The stage is light blue with yellow curtains and pink frames. Who are we underneath this flesh? Is there a shape that reflects our individual essence? Is there an essence to the disability identity? We will explore what puppetry has to offer as a way to reflect and integrate the disability experience. Collaborating with shadow puppetry artists Chloe Ziner and Jessica Gabriel from Mind of a Snail and Crispi Lord from Wide Open Theatre , this FREE workshop hopes to explore the possibility of embodying the disability experience through creation and animation of puppets.
The workshops will explore how puppets can represent your disability, such as how it may be animated by someone living with quadriplegia, and what puppetry offers to a puppeteer with blindness. Disability is part of the range of the human condition and experience. Registration is now open for this FREE workshop! March 2nd to March 4th โ and โ March 7th to March 9th. This space is wheelchair accessible.
It is accessible via an elevator. As per Realwheels policy, all students and facilitators will be required to show proof of double vaccination. We will also require everyone to wear masks throughout the workshop we will have KN95s available for those who wish to use them. As artistic collaborators, they are interested in exploring beyond the boundaries of traditional theatre, and creating magical immersive experiences for their audiences.
Crispi brings 20 years experience as a puppetry artist working in Theatre for Young Audiences, during which time she has also trained hundreds of people to become puppeteers. Puppet Revenge, and Persephone theatre as puppet builder for Little Shop of Horrors, Crispi is an in-demand, working artist who writes, produces, performs, and designs and builds puppets.
She has designed and built over puppets in multiple puppetry styles including tabletop and hand puppets. She is also a shadow puppet artist and recently complicated feet of hand painted Crankie theatre. Her knowledge of the form extends to hand puppetry, shadow puppetry, rod puppetry, table top puppetry and giant puppetry. Mastery of her form is matched only by her enthusiasm to continually explore its inexhaustible range of expression.
