Flashlights and Shadows: Exploring depth in shadow puppetry -

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6-15 people, ages 14 to adult, 3 hours

Come explore how flashlights can transform shadow puppetry into a more cinematic experience. We'll play with depth, fades, focus and technique. Bring your favorite single point LED flashlight and shadow puppets. We will also have materials to build quick shadow puppets, some pre-made puppets and a couple of flashlights to share. (Your own flashlight is not required.)

Milissa Orzolek, aka abandoned ships, creates projects large and small that explore ideas of belonging, responsibility and care. As a writer, director, human geographer, teaching artist, builder and performer, she fell into the world of puppetry in 2010 through a production of Fantastic Mr. Fox in New Orleans. She has worked on large-scale puppets for Wayne White and Cirque Du Soleil and performed her own work in Baltimore, Chattanooga, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, New Orleans, New York and St. Paul. In 2016, abandoned ships received a Family Grant from the Jim Henson Foundation for its original production What Keeps Us.