Posts by Dreams For Kids
Discovering Found Object Puppetry with Rough House Theater
Throughout history and around the world, humans have used puppets to pass down stories, share cultural practices, and revolt against censorship. A Show of Hands is a course in which students explore how they can use puppetry to communicate about issues that are important to they. They experiment with constructing and manipulating different types of puppets,…
Read MoreInvestigating Budō with Jason Bender
Students in Who Am I? took a virtual introductory jiu-jitsu class with Jason Bender of Bender Fitness. While the study of martial arts might seem miles away from our course on philosophy and psychology, we have already noticed some interesting points of overlap, not least in the fact that martial arts such as jiu-jitsu are founded…
Read MoreLight/No Light: Experimenting with Pinhole Cameras
The Juniors in Light, Sound, and Time investigated the guiding question: What would life look like without light?. They studied camera exposure to better understand how the human eye reacts to lightness and darkness. To bring these concepts to life, the students built and experimented with pinhole cameras. They took pictures with their cameras and…
Read MoreDiscovering the Art of the Shadow with Manual Cinema
In this workshop, students in the A Show of Hands class explored the possibilities and craft of performant storytelling. Artists from Manual Cinema exposed the multitude of layers that go into their work and how light, shadow, sound, music, and time work together to create a story-telling experience that has a lasting impression … all without…
Read MoreDiscovering a Community of Puppets at Nasty, Brutish & Short
The students in the A Show of Hands class are taking a deep dive into the world of puppetry. They are investigating how puppets have been used to pass down stories and cultural practices, address taboo topics, and communicate under censorship. But, why puppets? The budding puppeteers attended Nasty, Brutish, and Short, the puppet cabaret…
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