The Play of Charcoal

LagiLagi Returns with Plays by Celebrated Artists Inspired by Children’s Creativity. Following the success of Charcoal for Children’s initial edition of 2016/2017, LagiLagi, together with three celebrated performing artists from three different cities (Papermoon Puppet from Yogyakarta, Kawamura Kohey from Tokyo, and Monez&Ninus from Bali) is coming back with performances of original plays that will be held in two weekend sessions (2-4 February and 23-25 February 2018) at CushCush Gallery, Bali. The tickets are sold at IDR 500K (includes drinks) for the premiere shows and IDR 100K for the regular shows, with the seats limited to only 50 to enhance the intimate viewing experience. All the plays are the result of the 2017/2018 edition of Charcoal for Children workshops. Living up to its title ‘PlayPlay’, this second edition held three workshops in the span of September to November 2017, conducted by the aforementioned performing artists. Each workshop used different methods of creativity. Papermoon Puppet invited children to tell stories about trees in various ways by asking them to make trees and dolls using charcoal sticks, charcoal ink, waste woods, and newspapers. With Kohey, children learned more about the art of shadow play, to make shadow puppets, using cardboards, charcoal, and paint. Monez&Ninuz used music for children to experiment, moving their bodies to the music while holding charcoal in both hands, scratching it along the white paper to make a free drawing. ‘LagiLagi’ (translates to ‘repeatedly’, ‘again and again’, ‘keep returning back’) is a social initiative started by CushCush, a designer studio and workshop in Bali that specializes in uniquely designed crafted contemporary furniture, accessories, and artworks. LagiLagi was meant to carry both CushCush’s environmental awareness and social mission of passing the goodness of creativity to the next generation, starting from the early age.

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Charcoal for Children (CFC) 2017/18 Workshop

CHARCOAL FOR CHILDREN (CFC) 2017/18 is here! And we will be running CFC workshops in September, October, and November 2017! In the following months, CushCush Gallery would be organizing and presenting a series of 3 CHARCOAL FOR CHILDREN (CFC) 2017/18 workshops. This time with our theme PLAY PLAY, we will PLAY! and have a lot of fun! We do realize that playing is one of the biggest part in our childhood that helps us discover more about our personal interest, hobby and also our dream! that’s why this year we will PLAY a lot during CFC workshops! Together with the invited artists/ performing groups, this year we will explore and discover more about our local heritage in puppets, mask, shadow puppets, combine with music, dance and theatrical performance, by using our DIY charcoal and up-cycling material to create properties for CFC 2017/18 charity performance in February 2018. We are looking for children of age 8-16 years old who are passionate about art, creativity, and love to PLAY & learn in a creative way to join our CFC workshop sessions! Yes! These are the timing for the 3 CFC workshop sessions: 1^st session with Papermoon Puppet Theatre: Saturday, 23 September 2017 2^nd session with Kawamura Koheysai: Sunday, 8 October 2017 3^rd session with Monez & Ninus: Saturday, 18 November 2017 The workshops are free of charge, limited to only a maximum of 20 Children for more effective learning experience. Please kindly RSVP and register early. We would also really appreciate it if you could share our program with your friends, family & social media (Yes! anyone can also join!) so that interested children can register and participate. For 1st session, we have one of Indonesia’s renown performing group: Papermoon Puppet Theatre from Yogyakarta! known for their wonderful performances such as ‘Secangkir Kopi dari Playa!’, ‘Mwathirika’, and many more! CushCush Gallery working together with LagiLagi are very delighted to welcome Papermoon Puppet Theatre for a residency program in Bali, to collaborate and PLAY with children and our local creative communities.

Warming up session part 1 with Papermoon Puppet: imitating the movement of living creature/tree and let other group guess it.

Warming up session part 2 with Papermoon Puppet: mass drawing with LagiLagi DIY charcoal stick

Creating circular pattern and feeling the texture of charcoal

Drawing whatever they want, expressing imagination

Share your ideas and let’s draw together!

Playing with LagiLagi DIY charcoal ink, by exploring forms and texture, using various kind of leaves around the neighborhood

Charcoal For Children workshop #1 with Papermoon Puppet: Using off-cuts material, and turning it into a new tree!

Surprise from Papermoon Puppet at the end of the workshop! meeting Wawa!

Thank you for all Charcoal For Children participants, volunteers, Papermoon Puppet & everyone! Thank you for supporting our program and make CFC 2017/18 workshop #1 happen!

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For the 2nd session, LagiLagi will collaborate with Kawamura Koheysai, a multitalented Japanese contemporary artist/ shadow puppeteer who travels around Indonesia such as Jakarta, Kalimantan, Yogyakarta, and finally now in Bali, to study and make a research about Wayang (shadow puppet). As a solo player, Kohe-san always combine unique stories & music throughout his performance, this will be a really distinctive collaboration with the children!

Warming up session with Kawamura Koheysai, playing with shadow

During CFC 2017/18 workshop #2 with Kawamura Koheysai, volunteers from different communities help our children participants and have fun together!

Drawing with LagiLagi DIY charcoal stick while remembering where their ancestors came from.

Every child participating in CFC2017/18 workshop #2 creates his/ her own Wayang (shadow puppet).

Wayang or shadow puppet is a traditional performance that has roots in Bali and Indonesia. Children get to try out their Wayang on the screen to see how it works.

Kawamura Koheysai met the children’s ancestors in a mini- performance at the end of the workshop session

Kawamura Koheysai met Jalak Bird from Bali

Children played with their own Wayang on the screen during Charcoal For Children workshop #2

The Wayang that have been created by the children will be part of the set for CFC 2017/18 performance in February 2018, with Kawamura Kohey

It was aWayang night filled with shadows and family warmth! Thank you all for participanting in Charcoal For Children 2017/18 workshop #2: the children participants, ourvolunteers, Kawamura Koheysai and #FriendsOfLagiLagi

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And finally, on the 3rd session, we have Monez & Ninus! Monez is a Balinese artist known for his ‘Fablelous’ style, a combination of words & fable, inspired by boundless imagination also animal/monster spirit character. And Ninus, who is an architect graduate from Bandung, who is now living in Bali as a contemporary dancer, inspired by space and movement. This will be a very interesting collaboration since both of them have a different background and approach. We are looking forward to their magic!

Sharing about LagiLagi with the volunteers &children participants at the beginning of Charcoal For Children 2017/18 session 3 workshop with Monez &Ninus. We are super excited to start!!

Forming a circle together, we move our bodies in space. Warming up session with Ninus to break the ice and get to know each other more!

Stretch your hands as far as you can… let it dance with the music, and enjoy the sensation! Next, let’sconnect to each other through movements.

After a series of connecting with each other through movements (and much laughter!), we use LagiLagi DIY charcoal and connect dots with our both hands on the white paper-lined walls! With music in the background, everyone startsdrawing (and dancing too) on the wall with Ninus. Didn’t know creating lines and connecting the dots together as a community is so much fun!! We had the whole walls covered in no time!

Together with Monex, we look out and draw in ‘eyes’ amongst the hand drawn filled walls, and just by adding in a few more details, we create our own monsters! So much imagination and energy, we let the monsters keep coming!! 😀

Afterwards, with help from volunteers, all children participants create their own monsters by making masks during Charcoal For Children #3

Helping each other to add more details to make each monster more ‘alive’!

WWHOOARRR!!! It ain’tcomplete without sharing it with your friends! We try on each other’s masks and PLAY!

Mini performance session, participants come forward to present their very own monster! What is its name? What creature is it? How does it sound like? How does it move?

It’s an epic monster day! We dance and celebrate beautiful creativity in children! Thank you for all of our children participants, volunteers, Monez &Ninus, and #FriendsOfLagiLagi, who have been supporting us for all this time! See you soon in February 2018 for the much anticipated Charity Performance! Let’s PlayPlay!!

CHARCOAL FOR CHILDREN workshop is part of LagiLagi – a social initiative, that combines all the things that we love and are passionate about: which is about art, creativity, design & good education for children. This program aims to give back to our local communities & environments, by making upcycling products, made from our production off-cuts and sell them through creative bazaar, consignment & making DIY workshops, as part of our fundraising project. Profits then goes to creating meaningful creative program such as Charcoal For Children. For more info about LagiLagi and Charcoal For Children program, please do not hesitate to contact us: Email: balilagilagi@gmail.com Phone: 0361 242034/ Merlins 0812 89152130 FB: LagiLagi IG: lagilagi_bali

The Play of Charcoal

Charcoal for Children (CFC) 2017/18 Workshop

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