Handprint Theatre have been working with the popular children’s book Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar and Jane Ray. They will be leading a family friendly theatre and storytelling workshop to explore and create your own adventure. Will the Moonbird take you to the stars, under the sea, through a forest, they look forward to seeing where your imagination takes you!
Suitable for ages 4-7. Deaf and hearing siblings welcome.
The workshop will take place on Saturday 18th May at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from 10.00am to 12.45pm. For more information about this workshop visit here.
Vamos Theatre will be returning to Deaffest on Saturday 18th May with an exciting workshop Vamos Mask Performance Children’s Workshop.
Vamos Theatre is the UK’s leading full mask theatre company, taking its funny and fearless brand of wordless theatre across the length and breadth of the country and beyond since 2006.
Vamos Theatre’s trademark style marries full mask with strong visual design and an original soundtrack. They make accessible, humorous, human, and fearless work which is based on real life stories, and our productions are rooted strongly in social research.
They tour a full-scale mask theatre production throughout the UK annually, as well as performing at national and international festivals and events. They have a national network of over 100 venues that expands with each new production, including leading contemporary arts venues and festivals such as London International Mime Festival; Jacksons Lane, London; Jyväskylä Festival, Finland; Perigueux International Mime Festival, France; mac birmingham; Glastonbury Festival; and a wide range of regional production theatres.
The workshop is suitable for ages 8-12. For more information about this workshop please visit here.
Deaffest Founders & Directors Marilyn Willrich and Nikki Stratton with Sam Zheng
We’re honoured to have Founding Director of Shanghai International Deaf Film Festival (SHIDFF) Sam Zheng and Visual Designer, Actress and Performance Interpreter Xiaoshu Alice Hu joining us at Deaffest 2019 to give a presentation on Deaf Film and Arts in China.
Sam is a deaf filmmaker and animator based in Shanghai and an international award-winning director.
Xiaoshu Alice Hu
Alice Hu, originally from Shanghai, is based in Vienna. She is an established deaf Visual Designer, Program Innovator and Actor. She is also celebrated for her work as a strong advocate for social inclusion as Program Innovator for MyAbility Social Enterprise Company based in Vienna. Alice Hu is also a deaf hip-hop artist, stage performer, and sign language music video and live performance interpreter, a stage actor and dancer.
In the presentation Sam will talk about the progress of Deaf Arts and Film in China and its contribution to creativity through the power of media. The presentation will be supported by Alice Hu.
The presentation will take place on Saturday 18th May 2019 in Cinema One, Light House from 1.50pm to 2.50pm.
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