Shadow-puppetry workshop

What are shadows made of? is a practical shadow-puppetry workshop where participants make, test and play with shadow puppets.

Each participant will learn to build a simple shadow puppet using paper, a single movable joint and translucent coloured materials. Through the process, we`ll explore how shapes can hold stories, what a single movement can convey, and how colour can live inside a shadow. We`ll cut, join, layer, test and play with the puppets against light, experimenting with movement, distance, scale and the awesome things a shadow can do.

The workshop introduces the basic making skills of shadow puppetry while leaving plenty of room for curiosity and figuring things out through the hands. And everyone makes a puppet to take home!

The workshop will be led by Debosmita Dam (she/they). Debosmita Dam is a puppeteer, filmmaker and arts educator whose practice explores how puppetry, materiality and play can open up ways of sensing, knowing-articulating and relating to the world.

Age Range: 12 to 18years

Note: This workshop will be conducted in English, with Kannada translation. 

Note: This workshop ticket also gives you a free entry to any one of the two plays happening on the day - Hence Proven at 5pm or Level Up at 7:30pm.