Puppetry Workshops
Miss Pussycat
Adventures in Cardboard
Jacqueline Wade
Kinetic Puppet Workshop with Miss Pussycat!
Friday April 5th, 4-6:30pm
The Spellcaster Lodge, 3052 St. Claude Ave
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RHINESTONE RECORDS 3052 St. Claude Ave, New Orleans LA, 70117
Inspired by jig dolls, Miss Pussycat has figured out a few different ways to make dancing puppets. Participants will learn how to make two different types of joints for arms and legs, practice movement, and create their own dancing prancing table top puppet.
FOR AGES 14 AND UP. All workshop materials are provided, but participants should bring their own scissors and Exactos if possible. Space is limited to 12 participants.
Adventures in Cardboard!
Saturday April 6th, 11:30am - 2pm
in Markey Park
Adventures in Cardboard Summer Camps, master cardboard builders and live-action game players in the genre of swashbuckling fantasy, offer a family-friendly arms and armor building session with duels, skirmishes and games capture the flag! Create costumes and props with your kids or drop them off for a while– all ideas welcome!
Black Bodies in White Spaces in Puppetry and Beyond
with Jacqueline Wade
Sunday April 7th, 2-4:00pm
The New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave
Black Bodies in White Spaces in Puppetry and Beyond explores issues of race through shadow puppetry and what it especially means to be an African American and BIPOC person in America today. Everyone is welcome to be part of this workshop. Implicit bias will also be explored. We will have a discussion based on short passages from Frantz Fanon's “Black Skin, White Masks”, "My Grandmother's Hands" by Resmaa Menakem and "The Isis Papers" by Frances Cress Welsing. We will also discuss what students decide to share along with exploring it through improvisation and theatre games. The students will then get into groups to create skits through role play and improvisation which will be put into shadow puppetry. Jacqueline will provide puppets for them. The students will also have the opportunity to make additional shadow puppets for their shadow puppet skits presentation if need be. They will act out their skits near the end of the workshop and process what they experienced and learned about themselves and others using shadow puppetry. The session is a two hour workshop. The cost is $25.