JonathanHayter

4 Lyndale Road, St George, Bristol BS5 7AA

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Tel: 0117 952 1711 mobile: 0775 99 43 938

“As an established puppeteer with extensive experience in performance, intergenerational, .
education and multicultural community work, I am currently seeking projects which will allow me to
develop my ‘person centred’ approach in the belief that every individual in
a workshop situation has the potential to reach their own creative goal.”

Profile

  • Founder member of Figure of Speech, a cross artform company with a focus on puppetry, that producing performances and workshops exploring ideas and creativity through light and shadow.
  • Possesses highly developed creative skills and the capacity to apply these in a range of cultural settings, from inner city Glasgow and Bristol to rural South Wales.
  • Experienced in working with diverse communities, including school children, minority ethnic groups, special needs pupils and public workshops.
  • Successful collaborative projects undertaken with dancers, musicians, and video artists.
  • Strong administrator and forward planner who deliver projects within agreed timescales.
  • Possesses CRB Enhanced Disclosure Status from Wiltshire PAWS scheme 2006 and Bristol 2003.

Selected Experience

Public Performances

Buxton Puppet festival 2009

Performance of Apollo multimedia piece with c Sinclair musician

.`Ramayana` performance workshops The Ridings Arts Centre 2007/8/9

workshops and performances with year 7 pupils on the epic story using music and animation with puppetry.

.Phoenix Arts centre Exeter;` Animated live 2005 `– `Moontime` & `Rama ` 2005

performances of both of the shows as part of `Animated Exeter` festival

  • Bath Fringe Festival and Bath International Puppet Festival2004
    Performances of Moontime in collaboration with video, animation, dance and music artists
  • World Peace Day, Bristol2004
    Performance of Rama
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) Theatre, Bristol2001
    Two light shows exploring Hindu archetypes with original music.
  • Ashton Court Community Festival 2001and 2002 Presentation of the multimedia shadow puppet show `Rama` in the `blackout` marquee.

General Puppet Workshops ,publications and residencies

.Flux Swindon Residency `Science /Art project` Abbeymead school 2008

Workshops on light and colour, art adivisor/facilitator on schools projects.

.`Shadow Puppets and Shadow play` D. Currell Crowood publshers 2007

features a significant proportion of my shadow puppet work

  • Eistedfodd 20042004

Multimedia and shadow puppet workshops on Welsh folktales and faeries

  • Commonwealth and Empire Museum, Bristol2004
    Three days of interactive workshops in shadow puppetry
  • Royal Hospital for Sick Children2002
    Shadow and movement workshops, with dancer JimBrown, for children on wards,
    based on novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
  • Llanellen primary school Residency
  • Fairy stories and Indian myths- 6 week residency working with pupils – leading to multimedia performance supported by GEMSS. Of the pupils own work. 2002
  • Shadow Puppet Nativity, Fovant, Wiltshire2000
    Workshops run with AndyBaker, of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, for local children, leading to performance in ParishChurch. Funded by Wiltshire PAWS scheme.
  • Bristol City Museum1999
    Workshops based on the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

Schools -Projects

. PPA work in Two Mile hill, Bristol. Work on a wide range of projects with puppetry 2006 .Muslim Supplementary School , City Academy, Bristol; Multicultural Arts Project 2006

funded by `Clerical Medical` - devising creative teaching aids with pupils

  • South Wales Intercultural Arts2004
    Workshops with year 5 special needs children leading to public performance of multimedia shadow show based on local historical figure -Rev. EJones
  • Gwent Ethnic Multicultural Support Services (GEMSS)2003
    Shadow puppet and ICTproject in secondary and primary schools across South Wales,
    using theme of pilgrimage. Workshops led to final shadow puppet performances.
  • Beech House Intergenerational Project, Oldbury on Severn School2003
    Workshops using dance, movement and shadow puppetry, leading to multimedia
    performance based on novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
  • Wapley Court (residential home) and AbbotswoodPrimary School, Yate2003
    10-week intergenerational project with residents and Year 4 children, with puppet-making and dance workshops leading to a final performance based on the Tudors.
  • Gwent Ethnic Multicultural Support Services (GEMSS) 2001-02
    Year 3,4,5,6 students in 10 primary schools explored the Hindu Ramayana and gods and goddesses through interactive shadow puppet workshops.

General Employment

Founder, Actor, Puppeteer, Figure of Speech, Glasgow1993-date

Relocated to Cambridge in 1995 and then Bristol in 1996

Assistant Puppeteer, Garret Mask and Puppet Centre, Otago St, Glasgow1988-89

Co-founder, Actor, Puppeteer, Hamstrings company1987

TEFL tutor, Halkidiki, Greece1985-86

Graphic Designer, Quarry Bank Mill industrial museum, Styal, Cheshire1983-84

Education and training

I year on BA in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol1999

Access to Higher Education, City of BristolCollege1999

Marionette Design and Construction Masterclass with late JohnWright, Glasgow1989

Assistant Puppeteer, Garret Mask and Puppet Centre, Otago St, Glasgow1988-89

S.I.A.D &City and Guilds in Graphic Design, BerkshireCollege of Art and Design1982

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