Young people create time travel puppets

The young people are working with Fullbeam Visual Theatre, a professional puppetry theatre company from Bristol, to make their own puppet characters to star in a play that they will write and perform to friends and family.

The theme of the week is ‘time travel’ and the young people will work together to make large-scale puppets, props and scenery. They will learn the skills needed to bring a puppet to life, including lip synching and improvisation.

The week at the Oakfield campus gives the young people the opportunity to try new activities in an informal and fun atmosphere.

They are also able to find out about life at university from undergraduate students who help at the workshops.

The events are organised by the University’s Broadening Participation Team and priority for places is given to young people from families with little or no experience of university.

This is the fourth year of Creative Art Weeks at the Oakfield campus. In May the University ran its first Creative Arts & Advice Week for adult carers.

The Creative Arts Weeks are free of charge and take place at the University of Bath in Swindon’s Oakfield Campus, Marlowe Avenue. Activities run from 10am to 4pm.-University of Bath