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Paper, scissors, shadow at the Art Gallery of NSW


  • Art Gallery of NSW (map)

Join Jumaadi and his Shadow Factory collaborators for a free 5-hour workshop that explores drawing, paper cutting, storyboarding and shadow puppetry as a form of storytelling.

Participants will create a series of paper cut-outs to build their own stories, which will then be staged as a performance at the end of the day, building on Jumaadi’s incredible two-dimensional puppet artworks and the Indonesian tradition of shadow-puppet theatre.

  • 10.15–10.30am onsite registration, maximum 25 participants per session, open to all ages

  • 12.30–1.30pm lunch break, participants can bring their own lunch or purchase festival packs from the Welcome Plaza kiosk

23, 24 and 30 September and 1 and 2 October.

Free. Lower level 1, Learning Studio.

Part of Volume Sydney - A festival of sound and vision at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from the 22nd Sep to 8th Oct 2023.

More info here.

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Later Event: 23 September
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