IMAGE MAKING AND STREET THEATRE: Wise Fool company members design a workshop around your needs, teaching your group how to create giant puppets, masks and props for use at community events, demonstrations and actions. Our workshops provide a gathering place for people to meet, discuss issues, envision change and take creative action. We train people in low tech and inexpensive hands on techniques for building giant imagery.

From brainstorming to performing, we'll explore effective ways of drawing media and public attention, involving folks in simple, mass theatrics and molding ideals and concepts into concrete visual images and powerful street theatre. We'll also provide lots of info about how to set up community builds and gather the stuff you'll need. The process of artistic collaboration solidifies community bonds and empowers individual self-expression. The giant images created as a community effort act as media magnets for the vital issues which you and your community address.

Groups we've worked with include:

• Asian Immigrant Workers Association—creating giant puppets and street theatre for a successful campaign against slave labor practices at Jessica McClintock clothing corporation
• Art and Revolution Collective—activist puppet trainings across the US
• Teatro Ng Tanan—Filipino Theatre Company rebuilding their traditional giant puppets for upcoming performance seasons