Kids & Family

At Home With Irish Arts Center: Puppet Making Workshop with Branar Téatar do Pháistí

A virtual puppetry workshop for the young ones

Details

FREE 1 hour
Date(s)

Wed, May 20, 2020

11:00am

Contact

info@irishartscenter.org


Location

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Overview

Build and bring your own puppet to life! Marc Mac Lochlainn of Branar Téatar do Pháistí leads a workshop using materials you can find in your own home. You will learn:

• How to make a puppet out of paper
• Foundational puppetry skills, like how to make the puppet breathe, walk, and talk
• How to create a story with your paper puppet 

Materials to gather before the start of the workshop:
1. Newspaper (old)
2. Tape (any kind)
3. A wooden cocktail stick (or something like it)
4. A pencil
5. Some colored paper (optional)
6. A marker
7. Some books
8. Your hands
9. Your eyes
10. Your imagination 

Join us on Facebook, or click the video below!

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Age range: Recommended for children aged six and up. Younger audiences are welcome to participate, but may need assistance from a grown up. 




Branar—Telling Big Stories to Little Citizens

Branar Téatar do Pháistí is one of the leading theatre companies making work for children in Ireland, creating beautiful, innovative, high quality work that inspires children and their families. They tour work to venues and festivals locally, nationally and internationally—throughout Ireland, Europe, USA, China and Japan—and support artists to make work for young audiences through tailored programmes of resource-sharing and Tiny Show creation. They create opportunities for children to explore their own arts practice in school settings.

 Marc has been presenting workshops for more than 20 years.

Website: branar.ie
@branarteatar
 



At Home With Irish Arts Center
 is a series of commissioned work by our local and international artistic community as part of IAC's reimagined spring 2020 season. These events, and much more, will be shared on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and via email over the next several weeks.

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