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French poster postcard by Sonis, no. C. 1747. Image: Europacorp / Avalanche Productions / Appoulai Prod. French poster for Arthur et les Minimoys / Arthur and the Minimoys (Luc Besson, 2006).
Luc Besson (1959) is a French film director, writer and producer associated with the 'Cinéma du Look' film movement. Eight of his 50 films are among the 100 most successful French films in the world. He made a name for himself with his first films, Le Dernier Combat (1983) and Subway (1985). He then triumphed at the French box office with Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue (1988), which sold more than 9 million tickets and gave him an international reputation. Then followed a string of successful films: Nikita (1990), Léon (1994), Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997), for which he won a César for Best Director, and Jeanne d'Arc/The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). After several failures, he returned to international success with Lucy (2014), which became the biggest successful French film worldwide. Among his other major commercial successes are three film series: Taxi (1998–2007), Taken (2008-2014), and Le Transporteur/The Transporter (2002–2008).
Luc Paul Maurice Besson was born in Paris in 1959. He was the son of two Club Méditerranée scuba diving instructors in Greece and former Yugoslavia. Luc planned to become a marine biologist. The family returned to France when he was 10. His parents divorced, and both remarried. At age 17, Besson had a diving accident that left him unable to dive and finished his dream of becoming a marine biologist. He decided to go for a film career. Besson soon made his first short film and wrote the first versions of what would grow into his films Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue (1988) and the Sci-Fi epic Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997). From 1976 to 1982, Besson did various jobs in the film industry and was an assistant to directors including Claude Faraldo and Patrick Grandperret. He directed three short films, a commissioned documentary, and several commercials. In the early 1980s, Besson met Éric Serra and asked him to compose the score for his first short film, L'Avant dernier. He subsequently had Serra compose for other films. For three years, he worked in Hollywood. Then Besson debuted with Le Dernier Combat/The Last Battle (1983), a post-apocalyptic drama with similarities to Mad Max, co-written with Pierre Jolivet. Inspired by Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), Besson filmed it in CinemaScope and black and white and without dialogue. It features Jean Reno's first prominent role. Reno later appeared in several films by Besson, including Subway (1985), Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue (1988), La Femme Nikita (1990), and Léon (1994). Le Dernier Combat won an award at the Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival in 1983. That same year, Besson directed Isabelle Adjani's video clip, Pull Marine. He signed a contract with Gaumont and two years later directed Subway (1985), starring Isabelle Adjani and Christophe Lambert. The film imposed a cartoon-like world of music videos and when it was presented at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, where it was shown out of competition, some of the public hissed at the film's advertising-like style. However, the film won three Césars and was a huge box office hit. Then Besson had his breakthrough in France with Le grand bleu/The Big Blue (1988). Critics counted him among the French movement ‘Cinema du Look’, with a strong focus on art direction. Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue and his later film Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997), are seen as examples of this movement and as Hollywood productions from France. Besson fought against the rules and beliefs imposed by French film producers and distributors. |He wanted to show that French cinema was capable of more than what he considered pseudo-intellectual films. Through his films, he wanted to show how the French film industry could compete against Hollywood, by making films that cut across French and American cultures. The producer co-financed the films, shot his films in English and left control with the director. Eventually, he got his own production company: Les Films De Dauphins, he designed a lightweight camera and developed the use of the Louma crane.
In 1980, near the beginning of his career, he founded his own production company, Les Films du Loup, which later, in 1990 was renamed Les Films du Dauphin. It was followed by a second company in 1992, called Leeloo Productions. With his thriller Nikita/La Femme Nikita (1990) starring Anne Parillaud, he made again a hyper-violent, stylised and visually present film about a society in decline. His sixth film was the action-thriller Léon/Léon: The Professional (1994) starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman in her film debut. The plot centres on a professional hitman who reluctantly takes in a twelve-year-old girl after her family is murdered by a corrupt agent. Besson gave the film an emotional undertone and added conscience and hope to the violence. The exterior shots were filmed in New York and most of the interior shots were in France. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and brought him international recognition. In 1997, he moved to Los Angeles with his wife, actress Maïwenn, and their daughter Shanna, to work with Gaumont on what was to become the biggest commercial success for a French film in the United States, Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997), starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich. The success was later surpassed by his production Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008). The film's sets and creatures were designed by Moebius and Jean-Claude Mézières, and the costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier. The film won him the César for Best Director in 1998, and Milla Jovovich soon became his new wife. In 1998, Besson supervised the action comedy Taxi directed by Gérard Pirès. Besson's first production as a non-director, the film was a success. Meanwhile, Jeanne d'Arc/The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), his new version of Joan of Arc, attracted three million cinema-goers. Jeanne d'Arc was played by Milla Jovovich, from whom he divorced the year the film was released. At the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, he was appointed President of the Jury.
In the 2000s, Luc Besson seemed to give up directing and to become a full-time producer. He and longtime collaborator Pierre-Ange Le Pogam changed the name of the film company from Leeloo Productions to EuropaCorp, They wanted to develop a new trend in mainstream cinema based on successful films such as the Taxi series (1998–2007), the Transporter series (2002–2008), and the Jet Li films Kiss of the Dragon (Chris Nahon, 2001) and Unleashed/Danny the Dog (Louis Letterier, 2005). Their English-language films Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008), Taken 2 (Olivier Megaton, 2012), and Taken 3 (Olivier Megaton, 2014), all starring Liam Neeson, were major successes, with Taken 2 becoming the largest-grossing export French film. At the same time, he was overseeing the adaptation of the Arthur series of children's novels that he cowrote with Céline Garcia. Now at the head of a highly profitable studio, he nonetheless continued to direct films. The experimental black-and-white film Angel-A (2005), starring Jamel Debbouze and Rie Rasmussen, received mixed reviews from critics and failed to match the success of its predecessors with audiences. The Children’s film Arthur et les Miniomoys/Arthur and the Minimoys (2006) was his 10th film. The live-action/animated fantasy film drew a French audience of six million and was exported worldwide. He decided to shoot the two sequels himself at the same time. But Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009), and Arthur 3: War of Two Worlds (2010), only attracted half the audience of the first. Lucy (2014), starring Scarlett became the biggest success for a French feature film, with $459 million. At the same time, Besson enjoyed success by producing the Taken saga between 2008 and 2015 starring Liam Neeson. His blockbuster Valérian et la Cité des mille planets/Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2016) was adapted from the comic book series ‘Valérian et Laureline’ by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières. The film had the biggest budget in the history of French cinema, but the investment proved impossible to make a return on. The failure was repeated with his next film, Anna (2019). At the same time, Taxi 5 (Frank Gastambide, 2019), also disappointed. These three failures left EuropaCorp almost bankrupt. Besson had to sell it to a creditor and close the free, no-credentials scriptwriting and directing school he had founded in 2012. Following the Covid-19 pandemic, which interrupted a large part of film production, and the accusation of rape by Dutch-Belgian actress Sand Van Roy, who appeared in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the filmmaker did not shoot for three years but announced that he had written 17 screenplays. In 2023, Besson was definitively cleared of all charges of rape, following a ruling by the Court of Cassation, the highest judicial court in France. Besson directed the film DogMan (2023), starring Caleb Landry Jones, which was released to positive reviews. However, box-office results were disappointing. His next film was the romantic comedy Weekend in Taipei, for which he co-wrote the screenplay. In 2024, while his film June and John was still in post-production, he began shooting Dracula: A Love Tale, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. For the occasion, he reunited with the lead actor of DogMan, Caleb Landry Jones Luc Besson has been married four times. In 1986, he wed actress Anne Parillaud who starred in his film Nikita/La Femme Nikita (1990).. They had a daughter, Juliette, born in 1987, but divorced in 1991. Besson's second wife was actress and director Maïwenn, whom he started dating when he was 31 and she 15. They married in late 1992 when Maïwenn, then 16, was pregnant with their daughter Shanna, born in 1993. Maïwenn later claimed that their relationship was the inspiration for Besson's film Léon (1994), in which the plot concerned the emotional relationship between a grown man and a 12-year-old girl. Their marriage ended in 1997, when, while filming The Fifth Element (1997), Besson got into a relationship with actress Milla Jovovich. In 1997, Besson, aged 38, married 21-year-old Jovovich. They divorced in 1999. In 2004, Besson married film producer Virginie Silla, with whom he had three children.
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These are a collection of production stills from a Spin Creative shoot for client Genie®.
Spin Creative developed the creative for and produced a digital commercial promoting a new Genie® Lift Pro online training product.
The digital commercial targets Genie® dealers and end-users with two main objectives. First, raise widespread awareness within the Genie® dealer and end-user community that Lift Pro is a new, exciting and easily accessible online safety-training product. Second, get dealers and end users to purchase a training seat from an authorized Lift Pro training center.
Agency: Spin Creative
Production Company: Spin Creative
Client: Terex/AWP, Genie® Division
These are a collection of production stills from a Spin Creative shoot for client Genie®.
Spin Creative developed the creative for and produced a digital commercial promoting a new Genie® Lift Pro online training product.
The digital commercial targets Genie® dealers and end-users with two main objectives. First, raise widespread awareness within the Genie® dealer and end-user community that Lift Pro is a new, exciting and easily accessible online safety-training product. Second, get dealers and end users to purchase a training seat from an authorized Lift Pro training center.
Agency: Spin Creative
Production Company: Spin Creative
Client: Terex/AWP, Genie® Division
These are a collection of production stills from a Spin Creative shoot for client Genie®.
Spin Creative developed the creative for and produced a digital commercial promoting a new Genie® Lift Pro online training product.
The digital commercial targets Genie® dealers and end-users with two main objectives. First, raise widespread awareness within the Genie® dealer and end-user community that Lift Pro is a new, exciting and easily accessible online safety-training product. Second, get dealers and end users to purchase a training seat from an authorized Lift Pro training center.
Agency: Spin Creative
Production Company: Spin Creative
Client: Terex/AWP, Genie® Division
Three young people transformed into master puppeteers for a day as they showcased their very own ‘scallywag puppet’ show to a group of primary school pupils from Strabane.
Overall eight young people on Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme were involved in the design, build, scriptwriting, sound and lighting, recording of voiceovers and puppeteer workshops over a three month period. On Tuesday March 11, Chantelle, Stephen and Amy on behalf of the young people involved performed their 30 minute puppet show to a group of Primary 4 pupils from St Mary’s Primary School.
The show, which tells the story of a bully, was based on some experiences of young people involved with the Give and Take Scheme, who felt it important to also explore what might be going on for a bully to make them act out in such a negative way.
Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme supports young people aged 16 to 21 to improve their employability and increase in self-esteem and confidence. All young people involved in the Scheme need education, employment and training so projects such as this provide them with opportunities to learn new skills outside of their normal settings.
The Give and Take Scheme is supported by the European Social Fund (ESF) and Big Lotteries NI
If you would like to get in touch with Scallywags Puppets contact Paul on paul@scallywagpuppets.com or call 028 7188 0880.
For more information about the Give and Take Scheme visit www.includeyouth.org/giveandtake.
These are a collection of production stills from a Spin Creative shoot for client Genie®.
Spin Creative developed the creative for and produced a digital commercial promoting a new Genie® Lift Pro online training product.
The digital commercial targets Genie® dealers and end-users with two main objectives. First, raise widespread awareness within the Genie® dealer and end-user community that Lift Pro is a new, exciting and easily accessible online safety-training product. Second, get dealers and end users to purchase a training seat from an authorized Lift Pro training center.
These are a collection of production stills from a Spin Creative shoot for client Genie®.
Spin Creative developed the creative for and produced a digital commercial promoting a new Genie® Lift Pro online training product.
The digital commercial targets Genie® dealers and end-users with two main objectives. First, raise widespread awareness within the Genie® dealer and end-user community that Lift Pro is a new, exciting and easily accessible online safety-training product. Second, get dealers and end users to purchase a training seat from an authorized Lift Pro training center.
Agency: Spin Creative
Production Company: Spin Creative
Client: Terex/AWP, Genie® Division
Chantelle (18) and Steven (21), participants on Include Youth's Give and Take Scheme in the western trust area with their puppets 'Foxy Cool' and 'Tyson'.
Three young people transformed into master puppeteers for a day as they showcased their very own ‘scallywag puppet’ show to a group of primary school pupils from Strabane.
Overall eight young people on Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme were involved in the design, build, scriptwriting, sound and lighting, recording of voiceovers and puppeteer workshops over a three month period. On Tuesday March 11, Chantelle, Stephen and Amy on behalf of the young people involved performed their 30 minute puppet show to a group of Primary 4 pupils from St Mary’s Primary School.
The show, which tells the story of a bully, was based on some experiences of young people involved with the Give and Take Scheme, who felt it important to also explore what might be going on for a bully to make them act out in such a negative way.
Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme supports young people aged 16 to 21 to improve their employability and increase in self-esteem and confidence. All young people involved in the Scheme need education, employment and training so projects such as this provide them with opportunities to learn new skills outside of their normal settings.
The Give and Take Scheme is supported by the European Social Fund (ESF) and Big Lotteries NI
If you would like to get in touch with Scallywags Puppets contact Paul on paul@scallywagpuppets.com or call 028 7188 0880.
For more information about the Give and Take Scheme visit www.includeyouth.org/giveandtake.
These are a collection of production stills from a Spin Creative shoot for client Genie®.
Spin Creative developed the creative for and produced a digital commercial promoting a new Genie® Lift Pro online training product.
The digital commercial targets Genie® dealers and end-users with two main objectives. First, raise widespread awareness within the Genie® dealer and end-user community that Lift Pro is a new, exciting and easily accessible online safety-training product. Second, get dealers and end users to purchase a training seat from an authorized Lift Pro training center.
Agency: Spin Creative
Production Company: Spin Creative
Client: Terex/AWP, Genie® Division
Oh, how I LURVE sweatpants and hoodies.
I'd been jonesin' for this outfit all bloody day, but I had to go nonstop for about 9 hours...barely even getting to eat...but at long last, I returned to my room and its horde of comfy clothes.
On the upside, I wrote a computer tutorial script for my scriptwriting class that actually turned out pretty sweet. So YAY for small accomplishments.
Three young people transformed into master puppeteers for a day as they showcased their very own ‘scallywag puppet’ show to a group of primary school pupils from Strabane.
Overall eight young people on Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme were involved in the design, build, scriptwriting, sound and lighting, recording of voiceovers and puppeteer workshops over a three month period. On Tuesday March 11, Chantelle, Stephen and Amy on behalf of the young people involved performed their 30 minute puppet show to a group of Primary 4 pupils from St Mary’s Primary School.
The show, which tells the story of a bully, was based on some experiences of young people involved with the Give and Take Scheme, who felt it important to also explore what might be going on for a bully to make them act out in such a negative way.
Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme supports young people aged 16 to 21 to improve their employability and increase in self-esteem and confidence. All young people involved in the Scheme need education, employment and training so projects such as this provide them with opportunities to learn new skills outside of their normal settings.
The Give and Take Scheme is supported by the European Social Fund (ESF) and Big Lotteries NI
If you would like to get in touch with Scallywags Puppets contact Paul on paul@scallywagpuppets.com or call 028 7188 0880.
For more information about the Give and Take Scheme visit www.includeyouth.org/giveandtake.
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A typical day at BCIT consists of lots of writing, whether it be for reports or commercials.
Dora Kola
BCIT Radio Arts and Entertainment
School of Business
Lazy day of K-Drama thanks to the dubious side of the internet, but at least I got to see all of "Ghost Detective" with Park Eun-Bin. Typically Korean supernatural guff with two nice guys interested in the same girl, which seems to be rule #1 on the K-Drama scriptwriting list.
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date."
Script on antique-looking paper background, with a photo transfer of a peony over it.
Three young people transformed into master puppeteers for a day as they showcased their very own ‘scallywag puppet’ show to a group of primary school pupils from Strabane.
Overall eight young people on Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme were involved in the design, build, scriptwriting, sound and lighting, recording of voiceovers and puppeteer workshops over a three month period. On Tuesday March 11, Chantelle, Stephen and Amy on behalf of the young people involved performed their 30 minute puppet show to a group of Primary 4 pupils from St Mary’s Primary School.
The show, which tells the story of a bully, was based on some experiences of young people involved with the Give and Take Scheme, who felt it important to also explore what might be going on for a bully to make them act out in such a negative way.
Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme supports young people aged 16 to 21 to improve their employability and increase in self-esteem and confidence. All young people involved in the Scheme need education, employment and training so projects such as this provide them with opportunities to learn new skills outside of their normal settings.
The Give and Take Scheme is supported by the European Social Fund (ESF) and Big Lotteries NI
If you would like to get in touch with Scallywags Puppets contact Paul on paul@scallywagpuppets.com or call 028 7188 0880.
For more information about the Give and Take Scheme visit www.includeyouth.org/giveandtake.
These are a collection of production stills from a Spin Creative shoot for client Genie®.
Spin Creative developed the creative for and produced a digital commercial promoting a new Genie® Lift Pro online training product.
The digital commercial targets Genie® dealers and end-users with two main objectives. First, raise widespread awareness within the Genie® dealer and end-user community that Lift Pro is a new, exciting and easily accessible online safety-training product. Second, get dealers and end users to purchase a training seat from an authorized Lift Pro training center.
Three young people transformed into master puppeteers for a day as they showcased their very own ‘scallywag puppet’ show to a group of primary school pupils from Strabane.
Overall eight young people on Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme were involved in the design, build, scriptwriting, sound and lighting, recording of voiceovers and puppeteer workshops over a three month period. On Tuesday March 11, Chantelle, Stephen and Amy on behalf of the young people involved performed their 30 minute puppet show to a group of Primary 4 pupils from St Mary’s Primary School.
The show, which tells the story of a bully, was based on some experiences of young people involved with the Give and Take Scheme, who felt it important to also explore what might be going on for a bully to make them act out in such a negative way.
Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme supports young people aged 16 to 21 to improve their employability and increase in self-esteem and confidence. All young people involved in the Scheme need education, employment and training so projects such as this provide them with opportunities to learn new skills outside of their normal settings.
The Give and Take Scheme is supported by the European Social Fund (ESF) and Big Lotteries NI
If you would like to get in touch with Scallywags Puppets contact Paul on paul@scallywagpuppets.com or call 028 7188 0880.
For more information about the Give and Take Scheme visit www.includeyouth.org/giveandtake.
Ten-year old David tries his hand at scriptwriting. He dreams of directing a movie with his sisters and cousins as actors.
It's back to the dystopian state of Gilead for this Music Box post, titled 'This Womans Work' as a homage to the wonderful scriptwriting and soundtrack.
These are a collection of production stills from a Spin Creative shoot for client Genie®.
Spin Creative developed the creative for and produced a digital commercial promoting a new Genie® Lift Pro online training product.
The digital commercial targets Genie® dealers and end-users with two main objectives. First, raise widespread awareness within the Genie® dealer and end-user community that Lift Pro is a new, exciting and easily accessible online safety-training product. Second, get dealers and end users to purchase a training seat from an authorized Lift Pro training center.
Agency: Spin Creative
Production Company: Spin Creative
Client: Terex/AWP, Genie® Division
Acting Truthfully Under the Circumstances*
Feiko Beckers, Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Jacopo Miliani, Timothy Ivison and Julia Tcharfas, Rehana Zaman
PV 13 November, 7 to 9pm with performance by Feiko Beckers
Exhibition 14 November to 20 December 2014
*Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances is the title of a video installation by Anja Kirschner and David Panos, exploring the acting exercises developed by renowned actor and teacher Sanford Meisner.
The exhibition considers artworks that use the structure of the stage and certain conventions of scriptwriting as a framework for investigations into relationships, social interactions, and political ecologies.
Taking theatre as an open ended process with its multiple contexts and references, the exhibition acts as catalyst for performances, screenings, talks and other forms of engagement.
Theatre, performance and dance often crosses over to the medium of fine art when creating new strategies. This exchange is mutual when exhibitions and artists build on the ideas of post-Brechtian and post-dramatic theatre. Each artist in the exhibition employs a wide variety of tactics, developed in genres such as stand up comedy, political theatre or psychodrama. Investigating everyday life situations through a level of abstraction, the works seek alternative models for narration and to describe relations between the individual and society. Combined with ideas stemming from the social sphere such as ecological protests and utopian scientific experiments, this project takes an approach that links to current theoretical developments in the areas of cultural identity, models for communities and social and political activism. To provide multiple entry points to the project, the glossary serves to introduce further ideas and notions that inspired our discussions and informed the artists’ processes to inquire into human agency.
Rehana Zaman composes anecdotes, vignettes and short stories drawn from specific socio-political contexts, as videos, performances and texts. Narratives are abstracted and carefully staged to examine how individuals and groups relate. Improvisation games, collaborative techniques and performance strategies drawn from political theatre (Dario Fo, The Theatre Workshop, Augusto Boal and Berthold Brecht) have been integrated into sessions leading towards the production of a video work. Like an Iron Maiden Trapped Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2010) and Iron Maiden (Ambridge), 2011 emerged from an ongoing interest in the impact of social structures on the self from familial relations to broader constructs around community and identity. Like an Iron Maiden… charts the conversation of a group of individuals in three acts. Situated in a blank dark space resembling an theatre stage, the characters are referring to each other only by initial and number while the group address three key issues: money, land and M. (one of the characters present).
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AFICIONADOS
SCREENINGS AT EL TERRARIO
25 de junio 2010
Lugar: Terrario.
Hora: 19.30 hs.
Precio: Free entrance.
Institución:
INTERMEDIAE
Espacio: Intermediae
On Friday 25 June, director Arturo Dueñas will premiere his documentary film Aficionados at the Terrario at Intermediæ, as the final event in the series Cruzando los márgenes: gente de a pie que sube a los escenarios (Crossing Borders: Ordinary People on Stage).
Aficionados, 2010 (Spain). Fiction. Director: Arturo Dueñas. Running time: 115’. Spanish. Premiere.
Aficionados of life… because life is not for professional: an unusual librarian, a successful executive, an elementary school teacher, a single mother, an Italian cook, a computer programming specialist… meet weekly to cultivate their favourite hobby. Aficionados is an experimental film created collectively in which the (non-professional) actors were chosen first and they created their own characters.
Arturo Dueñas (Valladolid, 1962) holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and a diploma in film, and is an actor and film and theatre director. His training in theatre was at the Aula de Teatro at the Universidad de Valladolid and the Centro de Investigación Actoral Espacio Abierto; he studied in the Master’s Degree Scriptwriting Programme at the Universidad de Salamanca and at a filmmaking course at the New York Film Academy. He directed the short films Run, Run, Run (2007) and Pucela Square(2008).
SCREENINGS AT EL TERRARIO presents videos, documentaries and films related to Intermediae programming. Offered in cine forum format on the last Friday of each month, the series invites audiences to a dialogue and debate with its creators.
Three young people transformed into master puppeteers for a day as they showcased their very own ‘scallywag puppet’ show to a group of primary school pupils from Strabane.
Overall eight young people on Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme were involved in the design, build, scriptwriting, sound and lighting, recording of voiceovers and puppeteer workshops over a three month period. On Tuesday March 11, Chantelle, Stephen and Amy on behalf of the young people involved performed their 30 minute puppet show to a group of Primary 4 pupils from St Mary’s Primary School.
The show, which tells the story of a bully, was based on some experiences of young people involved with the Give and Take Scheme, who felt it important to also explore what might be going on for a bully to make them act out in such a negative way.
Include Youth’s Give and Take Scheme supports young people aged 16 to 21 to improve their employability and increase in self-esteem and confidence. All young people involved in the Scheme need education, employment and training so projects such as this provide them with opportunities to learn new skills outside of their normal settings.
The Give and Take Scheme is supported by the European Social Fund (ESF) and Big Lotteries NI
If you would like to get in touch with Scallywags Puppets contact Paul on paul@scallywagpuppets.com or call 028 7188 0880.
For more information about the Give and Take Scheme visit www.includeyouth.org/giveandtake.
Being undeclared, I can take a wide variety of classes. In addition to classes like Scriptwriting and Sociology of Sport, I'm taking a 3D Art class. The first project shown is a model for an art park, and the next projects are all abstract, with some made of all natural materials focusing on pattern recognition, and the other based on works by Columbus-born artist Judith Scott.