Human Idiot Puppet (HIP): Video, Blog and Participant Account of Community Devising

<p dir="ltr">15/5/23 Blog "Joined at the HIP" associated with</p><p dir="ltr">Video Documentation <a href="https://youtu.be/CmQ0SiXN1e0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/CmQ0SiXN1e0</a>: Devising material: Making the Squid by Naoyuki Osawa. Osawa also comments on the process in the promotional video for this project.</p><p dir="ltr">Human performers, clown figures and puppetry came together for the Human Idiot Puppet workshop in Ainsdale, Sefton on 9-10th May 2023.This was an international workshop and part of our ongoing participatory devising process. Some participants were online and some were in the workshop venue itself. We were joined by puppeteers Kay Aika (Yokohama) and Emi Shimizu (Itoshima, Kyushu), and Tom Byrne (Salford, Greater Manchester), musician Andy Denney (Dawlish, Dorset), Ken Lowe (Ainsdale, Merseyside), Sandra Cain (Southport, Merseyside) and Corinne Jones (Bootle, Merseyside), Naoyuki Osawa (currently in Southport), Connoll Pavey, media technician (Salford), and film makers Colin and Sam from Hepworth Media (Netherton, Merseyside).</p><p dir="ltr">A related workshop following this was the Studio Kura Itoshima Workshop in July 2023</p>