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Watch as your drawings leap to life, off the page and onto the stage! 

Come along and explore the world of shadow puppetry with an experienced puppeteer, Jenny Ellis.

This hands-on workshop will give children a range of skills to make their own shows and as well as a puppet they can take home. Participants will imagine and design their own unique puppet characters, then they’re guided through the process of making their puppets and bringing them to life. With a few tricks of the trade, they will finish with a performance of their own stories on a real shadow puppet stage. 

Age recommendation: 3+ years

Workshop duration: 60 mins

Maximum participants: 20 (not including guardians)

Note: All children MUST be accompanied by an adult 18+ years.

About Little Wing Puppets

We are a professional puppetry company, based in NSW, specialising in children's theatre. Since 2006, we have presented over one thousand shows and hundreds of workshops in every state and territory of Australia, as well as overseas. We believe that young people deserve equal access to the arts, wherever they live, and so we have taken our work to some of Australia’s most remote communities. We have an extensive teaching program, and have co-created work with thousands of young people in regional areas. We know that we can help shape young people’s lives by igniting their imaginations. This is a great joy and responsibility. It drives us to continue to make exceptional theatre that speaks to young people, makes them laugh, and tells important stories.

Artistic Director Jenny Ellis has been a puppeteer for over twenty years, and works with a vibrant team of independent artists, directors, and composers that collaboratively create the shows. Jenny has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Puppetry from the Victorian College of the Arts and was mentored by master shadow puppeteer Richard Bradshaw, as part of the national Jump Mentoring program. She was also awarded a major fellowship by the Mike Walsh Foundation to research contemporary puppetry in Europe in 2012.  Jenny completed the one-year program at the Helikos School for International Theatre Creation in Italy in 2014. The Mermaid's Daughter, her show with Company Gongoma, won the Melbourne Fringe Festival Award for The Best School Holiday Program 2008