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Wild Boor Projects

Wild Boor has worked on many creative and puppetry based partnership projects. Just contact Emma Boor to discuss your needs.

Create your own puppet show.
We can provide all you need. Maybe you're a school wanting a different kind of Christmas production, maybe you're an environmental charity with an important message to get out there or even a business wanting to promote a product.

Funky Monkey and the Juicy Fruits.
A healthy eating project involving the creation and Regional wide tour of a one woman, multimedia, puppetry and animation show, with complimentary workshops aiming to improve awareness of the importance of eating five portions of fruit and vegetables everyday. This £31,000 project was funded by Arts Council England and 12 other partners including Sure Starts, Primary Care Trusts and Arts Officers across the North East region. The partners helped select the shows messages and supported its delivery. To date, 50 performances involving around 2,600 people (mostly 0-5's and their families) have been undertaken.

Funky Monkey and the Juicy Fruits

Go Wild, Chester-le-street District Council, Empower and GOAL.
Residency with Adults with learning difficulties to design and create a puppet performance inspired by the natural world. The performance was open to wider community groups in order to challenge people's perceptions of learning difficulties.

Commission a puppet/mural.
Waste Warrior Puppets were three specially created puppets for the Gloucestershire Council waste education in schools programme.
Sea life Mural at Chester-le-street Riverside Park for Chester-le-street District Council.

Waste Warrior Puppets Sea life Mural

Other Community Projects.
Foundations project - 20,000 Voices and Sure Starts and Primary Schools in Northumberland. Using the theme of popular fairy stories this pilot project of six sessions, supported staff in gathering new ideas in music and visual arts and allowed the children to have new and enjoyable experiences through singing and puppetry. A professional singer Anne Suggate supplied songs, alongside improvised puppetry and puppet making workshops.

20,000 Voices

Wake up to Wildlife - Middlesbrough Council and two Middlesbrough schools. Residency to create six giant parade puppets and individual puppets, inspired by the wildlife in their local green space 'Whinney Banks Nature Reserve'. The project finale was a parade of the giant insects around the site and nature festival.

Wake Up To Wildlife

Red Feb - Creative Partnerships and five schools in Darlington. Training day for teachers followed by one day in each school to develop puppet performances to celebrate 'Red' in teacher led projects.

Red Feb Red Feb

It Rocks! - Bringing Geology to Life. Geology project developing animation and puppetry interpretation for families and school audiences in association with Killhope Lead Mining Museum, Weardale, Hancock Museum, Newcastle, Harehope Quarry Project, Weardale and Rachel Clarke - Digital Artist.

It Rocks!