 Rebekah and Magdalena performing their piece, pic is from behind the scenes. Below is an image from their show.  Below is a pic from a shadow piece by Michele Spaise, Lela Pierce and Keegan Xavi.  Below is a pic from Andrew Young's piece.  Below are two pics from the shadow piece by Chitra Vairavan, Sally Nixon and Jordan Hamilton. The second pic is from behind the scenes.   Below is a pic from Brenda Bell Brown's work. 
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 They finally put the lettering up in June! We had the space since March. Was struggling back then with deciding whether to get a space or not, but realized immediately after getting it, how important it is!!!! The participants have been using it to the fullest, getting ready for the New Puppetworks show. Space to experiment and play and create for Native and POC interested in puppetry and sequential art!!!!!! We got to borrow Pillsbury House Theatre's screen to practice the shadow puppetry with. Below is a pic of Liz Schachterle giving Lela, Michele and Keegan's group some advice.   In preperation for the New Puppetworks program we had a two-day shadow puppet workshop, one at Christopher Lutter-gardella's studio, many of the artists are interested in doing a shadow puppet piece. Below is a pic from the demo-of-techniques session led by Liz Schachtere the day before. Using three overheads at the same time takes a lot of coordination!   On January 27th, Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop fulfilled the contingency on our MRAC Community Arts Grant!!! We raised $3,000 so MRAC funds were released to us to begin the New Puppetworks program, where 12 Native/POC artists get to create 5 to 10 minute puppet theater pieces.
  Using Masa's masks in the final showing. Love how happy everyone is afterwards in the pics below!       That's Andrew Kim on the right. He, along with his wife, run Thingumajig Theater, based in West Yorkshire, England. He's an amazing teacher, and we can't imagine anyone else teaching this Intensive!
 Getting ready to go on stage.  I love this photo by Charissa Uemura of our last night of the 2016 Summer Intensive, it captures perfectly the complete focus and channeling of energy into inanimate objects/figures thatAndrew Kim taught us, and that Kurt Hunter imparted to us with string puppets specifically.  Giving thanks to the amazing teacher, Andrew Kim of Thingamujig Theater.   Dameun Strange improvised music the last two days of the 2016 Intensive, we were preparing a final showing of vignettes highlighting the styles of puppetry we had learned. Music is so important to puppetry.   I think we're missing 7 people in this photo. Our first Intensive was an amazing learning experience. So many emerging Native and POC emerging puppeteers in our midst now! it's not that we think everyone that takes this is going to be a puppeteer, but now they all have another notch in their tool belt with which to tell stories.
 This was about midway through the Intensive. Everyone got into groups, cut out their own shadow puppets and imrpovised some scenes. Everyday, play and improvisation!   Ended this workshop with exercises on performing with masks, everyone really inhabited their characters! How to perform when you yourself become the puppet. Masanari Kawahara and Heart of the Beast let us use their masks since we didn't own anything yet.    |
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