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Storytime with Léo
Sun June 14, 2020 @ 11:00 - 12:00
Join us Sunday, June 14th at 11 AM EDT for some arts and crafts fun and story time with Maggie Winston of Lost & Found Puppet Co. and her puppet friend Léo the artist!
Maggie and Léo will be telling the stories: “The Art Lesson: A Shavuot Story” by Allison Marks and Wayne Marks and “Feivel’s Flying Horses” by Heidi Smith Hyde.
Come ready with construction paper and have your scissors handy as Léo takes us through an all ages arts and crafts activity and a mini art history lesson of Russian painter Léon Bakst – the artist he is named after!
Recommended for children aged 2-10.
Register through the Eventbrite link here!
This event is free and will be held via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link one hour before the event. If you wish to make a donation, you’ll have the option to do so upon registration. Any amount is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
***Registration closes Sunday, June 14th at 10 AM EDT***
Lost & Found Puppet Co., now based in Montréal, QC (since 2016). Created in Vancouver, BC (2007). Members of the company consist of Maggie Winston and any person joining it for any given project. L&FPCo. produces original performances, facilitates community engaged art projects, and teaches puppetry and performance workshops for various ages and abilities. They are dedicated to promoting the art of puppetry as a unique and valued art form everyone can experience.
Maggie Winston is a puppeteer and community engaged artist who facilitates transformative creative processes with an emphasis on inclusion and imagination. Maggie is currently studying puppetry at l’Université de Québec à Montréal in the Diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées (DESS) en théâtre de marionnettes contemporain. She is facilitating arts engaged projects at various schools through the ArtistInspire and ACE programs through the English Language Arts Network (ELAN). She also teaches theatre at Montreal Children’s Theatre.