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Sat, Sep 20The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreYou are warmly invited to join us for Doors Open Day 2025! COME ALONG AND DISCOVER THE MAGIC OF SMPC! See our museum displays, a FREE puppet show - 11am, 1pm, 3pm, join a workshop tour, or take the weight of your feet in our cafe, with colour-in cut out children's activity kits and much more.- Sun, Sep 21The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreYou are warmly invited to join us for Doors Open Day 2025! COME ALONG AND DISCOVER THE MAGIC OF SMPC! See our museum displays, a FREE puppet show - 11am, 1pm, 3pm, join a workshop tour, or take the weight of your feet in our cafe, with colour-in cut out children's activity kits and much more.
Sat, Sep 27The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreIn this interactive workshop Drew Colby teaches participants how to make four specific hand shadow animals. They will also explore the science of shadows – why do shadows get bigger when they go closer to the light? How small can a shadow be? For 7+ - Adult
Sat, Sep 27The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreA delightfully imaginative and fun animal adventure? One man and his shadow go on an incredible journey where creatures emerge, engage and transform, all in the hands of the puppeteer….not to be missed.
Sat, Sep 27The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreEveryone has a shadow. What can you make with your shadow? Can you make a worm…a butterfly or YOU? Join the post – show workshop (after a short break) with Drew, enjoy meeting the performer and learn how to make hand shadows and have lots of fun telling your own shadowy story! For all ages.
Sat, Sep 27The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreAn amazing evening ahead. Expect famous extra-terrestrial creatures from the silver screen and many more endearing and astonishing characters all made with just a light, two hands and a screen, before a show stopping shadow duet rounds off this virtuoso performance. Suitable for an adult audience.- Sun, Sep 28The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreA delightfully imaginative and fun animal adventure? One man and his shadow go on an incredible journey where creatures emerge, engage and transform, all in the hands of the puppeteer….not to be missed.
- Sun, Sep 28The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreEveryone has a shadow. What can you make with your shadow? Can you make a worm…a butterfly or YOU? Join the post – show workshop (after a short break) with Drew, enjoy meeting the performer and learn how to make hand shadows and have lots of fun telling your own shadowy story! For all ages.
Sat, Oct 04The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreAn evening of Indian Classical Music with Suhas Mitra & Vijay Kangutkar. An intimate presentation of an evening Raga, with two inspired musicians. Cafe Interval 8.00 - 8.30pm for Light Refreshments and Samosas. Doors Open 6.30pm.
Sat, Oct 11The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreWhen Mrs Frost bakes, the sun shines, when she hangs up her washing it rains and when she shakes out her bedding soft feathery snowflakes fall, covering the earth in a blanket of snow and so begins our tale and the changing seasons.- Sat, Oct 11The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreWhen Mrs Frost bakes, the sun shines, when she hangs up her washing it rains and when she shakes out her bedding soft feathery snowflakes fall, covering the earth in a blanket of snow and so begins our tale and the changing seasons.
Sun, Oct 12The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreOne performer and a flock of shadow puppets tell a joyful and heartwarming story about friends, foolishness and flying away! Should she have it for breakfast or hatch it? And what will she do once it hatches? Adaptation of the book 'The Witch's Egg' by Madeleine Edmondson.- Sun, Oct 12The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreOne performer and a flock of shadow puppets tell a joyful and heartwarming story about friends, foolishness and flying away! Should she have it for breakfast or hatch it? And what will she do once it hatches? Adaptation of the book 'The Witch's Egg' by Madeleine Edmondson.
Mon, Oct 13The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreJoin our puppeteer for a how to make a shadow puppet workshop. Have lots of fun, projecting your character onto the lit screen and starting to make up your own scary story on the shadow screen, as Halloween is just around the corner!- Mon, Oct 13The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreJoin our puppeteer for a how to make a shadow puppet workshop. Have lots of fun, projecting your character onto the lit screen and starting to make up your own scary story on the shadow screen, as Halloween is just around the corner!
Fri, Oct 17The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreChildren and adults will have a wonderful time creating their very own rod puppet! Design your puppet from all of our colourful bits and bobs with our help, learn how to use it and give your puppet a name before you go!
Fri, Oct 17The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentreGary and his cheeky side kick, Chico the Monkey, are back! Get ready for lots more monkey business and banana buffoonery in a magic show to entertain and amaze all ages and have everyone laughing their socks off!
Sun, Oct 19The Scottish Mask & Puppet CentrePorridge, porridge, porridge and the 3 BEARS just love it! The metal world of Goldilicks meets the naturally wooden world of 3 BEARS, the result, a very sticky adventure all round.
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