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Wild Boor Ideas Training Academy: Making Sensory Shows

Tiny Ideas Festival
WBI training day

Join the Wild Boor Ideas Training Academy! Training for Adults in Theatre Making, Puppetry and Creative Play for the very young.

Making Sensory Shows

We’re delighted to be hosting a day-long workshop led by theatre-maker Emma Boor, one of a series run as part of Wild Boor Ideas Training Academy.

WBI has over 10 Sensory Shows for those who need to access theatre a little differently. This course explores techniques that are perfect for the very young and those with additional needs including suggested Pre and Post show information such as Social Stories, the use of Makaton signing and how to welcome audience members into a space. We will play with a host of activities that will thrill the senses and Emma will assist you plan your own sensory show.

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Courses cost £45 for a full-day of training.

Email Emma at [email protected]

Book tickets on the Wild Boor Ideas website

Elsewhere in Oxford

Tuesday 21 September @ The North Wall

Explore Making Interactive Family Theatre
WBI shares all the secrets into how they make a family-friendly show including all the tricks and insights into making fun, theatrical and very silly puppet theatre. Emma draws on her 26 years experience and uses some of her classics like The Elves and the Shoemaker and Supermarket Scrooge to demonstrate her methods. Emma will help you plan your own show using her secret structure and there will be lots of playing and looking at types of puppets – hopefully inspiring you to follow up your ideas and start making some of your own.

Making Immersive Theatre for the Very Young
Wednesday 23 September @ Pegasus Theatre
Using her interactive theatre session Play the World that has been developed over 15 years and performed at Pegasus Theatre, Emma will show some insights as to how the session is structured, the type of sensory activities offered and how the session is managed, so everyone can get the most out of it. This very active session will include Emma assisting you devise your very own session to charm the very young and their grown ups!

Make a Puppet and Bring It To Life
Saturday 26 September @ The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury
Enjoy making a simple puppet and learning how to use it in your everyday life with little ones. Perfect for teachers, librarians, parents or grandparents, artists, performers or people who fancy getting crafty with puppets. Not every show has to be in a theatre, puppets have so much to offer from a night time companion, to literacy tools to helping with crowd control! This is a simple, relaxing craft session you can have real fun with and make a pleasing puppet character of your very own.