Workshop: Storyboarding, Translating Imagination onto Paper
Do you have an idea for a story? Any kind, any medium, any subject? Is it safely tucked in your imagination with a shaky release plan? Learn how to transcribe an abstract idea into an image, setting the foundation and a path forward. Make a visual language by you, for you, mapping out your story and imagined world with a good old-fashioned pencil and paper. Together, we will learn how to break down story elements into movement through space and time. All ages welcome, zero drawing proficiency or background needed! Bring all your story dreams. Having an idea is hard. Explaining said idea is even harder. Use pictures instead.
Following the workshop we have a FREE puppet community meeting for you! Join us to see cool puppets-in-process of creation; all stages of development are invited to share a community space for experimentation. Everyone is welcome! Bring a project, prototype, sketch, or idea, no matter how rough, or just come for the conversation! Stick around for a brief introduction to Elastic Arts & our first Chicago Black puppeteer symposium!
What is PiPs? (2-4 pm)
PIPs is an informal gathering for testing out new puppet and object-based performances. Bring whatever you’re working on and get encouragement and feedback from other disciplines & puppet-folks!
Special Presentation: (4-6 pm)
Chicago Black Puppeteer Symposium!
Join us in an informal discussion moderated by Samuel Lewis with some of Chicago’s Black puppeteers to talk about what it means to be a puppeteer as a career in Chicago, the vast scope of experiences working in and leading up to this field, and to celebrate our triumphs as working artists year-round in this city.
Puppet in PiPs flyer by Mike Oleon