Workshop areas:
1 STILTS. Initiating training, stilt designs and construction, costumes for a community stilt troupe. Backpack based stilt characters
2 OUTDOOR EVENT DESIGN. Consulting on outdoor events, the design, creating interesting complex places, to explore and be inspired.
3 INFLATABLES. Designing and creating inflatable giants or fabric based spaces as interactive venues, and exploratoriums. with community members, sewers, any demographic.. seniors, youth, school kids.
4 SAND CITIES. Leading the creation of large sand cities, as one off afternoon and evening fantastic landscapes. You don't need a beach, 5 tonnes of sand is about $300 delivered.
5 AERIAL SCULPTURE. Playing with large helium cylinders and creating aerial balloon designs at 100m ( legal height) with giant helium balloons . These are visible from 2-3km.
6 OUTDOOR INSTRUMENTS. Thongaphones, tuned tubular bells, timber marimbas, drumming parade float. Temporary and permanent. Well tempered and natural 'just' tuning.
7 FIRE MURAL design and staging. Currently I am researching gas flamed fire images.
8 SHADOW PUPPETRY: telling a story in small or large scale with cardboard cutouts, music and narration. This could be all within a two hour session or a longer workshop process.
9 PARADE SKILLS: Parade logistics, disguising trucks, bicycle wheel based floats to eliminate vehicles, stilt and backpack based costumes, characters. Portable inflatables.
10 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: workshops for teachers, art students, public servants and practicing artists:
All media above can be formatted as a slide show presentation or a hands on workshop.
PD Workshop examples:
CANE AND PAPER lantern techniques _ small candle lit lanterns to 7 meter high monsters.
ELECTRONICS for outdoor images - using LED, movement sensors, soldering, interactive switching.
JUGGLING and OBJECT manipulation for public servants. Intense analogue immersive juggling therapy for the digitally attached.
