Mask-making Demonstration and Talk

Name: Mask-making Demonstration and Talk
Start: 2024-09-20T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-20T15:00:00+01:00
Location: SOAS University of London

Schedule

Fri Sep 20 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

SOAS University of London | London, EN

Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Foyer (BGLT), SOAS University of London
Registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/mask-making-demonstration-and-talk
Renowned mask-carver Kitazawa Hideta will be joined by author and producer of English-language noh Jannette Cheong to explore the process of designing, carving and working with noh masks.
Kitazawa is unique in the noh world in making new masks for innovative and experimental noh pieces, including Englishlanguage noh. He will demonstrate the different stages of carving, offering a rare opportunity to understand how iconic noh masks are made.