Puppet Science and Fiction is an art event based around mathematics for students in the final years of high school. It will be based on Edwin A. Abbott’s book Flatland.
The event will encompass three mutually complementary parts: an art exhibition, a puppet show and a workshop. The art exhibition will introduce the geometric rules of the Flatland world to the students.
The puppet show will outline geometry through paper theatre. The solo performance will be a comedy on using power and authority. In a two-dimensional world, all is well: everything is flat and ideal. One day, ‘Square’, the main character, receives a message from the third dimension. The third dimension leads Square into an adventure that changes his shape and his world. Science fiction at its simplest!
The workshop will focus on the potential of the fourth dimension. Each participant will create his or her view on the fourth dimension through the eclectic use of various shapes and animation.
The project will be produced by the Wolf Sign Theatre and will be carried out by the Puppet Science and Fiction working group, which consists of professional artists from across the Southwest Finland region. The educational content for the workshop will be provided by puppet director and mathematics teacher Lars Wingård.
The show will be staged, by request, all over Finland on following days:
14.3., 21.3., 23.3., 24.3., 25.3., 26.4., 28.4., 2.5., 3.5., 3.10., 4.10., 5.10., 6.10., 7.10., 10.10., 11.10., 12.10., 13.10. ja 14.10.
Contact:
Tel. 041 723 0944
puppetsciencefiction(at)gmail.com
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