The Heroes Project exhibit

The Heroes Project panel.

The Shadow Puppets.

The Heroes Project brochure and other merchandise.

In Memory

The Heroes Project salutes, one of the greatest legends of our time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. 

R.I.P Nelson Mandela.

Cape Town City Hall: Nelson Mandela gave his First speech as a free man

The Heroes Workshop video trailer

The Heroes Workshop

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.

Started off with a few circle exercises

Columbian Hypnosis

Interacting with the shadows

Puppet making

Story telling

Playing with shadows-2

Playing with Shadows

Bringing them to life!