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A new small-scale, ethnographic study published in the American Educational Research Journal explores when and how undocumented students decide to discuss their citizenship status.

Elementary school-aged students are often acutely aware of their immigration status-and it affects how and when they participate in school activities, Rutgers University researcher Ariana Mangual Figueroa found in her exploration of how educators can best serve students who are undocumented or have parents who are.

An assistant professor of language education in Rutgers' Graduate School of Education, Figueroa sought to challenge the assumption that most children are unaware of their citizenship status until adolescence.

Through her examination of transcripts documenting classroom interactions and reviews of writing samples, Figueroa-a former New York City English-as-a-second-language and Spanish teacher-profiled a set of 5th grade students at a Brooklyn-based school were more than 90 percent of students are Latino and nearly half are classified as English-language learners. She observed students from January through June 2014 in classrooms where social studies and social-emotional learning were taught.

Two students identified by the pseudonyms Ruth and Lupe were the focal point of the study. Both were born in Latin America and entered the United States as undocumented immigrants.

While Ruth had obtained her green card since coming to the United States from El Salvador, Lupe-and her parents-are Mexican-born and remained undocumented

As a result, Ruth felt more confident sharing her immigrant status, going so far as to sharing her border-crossing experience. Lupe often declined to participate in classroom activities that risked disclosing her immigration status. Figueroa cited Lupe's reluctance-she was otherwise a socially and intellectually involved student-as evidence of the protective stance she took when topics of legal citizenship arose.

The study also makes the case that aiming to protect the rights of undocumented students by avoiding any discussion of their status during the enrollment process, schools often overlook the obvious: students will likely disclose, intentionally or unintentionally, during their schooling.

"We bear a particular responsibility to better prepare educators who can support their immigrant students, regardless of their legal status," Figueroa wrote in her study's conclusion.

As a first step, she recommends developing training that helps teachers move from a nonexistent or individual attempts at supporting undocumented students to "intentional advocacy across the students' educational trajectories."

Here's a link to the abstract of the study, "Speech or Silence: Undocumented Students' Decision to Disclose or Disguise Their Citizenship Status in School."

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A new small-scale, ethnographic study published in the American Educational Research Journal explores when and how undocumented students decide to discuss their citizenship status. Elementary school-aged students are often acutely aware of their immigration status-and it affects how and when they participate in school activities, Rutgers University researcher Ariana Mangual Figueroa found in her exploration of how educators can best serve students who are undocumented or have parents who are.

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South African police have used stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannon to try to disperse anti-immigration protesters in the capital, Pretoria, and keep them from foreign nationals who had gathered to express alarm about recent attacks.

A police official said 136 people had been arrested in the past 24 hours.

Resentment against foreign nationals has sometimes turned deadly amid accusations that they take jobs from locals in a country where unemployment is more than 25%. Others are blamed for drug-dealing and other crimes.

In 2015, anti-immigrant riots in and around the city of Durban left at least six people dead. About 60 people were killed in similar violence seven years earlier.

On Friday protesters in Pretoria marched towards the foreign ministry, some carrying sticks or pipes. A petition was handed to the ministry in which they suggested the government teach immigrants to "speak properly". The petition added: "They are arrogant and they don't know how to talk to people, especially Nigerians,."

The Nelson Mandela Foundation criticised authorities for "giving permission for a march of hatred".

"We don't have hate! We don't have hate!" one foreign national was recorded as shouting in a video posted by local broadcaster eNCA.

A statement issued by President Jacob Zuma's office said South Africans should not blame all crime on foreign nationals. It cited recent reports of violence in Pretoria and hate speech on social media.

"Many citizens of other countries living in South Africa are law abiding and contribute to the economy of the country positively," Zuma said. "It is wrong to brandish all non-nationals as drug dealers or human traffickers."

Amnesty International accused the authorities of failing to "address toxic populist rhetoric that blames and scapegoats refugees and migrants".

Zuma said South Africans were not xenophobic, and he called on everyone, citizens and non-citizens, to work together to combat the high crime rate.

The periodic backlash against foreign nationals has hurt the tolerant image the country has tried to present since the end of apartheid almost a quarter of a century ago.

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Police say that more than 130 people have been arrested in the past 24 hours. Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA

Despite high unemployment, South Africa is one of Africa's largest economies and remains a draw for people across the continent. Businesses run by Somalis, Ethiopians and others are often targeted in anti-foreigner protests.

Amid the anti-immigrant sentiment, government data shows the number of foreign-born people in South Africa has declined. A report (pdf) last year said the number of foreign-born people fell from 2.2 million in 2011 to 1.6m. South Africa has a population of more than 55 million.

Zuma's statement on Friday acknowledged complaints about companies that hire what it described as "illegal immigrants", saying the foreign office would crack down on all employers who "continue with this practice, which is dangerous as it pits locals against non-nationals".
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Red Leap Theatre from New Zealand will be bringing a new theatre adaptation of Shaun Tan's book The Arrival to the Sydney Festival in January. I love the look of what I can see in this video of highlights, in particular the aesthetic feel and muted colours, the puppets and the imagery.

(photo credit: Robin Kerr)

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I saw the adaptation of The Arrival by Spare Parts Pupppet Theatre at the Unima 2008 Puppetry Festival in Fremantle. It has gone on to win a number of awards, and recently had a season at the World Puppetry Festival in Charleville Mezieres, France. I felt the strength of that production was in the projected animations and digital imagery, and that the story line and emotional content had been simplified for a very young audience. I hope Red Leap's production will be able to tap further into the richness and drama that the book holds.

Previously: Shaun Tan

Tagged: puppetry, puppets, red leap theatre, shaun tan, spare parts puppet theatre, the arrival

InFrame.tv has produced a great 5 minute documentary with Shaun Tan which offers an introductory glimpse at the work-in-progress on his short animated adaptation of The Lost Thing. It includes little (unfinished) animation clips, and aspects of designing and directing the work. On his website Shaun also writes about his involvement and includes some interesting new sketches and models. I noted the film in 2005, so it is exciting that it is expected to be finished this August!

The film, by Passion Pictures, will be 15 minutes long, and uses CGI with 2D handpainted elements. I'm interested in the comments about achieving rich textures, as they are so much part of the illustrations, and CGI is often so disappointingly smooth and shiny.

I'm happy to see a new book, too: Tales from Outer Suburbia.

I worked on the puppets for Jigsaw Theatre Company's production of The Lost Thing a few years ago, so you will find numerous related previous posts here:

The Lost Thing
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Also: The Lost Thing website

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Following on from yesterday's post about the puppet-based theatre adaptation of Shaun Tan's picture book, The Red Tree, today I discovered that Spare Parts Puppet Theatre's adaptation of Shaun's new book, The Arrival, had just finished it's season in Perth. The production, which The Australian gives a rave review, uses digital animation, puppetry and acting, and is visual theatre:

'The absence of words not only makes the story perfect for puppetry but emphasizes the isolation that is experienced by many people arriving in a new place.'

Although The Arrival book doesn't come out until October, there is an online preview, in which you can see some of the pages, and read Shaun's detailed description. It looks wonderful - a 128 page book of illustrations without words, a
silent graphic novel, arranged and presented rather like a photo album, which can be interpreted rather like a silent film. 'Through a series of connecting images, it tells the story of an anonymous migrant leaving some unfortunate
circumstances in his home country, crossing an ocean to a strange new city, and learning how to live here.'

The Lost Thing, another Tan book that was made into puppet theatre by Jigsaw Theatre Company here in Canberra a few years ago, and for which I made puppets, has been touring since, and is due to have a season in Melbourne this November at the Arts Centre.

I also came across some photos at Flickr of a Shaun Tan mural at the Subiaco Library in Perth.

Update:
Talking Squid's review by Russell B. Farr

Links updated 2015

Posted in: Tagged: art, books, illustration, puppetry, puppets, shaun tan, spare parts puppet theatre, the arrival books, illustration, puppetry, puppets, review, theatre

Shaun Tan now has his own website. It looks relatively new. It's great to see a number of illustrations under each picture book listing, and read his thoughtful and friendly commentary. I was also delighted to see some images from the puppetry-based theatre production of The Red Tree, which was produced as part of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's 'Out of the Box' festival for children in 2004. I had heard about this wonderful fish puppet on the grapevine. There are also some in-theatre pictures of some of our puppets for Jigsaw Theatre's production of The Lost Thing.

One project that was unknown to me before, is Here are drawings of the Aquasapiens. Tan was commissioned by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre in Fremantle, WA, to design large-scale puppets for a street theatre event as part of the 2005 Perth International Arts Festival. The director was Philip Mitchell, the puppet maker Jiri Zmitko and sound designer/composer Lee Buddle. These creatures are fabulous! Yellow Naut' and 'Shrimpy'. I also love this.

Aquasapiens is going to be available to perform at schools from February 27 to March 10. part of the Adelaide Fringe in February and March, and is

Apparently Spare Parts will also be adapting another of Tan's books, The Arrival, which is about migration and is due to be published in April.

updated links 2015

Posted in: Tagged: books, aquasapiens, puppetry, puppets, shaun tan, spare parts puppet theatre illustration, puppetry, puppets, street theatre

The scandal in the US is making me recall the unravelling in The Bonfire of the Vanities. Great book! #

A nice interview with Shaun Tan: http://t.co/WDoiQgY An adaptation of his The Red Tree by Barking Gecko at Subiaco Arts Centre in July. #

A new Australian puppet festival: Tarrengower Puppetfest in Maldon, Victoria, 9 - 12 March 2012. Richard Hart is the artistic director. #

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This is the trailer for the short animated film adaptation of Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing which is now released and reeling in awards! It looks great, doesn't it? I also like the design of the official website, and Shaun's account of the process.

Screen Hub reports that producer Sophie Byrne has also 'optioned the rights to The Arrival and The Rabbits via Passion Pictures Australia, and Tales from Outer Suburbia is a co-development with the UK. They are currently in discussions with US production companies for The Arrival and Tales from Outer Suburbia to be adapted into feature films, whereas The Rabbit s is likely to be made as a short here in Australia with Shaun directing.'

I also hear on the grapevine that Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is working on an adaptation of Tales from Outer Suburbia!

Previously:

Links and brief notes about the puppetry community in Australia.

This is an idiosyncratic list, and I'm just compiling it as I get time, noting some I need to get back to. The info in brackets is where the people or companies are based, and roughly when companies started. Some companies tend to use puppetry when it suits, rather than being wholly focused on puppetry. In the sidebar I'm experimenting with tracking Australian puppetry news on Twittter. Do let me know if I've got things wrong or if you are listed but don't want to be.

Australasian Drama Studies Vol 51, Oct 2007 Edited by Geoffrey Milne. Issue dedicated to puppetry in Australia, see contents and ordering back copies.

ArtPlay (2004, Melbourne) Australia's only creative arts centre for children up to the age of 13 and their families. ArtPlay follows in the tradition of the Ark in Dublin Ireland, and is owned and operated by the City of Melbourne, and located at Birrarung Marr, behind Federation Square. ArtPlay fosters puppetry through PuppetLab and other ventures, and offers grants to artists working in varying artforms to become involved.

Anna Parry (Melbourne) Shadow puppet maker. Working with Stories from the Ground and Splitpin Limbs.

AboutFace Productions. (Melbourne) Tim Denton and Annie Forbes

Adam Elliot (Melbourne) Stop motion animator best known for his Academy Award winning short Harvie Krumpet and his feature film Mary & Max.

Al Martinez Studios (2001 - 2010, Melbourne) Maker extraordinaire Al Martinez and friends. Al headed up the making of the 2000 Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies, as well as those for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

Aphids (1994, Melbourne) Artist-led, project-driven and not-for-profit, Aphids undertakes cross-artform projects usually involving contemporary music, international cross-cultural exchanges and collaborations.

Anita Sinclair (Victoria) Anita's book The Puppetry Handbook is a useful basic resource for makers and teachers.

Arena Theatre Company (1966, Melbourne) Artistic director Chris Kohn. Creating inspiring live performances that have a genuine dialogue with young audiences.

Asphyxia (Melbourne) independent puppeteer and maker known especially for her marionette show The Grimstones.

Alex Axelrad (Victoria) Retired puppet designer and maker, and puppeteer. (Lamont Puppets). Maker of Ossie (Ozzie?) Ostrich.

Balderdash Puppets (Brisbane)

Bananas in Pyjamas One of the most popular and enduring children's TV programs with pre-schoolers in Australia. Made by the ABC, exported to 70 or more countries.

Barking Gecko Theatre Company (1991, Perth)

Barking Spider Theatre (2006, Melbourne) An independent original visual theatre company, Barking Spider aims to challenge and enrich audiences of all ages through a combination of visual and performing art forms, such as puppetry, music and live performance. They draw in numerous freelance artists.

Beverley Campbell-Jackson. Puppet designer and maker, one of the founders of Spare Parts. Designed and knitted the puppets for the 1980's ABC TV series Blinky Bill.

Big West Festival (1997, Melbourne) Cutting edge multiform art festival held biennially for 10 days in November.

Black Hole Theatre (1993, Melbourne) Black Hole is committed to cutting edge visual, object and puppet theatre. The company aims to engage, extend and disrupt imagination, and it's adult productions are bold, often comic, dark, and always surprising. Rod Primrose, Nancy Black

Book Nook (Toowoomba, QL) Specialist performing arts bookshop run by Mary and Joe Sutherland. Mary worked with Handspan, and was a prolific puppet maker in the 90's.

Born in a Taxi (1989, Melbourne) Original work for art festivals, street theatre festivals, performance seasons, organisations and corporate events.

Bottled Theatre (2008, Brisbane) Contemporary puppetry, theatre, and performance making. @FB.

Boy Reporter (Sydney) Animation company creating unique and irreverent stories and characters, specializing in stop-motion. Founded by producer/animator Mick Elliott.

Bryan Woltjen (WA) Multi art-form designer and theatrical consultant.

Bryony Anderson (NSW) Puppet designer and maker

Camp Quality Puppets Using puppets to help and teach children to become more aware of the need to be caring and supportive of children who have cancer.

Carouselle Theatre Company (1985 - 1997, Adelaide) SA's major puppetry company at the time. Polish founders; Wojciech Pisarek director.

Carrousel Theatre (1994, Melbourne) Encouraging the study of French, Italian and German language through puppetry

Catherine Roach (NSW/ACT) Puppet director and puppeteer.

Cecile Williams (WA) Visual artist, including theatre, costume and puppet design and making

Chantale Delrue (Tasmania) Artist and maker. Makes giant puppets for performance and festivals.

Company Gongoma (Melbourne) West African music, puppets and dance. Shadow puppets. Artistic director Jenny Ellis

Community Rites (Qld - Noosa region) Multi-media art events, installations and performances synthesised through interaction between artists and the communities. Leisa Gillham, Tamara Kirby and Ali Bates.

Corporate Creatures (2009, Sydney) Gary Friedman takes puppetry into the corporate world, using muppets for innovative communication, entertainment and marketing in business.

Creature Technology Company (2005?, Melbourne) Large animatronic workshop making puppetry on a massive scale: cutting edge animatronics, new standards of realism and fluid movement, huge arena spectaculars. Known for Walking with Dinosaurs Live! Sonny Tilders, Philip Millar

Dave Jones (Natimuk, Victoria) Puppetmaker, puppeteer, sculptor, animator.

David Morgan (NSW) Puppet maker and puppeteer

Dead Puppet Society (Brisbane) Australian gothic theatre. Their productions incorporate puppetry, shadow work and live performance to create immersive worlds where the mythic sits alongside the macabre. @FB

Dream Puppets (Melbourne) Puppet theatre company presenting brilliantly visual productions to audiences of all ages. Dream Puppets is know for their whimsical Dreamer Trilogy and black light theatre. Richard Hart and Julia Davis.

Doogles (Illawarra region, NSW)

Ella Misso (Melbourne) Maker, costumer

Enemies of Reality (Canberra) Film and video production company, specialising in music videos, short films and animation. Presently working on the stop motion production Tegan the Vegan. Marissa Martin.

erth Visual and Physical (1990's, Sydney) Produces original live theatre and eye popping visual experiences including giant puppetry, stilt-walkers, inflatable environments, aerial and flying creatures; festivals, communities and cultural institutions like museums. Scott Wright, Steve Howarth, Sharon Kerr.

Festive Factory (Woodend, Victoria) Specializes in roaming entertainment acts, family shows, and workshops.

Finegan Kruckemeyer (Tas) Playwright, works with Slingsby Theatre Company; wrote The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy.

Fleur Elise Noble (Adelaide?) Director/creator of visual-based theatre experiences which include drawing, animation, puppetry. @YouTube

Foley Bergere (1995, Fremantle, WA) Joanne Foley

Footlice Theatre Company (1986, Newcastle) David Harrison. @FB

Gary Friedman (Melbourne) Puppeteer, performer, director and producer for live theatre, educational theatre and television. Gary trained with Jim Henson and runs regular workshops in puppetry for TV and film which include learning how to make and puppeteer muppet-style puppets. His other projects include Corporate Creatures, a documentary feature film called Looking for a Monster, (based on an original puppet play written by a young boy in a concentration camp in 1943), and his blog.

Gabrielle Griffin (Adelaide) Puppeteer

Gilly McInnes (Melbourne) Writer, director, performer and dramaturge

Graeme Davis Puppet designer and maker. Does the wonderfully ghastly Mr Texta spoof of Mr Squiggle.

Grandan Puppets

Greg McKee's Wildthings Animatronics (including pics of inside of the sheep from Babe)

Greg Methe (Tasmania) Designer and maker

Handspan Theatre (1977 - 2002, Melbourne) Australia's most influential and widely regarded puppet company during its time. Founded by Ken Evans, Andrew Hansen, Helen Rickards, Maeve Vella, Peter J. Wilson and Christine Woodcock.

Heath McIvor Puppeteer and performer.

Hilary Talbot (ACT) Maker; me.

Imogen Keen (Canberra) Designer, puppet and costume maker

Ingrid Maganov (NSW) Puppet designer, maker, puppeteer/actor (?)

Jarrod Boutcher (Qld) Puppet maker, muppet style.

Jennifer Pfeiffer (Melbourne) Freelance dramaturge and writer with interests in cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural puppetry work.

Jessica Wilson Freelance puppetry director; conceives, produces and directs theatre events including large-scale spectacle, community cultural development projects, and in-theatre works.

Jiri Zmitko (WA) Designer and puppet maker with Spare Parts. Expert maker of carved wooden puppets.

John Cox Creature Workshop (Brisbane) Internationally acclaimed leader in the design and manufacture of fantasy creatures, monsters and realistic animals. John received the 1995 Academy Award for Visual Effects for the movie Babe. His student information tips pdf is worth reading.

Jonathon Oxlade (Brisbane) Theater designer and illustrator, also designs and makes puppets. Performs with The Escapists.

Kassandra Boswell (Sydney) Sculptor; puppet designer and maker

Katrina Gaskell (Melbourne) Designer and maker

Ken Evans

Ken Harper (Melbourne) Punch and Judy

Kite Studio (Sydney)

Kim Moyes

kneeHIGH (1995, Adelaide) Giant puppets, custom made images and visual spectacle. Tony Hannan and Emma O'Neill.

Krinkl Theatre (1999, Kyogle, NSW) Lara Cruikshank and Padi Bolliger @FB

Lana Schwarcz Grandpa Sol and Grandma Rose. @MySpace

Larissa Deak (Brisbane) Puppeteer; shadow puppets

Lemony S (Melbourne) Sarah Kriegler and Jacob Williams. Puppetry to disarm the audience and go deep to the core of what it is to be human - to attach meaning to symbols and signs, to empathize and to access the innate human ability to "suspend one's disbelief".

Lenka's Puppets (Sydney) Lenka Muchova

Lismore Lantern Parade (1994, Lismore, NSW) Held annually in June. @FB

Mal Heap (Berowra, NSW) Puppeteer. Modigliani the Cat in The Ferals and Creature Features, Ollie (first Australian Sesame Street muppet), Waffle for Christian ministry. Retrospective

Mana Puppets

Matthew McCoy (Sydney) Puppetry director and puppeteer. Walking with Dinosaurs Live, Farscape

Matt McVeigh (WA) Visual artist, designer - stage productions and community arts programs

Men of Steel (Melbourne) Anarchic object theatre and comedy in the kitchen, workplace and now icecream van. New show is called Mr. Freezy (with Arena Theatre Company). Puppeteers Hamish Fletcher, Tamara Rewse, Stephen Noonan, and sound designer Jared Lewis.

Mixed Media Productions

Monkey Baa Theatre (1997, Sydney) Started by Tim McGarry, Sandie Eldridge and Eva Di Cesare. Outstanding theatre for young people. @FB

Mothers Art (1983, Melbourne) Unique design and construction facility servicing the diverse requirements of zoos, tourism attractions, public art, theatre arts and the architectural industry.

Murphy's Puppets (Sydney) Wide repertoire of comedy, including Allenby's Famous Flea Circus; educational programs and Commedia dell'Arte puppetry. Dennis Murphy.

Murray Raine Puppets (Sydney) Puppet cabaret with spectacular and outrageous marionettes, rod and glove puppets. Murray Raine.

My Darling Patricia (2003, Melbourne - Sydney) My Darling Patricia creates arresting, intimate, visual theatre, drawing inspiration from the epic visuals of Robert Wilson and Romeo Castellucci and the animation of Jan Svankmajer. Clare Britton, Bridget Dolan, Katrina Gill, Halcyon Macleod and Sam Routledge.

Nati Frinj (Natimuk, Victoria) Puppetry on the wheat silos!

Nel Simpson (Fremantle, WA) aerialist, part of Bizircus and Swerve arts

Noriko Nishimoto (Japan-Australia; WA) Distinguished puppetry teacher, puppeteer, director, designer and writer. Associated with Spare Parts until 2002.

Norman Hetherington. Creator of Mr Squiggle and friends and upside-down squiggles.

Nick Hilligoss (Melbourne) Stop motion animator and director

Nigel Triffit Director, designer, writer. 'Of the many outstanding individual contributors to the development of puppetry and visual theatre in Australia over the past thirty years, none stands out more than Nigel Triffit' - Peter J. Wilson in The Space Between (see below). Created Momma's Little Horror Show, Secrets, the Tap Dogs, the Eternity tap section of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, and others. Died July 20, 2012.

One Van International Puppet Festival (Blackheath, NSW) In 2010 One Van will be on the weekend beginning 1 May.

Passion Pictures (Melbourne) Presently working on a short CGI film of Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing

Patch Theatre Company (1972, Adelaide) Artistic director Dave Brown. Distinctive and accessible performance for children four to eight years.

Peepshow Inc (early 2000's, Melbourne) Image based theatre that blurs the line between imagination and magic, puppets and possibility. Core group plus collaboration with others. Artistic director Melinda Hetzel. FaceBook fan page.

Pelican Puppets (1992, Tasmania) Sean Manners

Peter J. Wilson (Melbourne) Master puppeteer, director, writer. Founder and head of the Victorian College of the Arts post-graduate puppetry course which ran from 2004 -2009. Author of The Space Between : The Art of Puppetry and Visual Theatre in Australia.

Peter L. Wilson

Philip Millar (Melbourne) Puppeteer, puppet maker and designer, head of fabrication at Creature Technology Company.

Pocketfool Productions Intimate, exciting, age-specific works for children, celebrating the power of play.

Polyglot Puppets (Melbourne) Sue Giles artistic director.

Pooka Puppet Company (Adelaide) contemporary theatre based puppetry works, with an emphasis on exploring the boundaries of the medium. Lachlan Haig, Ninian Donald

Preston's Historic Punch and Judy (Adelaide) Keith Preston

Pupperoos (Sydney) Kay Yasugi, puppeteer and puppet maker

Puppetease Ross Browning. Ross was the puppeteer of Blinky Bill in the 1980's ABC TV series Blinky Bill.

PuppetOOdle (NSW/ACT) Duo of Marianne Mettes and Jonathan Mettes; puppetry and music for children's entertainment and education. FB

Puppet Palace (2007, Adelaide) Annual event during the Adelaide Fringe. Keith Preston and Lachlan Haig

Puppetry Australia

Puppets in Melbourne (Melbourne) Naomi Guss.

Purple Capsicum Puppets (2008, Melbourne) Puppet shows and workshops for children of all ages; festivals and events. An offshoot of The indirect Object.

Rachael Wenona Guy (Melbourne) Puppeteer, maker, visual artist, singer, writer, theatre maker. Blog

Raymond Crowe Self-described unusualist, hand shadow puppetry

Reckless Moments (Shanghai) Barry Plews and Hu He. International multi-artform collaborations and coproductions. In 2009-10 collaborating with Terrapin Puppet Theatre on digital puppetry for When the Pictures Came.

Richard Bradshaw (NSW) Master shadow puppeteer.

Richard Jeziorny (Melbourne) Designer

Richard Mueck Sculptor and puppeteer in the film industry

Rob Matson (Melbourne?) Puppet maker and designer

Rod Hull and Emu Rod Hull developed his emu act in Australia in the 1960's before returning to his native England. Emu was mute and anarchic, famous for his attack on Michael Parkinson and others.

Ron Mueck (London) Hyperrealist sculptor, began as a model maker and puppeteer in TV and film

Ross Hill (d. 1991) Master puppeteer and maker. Worked widely in Australia then at Jim Henson's Creature Shop in the 1980s, including on The Labyrinth. There is a Ross Hill puppet collection in Mildura.

Rubbery Figures Australian political satire from 1984-1990, created for TV by cartoonist and sculptor Peter Nicholson. Highlight videos. Australia's version of Splitting Image.

Sanctum Theatre (Melbourne) Visual performance company. Lachlan Plain @FB

Sandpiper Productions. (WA) Sandy McKendrick.

School Performance Tours

Sean Kenan Hand shadow puppets

Shan Jayaweera puppeteer

Skite Vikingr AUSTRALIA Tamara Rewse

Slingsby Theatre Company (Adelaide) Crafting sophisticated, emotionally complex and original theatre productions for audiences aged ten through adulthood. Andy Packer (Artistic Director) and Jodi Glass (Executive Producer) and three key creative collaborators, Finegan Kruckemeyer (playwright), Quincy Grant (composer) and Geoff Cobham (designer). @FB

Snuff Puppets (1992, Melbourne) Giant puppet company, creating visceral and accessible theatrical experiences for their audiences. Trademark elements: a blackly dangerous humour, an incisive political satire, shamelessly handmade visual aesthetic; populist, free, joyous conflagration of art, audience and artist. @Flickr, @FB. Andy Freer, Pauline Cady

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre (Fremantle, WA) Philip Mitchell artistic director @FB

Splitpins Limbs (Melbourne) An offshoot of Stories from the Ground, now its own entity. Shadow puppets. Stephen Mushin, Sarita Ryan, Emily Smith, Anna Nilsson, Raku Pitt and others

Sticky Apple Legs (Melbourne)

Stories from the Ground Shadow Puppet Collective (Melborne) Stephen Mushin and friends. Micro-theatre shadow puppet troupe, I'll forget You music video and associated live performances on Shadows and Light Tour 2009 with musician Lior.

Stuck Pigs Squealing Theatre (2000, Melbourne) Apocalypse Bear Trilogy

Stuffed Puppet (Amsterdam - Australia) master puppeteer Neville Tranter

Sue Harris Puppets (Adelaide)

Swerve Association

Sydney Puppet Theatre (1984, Sydney) Sue Wallace and Steve Coupe. Theatre of delight for family audiences: shadow, hand and rod and marionettes. From 1998 - 2005 they directed the One Van International Puppetry Festival in the Blue Mountains.

Terrapin Theatre Company (1981, Hobart, after Tasmanian Puppet and Marionette Theatre which was founded in 1970). Creating contemporary puppet theatre by using digital technologies in the animation of characters and the theatrical space .

The Escapists (Brisbane) Performance collective offering a highly stylised and hybridised form of populist entertainment, drawing on an anarchic attitude to bring a startling and adventurous approach to theatre making. Jonathon Oxlade, Matthew Ryan, Lucas Stibbard and Neridah Waters and guests. The Attack of the Attacking Attackers.

The Puppeteers(Mabel and Maude)Parody video series. @Facebook

Theatre of Image (1988, Sydney) TOI is an advocate for young people and their families. Through the vision of the Artistic Director, Kim Carpenter, Theatre of Image tells Australian and universal stories to our young people as much through visual and musical images as through words.

Theatre of the Sun (Railton, Tas) Marie-Martine Ferrari and Fabian Billerwell. Marie-Martine co-founded Skylark Theatre in Canberra in 1984.

The Indirect Object (Melbourne) 'We believe puppetry and object theatre are sophisticated artforms for adult and youth audiences alike. Through collaboration, we develop new work, assist other companies to integrate puppetry or object theatre into their performance projects, fabricate puppets for our work, and on commission, and provide workshops in puppet fabrication and manipulation'.

The People's Republic of Animation (Adelaide) Innovative studio dedicated to creating outstanding animation for all screens and formats. @YouTube @twitter

The Space Between : The Art of Puppetry and Visual Theatre in Australia Indispensable book detailing the art of puppetry and visual theatre in Australia over the last half decade, written by Peter J Wilson and Geoffrey Milne. Published by Currency Press.

Tipsy Teacup Productions creates mesmerising installation theatre that is like all remembered conversations over a cuppa: insightful, poignant, resonating and special. @FB

UNIMA Australia Our fellowship, the Australian branch of the international puppetry organization Union Internationale de la Marionnette

Upatree Arts (Qld) Collective producing community celebrations through puppetry, arts events, giant parade and lantern puppetry. @FB

Vanessa Ellis (Melbourne) Puppet maker and performer/puppeteer

Victorian College of the Arts Post Graduate Diploma and Masters in Puppetry This course, the only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, produced a swag of innovative puppetry practitioners from 2004 - 2009, when sadly it was closed in the merger of the VCA with Melbourne University. Save the VCA.

Weeping Spoon Productions (Perth, WA) Theatre company formed by a group of young artists who found a common ground in creating exciting, vibrant, and relevant performances. In particular Tim Watts's The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer. @FB

Wes Champion (NSW) Puppet maker/designer. Specializing in carved wooden puppets.

Windmill Performing Arts (Adelaide) @FB

Wojciech Pisarek (Adelaide) Puppet theatre director and digital artist. One of the founders of Carouselle Theatre Company, now teaches and researches real time performance with digital puppetry at Flinders Drama Centre.

Woodford Folk Festival (Qld) Held at the turn of each year @FB

Y Space (Natimuk, Vic) Project based performance art involving rockclimbers, dancers and puppetry to create work in unusual and high places.

When I was at the Puppetry Summit, Richard Jeziorny was kind enough to show me a video of the puppet-based theatre production of The Red Tree, by Shaun Tan, which was part of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's 'Out of the
Box' festival for children in June 2004. It was one of the highlights of the weekend for me. Richard's design was absolutely beautiful, and it was a real treat to experience one of Peter Wilson's works again; these guys make such wonderful theatrical images. The puppets were made by Marion Hoad and Christopher Lane. Shaun has a description and photos on his website, to give you some idea of the magic. Thanks, Richard!

(My attendance at the puppetry summit was supported by the ACT Government)

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Vladimir Gvozdariki is a Russian artist who makes whimsical figures, animations and images. Some are pleasing in their simplicity, but I particularly like his complicated drawings of mechanized animal structures. They are in numerous places in his galleries, like here, here and here and here. I also like how some, like this fish, have made the transition from drawing to sculpture. I could imagine them being used theatrically, and some aspects -the whimsy and the technical details - remind me of some of Shaun Tan's creatures in The Lost Thing.

I also like Gvozdariki's interest in snails and miniature worlds. How would you like to live here?

(via the wonderful BibliOdessy)

Posted in: animation, art, automata, creatures, illustration, make, sculpture

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Search Results for "Shaun Tan" - Spirits Dancing

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Red Leap Theatre from New Zealand will be bringing a new theatre adaptation of Shaun Tan's book The Arrival to the Sydney Festival in January. I love the look of what I can see in this video of highlights, in particular the aesthetic feel and muted colours, the puppets and the imagery.

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Here in the US, there's been a lot of talk recently on immigration. The debate is raging over President Obama's new series of executive actions that will grant up to 5 million undocumented immigrants protection from deportation. Naturally, this kind of boldness has created quite the ruckus, as his opponents insist he has gone too far. And outside of Washington DC, discussions over immigration are just as heated.

Freedom of speech is one of the most important aspects of our constitution, and lively discourse is the only way to arrive at a thoughtful conclusion. But, how can we talk about these types of issues if we don't have the facts? For this reason, let's take a look at some of the reasons why different groups of people choose to immigrate.
1. To escape past or future persecution based on race, religion, nationality, and/or membership in a particular social group or political opinion
Za'atari refugee camp, Jordan | UNHCR/ Brian Sokol
2. To escape conflict or violence 3. To find refuge after being displaced due to environmental factors
In most countries, and in the United States, families and individuals who meet this criteria may obtain refugee status or asylum. Now, here's the difference: refugees must secure their status prior to entering the country of choice, where as asylum seekers seek status upon arrival. A complex differentiation that causes a lot of confusion in the process to get people to safety.
4. To seek superior healthcare
In many countries, but not the United States, families and individuals who immigrate to escape conflicts like war and violence can be considered for refugee status or asylum.

Natural disasters, erosion, and other environmental factors caused by climate change are real threats that disproportionately affect people living in poverty. In fact, Christian Aid reports that 1 billion people could be displaced in the next 50 years as the effects of climate change worsen.

People who fit this description are dubbed climate "refugees," but the name does not necessarily imply they have, or can receive, refugee status. As this is a newer phenomenon, many countries are still trying to determine how to respond to this growing issue.
6. To offer more opportunities to children 7. Family reunification 8. For educational purposes
Imagine living in a country with limited access to healthcare when you're suffering from serious health problems. Not fun.
9. For jobs and business opportunities
Agriculture worker in Argentina picking strawberries | Nahuel Berger/ World Bank

Perhaps the most commonly assumed reason for immigration.

Parents sometimes make the difficult decision to migrate so their children can benefit from things like superior education, and plentiful job opportunities.

Self explanatory, I think? Mom and Dad, I miss you!!

Students from Merrimack College studying abroad in China | Merrimack College

Shout out to all of the adventurous students. Some study abroad to seek out better educational opportunities than are available in their own countries, while others simply want the thrill of living in an exciting, new place.

In some cases, people migrate with the knowledge or hope that more opportunities will be available to them in their particular field than at home. Others migrate after employment has already been offered to them.

In today's globalized world, long-distance dating is all the rage. But, for couples ready to take the next step down the aisle, migrating to be together is the obvious choice (and a lot easier on the wallet.)

At Global Citizen, our office is full of Aussies and people from far more interesting places than the US (it's just my opinion.) Why they would abandon gorgeous beaches and cute little kangaroos is beyond me, but I'm sure they have their reasons.

As we think about immigration, and how best to approach it, let's try and remember that we're talking about real people. People who made a major decision to uproot their lives and start from scratch in a scary, new place. After all, isn't making that human connection what being a Global Citizen is all about?

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Why people migrate: 11 surprising reasons

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Here in the US, there's been a lot of talk recently on immigration. The debate is raging over President Obama's new series of executive actions that will grant up to 5 million undocumented immigrants protection from deportation. Naturally, this kind of boldness has created quite the ruckus, as his opponents insist he has gone too far.

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Next time you blink in an otherwise flawless photo, don't be so quick to hit the "delete" button on your phone. As The Verge reports, Facebook is testing a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to make closed eyes look naturally open.

Facebook engineers Brian Dolhansky and Cristian Canton Ferrer described the technology behind the AI in a paper published June 18. They used a type of machine learning called generative adversarial network or GAN. It works by looking at a database of pictures and using that information to generate new imagery where there wasn't any before.

This type of AI has been used to design clothing and video game levels in the past. To get it to work with faces, Facebook engineers showed the system photos taken of people when their eyes were open. After "learning" the subject's eye shape, size, and color, the AI used that data to superimpose a new set of eyes over the blinking lids. The feature still has some trouble working with glasses, long bangs, and pictures taken at an angle, but when it does what it's supposed to, it's hard to tell the photo was ever retouched.

Facebook isn't the first company to use AI to salvage photographs with closed eyes. In 2017, Adobe added an "Open Closed Eyes" feature to Photoshop Elements that also uses AI to generate a pair of eyes that match those of the blinking subject. For it to work, users first have to show the system several photos of the subject with their eyes open.

Facebook, which already holds a database of pictures of many of its users, seems like a perfect fit for this type of technology. The social media site is still testing it out, but based on the success of early experiments, they may consider making it available to users in the not-too-distant future. And because Facebook owns Instagram, it's possible that the eye-opening feature will eventually be applied to Instagram posts and Stories as well.

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12 Splendid Portraits of Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island

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Millions of immigrants came in through Ellis Island from the day it opened in 1892 to the day it closed in 1954. Amateur photographer Augustus Sherman, who worked there as a registry clerk from 1892 to 1925, took hundreds of photos of the new arrivals, often in elaborate traditional dress they had brought with them.

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Build the Wall

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Adele

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Jessy J - Lovesong ♥   *THE SMOOTHJAZZ LOFT*

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Enjoy the great sound of Jessy J !!! This track is from her new album MY ONE AND ONLY ONE. This being Jessy's 5th and latest release, charms us with more of her sultry style Latin and smooth jazz music prowess.

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Vengence

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MUSIC

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Immages

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I am a grandchild of immigrants who would have been murdered had they stayed where they were born. Immigrants and refugees helped make this country and still do. If Britain was a safe haven for refugees during and after WW II our leaders tarnish that image now.

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The Grey People – Eurovision Song Contest 2016

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A spectacular Dance performance choreographed by Benke Rydman capturing the internal and external struggles of refugees in the world. The idea of Eurovision is to unite people, but in recent times we have been reading about a divided Europe, and refugees - something embodied in a powerful dance number in the first semifinal.

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Art work projection on background - mirroring Shaun Tan's idea in book

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Civil war. Climate change. Starvation. Natural disaster. Terrorism. The causes are many, the results are grimly familiar for tens of millions of people displaced from their homes around the world and forced to find shelter and food often thousands of miles away, in unfamiliar, sometimes unwelcoming regions. Such is the prospect faced by communities around the globe in 2017, as this series of remarkable photographs for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) - the United Nations agency - by its staff photographer, Muse Mohammed.

Data collected by the UN reveal that there are 65.3 million displaced people worldwide, matching the population of the UK. Most are displaced within their country's borders and 21.3 million fled as refugees.

The UN said in a major report that wars and persecution have driven more people from their homes - some to locations within their own countries, others across borders to communities that may reject them - than at any time since its records began. They are fleeing within and from countries as far apart as Papua New Guinea, Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria and Cambodia. Many are children: in 2015, children made up 51% of the world's refugees. Many were separated from their parents or travelling alone.

The average length of displacement is just over 10 years and for those displaced by conflict, the figure rises to 17 years. Whether they build makeshift homes or find themselves living with host communities, these living arrangements almost never serve as a long-term solution and were never meant to do so. The UN report noted that, on average, 24 people were forced to flee during each minute in 2015. This figure is four times more than that of decade earlier, when six people fled during every 60 seconds.

"Millions of men, women and children have been uprooted and forced to move as the world faces an unprecedented series of simultaneous, complex and protracted crises along an 'arc of instability' extending from the western bulge of Africa to the Himalayas," the report made clear.

"Nowhere has this been felt as acutely as in the Mediterranean," said the IOM's director general, William Lacy Swing. "Last week the IOM recorded, on 23 December, the year's 5,000th migrant death by drowning in the Mediterranean."

Many islanders suffer from hunger and a lack of clean water as a result of the climatic effects of the El Niño weather system. In 2017, the harvest is not expected to yield crops until the end of the year, and limited access to clean drinking water, irrigation and storage facilities, as well as hazards such as droughts, floods and landslides, are expected to disrupt the community's recovery efforts. The Pacific nation is also peppered by dozens of small-scale, local conflicts over land ownership, tribal differences and compensation, all adding to a sense of vulnerability. Despite these challenges, Mike and Alice (main image, top) built themselves a house in Killerton several years ago. They were displaced when a flood tore through their village in 2007. Before the waters could reach them, Mike and a few villagers managed to saw his home in half and move it out of the path before repairing it again. They continue to live in the same house.

Nigeria

In the Lake Chad basin area of northern Nigeria, 3.6 million people are directly affected by the insurgency by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. Attacks and regional insecurity have displaced 2.6 million, both internally and into neighbouring countries. An additional 1 million refugees have been able to return home since August 2015. But many remain displaced, living in camps and host communities across the region. Borno State hosts the most internally displaced persons (IDPs), along with Adamawa and Yobe; more than half of them are children. The need for food is increasing along with non-food items, such as blankets. A woman and her child (above) pose in front of their house made of cardboard in the Farm Centre IDP camp in Maiduguri. Constructed using any materials available, the shelter will be unable to withstand the rainy season. Like many IDPs, this family fled their village in north-east Nigeria because of Boko Haram attacks.

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Having fled the war in Syria, Zonan and Mustapha's family live in a former stable for horses which they share with other families in Salinufra, Turkey. Photograph: Muse Mohammed/IOM

Syria

Five years into the civil war in Syria more than 13.5 million people are still in need of humanitarian assistance inside the country, including 6.5 million internally displaced, the biggest IDP population in the world. In addition, 4.2 million Syrians have taken refuge in the five neighbouring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. The pace of displacement has remained relentless, despite various attempts at ceasefires. Well over 1.2 million people have been displaced so far this year, many for the second or third time. According to recent UN figures, 2.7 million Syrian refugees have sought safety in Turkey. Among them are Zonan and Mustapha's family who live in a former stable in Salinufra, Turkey (above). Each family in the stable has a single stall intended for one horse with no heating, water, or electricity. Originally from Kobane over the border, the families fled to escape the war in Syria. They have lived in the stable for six months.

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Tin and Naing win live on a small boat which they travel throughout the Delta region in Myanmar. Photograph: Muse Mohammed/IOM

Myanmar

While tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighbouring countries to escape military operations that have left many dead, there are many other long-standing and complex reasons for migration. Limited livelihoods and poor socio-economic conditions have forced many to leave, with better wages and a demand for less skilled labourers in neighbouring countries acting as pull-factors. Heavy monsoon rains in June, July and August of 2015, followed by cyclone Komen, caused extensive floods and landslides in several parts of Myanmar, affecting 1.6 million people, with 333,000 displaced. Tin and Naing Win (above) live on a small boat in the delta region. The former gardeners once had a home on land but it was destroyed when a cyclone ravaged the area in 2008. Since then, they have not been able to afford to rebuild their home so they live on a small boat from which they sell fish paste to make a living.

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Roumkun lives with her daughter and grandchildr

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Displaced: faces of some of the world's 63 million people fleeing disaster

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Civil war. Climate change. Starvation. Natural disaster. Terrorism. The causes are many, the results are grimly familiar for tens of millions of people displaced from their homes around the world and forced to find shelter and food often thousands of miles away, in unfamiliar, sometimes unwelcoming regions.

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Eveline

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A young woman, Eveline, of about nineteen years of age sits by her window, waiting to leave home. She muses on the aspects of her life that are driving her away, while "in her nostrils was the odor of dusty cretonne". Her mother has died as has her older brother Ernest.

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The immigrant

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Also heavily advertised in local newspapers and daily's That they are encouraging for people to come down and work And then we went to the embassy and they showed us Kew garden pictures and pictures of the various parts of england That it is all that beautiful and everything is just right And that's why we just applied for the voucher.

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Music of migration and movemen

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Collaboraters

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Shaun Tan

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The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean.

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Keeping the audience in the moment

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The number of undocumented migrants who drown in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe has reached 5,000, the highest annual total yet, the UN says.

The latest figures, released by the UN's refugee agency, include 100 deaths reported on Thursday after two rubber dinghies sank off Italy.

The increase was down to bad weather, ever riskier boats and tactics to avoid detection, a spokesman said.

The UN said Europe should organise legal ways for refugees to find safety.

Spokesman William Spindler said the increase in deaths was "alarming" and the smugglers' practice of sending thousands of migrants off at the same time made it difficult for rescuers of save them all.

Why is Italy seeing record numbers?

A haven from killings and kidnaps

Almost 360,000 migrants entered Europe by sea this year, mostly arriving in Italy and Greece, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.

The record number of deaths means an average of 14 people are drowning in the Mediterranean every day despite the overall number of people making the crossing declining.

Most have perished on the dangerous crossing from North Africa to Italy after the shorter crossing from Turkey to Greece was closed off earlier this year.

The UN said legal routes for refugees to reach Europe should include resettlement and family reunification programmes as well as private sponsorship and student scholarships to prevent refugees from resorting to the use of people smugglers.

Just under 3,800 migrants died in the Mediterranean in 2015, according to IOM figures.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.

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The number of undocumented migrants who drown in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe has reached 5,000, the highest annual total yet, the UN says. The latest figures, released by the UN's refugee agency, include 100 deaths reported on Thursday after two rubber dinghies sank off Italy.

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"To Build A Home" by The Cinematic Orchestra - this could be our title track/leitmotif!!!
The choreography here could also be perfect - symbolizing groups of people coming to seek a new life.

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To Build a Home - 1st Place Contemporary Large Group

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"To Build a Home" choreographed by Ana Zimhart Also performed at StarQuest Dance Competition - Platinum Plus - 1st Place Select Senior Large Group Contemporary - 1st Place Top Select Overall Senior Large Group (all styles) - Choreography Award - Teen/Senior Select Apogee Award: Overall highest scoring regional group entry from all the "Select" Small Groups, Large Groups & Lines.

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How I love to create choreography

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colour, movement, atmosphere of the town

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El conventillo de la paloma

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More Akram Kahn and Antony Gormley

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zero degrees - Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi

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Antony Gormley design: big white space with powerful symbolic moving parts, blocks, models etc

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Sidi Larbi Chekaoui & Antony Gormley - Sutra

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With (DV8's John) still imagery and strong soundtrack - here Zack Hempsey "The Way"

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"John" Lloyd Newson (UK/AU) /DV8 Physical Theatre (UK)