The Workshop will be in English.

Through years of creating puppetry work internationally and leading Creative Aging Programs in New York, puppetry artist Spica Wobbe shares her expertise in designing arts-integrated workshops that empower older adults to document their life stories through creative expression.

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

Zusatzinformationen

Der Workshop findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Da der Workshop eine Teilnehmer*innen-Begrenzung hat, richtet er sich vorrangig an Mitarbeiter*innen von Kultureinrichtungen und -organisationen, Tätige in der Kultur-, Alten- und Sozialarbeit und freiberufliche Kulturschaffende aus Nordrhein-Westfalen.

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.