Phoenix Brighton

Puppetry for Artists: Life-sized puppets and performance

with Isobel Smith

Make a puppet based on your own drawing/painting, and learn the puppeteering techniques needed to explore its character and make it come alive. The course will cover ideas generation and design, through to completion of your puppet. Techniques we will explore are: stitching, modelling with stockinette and stuffing, armature making, glueing and painting. There will be a demonstration of puppeteering skills followed by the opportunity to animate your puppet and explore and develop its character to music. An eclectic selection of music will be provided, feel free to bring a special track of your choice.

Isobel Smith is a puppet maker and puppeteer, she studied design at Central St Martin's and Fine Art at University of Brighton. Isobel is mentored by the prestigious Green Ginger puppet company in Bristol and performs regularly with her musicians Foster&Gilvan as Badstock Productions at Jane Bom-Banes in Brighton and various locations in London and Brighton. Her company, Gravy Boat Puppets was launched in 2007. She is a Creative Partnerships Practitioner in several Sussex schools. Isobel is currently converting a caravan into a touring puppet theatre.

Eight Fridays 7 – 9:30pm

White Room

Price: £100 Full/£90 Concession

Full/concession

Full price £100.00 Concession £90.00

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