Workshops

Eccentric Hat Making workshop Lexi Strauss

Malvern Cube

Date & Time: Sunday 10th November 1am - 4pm
Tickets: £10

A joyful hat making experience, designed to encourage clown-like expression via costuming.
From a wide range of recycled materials, participants will be guided to create their own unique, wearable headpieces to express authentic aspects of themselves.

We will briefly explore some clown performance techniques to help inspire the direction of our hat designs. And participants will bring with them a resonating, lightweight object/ objects, perhaps something both meaningful and fun, or possibly just something very beautiful to your eye, which you'd genuinely feel excited about wearing on top of your head in some form. These may, or may not, end up as part of the final creation.

Lexi is a multi-disciplinary artist, clown, art lecturer and facilitator. Clown Millinery forms a vital part of Lexi’s costuming practice, which includes their Clown Choir hats and Sheshayman’s dazzling Showgirl Shaman headpiece, in addition to many other pieces adorned by comic performers and fashionista’s alike.

Lexi last joined us at Feast in an Earthworm costume at Friday Night Bites in 2021.

For more information please contact Lexi: lexistrauss@hotmail.com
Tea and coffee will be available but please bring food and snacks for lunch

The Family Way A creative writing day led by Crave Arts

Malvern Priory

Date & Time: Tuesday 12th November 10am-4pm
Tickets: £12

'The Family Way' will be a creative writing day for writers of all disciplines. It's an opportunity to tell those who are closest to us, how we really feel about them. You can come alone or with that special person. The workshop will focus on different writing genres and look at ways in which literature can inspire us to find the right words for our loved ones.

There will be an opportunity to showcase work at The Priory on the 14th of November.
Led by Steve Wilson of Crave Arts

Open to writers of all disciplines. No previous experience needed. For more information please contact Steve at craveartsbusiness@gmail.com

Refreshments provided

Home Ed: “The Spirit of Nature” Workshop Araceli Cabrera Caceres

Malvern Cube

Date & Time: Thursday 14th November 10am-12pm
Tickets: £7

Araceli Cabrera Caceres is a Chilean-born, Bristol-based, independent creative practitioner, director, producer, scriptwriter, performer, dancer, shadow puppeteer, and found object theatre puppetry artist.

“The Spirit of Nature” is a workshop exploring how objects found in nature can create curious puppet creatures. Participants will learn how to bring them alive through the magic of their hands and the power of imagination.

Vocal Improvisation Introductory Workshop: The Song of Now

Ruana Xerri West

Malvern Cube

Date & Time: Friday 15th November: 10am-12.30pm
Tickets: £5 / £7 /£10 Sliding Scale

Would you like to experience singing in a completely different way? We will unleash your creativity, your bravery and your authentic voice in this 2.5 hour workshop. You will be guided in how to invent the song of now in small groups and experience the deep connection that comes with vocalising when fully present in the moment as a group. You will come away from this workshop with new skills and forms in vocalising that you'll want to keep trying again and again as it's different every time!

Take a glimpse of Ruana in action here.

Vocal Improvisation Performance Techniques: The Song of Now

Ruana Xerri West

Malvern Cube

Date & Time: Friday 15th November: 1pm-3pm
Tickets: Tickets: £5 / £7 /£10 Sliding Scale

Are you keen to dive deep into further exploration of vocal improvising? This workshop is for people keen to learn formats that allow us to step into the empty space and find our song of now. These are useful techniques for performance and there will be an opportunity to try out your new skills in the evening of FEAST Friday Night Bites performances.

The Return(Workshop) Natasha Stanic Mann

Lyttelton Rooms: 6 Church Street, Great Malvern

Date & Time: Saturday 16th November: 1pm-5pm (Includes ½ hour break)
Tickets: £5

Within the framework of ‘The Return’, a one-woman show about the intergenerational effects of war we developed a workshop based on the themes we are exploring in the piece - living through a war, leaving one’s country, and building a new life and a sense of belonging. Through drama games, improvisation and devising techniques, workshop participants get a taste of what goes into dramatising life experience. Participants work in groups and use stimuluses such as objects, images, or poems to devise stories and make performances.

This workshop provides a safe environment for the participants to take risks and try something new. It encourages participants to explore their creative potential and share stories. A collaborative nature of the workshop nurtures interpersonal skills, promotes teamwork, communication, and develops a sense of community.