Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
THEATRE SUMMER CAMP 2023
Chiliomodi Town, Greece 25-30/8/2023
COMPLEMENTARY-AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
Puppet making workshop
Anastasia Kordari
27/8/2023
Since the beginning of its history, the puppet theater has been an unconventional way of storytelling and presenting reality through imagination. The puppet has been used as a tool of political expression and attitude by expressing the marginalized groups. Participants will build a talking puppet using simple recyclable materials and through play they will improvise short stories of resistance.
Materials are provided in the workshop.
Wear comfortable clothes (preferably black) and shoes.
Maximum number of participants 20 people.
Anastasia Kordari has a degree in Educational Science and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras, a Master of Arts in Arts and Education in the Institute of Art and Design of Birmingham City University (UK) with distinction and scholarship. She is a PhD Student in the Faculty of Early Childhood Education, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, writing a thesis on the “Puppet-Puppeteer-Audience relationship in the educational framework”. She has worked as a teacher in kindergarten schools and has been teaching in several vocational schools, for which she has an adult trainer certification. She has participated as a drama educator in the creative program of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival "Educating the public in Ancient Drama" and in the "Creative Employment" group at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus. She is facilitating the puppet workshop in the postgraduate program of "Dramatic Art and Performing Arts in Education and Lifelong Learning" of the School of Theater Studies of Nafplio. She is a co-founding member of the puppet theater group "Celesta" and the drama and storytelling group "Mithoperipatites". She has been trained through non-formal education seminars of puppet making and performance, theatre, arts with important tutor from Greece and abroad and facilitates puppet workshops for kids and adults.