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GIANTS!

COLLABORATIVE, CONSENSUS DRIVEN, EMPOWERING
TAKE TO THE STREETS WITH A GIANT PUPPET!
What's Giant Puppet Making?
Participants learn 3D Structure building with sustainable resources, 
creating a Sculpture that is wholly theirs. 
They experience the joy of teamwork to produce communally 
something larger than themselves as individuals. 
They gain pride and pleasure in showing off their creation in a public place

and hopefully inspire others to get involved in community events.

We start the day with a brainstorming of ideas of what we'd like to make.
It can be absolutely anything but always comes from the participants themselves.
We use a truly democratic voting system whereby participants can vote
as many times as they like, for as many ideas that they like.
This means we have the maximum number happy with the decision made.
We then create the structure with stripped willow and cover with tissue paper adding colour for decoration, or depending on design of puppet chosen by participants, may incorporate reuse brewery tubing, fabrics, and other assorted recycled items.

This was the making of Spinner Bob, at Tangimoana School 2007
We created a myth about a creature that could live around Tangimoana, then built it for real!


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Congolese Mama 2010
Made with Congolese teenagers & kids

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Wearable Arts

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Junk and Disorderly peer mentoring project
 PNGHS Wearable Arts week of Alice in Wonderland.
​Original workshop group went on to peer teach skills to other classes.

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'The Building of the Rangiwha'
at Rangiwahia School illustrating 
a paradable lit puppet project 
Downloadable powerpoint presentation

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Boysun Bahori Festival, Uzbekistan 2003
​working with a local orphanage
Uzbek Mama - The First of the Big Girls

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Nasrudin hoja boysun bahori
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Working under the trees at Boysun Bahori
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uzbeck mama boysun bahori museum
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  • Home
    • Welcome
    • Our Kaupapa
    • Volunteering with REACT
    • Get in Contact
    • Willows of Rangiwahia
    • Whats new >
      • Online workshops
      • Free Offers
      • and not so new
    • Want to Visit?
  • Junk & Disorderly
    • Recycled Arts
    • Recycled Christmas
    • Tell Your Story
    • Tile Project
    • ANZAC Wreath
    • Paper Play >
      • Paper Dolls
      • Headliner challenge
    • wearable arts >
      • Wearable arts Help
    • Mural and Graffiti projects >
      • How to Register your work
      • Gallery of Works
  • Community Spectacle
    • Giants >
      • Out of the Suitcase Puppet Festival 2015
      • Big Girls >
        • International Women's Day Celebrations
        • Big Girl's for Suffrage 125
      • Christmas Giants
      • photos from the past
    • Lanterns >
      • Year of the Rat
      • Year of the Pig 2019
      • Lanterns 2018 Year of the Dog
      • lanterns 2017
      • Year o't Horse 2014
      • Year o't Snake 2013
      • Year o't Dragon 2012 wkshops
      • Year o't Dragon 2012 Parade
      • Year o't Rabbit 2011
      • Year o't Tiger 2010 Lantern slideshow
      • photos
    • Other Events >
      • Ahi Ka Wellington Matariki
      • Okoro Matariki Puanga Bonfire
      • Koanga spring bonfire
    • Lit Bike events
  • Installations
    • Deep Sea with Capital E
    • Urban Garden Cuba Dupa
    • Tianma
    • Comrade Ship
    • Sensory Walls >
      • Blog
    • HE ARA TAE - COLOURS >
      • Cast & Crew Out takes
  • Green Spaces
    • Ahimate Reserve >
      • community bonfires
    • Living Structures
    • Courses and workdays
    • REGENERATION
  • REACT
    • Contact us
    • Helping fund our work >
      • employers payroll giving
      • employee payroll giving
    • Visiting Artists
    • Testimonials
    • History >
      • photos
      • Videos
      • Press articles
      • Aotearoa Bound
    • Sponsors/Funders
    • Links
  • Whats new