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ArtWorks

ArtWorks was commissioned by The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts (formerly Arts & Kids) to develop a project that would help children to experience the arts in a high quality way and to link the worlds of business, arts, children and education. Eastside, in partnership with The Cartoon Network - home to some of the funniest and most exciting new cartoons - devised and created ArtWorks, a project designed to enable children to make live action cartoons on stage, which could then be filmed and turned into screen cartoons. Cartoons are ideal for freeing young people's imaginations as the slapstick humour effortlessly engages children with its larger than life physicality. The participants studied and researched cartoons from The Cartoon Network library to learn movement and physical traits and then went on to create their own original cartoon characters and bring them to life using physical theatre techniques. Eastside's physical theatre practitioners, including globally renowned Marcello Magni from Theatre de Complicite, helped the participants to observe and reproduce a variety of walks, movements and moments of interaction through live performance. Past participants also had the opportunity to deepen their understanding of narrative by storyboarding their cartoons before they were performed and filmed live on stage at the Broadway Theatre in Lewisham. The children also learnt about editing and were able to create their own cartoon-style sound effects, which were added on to the final film during a post production workshop held in The Cartoon Network's London edit suite. Eastside and The Cartoon Network were joint recipients of the 2005 Prince of Wales Arts & Kids Foundation Awardpresented by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, for the ArtWorks project.