Craft workshop (a.m): the different faces of Tuồng (on clay) – nearly full

AS OF 17 JANUARY CURRENTLY 2 SPACES AVAILABLE

The past few years we have run a workshop with Linh and Nhung (2 artists from the Fine Arts University) based on the face painting tradition of Tuồng theatre.

Tuồng is often referred to as classical Vietnamese opera; it is different to other genre of Vietnamese theatre such as Chèo.  It uses a series of characters recognizable by their elaborate face make up and costumes. Their personalities are shown through the colour of the face, eyebrows and facial hair.  The art of face make up is a distinctive and artistic feature of Tuồng.

Linh is interested in the face painting and the story telling of Tuồng. The 1^st series of workshops we did was combining drawing and painting of the face ‘mask’ on dó paper to create a collage.   This is a new workshop involving painting the ‘face mask’ on a small clay mold mounted on perspex

This is a 2 part workhop – with a colourful introduction to Tuồng and then the craft workhop

Part 1 appx 30 mins 9.30am-10.30am
A fascinating and colourful introduction to what Tuồng is, the genre, origins etc.
Info about face painting, and what some of the images mean and going into the images in detail so that you can appreciate the artwork when you come to create your own

Part 2 appx 1.5 hours 10.30am-12noon
Workshop where we paint our own small Tuồng face ‘mask’ on the clay mould

Numbers: min 4 to max 8 pax

Amount: VND 420,000 same price for everyone (includes talk and workshop  and all material – a little higher than our other workshops to cover the material and extra prep time)

Venue:  their new studio 53/409 Kim Mã Street,  (venue location/how to find the studio will be sent in the welcome email for those confirmed on the workshop)

RSVP: to stella@fvheritage.org

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