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NewsStory Lab Summer Reading Challenge 2012
Photo by Steve Reid from Portsmouth News To reflect this year’s Olympic theme, Armchair Puppet Theatre’s “Story Lab” Reading Challenge shadow puppet workshop is based on the Greek myth of Jason and his athletic Argonauts’ search for the Golden Fleece. For the 2011 “Circus Stars” Reading Challenge we visited libraries in Poole with our Fun Fair shadow puppet performance, enabling participants to make their very own circus acts in shadow during the school summer holidays. See Options/Libraries Schools
Willow Pattern Plate Over the last year Armchair Puppet Theatre has continued to deliver a wide range of different shadow puppet workshops and two glove puppet performances to schools and colleges across the south of England.
Rama protects Sita from the Demons in the Forest
Dry Point and Chine Collé Indonesian Mask Print In 2011 and 2012 we have led shadow puppet and printmaking workshops at Wells Cathedral School to produce a combined live gamelan and shadow puppet performance of “Rama and Sita” plus an exhibition of prints.
Mr Faryner the baker cried out, “Wake up, we must escape through the upstairs window!” An historical re-enactment in shadow puppets at Clifton Road Primary School, Southall was the story from 1666 about the Great Fire of London. Indoor FestivalsPlymouth Respect Festival, 27th + 28th Oct 2012
That night the jaguar was made Last year our workshop participants made all the shadow puppets and then performed the South American creation myth of “How Night Came”. On our stall festival goers can make a puppet from the character list of a particular story. Then after experiencing all the other delights of the festival, participants are invited back to rehearse and perform the shadow puppet show later in the afternoon. See Options/Cultural Diversity One World Week, 21st - 28th October 2012 These are both popular times in schools for our shadow puppet workshops, so please book early to avoid disappointment. This year's One World Week theme is "Sharing Destiny - Moving Towards One World". See Options/Cultural Diversity BP Saturdays: Animate Tate! 24 July 2010 As part of London 2012 Open Weekend, an annual UK-wide celebration counting down to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, we developed a new workshop in which participants were enabled to animate aspects of three Abstract Expressionist paintings that inspired them from Room 21 in Tate Britain. Once their puppets were completed, each group animated their chosen painting for the other participants to watch on our purpose built screen. Family Learning Festival 15th - 30th October 2011
Space Hoppers at Okehampton Library Over the past few years Family Learning have provided valuable funding for some of our workshops in West Sussex, Wiltshire and Devon Libraries. These enjoyable workshops have enabled children and adults to work together making and performing shadow puppets from a wide range of story books. Surrey Libraries’ Book Festival and Reading’s Crime Writers’ Festival We led a shadow puppet workshop in the morning and performed an afternoon puppet show of Burglar Bill at both these festivals. Tall Stories Exhibition at Devon Guild of Craftsmen Complimenting the automata, kinetic and 3D sculpture in this exhibition, our Burglar Bill puppet show enthralled and surprised an audience largely made up of adults. See Puppet Shows/Burglar Bill A New Workshop Format for Open Days We continue to devise new workshop formats to meet the needs of our clients - leading a five hour on-going drop in shadow puppet workshop, which had hourly interludes of a variety of our shadow puppet performances, for both the Portsmouth Submarine Museum’s 2009 Hallowe’en celebration and Gosport’s Lost Hour Festival on 27th March 2010. See Workshops/Shadow Puppets Art Games website
Bow, East London Spaghetti Junction. Composite Cut Card Block Print. 1m x 1m Following the launch of our Art Arena games website in 2004 there are now many large vibrant Art Arena game paintings on display in schools, museums and businesses such as Shebbear and Spreyton Primary Schools in Devon, Central Foundation Boys and Bow Boys Comprehensive Schools in London, the new EDF Energy building in Exeter, Croydon Museum and NESTA's HQ in London. |
I would like to express my heartfelt thanks for
your participation in this year's Respect Festival."
"It was well worth it as the children had a whale
of a time. It was brilliant."
"Having experienced today's shadow puppet workshop
collaboration, these children will remember the Battle of Torrington
unlike any others." |
