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Eleven – Shaping Narrative

The workshop artist’s journey is like any other journey. It has three phases: before, during and after the workshop.  The workshop artist or facilitator is in the business of shaping the most meaningful experience for the participants that they can by crafting a creative environment and paying attention to the potential encounters and events. The devising work before a workshop aims to identify the potential shape the narrative of that workshop by putting building blocks in place, visualising potential pathways and imagining what the final outcome might be. 

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Ten – The Sacred Box of Eyes

The Sacred Box of Eyes Talk – Tampere May 2014

The Sacred Box of Eyes was first dreamt up by a single small voice in a large civic hall. There were 250 people in that hall. I stood in front of them with a little, plastic cash box of possible eyes to glue onto their puppets. The voice shouted out: That box is sacred. The rest of the hall spontaneously chorused back: Oh no, not the Sacred Box of Eyes. A moment was born that would be re-created for the next 30 years with many, many thousands of people. In 2014 I gave a talk in Tampere, Finland. These are notes of the main points of that talk.

Big rooms, lots of children and many sacred boxes!
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Nine – I didn’t even exist yesterday

A Report on the Peepeekisis Puppet Project

October 2013

WELCOME MATTERS

“Why do you get so tired from your work?” a friend of mine was once asked by her partner. She asked him whether he felt tired after his first day in a new job. He said he was. And she told him that every day in her work was like starting a new job.   This starting over is attributable to the fact that onset of each project always brings a near unimaginable host of variables; the great unknowns and unfamiliars awaiting your arrival.

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Six – The Efficiency of Friendship

Eastern Sun by John Moat

There’s a marvellous passage in Don Quixote. Don Quixote goes into the studio of a painter and the painter is standing in front of his painting which he is working on and Don Quixote says to him, “What’s that you’re painting?” The painter stands back from it and looks at it with a sort of curious lack of understanding and says, “That is as it may turn out to be.” This is the core of creativity – by creating, by the gnosis of actually making something we finally know who we are. The big contribution that we can make to anything is making ourselves. John Moat

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