WORKSHOPS/CLASSES
Looking to broaden your performance/building skills? Creventive offers a selection of classes for a wide variety of age groups, ranging from beginners to professionals.
Different classes offered from beginner to advanced for children and adults alike.
Please contact us for availability/scheduling. All of our workshops are designed to tour and available by request ONLY, requiring our instructor(s) to travel to other facilities.
Artist in Residence
Level: Beginner
Ages: Kindergarten-adult
Duration: 1-3 hours
Description: This master class/lecture explores and covers all styles of puppetry including: Hand, Glove, Tabletop, Shadow, Mask, and Costume puppetry. Participants will learn the importance and how each style of puppetry is used then be able to get hands-on practice by choosing a style of puppet, and exploring it's movement.
Simple Hand Puppet Building Workshop
Level: Intermediate
Ages: 4th grade-Adult (sewing skills recommended)
Duration: 4hrs, 30minutes
Description: This class begins with the basics of hand puppet building. Participants will learn how to build a finished professional hand puppet - ready for the camera. Students will learn how to trace, cut, sew glue and more.
Tabletop Puppet Construction & Manipulation
Level: Intermediate
Ages: 3rd Grade-Adult
Duration: 2 hours, 30minutes
Description: Participants will learn how to build and manipulate a simple tabletop/bunraku-style puppet. Participants begin by learning basic tabletop construction then begin to build their own puppets using newspaper and tape. After their puppets are built, we will cover learn the basics of manipulation by exploring emotions and actions.
Hand Puppet Manipulation
Level: Beginner
Age: 3rd grade-Adult
Duration: 1 hour
Description: Participants will learn the basics of hand puppet manipulation including lip sync and eye focus. Each participant will be given a simple hand/rod puppet to use throughout the class and explore ways to bring a character to life. Participants will break into groups to practice actions, and lip-sync by singing group songs.
Television Puppetry Basics
Level: Intermediate
Ages: 6th grade-Adult
Duration: 3 hours
Description: Participants will learn the basics of puppeteering for television. With the use of hand puppets they will be taught the basics of manipulation in front of a camera, lip-syncing, eye focus, character, and movement using improvisation and song. Participants will be broken into groups to present an original sketch on camera using skills they learned in class.
How to Create Custom Patterns
Level: Intermediate
Ages: 5th grade-adult
Duration: 1 hour
Description: In this workshop participants will cut out and construct their own 3D puppet head shape
Butterfly Rod Puppet - Craft
Level: Beginner
Ages: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
Duration - 30min - 1 hour
Description: Butterfly Make & Take. Participants will learn how to build and manipulate simple rod puppet butterflies.
Caterpillar Rod Puppet - Craft
Level: Beginner
Ages: Kindergarten - 6th Grade
Duration - 30min - 1 hour
Description: Participants will learn how to build and manipulate simple rod puppet caterpillars.
Billy Goat Finger Puppets - Craft
Level: Beginner
Ages: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
Duration: 30min - 1 hour
Description: DIY craft for kids. Paper finger puppet workshop. Kids will learn how to color, cut, glue, and manipulate simple paper finger puppets. Inspired by our "Three Billy Goats Gruff" show.
Troll Rod Puppet - Craft
Level: Beginner
Ages: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
Duration: 30min - 1 hour
Description: DIY craft for kids. Paper rod puppet workshop. Kids will learn how to color, cut, glue, punch holes, attach a rod and manipulate a simple paper rod puppet. Inspired by our "Three Billy Goats Gruff" show.
Monkey Rod Puppet - Craft
Level: Beginner
Ages: 1st Grade - 3rd Grade
Duration: 30min
Description: DIY craft. Participants will learn how to build their own Monkey Rod Puppet.
Moving Mouth Lion Puppet - Craft
Level: Beginner
Ages: 1st Grade - 3rd Grade
Duration: 30min
Description: DIY craft. Participants will learn how to build their own moving mouth Lion puppet.
Animal Masks - Craft
Level: Beginner
Ages: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
Duration: 30min - 1 hour
Description: COMING SOON
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Shadow Puppetry Basics
Level: Beginner
Ages: K-5th grade
Duration: 1hr
Description: In this workshop participants will cut out and construct their own shadow puppet from a printed pattern using plastic snaps and rods attached to moving parts.
Advanced Hand Puppet Construction
Level: Advanced
Age: 9th grade-Adult (sewing knowledge required)
Duration: 8 hours, spread out over several sessions
Description: Participants will learn valuable skills needed to build their very own puppets. They will design and build a full “muppet-style” puppet and will receive instruction on gluing, adding features, building a mouth plate and the basics of manipulation.
Glove Puppet Construction & Manipulation
Level: Beginner
Ages: PreK-Adult
Duration: 2 hours
Description: Participants will design and construct a simple glove puppet and have the opportunity to explore manipulation through movement and character.
Sock Puppet Construction
Level: Beginner
Ages: 3rd grade-adult
Duration: 3 hours
Description: Workshop participants will design and build their own sock puppet creation and learn the basics of sock puppet manipulation
ABOUT CREVENTIVE PUPPET CO.
Creventive Puppet Company is a Chicago based theatre company that creates and performs original, family friendly shows throughout the area. In addition to imaginative storytelling and top-notch entertainment, Creventive Puppet Company also specializes in puppet construction. Offering educational building, manipulation and performance workshops for children, novices and professional puppeteers alike.
CONTACT US
Creventive Puppet Company
Email: info@creventivestudios.com
Office: 312-600-3568
Connor Asher, Artistic Director
connorasher@creventivestudios.com
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