Hand Shadow Puppet Workshop with Drew Colby

Drew Colby is back at The Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre on Saturday 28 November for a hand shadow puppet workshop. It's an interactive session where he'll teach you how to make four specific hand shadow animals, so you'll leave with a few shapes you can actually recreate at home.

Colby is a regular at the Centre, and this is a familiar kind of thing for him. He previously staged The Ugly Duckling, his take on Hans Christian Andersen's classic, which he followed up with a workshop called You Can Make Hand Shadows Too. This one sits in that same vein — a practical session where you get to learn the craft by doing it.

The venue itself is a bit of a Glasgow West End curiosity: a theatre, museum and education unit all in one. It's got an 80-seat theatre, a mask and puppet library and archive, permanent exhibition areas, a cafe, a film and FX unit, a mask studio and a marionette carving workshop. They stage shadow, glove, rod, marionette, table-top and black light theatre, and run a regular family Saturday Show programme from September to June, alongside workshops, birthday party events and outreach to schools and community groups. They also tour exhibitions like The Magic of Masks & Puppets and Behind The Mask.

The workshop is at The Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre, 8-10 Balcarres Avenue, Glasgow West End, G12 0QF, on Saturday 28 November.