Explore your creativity in a workshop making masks, figures, puppets and whimsical objects. Workshops are designed for adults and children of all ages.

 These masks were completed in a 4 week (8 hour) workshop.

 

Marlene Pyykkö, artist and workshop facilitator at Manatee Studio, offers sculpture workshops in the Greater Vancouver area.

puppetry 101

Marlene offers workshops and party activities in puppetry for the young and young at heart. A wide variety of puppet styles --  stick puppets, simple marionnettes, hand or rod puppets -- can be created depending on the age range and time available. Spend an afternoon or up to 6 weeks crafting and learning to manipulate your puppet in creative play. An all ages acitivity.

 

PRIVATE and  group WORKSHOPS CAN BE BOOKED

Mask-Making or Whimsical Figures

You can arrange a mask-making (or other sculpture) workshop for yourself or a group of friends -- children ages 7 and up and adults of all ages.

 

 

Creative collaborations with Artists and  performers

Available on contract or collaboration with artists and organizations

Props, masks and a wide variety of creative solutions in  collaboration with artists of all stripes.  Design, play, crafting, brain-storming.

 

 

For more information or to design a package to suit your needs, please contact Marlene by telephone at 778-834-9943 or email.

 

Creative play takes our minds to places we have never been, pioneering new paths that the real world can follow. --Dr. Stuart Brown in Play, How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul