Shadow Puppetry Art Workshop

WILD TRUMPETS

17 October 2024
15:00 – 16:00
£40.00
Ages 6 – 9 years
Space for 10 children
Repeats weekly

Description

Multi-disciplinary artist Kirico Ueda planned a series of workshops over the course of five weeks for our Thursday groups.

Kirico is fascinated by the magical and primitive power of folktales, myths, and theater, and invited our young artists to explore the old tradition of shadow puppetry, and shadows that told a tale of time long gone...

We will travel back into history, as early as the fifth century B.C., when the first historian, Herodotus, referred to figures operated by strings in ancient Egyptian ceremonies and processions. Together we talked about how masks and puppets had been used for centuries to add magic to the storyteller’s craft.

Children will explore artists (e.g., William Kentridge and Christian Boltanski), who, like Kirico, use puppetry in their art practice - and guide children in the creation of their own shadow puppet with a fantastic performance at the end.