Kaidan

Kaidan: the things that make us wonder, gasp, give us goose bumps

Developed and designed by year-four students, across two terms in 2019, Kaidan was a one-night-only immersive, site-specific and promenade-style community event.

Barking Spider Visual Theatre artists and St. Mary’s School staff collaborated with the children to create Kaidan. The project enabled the school community to explore shared and individual narratives about fear and the uncanny. Through a series of workshops, a marvellous shadow-puppet performance, lantern parade and all-school installation event took place on September 6th, 2019.

If you would like to read through the Kaidan blog CLICK HERE

CLICK HERE to see full shadow show footage

The Team

Artistic director & Shadow puppet backdrop design: Penelope Bartlau
Set/lighting & Shadow puppet designer/builder: Jason Lehane
Sound designer & Composer: Chloë Violette Smith
Production manager & Lantern parade director: Emma Telford
Shadow puppet design workshops: Kyoko Imazu
Photographer: Oleksandr Pogorilyi
Videographer: Devika Bilimoria

HUGE THANKS to all the teachers, kids and staff at St Mary’s Primary, Colac

MEGAHUGE THANKS to the indominable, indefatigable and ever-inspiring Lynne Richardson without whom this project would never have been dreamed into existence.

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DEEPEST GRATITUDE

to Creative Victoria, the Victorian Government and the Department of Education and Training for funding this project.

Creative Learning Partnerships is a joint Victorian Government initiative between Creative Victoria and the Department of Education and Training