Name: Arts Factory 6 - Puppetry
Start: 2025-09-05T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-05T16:00:00+01:00
Location: 72 Hartshill Road , St4 7rb Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

The Social Agency Arts Factory 6: Puppetry
What is it?
Skills and confidence building arts based workshops for Autistic and/or Learning disabled adults aged 18 years and older living in Stoke-on-Trent and surrounding areas.

What will it involve?
Twelve weekly workshop sessions where you develop skills and confidence whilst exploring different types of puppetry.

Things you might do across the twelve weeks:
- Design and create puppets - these could be shadow puppets, sock puppets or paper puppets.
- Learn about and look at different types of puppetry from around the world.
- Have a go at performing with the puppets you have created.
- Create backgrounds for the puppets.
- Work in a team to make a puppet show.
- Use voice and sound effects to bring the puppets to life.

These are just some of the things you might do, some of this might change depending on the group.
These sessions are aimed at beginners, no experience of creating puppets is needed.
The sessions will be facilitated by artists Natalie Willatt and Emily Andrews.

When are the sessions?
The sessions will run on Fridays starting 13 June until 18 July 2025 with a break on Friday 25 July and will start up again on Friday 1 August until 5 September.
There will be a morning session from 10am - 12pm.
And an afternoon session from 2pm - 4pm.
You can choose which session you would like to come to.
Please note the afternoon session will be a repeat of the morning session and the afternoon group will be working on a different animation than the morning group.
There is a Pay As You Feel Cafe between 12-2pm at Bread in Common for those that want to have their lunch with us.
Where are the sessions?
B arts, 72 Hartshill Road, ST4 7RB.
Entrance is through the BLUE Bread in Common bakery Door, just down from the bus stop. Please ring the bell.
Parking?
There is limited disabled parking on site - please contact if you need a space saving.
There is some parking available nearby including pay and display car parks - please contact if you need support with this.
Please DO NOT PARK on St. Andrews Square - this is for residents only.
The Social Agency is a safe place for Autistic and Learning Disabled adults to come together, share knowledge and create.
Please let us know if you would like to join us, you can do this by emailing or sending us a message.
If you have any access needs or would like to know more please contact:
[email protected]
This project is kindly supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.