Workshops & Creative Making
Hands-on sessions where participants build, animate and perform with puppets and story tools. These can be:
community workshops
school and youth programmes
festival participation sessions
staff or organisation-focused creative days
All are designed to be experiential, collaborative and playful, opening pathways into creative confidence and shared storytelling.
Participation Programmes
We work with partners to design broader participation frameworks where:
people contribute to the making of a show or event
local knowledge and voices shape performance outcomes
multiple generations work side by side
These programmes are rooted in co-creation — not just learning about art, but creating with it.
Creative Leadership & Training
We deliver bespoke training for artists, organisations and community facilitators that:
embeds participatory design practice
unpacks large-scale making and puppet systems
supports inclusive creative engagement
These sessions are practical, reflective and tuned to working with big spaces, big ideas and big tools.
Why learning matters to us
Learning is not separate from our shows — it feeds into them.
We have seen time and again that:
people who make things understand them more deeply
shared creative experiences build friendships and belonging
participation enables ownership and pride
creative agency expands how we see ourselves and others
Our learning practice creates conditions for emergence, improvisation and transformation — all of which make story worlds richer and more resonant.
Past learning highlights
Among our learning and participation work are:
Animated Landscapes — puppet-led creative exploration of place
Gnomus Community Workshops — making and movement with families
School programmes linked to major festival commissions
Community build days for touring puppet shows
These projects reflect our belief that making and learning are not hobbies — they are forms of engagement, conversation and shared expression.
Bring learning into your project
We can design learning programmes to sit alongside:
festivals and site-based commissions
community and civic art projects
corporate and organisational creative goals
education and youth engagement initiatives
Our approach is flexible, responsive and rooted in participatory storytelling practice — just tell us what you’re imagining. Get in touch
