Shadow Puppets

Turtles tales of Kefalonia

Patrick Amber 3rd September 2018

Caretta-caretta or the loggerhead turtle swims the seas around Kefalonia. Adonis. Sometime ago, I was hanging out with my mate John in the college bar in Exeter. We were at […]

The Gruffalo

Patrick Amber 26th April 2018

The Gruffalo for refugees Whilst visiting Lesvos earlier this year, I offered to run a shadow puppet activity at Pikpa, open refugee camp; a self-organised, autonomous space run by volunteers. I […]

Dumpster

Patrick Amber 25th April 2018

Whilst walking the streets of Athens, absorbing the traffic (and fumes!) and gaining inspiration for my next shadow puppet venture, Traffic, I found myself curiously distracted by dumpsters. Not surprising […]

Hissing goose

Patrick Amber 9th February 2018

I’m not a moose or a goose on the loose The hissing goose made its’ first appearance in my shadow puppet play, Going Underground at the Shadow Banquet. A small card […]

Traffic – Athens

Patrick Amber 19th January 2018

Shadow Puppet Workshop – Saturday 27 January 2018 I teamed up with my good friend and musician Vagelis Alexopoulos to run a shadow puppet workshop in at steki in Petralona, […]

Puppets in Plovdiv

Patrick Amber 9th January 2018

End of the year in Bulgaria and time to take a break with friends in Plovdiv, but no break from puppeteering! After performing at Shadow Puppet Shows for Children in […]

Dreams on Wheels, Bulgaria

Patrick Amber 8th January 2018

Upon arriving in Sofia last December, I ran shadow puppet making workshops for two weeks with children attending English lessons at Dreams on Wheels (Мечти на колела) and Elen School, after-school […]

Shadow Banquet

Patrick Amber 9th December 2017

Following on from the success of the Shadow Cabaret, we (Martin, Gary and myself) booked a new venue, The Toolmakers for November 25th and invited everyone along to the Shadow […]

Shadow Cabaret

Patrick Amber 2nd December 2017

Last summer I teamed up with best friends Martin Currie and Gary Manton and my sister, Sarah. We performed shows on our large screen at the Fireside Housing Co-op’s annual […]

Going Underground

Patrick Amber 28th November 2017

Going Underground came out of an idea my friend Robin had about a sub-terrain shadow puppet show. This really stuck a chord with me. I loved the possibilities this opened […]

Treasure on Samothraki

Patrick Amber 27th June 2017

While making puppets in Athens, I listened to tales of a special place called Samothraki, a small island in the northern Aegean sea. map This month I went there and met […]

Everything Is Possible

Patrick Amber 9th June 2014

  May 2014 and my first public shadow puppet appearance in collaboration with Zoe Wright. We set it up at the top of the stairs at Victoria Works, a community […]