Marionet once again invites children to embark on a five-day journey to discover the brain, combining theatre and science.
The proposal for this week is to creatively explore this organ, with activities that place the participants in different spaces and times. Through concepts such as memory, consciousness or sensations, we develop our imagination by using our everyday lives and extrapolating them through dramatic experience. In short, we combine knowledge and imagination, trying to realise the marvellous things that are born in our brain, our most complex (and incredible) organ.
This time, ‘What’s up, brain?’ workshop will take place at Rómulo – Science Centre of the University of Coimbra, with activities also taking place at the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra and at the UC Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology.
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Rómulo – Science Centre | Coimbra
1 – 5 April 2024
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Age group: 9 – 13 (limited to 10 participants)
Registration via form.
This Workshop emerged from the need to bring the disciplinary intersection Theatre/Science to the young public. Marionet stands out for its 23 years of ongoing work on the intersection between Performing Arts and Science. Along the way, there were several times that the work crossed with younger audiences and these moments made clear the importance of communicating science in a more practical, interactive and playful way.
The workshops take place when the children don’t have school activities. They lasted for five days, and were prepared by Marionet’s team, directed by Mário Montenegro and coordinated by Carolina Andrade, graduated in Theatre and Education.
Direction Mário Montenegro
Production Direction Francisca Moreira
Executive Production Carolina Andrade (formada em Teatro e Educação)
Activities Facilitation Carolina Andrade, Vicente Paredes, Ana Rita Álvaro (CNC)
Photography Carolina Andrade
Image Joana Corker
Communication Carolina Andrade, Ricardo Jerónimo
With the support of
República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
Câmara Municipal de Coimbra
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular
Rómulo – Science Centre
- Productions
- How do you invent? [Theatre and Science Workshop]
- Getting around the brain [Theatre and Science Workshop]
- Embody The Brain [Theatre and Science Workshop]
- How do you invent? (2.0) [Theatre and Science Workshop]
- Ecosystem Dramas [Theatre and Science Workshop]
- Is time a machine? [Theatre and Science Workshop]
- Journey to the Centre of Things [Theatre and Science Workshop]
- Short Circuit Brains [Theatre and Science Workshop]
- Theatre and Science Workshops | Marinha Grande
- Questions for building a world [Theatre and Science Workshop]
- Journey to the Centre of Things (2.0) [Theatre and Science Workshop]
