UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
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- WHERE
- PLACE for Sustainable Living – 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA 94608 – View Map
June 11th and 12th,
PAST WORKSHOPS
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Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 12pm-1pm | Giant Puppet Making Workshop for Kids and Adults ($5 for children, $4 for adults at Habitot Children’s Museum, Berkeley CA)
- Come to this family friendly workshop at Habitot Children’s Museum (www.habitot.org) to add your touch to a stunning giant puppet to be featured at Sunday Streets Berkeley.
- RSVP on the Eventbrite page: https://giantpuppetworkshop.eventbrite.com
Sunday, October 13th, 2013 2-3pm |Puppeteering Giant Puppets Workshop and Parade (FREE starting on Kittredge and Shattuck, Berkeley, CA)
- This giant puppet workshop is part of Sunday Streets Berkeley, CA (www.sundaystreetsberkeley.com, featuring puppets from the Big Tadoo Puppet Crew, Habitot Children’s Museum and Giant Puppets Save the World.
- Learn how to move with large puppets of all kinds to convey realistic life-life movements and awe everyone around you. RSVP to: tonimariemikulka@gmail.com
Saturday, December 10 – Saturday December 17, 2012 | Headdress and 3-D Reed Construction | ($670 for week long workshop – DUMBO Brooklyn, NY – private loft residence)
- Attend this week long class in creating performance art from reed for arial performances. This workshop is hosted by famous NYC aerialist, Seanna Sharp. Students will complete the class with finished head dress and a giant puppet to use in performance. Gourmet dinner provided after each class. Limited availablity.
- Registration required, event held at private residence. Register by e-mailing: tonimariemikulka@gmail.com
Sunday, May 22, 2011 12-4pm |Learn How to Make Giant Puppets Out of Reed (FREE CLASS AT THE POWERHOUSE on Fremont Ave and 39th, Seattle, WA)
- Students will see a short presentation on technique and method, then learn how to draft, proportion, and piece together the various parts needed to make a colossal puppet structure, beginning with the cute heads for the Flying Cedar Waxwings in Giant Puppet Save The World ensemble, and ending with the Tree of Life Deva, a mystical creature featured at Folk Life. Join us and get inspired! Ages 16 and up.
Find us at the Creative Commons!
FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL AT SEATTLE CENTER: Memorial Day Weekend, May 27-30, 2011, 12-6pm
Learn Techniques for Animating Giant Puppets wtih Silk Flowers
(FREE in the CREATIVE COMMONS SEATTLE CENTER)
Use simple tyeing techniques to make silk roses and leaf-like silk streamers for the Giant Tree of Life Deva. Good for ages 3 and up.
Sunday, June 5th 2011 12-4pm | How to Hand-dye Silk for Giant Pieces of Flowing Fabric (FREE at the Powerhouse on Fremont Ave and 39th, Seattle, WA)
- Learn how to draft patterns and hand-dye silk for the giant flying Cedar Waxwings. An amazing way to enhance your knowledge of fabric, flying birds, bamboo, sewing silk, and more. Please join us!
Sunday, June 12, 2011 12-4pm | Sewing Silk, Attaching Reed, Bamboo, and Pulling it All Together (FREE) (Powerhouse on Fremont Ave and 39th, Seattle, WA)
- Learn how to piece together hand-dyed silk wings, bird heads made out of reed, bamboo poles, and take the giant birds on a practice run! Dance with the Giant Tree of Life Deva! Snacks provided.
Giant Puppets Save the World 