The Donadodoo’s Workshops
Workshop leaders trained by the Corridor (theater company based in Liège) run artistic expression workshops (lasting either half a day or a full day) in schools, libraries and museum education spaces for groups of up to 35 participants; in schools, these are aimed at pupils aged 8 to 25 or older.
Each workshop begins with a quiet reading of a story in the Donadodoo (all the stories are downloadable down below).
During the workshop, and depending on the medium used, pupils are invited to illustrate or reinterpret passages from the story. At the end of the session, their work will be displayed in the Donadodoo to present the story, enriched by the participants’ contributions. Everyone will then feel like a true participant in a narrative to which they have added their own touch of sensitivity and imagination.
The stories created by Patrick Corillon for the Donadodoo metaphorically explore various subjects that are currently affecting our society. The workshops that accompany the stories enable children to make sense of these subjects and express them through words, images, colours, materials or sounds.
Through these workshops, reading a story in silence opens up our imagination and brings it to life through an artistic form; not an imagination that would lead us to escape reality, but rather one that helps us put it into perspective; an imagination that allows us to engage with the world and measure ourselves against it.
For further information about the workshops, please contact Anastasia Zjukovitsj, project coordinator for The Donadodoo, at the Corridor.
