Adult Education: Puppet-making evening class
Every Wednesday evening, in ten-week blocks, Norwich Puppet Theatre runs a workshop where adults can learn how to make traditional puppets using their own designs.
Denise Hargrave and Peter Butler lead the sessions and teach a series of traditional puppet making techniques.
Participants start by creating a puppet head design using clay. During the preliminary sessions participants will learn how to make plaster casts of the head and how to use papier mâché techniques to create a lightweight but strong form.
Participants will learn how to create a body for their puppet, based on a traditional Chinese making method of creating a wire cage frame for the torso.
Full guidance and advice will be given about how to create jointed limbs for the puppet and how to create finishing touches such as costume and decoration.
Puppets have been produced in all shapes and sizes over the duration of this popular course.
We offer a workroom for up to eight students with a workshop attached where support is available for construction using wood and a range of hand and power tools.
In addition to developing construction techniques the workshop provides a friendly social atmosphere for fledgling puppet-makers who want to learn from each other and share ideas as their puppets develop.
If you have attended the workshop or club please send photos of your work with a few words to education@puppettheatre.co.uk as we would love to post some images here.
Course times:
Wednesday 7:00pm to 9:30pm (week off during half-term holidays)
The next course intake will be in September 2012
Costs:
Puppet Club First timers:- £100 for ten pre-paid tutored sessions.
Puppet Club Old hands: - £50 for ten pre-paid sessions with use of facilities and occasional support.
Past participants (Puppet Club Old hands) are welcome to attend on a more informal drop-in basis to continue with their projects and work together upstairs in the ‘Puppet Club’ on their latest projects. The 'drop in' session price for past participants is £10 per session.
Please contact the theatre directly on 01603 615564 to find out when the next 10-week block of sessions is starting.
