Swallow's Wings Puppetry
The little grassroots people can change the world.
- Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
We are a community led, community championing theatre company unearthing traditional stories that captivate your imagination and uplift spirits...
Read on to find out more about our upcoming performances and to contact us about our free workshops for schools and community settings.
Meet the groups we work with most
Our shows are inspired by traditional African and Afro-Caribbean tales: youngsters benefit from finding threads common to all humanity. We travel to visit children at schools and in community groups bringing a safe place to explore, learn and engage with people from diverse backgrounds.
Puppetry is the perfect medium to engage many neurodiverse children. For children with different learning styles, the sensory immediacy of puppets and puppetry creates new channels for expression. Shadow puppetry workshops invite all abilities!
People living in assisted living centres or older people social clubs: our workshops provide entertainment, moments of joy and playfulness and are a launch pad for reminiscence therapy.
Storytelling and puppet making are a rich and gentle means of processing, sharing and recovering from each journey. Sharing stories builds community.
The Global Fund for Children fund this 50 minute shadow workshop for schools for years 3, 4 and 5. Touring schools now!
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We enchant, entertain & educate. An inclusive puppet show with spoken word & traditional African music for Primary Age Children as well as Afro- Caribbean elders - we will also record & archive their own stories. Touring from October '22.
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Puppetry workshops online or face to face for all ages. Now accepting bookings!
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An extended project of cultural transmission for refugee, asylum seeking and migrant women. Each participant creates a shadow puppetry show celebrating their culture.
An extended creative project for Elders to challenge feelings of isolation and depression. This was a pilot project preparing to provide support post-Covid lockdown as part of the Get Creative Festival.
Touring from October 2022
Using traditional West African stories about Anansi the Spider as a meeting place, we enchant, entertain, educate and build cross- generational dialogue. The story is told using puppets made from everyday materials, beautiful original music and spoken word poetry.
It takes a village to weave a magic web...
If you're fortunate enough to be a in position to help, please get in touch - every penny helps bring our art to life.
Roland Dickson, Edie Edmundson • Daniel Finn • Guy Fixsen • Louise France • Gillian Galbraith • Jane Gerhard • Sascha Gilmour • Vivian Gladwell • Eden Hardbud • Judith Hope • Awesome Hopkins • Anna Ingleby • Hazel Jarman • Kwame • Owen Latham • Petri Leinonen • HJ Nelson • Craig Leo • Hugh Purves • Katie Owen • Olivia Racionzer • Inti Rowland • Avanti Shivpuri • Sobunfu Some • Kerrin Tatman • Cecilie Telle • Amaia Viar • Lukas Viar • Beth Warnock • Will Whitehead • Rachel Wilde • Ruby Wilde • Nix Wood • Lyndie Wright • Sarah Wright and the Ancestors.