After the character designs and the shadow puppets, I realised, I needed to find a way to gather stories now. Since we are looking at the prospect of The Heroes Project becoming a graphic narrative, I wanted to devise a method to gather stories. A method to collect stories from the people, their own voice. The process ought to be fun and creative at the same time.
Hence for this I decided to club two of my interests together to create a story collecting method. Borrowing from my experience in Shadow puppetry and forum theatre I decided to create a workshop model. A workshop which uses the framework of drama workshops and the art of shadow puppetry to create a space for story sharing. Not just an ordinary story circle but a space where they can include fantasy and imagination into their personal stories by connecting it with ancient Khoi-San mythology.
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Started off with a few circle exercises |
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Columbian Hypnosis |
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Interacting with the shadows |
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Puppet making |
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Story telling |