Residencies for schools
Red Herring Puppets offers lectures and demonstrations, teacher trainings, half day and full day workshops, and week-long and extended residencies. We work with the teachers prior to classroom visits to co-ordinate curriculum goals, scheduling, and materials. We are flexible and can accommodate the needs of each situation.
Sample Residencies are listed at the bottom of the page.
Sample Residencies are listed at the bottom of the page.
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PUPPET RESIDENCIES
- Introduction to Puppetry: A lecture and slide/video/demo presenting an overview of different kinds of puppets, history, and modern performers. (3 hours)
- Teacher Training: Lisa Sturz completed three years of training as a resident artist with the Teacher Training Institute (co-sponsored by the Asheville Area Arts Council and UNCA). She trains teachers in puppetry techniques while developing class plans to integrate arts and curriculum goals. Lisa participated in Kennedy Center's Seminar, Artists as Educators: Planning Effective Workshops for Teachers, through the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center's Education Institute. (Workshops can be 90 minutes or several days)
- Shadow Puppet Education and Construction: Students learn about opaque, translucent, and transparent objects. They create cardbord shadow puppets with colored cellophane and perform a short piece. (3 to 5 one hour sessions)
- Scarf Puppet Education, Construction, and Performance: With a scarf as the body, participants create a simple marionette and learn the basics of stringing and balancing. Students put on a short performance to music. (3 to 5 one hour sessions)
- Mask Making Education and Construction: Students design and create masks inspired by traditional cultures. Students work with cardboard, paper mache, and paint. (3 to 5 one hour sessions)
- Hand Puppet Education, Construction, and Performance: Students create hand puppets, write scripts, learn basic manipulation skills and put on a performance with hand puppets. (5 to 10 one hour sessions)
- Video Puppetry Education, Performance, and Filming: Using a video camera and monitors, students practice body posture, lip synch, eye focus, character voices, and imporovisation with puppets. (1-20 90 minute sessions)
- Foam Patterning Education and Construction: Students learn to create flat patterns that translate into three-dimensional puppets. They start with simple shapes like circles, spuares, and cones and progress into more intricate sculptures. (2 to 5 2 hour sessions)
- Found Objects Puppetry Education and Performance: Students use plastic bottles, toilet paper tubes, old dolls, broken toy parts, etc. to create rod puppets. They put on a show of their own creation. (3 to 5 one hour sessions)
- Toy Theater Puppetry Education, Construction, and Performance: Students create small "theatramas" out of cardboard boxes. They select a story and create an animated performance in a box. (3 to 5 one hour sessions)
- Dreamscape Puppetry Education, Construction, and Performance: Students share their dreams and describe the characters that inhabit them. We put together scripts based on their dream images. Students build papier mache hand puppets, learn basic hand puppet manipulation, practice character voices and perform their original plays. (5 to 10 one hour sessions)