Make New Friends: A Puppet-Building Workshop!

In this workshop, using mostly reclaimed materials, participants will make their own rod puppet and bring a brand-new being to life! We’ll get to sculpt heads out of newspaper and masking tape, make simple bodies out of fabric, paint faces with acrylic paint, and accessorize using found materials. Finally, we’ll learn how to use rods (attached to the puppet’s head and hands) to animate our hand-made friends! This workshop will give participants the skills to make a quick and easy complete puppet using a variety of techniques, and will introduce them to new ways of reusing common household materials. Along the way, we’ll see how our puppet’s personalities and appearances emerge and evolve out of an intuitive design process. Human, animal, and hybrid puppet friends will all be welcome in this workshop, and getting weird is encouraged!

TIME: 7:00PM - 8:30 PM PST

LENGTH: 1.5 hours

LOCATION: Off the Rail,1351 Adanac St, Vancouver, BC V5L 2C4

AGES: Adults (ages 19 and up), beginner & up

PRICE: $35 per person per workshop

ACCESSIBILITY: Off the Rail is wheelchair accessible and has a lift. We will communicate verbally with members of the public using listening and spoken language in English. Seating in the brewery is varied, some may have chairs or stools at short height, counter, or bar height seating. Weight capacities of seating is unknown. There is a gender-neutral bathroom available in the tasting room. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs.

WHAT TO BRING: Optional- You can bring small items to use as an accessory for your puppet.

Liz Oakley is a multidisciplinary artist who makes object-based performances, installations, and events. Their work playfully animates materials, text, sites, and situations. They are an arts educator, puppet designer, deviser, and puppeteer. Originally from New York City, they are currently living in so-called Vancouver pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at SFU.

~~~ In addition to participation in this workshop, your ticket includes access to our General Admission Create! Art Zone located in Strathcona Park on July 27th from 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM. The Art Zone will feature multiple drop-in public participation art activities, access to the Festival Art Shop, as well as the beer garden, food trucks AND live music presented in partnership with Light Organ Records & 604 Records. To get into the Art Zone, you will have to show your workshop ticket.~~~~

REFUND POLICY

If you would like to cancel your attendance, we will offer you a refund, provided that you inform us at least 4 days prior to the scheduled event. Please note that the Eventbrite processing fee is non-refundable, and we do not have control over this part of the fee. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

This is workshop is part of the 4th annual CREATE! Eastside Arts Festival, a week-long, exciting, and immersive arts event this summer, bringing together local artists and the community to explore, learn, and create. The CREATE! Eastside Arts Festival is taking place in Strathcona Park, and in pop up locations such as breweries, performance venues, and art studios across the Eastside Arts District.

From the producers of the Eastside Culture Crawl, this innovative event celebrates the diversity of performing and visuals arts in Vancouver’s Eastside, and offers arts workshops, live music performances, a beer garden, public art activations, an art shop and many more opportunities for art lovers of all ages and abilities to experience!

The Eastside Arts Society is thrilled to announce that the 9th Annual Art! Bike! Beer! Crawl fundraiser & tour will be held in person on Saturday, July 27th, 2024 a part of the CREATE! Eastside Arts Festival. Tickets are each $55 + GST & processing fee.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Off The Rail Brewing, 1351 Adanac Street, Vancouver, Canada