helenehugel's profile
Name: Helene Hugel
Organisation: IPPA, The Early Years Organisation, CREATE, Theatre Forum, Earlyarts, UK, The Irish Association of Hospital Play Specialists, Assitej Ireland (http://www.barnstorm.ie/assitej.php)
Website: http://www.helium.ie
Member since:2008-05-29
Last online:2011-02-09
Background
I am a puppeteer, performer, and arts and health practitioner, with a qualification in hospital play specialism. I began my professional career as a puppeteer in 1997 as co-founder and partner of the award winning Pca Puppets. I now specialise in the dynamic field of art and health and regard the healthcare setting as a platform to develop new work for children. The Bedmaker is my most recent performance and travels bedside-to-bedside, empowering children to transform their bed-space into imaginative, storytelling landscapes. I am supported by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland in the development of a new performing arts in health company for children called Helium. Using fun, play, and improvisation, I also work part-time as a team member for Artscares Clown Doctors, Northern Ireland.
Professional Organisation
IPPA, The Early Years Organisation, CREATE, Theatre Forum, Earlyarts, UK, The Irish Association of Hospital Play Specialists, Assitej Ireland (http://www.barnstorm.ie/assitej.php)
.Professional Statement
I am working to nurture and honour creativity as a natural resource for children`s well-being.
My artistic practice also aims to support a dynamic, child-friendly, family centred, holistic approach to childrens medical provision, within community, primary, and acute healthcare contexts.
Through Helium, I hope to produce creative performing art interventions for, with, and by young people which responds appropriately and adequately to their needs. I aim to work with respect to the healthcare setting as a community, responding to patients, families, visitors, and staff and facilitating partnerships between departments.
Through my work with Helium, I aim to uphold the Arts and Health field as a creatively charged environment with which artists can engage, where art-forms can be challenged, enriched, and extended to produce ground-breaking, inventive new work which engages with the development of childrens theatre in Ireland
- REFLECTLab
- Puppet Portal Project - Creative Outcomes and Learning from Phase 1
- Infant Imaginings Further Development
- Puppet Portal Project - Hospital A
- Infant Imaginings
- Puppet Stages and Theatre Boxes used to Frame the Video Link
- PPP Outcomes: Anna Rosenfelder`s Puppet Making Kit
- PPP Outcomes:Anna Rosenfelder`s Puppet Making Kit, How to Make a Puppet- Image
- PPP Outcomes: Anna Rosenfelder`s Puppet Making Kit, Variety of Materials Used- Image
- Visit to Ballymote Health Centre
