Dynamic Families
Venue: Battersea Arts Centre
Date: 02/05/2026
Type: Workshop
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In this workshop, Louise Ashcroft brings together elements of her ongoing artistic research into family, kinship, and relational dynamics.
Drawing on lived experience, shared stories, and fragments from fiction, participants will be invited to imagine and design simple puppets that embody relationships, roles, tensions, or emotional undercurrents found within families and kin networks. These figures become tools for thinking, playing, and testing ideas — a way of giving form to feelings, conflicts, affections, dependencies, and contradictions that sometimes remain unspoken.
Through hands-on making, conversation, and playful experimentation, the workshop opens a space for humour, speculation, and gentle provocation. By inhabiting the tensions and tribulations these puppets carry, participants will explore how small narratives, scripts, and scenes might emerge — attending to pressure points in family life (including chosen family), and offering space to imagine healthier ways of living together, such as more equal distributions of care, new modes of kinship, or simply new ways of getting on each other's nerves.
Time: 10:30am to 4:30pm
Tickets: Free – booking required
Running Time: 6 hours, including a 1 hour lunch break
Age Recommendation: All ages welcome (parental guidance) – intended for adults and may contain adult themes
This workshop takes place in person in our Members Library
Address:
Battersea Arts Centre, Lavendar Hill, London, SW11 5TN
Phone: 020 7223 2223
Web site: https://bac.org.uk