s Programme of events https://www.maskandpuppet.co.uk/what-s-on including puppet and magic shows. It has a café, displays, exhibitions, library, Grant Mason Film FX, production and design workshops, office space and free parking to the rear of the building. All housed in a former GCC Cleansing Department and often described as a "wee hidden gem", “a jewel in a box" or “a chocolate box with the treats inside”.
Our building is an example of regeneration and sustainable growth and development, to enable survival as an arts organisation in the city in a period in time when funding for the arts continues to be cut or is non-existent.

All Access Ground Floor with Disabled Ramp to the Rear of the Building. There is room in our car park at the rear of the building for bikes. If it’s a sunny day, there will be outside seating and tables too.

Address
8 -10 Balcarres Ave, Glasgow, G120QF