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Jim & Debra Fader (USA)
Workshops: Debra 1. Human-Arm Puppetry 2. Advanced Puppetry 3. Choreography Part 1 & 2 Jim 1. Recording Your Own Puppet Plays
Judy Buch (USA)
Judy has spent the past ten years speaking for corporations and professional associations. Her client list includes: Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn and the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, The U.S, Department of Education, Raytheon Systems Inc, Travelers Property Casualty, and Corning, Inc. She has been seen on “Good Morning America,” pictured in Smithsonian Magazine, and featured in the New York Times. She recently presented in England, Scotland and Japan. In 1994 she joined the National Speakers’ Association (NSA) and NSA-New England, an award-winning chapter. Later she served as a board member for seven years and president from 1998-1999. She is a member of the National Speakers’ Association and also the NSA-CT Chapter. In 2001 Judy earned the designation of Certified Speaking Professional, from NSA, a sign of quality and commitment. It is an international measure of platform skill, experience and ethical behavior. Less than eight percent of all worldwide members have earned this prestigious designation. In 1996 at the 22nd annual International Ventriloquists Convention, Judy was honored when her peers voted her "Ventriloquist Of The Year." That award was presented to her at the International Festival Of Christian Puppetry And Ventriloquism (I-FEST) in 1997. Since then she has worked as a staff member of the ventriloquist's college at I-FEST each summer. She gives workshops, coaching sessions, and performances and has directed and co-directed the ventriloquist's dream team. She’s also a member of the VIT (Ventriloquists’ In Training) board. Ventriloquism is the perfect complement to highlight key points and delightfully captivate the audience. Workshops 1. 8 Principals of Developing Compelling Characters Don't let a "dead head" hold you back from excellence. Let's face it. A puppet character sells to an audience when it's fully alive. When the audience can see the "wheels turning" in your pal's head or identifies with your character's thinking strategies, the audience is hooked. Leave this workshop with 8 timeless principals that can take your ventriloquism and kick it up a notch. 2. Voice Characterisation - Distant Voice, Phone Voice, Muffled Voice Want to turn your ventriloquism performances into a rich experience for you and your audiences? Master these voices. Come hear and watch how you can create the distant, phone and muffled voices. Step away from ho-hum dialog to wowing your audiences and building suspense about how in the world you do that! 3. Ventriloquism For The Beginer 4. Voicing The Gospel Through Ventriloquism
Jon Bonner
Jon’s background is in theatre. After training for 3 years at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he worked professionally for over 9 years as an actor and musician in theatres throughout the whole of the UK and Europe. Shows he performed in include, ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’, ‘Blood Brothers’, ‘Murder at the Vicarage’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘Henry IV’ as well as three pantomimes. Jon lives near Bristol with his wife Debbie and their 3 children. Involved in children’s ministry since 1998, September 2003 saw him become full time in evangelism communicating the gospel through entertainment, drama, illusion and music, bringing fun and laughter to children and adults alike. Workshops: 1. Leading All-Age Worship 2. Putting Together A School Assemberley 3. Learn The Art Of Sketch-Boarding
Amy Robinson (UK)
Amy Robinson has been a bookworm all her life, studying English at Cambridge before becoming a primary school teacher. After two years of telling stories to her classes in school, she decided to see if anyone else would like to hear some and has never looked back. She is now one half of the storytelling partnership Snail Tales with colleague Chip Colquhoun and holds the illustrious title of Chief Story Snail. She enjoys telling all kinds of stories from every corner of the earth, but particularly loves to pass on God’s word in as enthralling a way possible. Amy is married to Tiffer, who is training to be a vicar, and they live near Cambridge with plenty of puppets, two ukuleles and one pet snail. Workshops: The Art of Story Telling
Tonny Sheppard
Workshops: - Recording Your Own Puppet Plays - Creating Creative Props
Mark Morgan
Workshops: 1. Engaging With Kids In Your Community Practical, proven ways that you can impact your community, with the setting of a weekly club – building relationships with community groups and widening the overall influence of your children’s ministry. 2. Building and Producing Your Own Backdrops
Tom Elliott
Tom Elliott, is a christian magician, comedian, ventriloquist, and author. His sense of humour appeals to all ages, enabling his audience to sit back, relax and laugh. As well as entertaining secular audiences he is also a member of "The Fellowship of Christian Magicians" and has taken his humour around many churches in the UK with his "Magical message" show. Workshops: 1. Tricks are More Than Magic 2. Startting off in Ventriloquism 3. Advanced Magic for the Beginner
Sam Sutherland (UK)
Sam Sutherland is the manager for the Hubble Community Enterprise based in Camberley, Surrey. Predominantly using puppets, the Enterprise runs after school clubs, one day puppet workshops in schools, holiday clubs, school assemblies and specialist work. The Enterprise is a secular run organisation bridging gaps in the community, enabling young people to gain confidence in finding their voice, giving them choice, by the sharing of knowledge, culture and values. Workshops: 1. Obtaining Grants for Communities and Schools This workshop will give you information on how to take Jesus into the community in a secular way, to gain grants and the know how of where to go and what to put on the application form. The language we use is the important difference between a yes and a no. To gain an understanding of what government views as most important and then how to reach and help those people in your community. My aim is to inspire you to take puppetry out to the community and then through that start or grow your church puppet team. Since running this workshop, those have attended have felt inspired to get out in a new way and have been successful in grant application. My Enterprise has been running for nearly three years and in that time we have been able to reach out to hundreds of young people and adults. Come along and see how this can be done. 2. Working with young people with special needs in schools and community Puppetry is a wonderful resource to use with special needs or those suffering from emotional and behavioural problems. Because puppets once remove the person from themselves it frees them up to express themselves in a new way. This workshop will give you ways and ideas to help you to achieve this in the classroom and/or community setting. I have worked with young people from all walks of life, emotional, physical problems, autistic young people, down syndrome and ADHD. In my experience these young people have benefited hugely through the work with puppets. I will share that with you and aid you to be able to achieve this in your school/church or community setting.
Jan Dyer
Jan Dyer has been the leader of the Children's Team at Christ Church, Lye in the West Midlands since 1989. She has also headed up the Children's Programme at major Christian conferences, including the 3 and 4 year olds at Soul Survivor and the under 11's for Mission For Our Times. She has written resource books: '100 Prayer Ideas for Children' and '100 Children's Club Activities' [published by 'Children's Ministry'] and booklets on 'Parachute for the Puppet Team and Children's Ministry' [pub. by One Way UK Creative Ministries]. Jan is the National Co-ordinator for the Christian Dance Fellowship of Britain. She and her husband, Graham, also lead an All-Age/ All-ability House Group for adults with learning disabilities and their families. They are both trained teachers and have three grown up children, two grand daughters and a house rabbit. Jan has been part of the One Way UK Team for 6 years. Her passion for the creative arts in worship and prayer is reflected in her workshops ... Workshops Creative Dance Who danced first? Come and find out as you explore how dance can be used for Jesus.
David Hellyer
Worksops: 1. Getting To Grips With Arm-Rods 2. Basic Puppet Manipulation 3. Creating a Unique Character for your Puppet 4. Advanced Puppetry Skills
Fiona Stutton
Fiona grew up in the Medway towns and has attended church all her life, she was baptised in her teens. It was whilst studying a children's ministry course at Philadelphia College of Bible in the USA that Fiona was introduced to puppetry at the local Baptist Church. Following college, she worked full time for The Family Trust, a Christian Charity set up to share Jesus with children in schools through assemblies, clubs and camps. Taking a step of faith to move on, Fiona spent a year working at Jackson's Ridge, South Africa, doing children's work, specializing in puppetry. She was then privileged to go on tour in America as a member of the One Way Street Puppet Internship Team. Currently Fiona is the children's worker at Ross on Wye Baptist Church. Besides being responsible for all the children’s' work within the church she is also involved in 7 local schools and in the community. She is also a regular Team member of the All Age Worship Team at Spring Harvest. Workshops: 1. Advanced Puppet Manipulation This advanced workshop is hands on and builds on the basic skills by developing arm rod movement, the puppet's character and personality. This not only includes the individual puppet but how they relate to the other puppets on stage (or people out front) and the props they are relating to. 2. Choreography This advanced workshop is hands on and builds on the basic skills by developing arm rod movement, the puppet's character and personality. This not only includes the individual puppet but how they relate to the other puppets on stage (or people out front) and the props they are relating to. 3. Blacklight Puppetry (with Ian Jones) Make your puppet performance come alive with the use of blacklight! We will demonstrate and discuss equipment, supplies, resources, props, scenery and blacklight puppets.
Ian Jones (UK)
Ian has been a director of One Way UK since April 2006 working full time with his wife Jenny in our sales office, Grimsby. Ian has a wealth of experience in children’s and youth work and is a qualified accountant. Inspired by One Way UK at a conference, Ian has been the Director of his Church puppet team in Grimsby for the last nine years. Now with over 30 members they have a busy programme of outreach, schools work. Ian was awarded Director of the year at the EPMF in 2000 and has led workshops and training days for One Way UK for the last 7 years. Ian’s heart lies in reaching out to children and equipping churches for evangelism. Workshops: 1. "Drop in not drop out" Directors Surgery This workshop is your opportunity to drop in for an informal chat with two experienced puppet team directors, Peter Hellyer and Ian Jones. No agenda just your chance to ask any question you want and share your experiences with us and other team directors.
Diane Hellyer
Diane has been a One Way UK workshop leader for a number of years. Originally a children’s worker, particularly with pre-schoolers, she now performs and teaches puppetry nationally and internationally. She has been married to Peter for almost 40 years and has three sons (all are puppeteers) and one grandson. She and Peter live in West Sussex. Workshops: 1. Ask the Animals and They Will Teach You: Do you need ideas for the children’s talk? Have you got animal puppets and don’t know what to use them for? In this workshop we will see how Scriptural truths can be brought alive by using the characteristics of animals represented by our puppets.
Peter Hellyer (UK)
Peter Hellyer is an established One Way UK workshop leader of many years. A children’s pastor for over 30 years Peter now performs and teaches puppetry nationally and internationally. A writer and broadcaster, Peter has written a number of publications for One Way UK, as well as many puppet scripts. He is responsible for writing the One Way UK Daily Devotionals. Peter has been married to Diane for over 40 years and has three sons (all are puppeteers) and two grandsons. She and Peter live in West Sussex. Workshops: 1. The Purpose Driven Team - Keeping our feet on the ground and our eyes on God A puppet team can never go beyond its vision, be successful without unity, or prosper without prayer. This workshop is a must for those seeking a vision for their puppetry, the development of their team and an effective ministry in the Church and community. This workshop draws together practical and spiritual matters to show how a solid foundation can be laid to enable puppet teams to move successfully with purpose as a group offering a strong Christian witness. 2. Creative Writing - Audience, material, action! Release the creativity that God placed within you and discover the principles that can help you create effective scripts for your puppet team. This seminar will give techniques to help you prepare scripts and survive the creative process with a smile, as well as including ways in which ideas can be developed. 3. Bringing your puppet to life! (with Diane Hellyer) Manipulating a puppet is one thing but bringing it to life is quite another! This seminar will demonstrate how we can add life to a puppet so that it becomes a believable character rather than an automaton. Learn how to “be the puppet” and give expression to your puppet – and enter the emotional challenge – if you dare! 4. Object lessons Not all of us have the confidence to use illusions when teaching or sharing the Gospel. However, we can take ordinary objects or toys (plus a few less usual but easily obtainable items) and turn them into practical, concrete, fun examples to illustrate spiritual truths in a memorable, material way. That's object lessons - the material making real the spiritual. Ideal for children and adults, object lessons can provide a fascinating introduction, interval or summing up of a puppet performance, as well as in Sunday School, all-age services, club nights etc. They are great for audience participation too! Come and get equipped to help others understand.
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