ARCHIVE - CURIOUS CARGO

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The Lollipop Patrol

Team Lollipop 2012

The Lost Luggage Porters

Temperance Lady

Temperance Society

Temperance Society at Xmas

Buzy Lizzy

Winter Rose

Winter Rose at Xmas

Meadow Sprites

Winter Sprites

Puppet making

Projection & Shadow making

Mask Making

Mask Movement

Puppeteering Techniques

Street Theatre

Parades & Installations

Mixed Media

Mask Movement & Mask Making Training

Puppeteering & Puppet Making & Shadow Puppetry Training

Team Building, Personal Development & Drama Games

Working with Withies Training

Various

Creative Experiences

Consultation

The Lollipop Patrol

Rochdale Feel Good Festival (Photographs by Beate Mielemeier)

The Lollipop Patrol - World Aids Day 2007, promoting safe sex

The Lollipop Patrol - Bolton

The Lollipop Patrol - Stafford

The Lollipop Patrol - Glastonbury

Treasure Hunt Event organised by Adrenalin Juggle

Fleetwood 2014:

Photographs by Jill Reidy

Fleetwood 2015:

Photographs by Craig Shaw

Fleetwood 2017 Cyborg Lollipop:

Photographs by Jill Reidy

Team Lollipop 2012

Olympic Torch Relay, Huddersfield

The Lost Luggage Porters

Worcester

Liverpool

The Lost Luggage Porters - Manchester Art Gallery

WoW Windermere

Streets of Brighton

Mintfest

The Lost Luggage Porters - Hollingworth Lake Festival (photos by Barbara Lloyd)

Ashford Halloween Gig

Birmingham New Street Station Opening

Bromsgrove Gig

Derby Fest

Fleetwood 2015

Liverpool, Three Queens

Manchester Transport Museum

Sandwell

Waddeston Manor

Temperance Lady

Creating the Manchester City Art Gallery Website (photos by Sharon Tait)

At Manchester City Art Gallery (photos by Sharon Tait)

Publicity Shots (photos by Ric Taylor)

Halifax Piece Hall

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival

Maritime Museum Liverpool

Temperance Society

Platt Fields

The Temperance Society, Mintfest, 2010

Temperance Society General Images

Halifax Piece Hall

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival

Maritime Museum Liverpool

Temperance Society at Christmas

Skelmersdale Christmas Gig

Ulverston Dickensian Festival

Buzy Lizzy

Girl Guides Centenary, Leeds, 2010 (photos by Alexa Hamblett, Girl Guides UK)

Busy Lizzy Big Picnic Harrogate

Busy Lizzy Hebden Bridge

Mintfest 2010

Busy Lizzy - RHS Cardiff

Eastgate Shopping Centre Inverness

The Alnwick Garden

Cleckheaton

Winter Rose

Skipton Yuletide Festival

Inverness

Ulverston Dickensian Festival

Grimsby Christmas Lights Switch-On

Meadow Sprites

Durham

Inverness

Oldham

Photographs by Ric Taylor

Wigan
Photographs by J Bell

Winter Sprites

Lancaster Winter Sprites

Photographs by B Ayrton
Preston Christmas Entertainment

Durham

Stockton Halloween Family Event

Garstang Christmas Festival

Studio Photographs

Puppet making using a variety of methods, materials & techniques - the images say it all!

Projects featured include: small & large mouth puppets & set dressing for Seeds of the East festival 'Animated Greenhouse', Manchester; multi-operator bunraku style puppets for Edge Hill University Performing Arts & Visual Theatre students, Liverpool & Oldham Theatre Workshop; suitcase puppetry 'Super Heroes' project, Oldham; Gifted & Talented session with SWAN, Bham; Challenging Behaviour Unit, Rotherham; rod puppets with 3 x Yr 1 classes at Deepdale Infants School, Preston and with children & their carers from St Chad's RC Primary School, Manchester; large-scale parade & multi-operator puppets with St Leonard's CofE Primary School; large-scale puppets for Anansai show at Medlock Valley Primary School, Manchester.

Photo 4 by Lewis Wileman

Tess received a commission to work with the children of Medlock Valley Primary School to create a selection of puppets for their Anansai production. We made a snake, a leopard, multiple hornets, and the Sun God.

This was a huge visual arts/performance arts & recycling project which culminated in a large-scale parade/fashion show. Each class chose a theme that they wanted to work with & so from nursery up to year 6 we created: farm animal masks, a clown gegant puppet, gegant 'emotion' puppets, Lion King inspired large-scale masks, a 10 foot Lady GaGa puppet, ornate Olympic shields, a large elephant puppet, and large-scale African masks.

A 5 week puppet making project with children & their carers from St Chad's RC Primary School, Manchester. Throughout the sessions the group explored a variety of different types of puppets, & making skills, from across the globe.

Deepdale Infants School asked Tess to work with their 3 year 1 classes to help make rod puppets inspired by the fairy tale characters & stories that the children had created.

Curious Cargo offers workshops in projection, shadow & shadow puppetry techniques; creating shadows & environments by using found objects, puppets, and our own bodies.

Projects featured include: Creative Partnerships 'Inclusion' project with Mary Elliot Special School & Trinity Primary School, Wolverhampton; V&A 'Image & Identity' project with Manchester Art Gallery & the ReD House, Bury; Artists in Schools 'Playing with Shadows' project, Blackpool; 'Lighting the Legend' project, Ordsall Community Arts, Salford; Wilson Stuart Special School, Birmingham; 'Gifted & Talented Workshop', South Birmingham Schools Network; & Netherton Children's Centre, Dudley.

Mask making using a variety of methods, materials & techniques.

Projects featured include: Artist's In Schools 'Mask Alive' Project, Manchester; 'Masquerade' project for LGBT Young Peoples Group - Pride, Manchester; 'Gifted & Talented Workshop', South Birmingham Schools Network; Family workshops, Manchester Art Gallery; 'Visual Theatre & Circus Skills'; Creative Partnerships project with Newman Special School, Rotherham; & St Leonard's CofE Primary School (see info below) ST Leonard's C of E Primary School - This was a huge visual arts/performance arts & recycling project which culminated in a largescale parade/fashion show. Each class chose a theme that they wanted to work with & so from nursery up to year 6 we created: farm animal masks, a clown gegant puppet, gegant 'emotion' puppets, Lion King inspired large-scale masks, a 10 foot Lady GaGa puppet, ornate Olympic shields, a large elephant puppet, and large-scale African masks.

Mask Movement

Mask Movement workshops for: Imperial War Museum North to accompany their special exhibition 'Once Upon A Wartime' 2012;
Newham Special School, Rotherham, & Mask Alive (Manchester Art Gallery Project) in various Greater Manchester schools.

Puppeteering Techniques:

Projects featured include: Seeds of the East 'Animated Greenhouse', Manchester; puppeteering workshops with Edge Hill Performing Arts BA HONS students, Liverpool; suitcase puppetry 'Super Heroes' project, 3 x primary schools & a special school in Oldham, & staff training for Oldham Theatre Workshop.

Street Theatre:

Curious Cargo works with groups to make gegant puppets, props, banners, costumes & lanterns to animate parades, and makes bizarre and wonderful
sculptures & props for installations.

Curious Cargo offers mixed-media making workshops which can be tailored to suit your needs. Previous projects have included: wire portraits, mark-making,
silk paper making, withie sculpture, 3D model making, to name but a few.

Mask Movement & Mask Making Training

Puppeteering & Puppet Making & Shadow Puppetry Training

Team Building, Personal Development & Drama Games

Working with Withies Training

Previous Projects:

Deepdale Infants School, Year 2 classes x 3 - Giant Creatures junk sculptures - 2011 The Yr 2 children designed their 'mythical creatures' in teams drawing inspiration from African animals. Then using boxes, tubes & other junk they worked in their teams to build the giant creatures, papier mache them, and finally paint them.

Sandbank Nursery School, Bloxwich, West Midlands - 2011 & 2012 During this 'visual arts & creativity residency' we explored a range of materials & techniques to include: puppet making, silk paper making, den building & junk modelling.

CARA Action Research Project - In this project Peppy Hills, and students & staff at Sunfield School, worked in collaboration with Curious Cargo's Tess Hills to investigate the research question: 'Exploramentation! Spotting Authentic Engagement in Creative Activity Among Students with Severe and Complex Learning Needs'. Sessions & 'creative provocations' included: mark-making, light & shadow, clay & modelling materials, smell/taste/collage, found object puppetry/storytelling, construction & dens, & textured pathways.
http://www.sunfield.org.uk/pdf/Exploramentation.pdf

Broadmeadow Nursery, Wolverhampton

Sunfield School 'Jazz Project'

Greet Children's Centre, Sparkhill, Birmingham -
2010 In this project we worked with nursery classes & parents & toddlers groups to explore a range of visual arts materials & techniques through a series of 'creative provocations'.

Netherton Children's Centre Consultation Project

Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Young People's Cancer Ward

Papier mache & latex masks created for theatrical performances.

Imperial War Museum North - a mask making commission to create masks & costumes for 2 characters: a 1940's housewife & an evacuee boy.



Click on a bullet point below to access that particular archived section or scroll down the page to browse the archive. The Lollipop Patrol Team Lollipop 2012 The Lost Luggage Porters Temperance Lady Temperance Society Temperance Society at Xmas Buzy Lizzy Winter Rose Winter Rose at Xmas Meadow Sprites Winter Sprites Puppet making Projection & Shadow making Mask Making Mask Movement Puppeteering Techniques Street Theatre Parades & Installations Mixed Media Mask Movement & Mask Making Training Puppeteering & Puppet Making & Shadow Puppetry Training Team Building, Personal Development & Drama Games Working with Withies Training Various Creative Experiences Consultation The Lollipop Patrol Rochdale Feel Good Festival (Photographs by Beate Mielemeier) The Lollipop Patrol - World Aids Day 2007, promoting safe sex The Lollipop Patrol - Bolton The Lollipop Patrol - Stafford The Lollipop Patrol - Glastonbury Treasure Hunt Event organised by Adrenalin Juggle Fleetwood 2014: Photographs by Jill Reidy Fleetwood 2015: Photographs by Craig Shaw Fleetwood 2017 Cyborg Lollipop: Photographs by Jill Reidy Team Lollipop 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, Huddersfield The Lost Luggage Porters Worcester Liverpool The Lost Luggage Porters - Manchester Art Gallery WoW Windermere Streets of Brighton Mintfest The Lost Luggage Porters - Hollingworth Lake Festival (photos by Barbara Lloyd) Ashford Halloween Gig Birmingham New Street Station Opening Bromsgrove Gig Derby Fest Fleetwood 2015 Liverpool, Three Queens Manchester Transport Museum Sandwell Waddeston Manor Temperance Lady Creating the Manchester City Art Gallery Website (photos by Sharon Tait) At Manchester City Art Gallery (photos by Sharon Tait) Publicity Shots (photos by Ric Taylor) Halifax Piece Hall Hebden Bridge Arts Festival Maritime Museum Liverpool Temperance Society Platt Fields The Temperance Society, Mintfest, 2010 Temperance Society General Images Halifax Piece Hall Hebden Bridge Arts Festival Maritime Museum Liverpool Temperance Society at Christmas Skelmersdale Christmas Gig Ulverston Dickensian Festival Buzy Lizzy Girl Guides Centenary, Leeds, 2010 (photos by Alexa Hamblett, Girl Guides UK) Busy Lizzy Big Picnic Harrogate Busy Lizzy Hebden Bridge Mintfest 2010 Busy Lizzy - RHS Cardiff Eastgate Shopping Centre Inverness The Alnwick Garden Cleckheaton Winter Rose Skipton Yuletide Festival Inverness Ulverston Dickensian Festival Grimsby Christmas Lights Switch-On Meadow Sprites Durham Inverness Oldham Photographs by Ric Taylor Wigan Photographs by J Bell Winter Sprites Lancaster Winter Sprites Photographs by B Ayrton Preston Christmas Entertainment Durham Stockton Halloween Family Event Garstang Christmas Festival Studio Photographs
Puppet making using a variety of methods, materials & techniques - the images say it all! Projects featured include: small & large mouth puppets & set dressing for Seeds of the East festival 'Animated Greenhouse', Manchester; multi-operator bunraku style puppets for Edge Hill University Performing Arts & Visual Theatre students, Liverpool & Oldham Theatre Workshop; suitcase puppetry 'Super Heroes' project, Oldham; Gifted & Talented session with SWAN, Bham; Challenging Behaviour Unit, Rotherham; rod puppets with 3 x Yr 1 classes at Deepdale Infants School, Preston and with children & their carers from St Chad's RC Primary School, Manchester; large-scale parade & multi-operator puppets with St Leonard's CofE Primary School; large-scale puppets for Anansai show at Medlock Valley Primary School, Manchester. Photo 4 by Lewis Wileman Tess received a commission to work with the children of Medlock Valley Primary School to create a selection of puppets for their Anansai production. We made a snake, a leopard, multiple hornets, and the Sun God. This was a huge visual arts/performance arts & recycling project which culminated in a large-scale parade/fashion show. Each class chose a theme that they wanted to work with & so from nursery up to year 6 we created: farm animal masks, a clown gegant puppet, gegant 'emotion' puppets, Lion King inspired large-scale masks, a 10 foot Lady GaGa puppet, ornate Olympic shields, a large elephant puppet, and large-scale African masks. A 5 week puppet making project with children & their carers from St Chad's RC Primary School, Manchester. Throughout the sessions the group explored a variety of different types of puppets, & making skills, from across the globe. Deepdale Infants School asked Tess to work with their 3 year 1 classes to help make rod puppets inspired by the fairy tale characters & stories that the children had created. Curious Cargo offers workshops in projection, shadow & shadow puppetry techniques; creating shadows & environments by using found objects, puppets, and our own bodies. Projects featured include: Creative Partnerships 'Inclusion' project with Mary Elliot Special School & Trinity Primary School, Wolverhampton; V&A 'Image & Identity' project with Manchester Art Gallery & the ReD House, Bury; Artists in Schools 'Playing with Shadows' project, Blackpool; 'Lighting the Legend' project, Ordsall Community Arts, Salford; Wilson Stuart Special School, Birmingham; 'Gifted & Talented Workshop', South Birmingham Schools Network; & Netherton Children's Centre, Dudley. Mask making using a variety of methods, materials & techniques. Projects featured include: Artist's In Schools 'Mask Alive' Project, Manchester; 'Masquerade' project for LGBT Young Peoples Group - Pride, Manchester; 'Gifted & Talented Workshop', South Birmingham Schools Network; Family workshops, Manchester Art Gallery; 'Visual Theatre & Circus Skills'; Creative Partnerships project with Newman Special School, Rotherham; & St Leonard's CofE Primary School (see info below) ST Leonard's C of E Primary School - This was a huge visual arts/performance arts & recycling project which culminated in a largescale parade/fashion show. Each class chose a theme that they wanted to work with & so from nursery up to year 6 we created: farm animal masks, a clown gegant puppet, gegant 'emotion' puppets, Lion King inspired large-scale masks, a 10 foot Lady GaGa puppet, ornate Olympic shields, a large elephant puppet, and large-scale African masks. Mask Movement Mask Movement workshops for: Imperial War Museum North to accompany their special exhibition 'Once Upon A Wartime' 2012; Newham Special School, Rotherham, & Mask Alive (Manchester Art Gallery Project) in various Greater Manchester schools. Puppeteering Techniques: Projects featured include: Seeds of the East 'Animated Greenhouse', Manchester; puppeteering workshops with Edge Hill Performing Arts BA HONS students, Liverpool; suitcase puppetry 'Super Heroes' project, 3 x primary schools & a special school in Oldham, & staff training for Oldham Theatre Workshop. Street Theatre: Curious Cargo works with groups to make gegant puppets, props, banners, costumes & lanterns to animate parades, and makes bizarre and wonderful sculptures & props for installations. Curious Cargo offers mixed-media making workshops which can be tailored to suit your needs. Previous projects have included: wire portraits, mark-making, silk paper making, withie sculpture, 3D model making, to name but a few. Mask Movement & Mask Making Training Puppeteering & Puppet Making & Shadow Puppetry Training Team Building, Personal Development & Drama Games Working with Withies Training Previous Projects: Deepdale Infants School, Year 2 classes x 3 - Giant Creatures junk sculptures - 2011 The Yr 2 children designed their 'mythical creatures' in teams drawing inspiration from African animals. Then using boxes, tubes & other junk they worked in their teams to build the giant creatures, papier mache them, and finally paint them. Sandbank Nursery School, Bloxwich, West Midlands - 2011 & 2012 During this 'visual arts & creativity residency' we explored a range of materials & techniques to include: puppet making, silk paper making, den building & junk modelling. CARA Action Research Project - In this project Peppy Hills, and students & staff at Sunfield School, worked in collaboration with Curious Cargo's Tess Hills to investigate the research question: 'Exploramentation! Spotting Authentic Engagement in Creative Activity Among Students with Severe and Complex Learning Needs'. Sessions & 'creative provocations' included: mark-making, light & shadow, clay & modelling materials, smell/taste/collage, found object puppetry/storytelling, construction & dens, & textured pathways. http://www.sunfield.org.uk/pdf/Exploramentation.pdf Broadmeadow Nursery, Wolverhampton Sunfield School 'Jazz Project' Greet Children's Centre, Sparkhill, Birmingham - 2010 In this project we worked with nursery classes & parents & toddlers groups to explore a range of visual arts materials & techniques through a series of 'creative provocations'. Netherton Children's Centre Consultation Project Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Young People's Cancer Ward Papier mache & latex masks created for theatrical performances. Imperial War Museum North - a mask making commission to create masks & costumes for 2 characters: a 1940's housewife & an evacuee boy.