“Nowy Port is Alive Again!”

workshops for kids, Centrum Integracji Społecznej at 3 Floriańska Street

20.11, 5:00-7:00 PM

21.11, 4:00-7:00 PM

Appropriate for ages: 5—12

Host(s): Dorota Dombrowska, Magdalena Dębna

Free admission

Come join us for our open workshops for kids where we are going to make paper puppets of Nowy Port’s former frequent visitors: sailors, fishermen, and smugglers. The hosts will be helping the kids to make the puppets move using strings and rivets. The puppets’ boots, hands, and caps will be covered in luminous paint glowing in the autumn dark of Nowy Port.

You can take the glow-in-the-dark puppets with you for a tour of the installations or keep them as a keepsake. There will also be a ‘shadow theatre’ in the workshop room. The hosts will show the kids how they can use the puppets and light to tell stories.

The workshops are open for all – no need to sign up in advance. You can join us anytime.

Hosts:

Dorota Dombrowska – an educator, a project coordinator, and a graphic artist, she completed her MA in childcare studies and a post-graduate course in computer graphics. The coordinator for the Wyczułkobus project, which was awarded a special prize for educational projects by the minister of culture and national heritage (Wydarzenie Muzealne Roku Sybilla 2012), she has cooperated with The Leon Wyczółkowski Regional Museum in Bydgoszcz, The Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, the Design Centre in Gdynia and Gdansk City Gallery. She is now working as an educator in Gdynia City Museum.

Magdalena Dębna – she completed her BA course in the history of art at the University of Gdansk, as well as an MA course in history at the Central European University in Budapest. An Erasmus participant at The University of Copenhagen, and a graduate of The Visegrad Summer School organised by Villa Decius Association, she completed her post-graduate studies in art therapy at the Medical University of Gdansk, and an internship at Zachęta gallery. She has cooperated with the Emigration Museum in Gdynia, The Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, the Design Centre in Gdynia and Gdansk City Gallery. She is interested in interdisciplinary research into ancient and contemporary art, and the relation between ideology and art. She is now working as an educator in Gdynia City Museum.