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Dulwich Picture Gallery 'Artplay'

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As it was Easter I used a bunny theme, making old fashioned style running bunny puppets on sticks and bunny shaped baskets.

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Barbican Centre, pre-theatre workshops for Shona Reppe

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Shona Reppe's Cinderella I ran pre-theatre workshops creating mini spoon puppets, using a variety of materials the children were able to make their own character chosen from a classic fairytale before watching Shona Reppe's production of Cinderella.   Shona Reppe's Olga Volt the Electric Fairy I also ran a pre-theatre activity with the theme was relating to the circus and Olga Volt's heritage, I looked into Victorian games and decided to display how to make thaumatropes (a two sided disc with various images that when spun merge together), I went for a boys version of a strong man with lightning...

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Barbican Centre, Family Film Club 'Panda Go Panda'

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I led a panda toy making for children and their families in a pre-film workshop, simply using a sock and some felt, then accessorising.

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Barbican Centre, pre theatre workshop leader

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'Flyboy' Assisting families in pre-show craft workshops. We made little festive shadow puppets to run alongside the theatre show 'Flyboy is alone again this Christmas', a romantic science-fiction shadow opera.  'Parachutes'  Assisting families and schools in pre-show craft workshops.  We made tiny little parachutists to run alongside the theatre show 'Parachutes' exploring themes of falling, flying and gravity.

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Dulwich Picture Gallery 'Art in the Garden -Mad Hatter's Tea Party'

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As with the totem poles, I held a drop in art session in the garden of the gallery, this time creating quirky top hats and mad march hare ears, we had lots of beautiful materials, ribbons, sequins (unfortunately it was a very rainy day, so we all had to squeeze inside with our creations).

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