SALE Waterside Arts Centre's popular animation conference returns for its third year, featuring leading speakers from the worlds of animation and puppetry.

it takes palce on Saturday, November 4: 11am – 5pm and tickets are £15 / £10.

This year Meet The Puppet Masters will feature guests with a special connection to Cosgrove Hall Films, whose archive it is celebrating with an exhibition at Waterside.

Confirmed speakers include: Bridget Appleby – one of the world’s leading stop frame animation creatives; Sarah Ann Kennedy – voice actress from Peppa Pig, Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom and creator of Crapston Villas; and Sam Holland – founder of Stop Frame Puppets, who has worked with Wes Anderson, Tim Burton and Jim Henson.