Folded Feather newsletter March 2021

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Suitcase Circus online! View this email in your browser SHARE JOY Roll Up! Roll Up! Roll Up! The extraordinary Suitcase Circus is happening inside your home this Sunday 28th March at 11am(GMT). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cpZQcQAdvw Generously supported by the wonderful Little Angel Theatre as part of their Digital Puppetry Shorts programme. Created and Performed by Oliver Smart with Rahel Meyer on the Accordion Follow Spot- Kim Scopes DOP- Alexander Michaelis Production Assistant- Kimberley Mirren Filmed at Studio Kix London www.foldedfeather.com   Copyright © 2016 Folded Feather, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Folded Feather Unit 35 Cromwell Industrial Estate Staffa Road London E10 7QZ UK  unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences  *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*

Folded Feather newsletter August 2019

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Imago - A dragonfly in motion at the London Design Festival View this email in your browser Imago - A dragonfly in motion at the London Design Festival Circus Gallery is hosting a series of  events in September to compliment Oliver Smart's celebration of the dragonfly. In conversation with a dragonfly This event uses Imago - A dragonfly in motion to explore the play between science and art.    Panellists Dr. Benjamin Price, Senior Curator in Charge of Small Orders, Natural History Museum. Dr. Huai-Ti Lin, Principle Investigator, Lecturer in Neural Engineering and Bio-robotics, Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering. Dr. Katy Barrett, Curator of Art Collections, the Science Museum, London. Oliver Smart, Artist, Puppetry Specialist, Designer, Communicator. Director Folded Feather. Chairperson Dilys Maltby, senior partner at Circus, which is the home of Circus Gallery and where the exhibition Imago - A dragonfly in motion is currently taking place until 21st November 2019. Thursday 19th September 6:30pm - 8:30pm St Marylebone School, followed by drinks and conversation at Circus Gallery. Booking Link (The event is free of charge but does require pre-booking) Imago: A movement masterclass with Oliver Smart The creation of Dragonfly - Imago will be exploited as a tool to uncover how the medium of puppetry can be employed within mechanical prototyping, design and animation. Oliver’s process treats the subject within nature as a complex, mechanical/poetic text which through annotated observation and physical expression will allow a dynamic shifting essence of itself to be communicated. The considerations of interface, communication and empathy have been rooted at the centre of puppetry practise for many thousands of years. The object is liberated from the functional and in this freedom can express life. Saturday 21 September 10am - 1pm Circus Gallery, 58 Marylebone High St, London, W1U 5HT Booking Link   www.foldedfeather.com www.oliversmart.net Tweet Forward Copyright © 2016 Folded Feather, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Folded Feather Carvall Showroom Bernard Works Bernard Road London N15 4NE UK  unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences  *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*

Folded Feather newsletter June 2019

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Dragonfly - Imago, MRI Space Shuttle, Hot Chip "Spell" View this email in your browser IDEAS MOVING IDEAS Imago - A dragonfly in motion This exhibition of Oliver Smart's work celebrates the exquisite wonder of the dragonfly. Circus Gallery, W1U 5HT, on now until 26th September. The exhibition will feature within The London Design Festival 2019 with a series of events including a masterclass and a panel discussion on the connectivity between Art and Science. MRI Space Shuttle Our collaboration with Eva Loth (Senior Lecturer in Psychology) at the Sackler Institute of Translational Neurodevelopment, Kings College London, goes from strength to strength; with the workshop busy creating four more of our MRI Space Shuttle environments as a central component for a future pan-European study into the brain development of pre-school children on the Autism spectrum. Puppet Psychotherapy Murmerations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice has published online a film interview between the Systemic Psychotherapist Mark Huhnen and some of our most colourful characters. They discuss their relationship to themselves, their audiences and reveal how they understand their existence. Hot Chip "Spell" We jumped at another opportunity to work with director Simon Owens, this time by coordinating the puppetry and object animation for this piece of music-video-art where a bedroom comes to life in malevolence towards a couple with romantic intentions. Artist - Hot Chip Director - Simon Owens Producer - Georgia Rose Puppeteers - Oliver Smart, Choe Purcell, Oliver Hymans. Cast - Rose Lucas, Mattia Sonnino www.foldedfeather.com   Tweet Forward Copyright © 2016 Folded Feather, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Folded Feather Carvall Showroom Bernard Works Bernard Road London N15 4NE UK  unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences  *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*