Spica Wobbe will introduce her shadow theater works inspired by biographical storytelling and the inspiration and experiences behind “The Memory Project”. She will share examples of how theater, visual arts, and puppetry can be used to encourage older adults to tell their stories and preserve those stories through artistic creation.

Participants will experience hands-on art-making activities, share their work, and explore new possibilities in the field of Creative Aging.

Material needed for the workshop

• Two piece of white paper
• Various colored papers
• One pair of scissors
• One glue stick

Additional information

The workshop will be held in English. As the workshop has a limited number of participants, it is primarily aimed at employees of cultural institutions and organisations, those working in cultural, elderly and social work and freelance cultural workers from North Rhine-Westphalia. Participants from other federal states or from abroad can take part if not all places are taken by people from North Rhine-Westphalia.

About the artist

Spica Wobbe (Shu-yun Cheng) began her artistic career at the Shiny Shoes Children’s Theater in Taiwan. She moved to New York in 2000 and earned her Master degree in Educational Theatre from New York University in 2003. She received the Exemplary Teaching Artist Award from New York University in 2014. Spica established Double Image Theater Lab in 2011 to create cross-cultural productions that explore the world of the past and the present.  She is a three-time recipient of the Jim Henson Foundation grants. She created The Memory Project in 2016, which encourages older adults to document and share their life story through visual arts, theater and puppetry. The project has received SU-CASA and Creative Learning grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council many times since 2017.