Modifying Your Public Face: Mask-Making Event

Modifying Your Public Face: Mask-Making Event

Saturday June 28 10a-12n

We wear masks in our daily lives whether it's to hide our pain mitigate our feelings or put on a professional smile. In this workshop we’ll create physical masks to express ourselves. A number of mask materials will be provided including make-up various paper mask forms and soft materials like felt. Decorating materials (feathers paint sparkles etc) will be provided to enhance your selected mask form!

The event is free and open to all ages and abilities but requires registration for materials.

This event is in conjunction with the Residency at the Hyers program.

The little independent artists (LIA) Residency at the Hyers in collaboration with little independent theatre (LIT) and Creative Greensboro is focused on exploring the ways we perceive each other and how we mask to fit into our communities. The project examines societal norms through the exploration of masks labels and stereotypes. We encourage the audience to ask questions about their own culpability. What does complacency look like? How can we be our best selves when we feel tied to the labels we’ve been assigned? Can we shed those labels and redefine ourselves? Using Improv movement and audience participation the performances and public events entertain while considering these pivotal questions.

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