Open Day 2022 - Digital!

Colourful birds, zombies, superheroes and monsters - get ready and create your own fantasy characters! In keeping with tradition, the first event of the New Year at PACT is always our ›Open Day‹. This ever popular occasion offers visitors both young and old a glimpse behind the scenes of a bustling theater and arts center. This year PACT invites children to try their hands at a host of fun, creative things to do themselves and has prepared a variety of online activities for children to enjoy at home.

At the heart of this year’s ›Open Day‹ is our real hero of the day: you! Once you’ve cut out, glued and painted your very own superhero mask, you’ll be all set to go!

Grab some pens, stickers, glue, scissors and whatever else you have at home to transform yourself into a PACT superhero. You can design and create your very own superhero mask anyway you like. All you need is your imagination and you're all set.

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Foyer

The monsters are on the loose! Join Clara Gsella (Jugendamt Stadt Essen) to learn how to make funny, colourful, fuzzy monsters out of pipe cleaners. Let your ideas run wild! What will your monster gang look like?

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Office

Hakan Eren is a magician of a really enchanted kind who makes children's dreams come true with nothing less than balloons and his sheer inventiveness. At the twist of a knot, he can create amazing balloon figures such as superheroes, colourful bouquets of flowers and fantastic comic characters. In his workshop, Hakan will share some of his greatest secrets with us and show you how to become a balloon artist at home.

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Dancefloor

Do the wave! Become a dance routine hero! Turn your living room into a dance floor with E-Motion’s moves and sounds. Takao Baba and his team show you how to bring objects and figures to life with dance moves and create great choreographies in the process. Dance along or invent your own moves!

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Main stage

How does stage lighting work? How can you change a character with light and shadow? And how can you create different moods with music? Our trainees Leon and Desirée have dug deep into their amazing box of theater tricks for you. Featuring a special guest star created by balloon artist Hakan Eren, their fantastic light show and sound installation puts PACT’s entire theatre inventory to the test and is recorded as an immersive 360-degree video. We recommend you use headphones for an exceptional sound experience!

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WerkStadt

Miyoko Urayama has been creating art with paper since she was a child. Today her large and small figures can also be seen in theaters. In her workshop, she shows us how we too can fold imaginative origami paper figures.

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Illustration: Nes Kapucu

Have you seen the colourful PACT animals on this year’s open day poster made by our illustrator Nes Kapucu. With our colouring drawing, the budding artists amongst you can create your very own versions of them. What colours will you chose for the octopuses or dinosaurs? We look forward to seeing your results! Post them under #pacthelden and with a little luck you could win tickets for a performance for children at PACT very soon!

Our feathered friends are always happy to find an extra portion of food to help them through the cold season before spring arrives. In our video tutorial, you can learn how to make a creative upcycled bird feeder out of a simple milk carton and do something good for the environment!

Our chef Wim has been at home in kitchens all over the world and regularly cooks delicious local and seasonal dishes at PACT and always with a special twist. For this year's ›Open Day‹, he has a delicious recipe in store for you with kale - a recognised superfood that warms you up on cold days, provides you with important vitamins and minerals and, above all, tastes really good. So get cooking and bon appétit!

What you need:

Origami: square origami paperMonster craft: Pipe cleaners, pompoms wiggle eyes, optional: glueBalloon art: modelling balloon (recommended length 115cm)Super hero mask & colouring picture: Printer, paper, pencils, scissor

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PACT Café Reading Corner

There are great children's books to discover in the digital PACT Café. Read-aloud videos are regularly published in the 'Reading Together' series. We start with the book 'Im Garten von Oma Apo' by Tang Wei in German. More stories will follow - then also as bilingual videos.

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Children's play - Win tickets with #pacthelden

In a magical arena of fabrics, projections and sound, the audience listens to the sounds of the taiko drum and other Japanese instruments. Tsubasa Hori sings and tells of the Buddhist Obon Festival. Post your colouring pictures on Instagram under #pacthelden and with a bit of luck you could win tickets to the play!

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