FREE PUPPET MAKING & TEXTILE ACTIVITIES
PUPPETS IN PLACE (in partnership with Woven in Kirklees) by The Children's Art School and Callaloo Carnival Arts
HOW IT WORKS - Puppets and Textiles come together
PICK UP YOUR MATERIALS:
Puppet material packs: Saturday 29th August 10.30am-12noon / Tuesday 1st Sept. 10.30 am -12noon, Wednesday 2nd 2-4pm
Embroidery material packs: Saturday 29th August 10.30am-12noon / Tuesday 1st Sept. 10.30am-12noon/ Wednesday 2nd pm 2-4pm/ Friday 4th 2-4pm
PART 1 - Make a puppet
Make a human-scale puppet character with a moving mouth - a little bit Sesame St, a little bit The Clangers in 2 sessions on Zoom.
What lurks in the garden? A bog monster? Perhaps an insect with a human body…. or
perhaps a person with a frog’s head. Create a puppet character that has pulled itself out of the earth: part creature, part plant- it is of the earth and from the earth and embodies growth, roots, shoots, darkness, light, dampness, decomposition and rebirth.
The characters head will be formed from newspaper, kitchen roll, masking tape, pva glue, tissue paper and paint. The bodies will be based on an old long-sleeved shirt and adorned and hacked into with textile and paint techniques.
Let your imagination go wild, plan ahead, or just see what happens and watch as the characters develop and come to life.
To make the puppet you will need to attend 2 sessions. Each session is approx. 1hour 30 minutes long
PART 2 - Learn some textile skills
Once your puppet is made you can choose to attend any of the textile workshops to transform the fabric of the puppet reflecting its earthy habitat (see list in the booking section below)
PART 3 - Last minute touches and bring your puppet to life
Bring your puppet to a surgery at Holmfirth Tech to do some final tweaks with Liz and learn how to bring it to life with animator and puppeteer, Andrew Kim.
PART 4 - Take your puppet into town and have it photographed
Choose a place in Holmfirth town, bring your puppet into town with you, show off your puppet and your animation skills to our photographer in your chosen location and appear in our Online Festival programme on Sunday 20th Sept
