TPAT workshops and performances are offered through out New York schools, community events, and often supplement creative outlets at area shelters for youth with disabilities, low-income households, and to families often living with illnesses or abuse. From Dobbs Ferry to Coney Island, partner organizations have included the Children’s Village Youth Shelter, Children’s Hope Foundation, HEAF, Trail Blazers, New Hope Shelter for Domestic Violence, Starlight Starbright Foundation, Arts for All, USS Intrepid, Brooklyn Hospital, Camp Friendship, World Cares Center, the YMCA of Greater New York, and area public schools.

TPAT’S growth as a viable community art based non-profit relies heavily on establishing platforms and venues in which to reach the audience that is in need or could benefit from creative and cultural exploration through puppetry.  
Following New York State learning standards to become life-long learners youth benefit from working together and exploring multiple ways to achieve a common goal. Students of TPAT workshops accomplish these standards through individual and group art projects where they not only focus on their craft, but explore the vocabulary, history, and social meaning of the art. Through self and group evaluations, TPAT students get the chance to take what they experienced and discover how they could use it in other areas of life and vocations, as well as what could be improved upon the approach to the work and themselves.

Through art, science, and supported curriculums, TPAT students, such as the 7th Grade Honors Class of John Pershing Middle, discovered the Solar System by researching, designing, and building an in class planetarium in the “Ultimate Universe Workshop.” “The Litter Critter Workshop” introduced families to fun and easy puppet making out of found and recycled materials to celebrate Earth Day. The Haunted Halloween Carnival hosted by TPAT brings a tremendous event every year sharing games, snacks, arts and crafts, and performances for the whole family while donating costumes and all sorts of trick or treats to hundreds of disadvantaged youth from TPAT Outreach Programs.

TPAT has brought together a colorful and talented arrangement of actors and musicians, songwriters and puppet makers to bring to life the family musical “In A Round About Way” which continues to tour New York as it delights audiences with characters that sing and dance sharing the underlining story that what makes a family is not who every one is or what role they play, but the simple fact that they love each other.

TPAT welcomes the opportunity to meet and work with new organizations, schools, and individuals that value our mission to bring visual and performance arts to youth and families through the fantastic art of puppetry and encourage all individuals to celebrate the arts in our schools and in our communities.