"Chicken Licken" Puppet Show with Adam Bennett from SciTech

Watch a puppet show and learn to create shadow puppets…

Join Adam and Chicken Licken on this adventurous, engaging and puppet-y tale popularly showcased at SciTech. Plus! Learn to create your own shadow puppets from the show (that you then get to take home with you) in an interesting and hands-on workshop.
Mixed in with this recipe of food, puppets and music is the story of Little Red Hen and the sly Foxy Loxy. Will she outwit him and save her stuffing? What will she teach us about our wetlands?

Date: Thursday, the 19th of January 2023

Time: 10am-12pm

Price: $10 per child, adults to accompany children (concession/free tickets available, please get in touch with us)

What to bring:

Water Bottle
Light refreshments

Refreshments/food: NA

Suitable age groups: Children of all ages accompanied by adults

Event location: The Wetlands Centre Cockburn, 184 Hope Road, Bibra Lake WA 6163

GET WILD ABOUT WETLANDS

The Wetlands Centre Cockburn conducts Get Wild About Wetlands school holiday programs every school term break. offers a range of exciting educational sessions, hands-on activities, and eco-walks, talks and night stalks, activities which focus on our wetlands! Registrations are essential. Be quick as sessions book out fast!

This program is made possible thanks to State Natural Resource Management Program WA.
Supported by the City of Cockburn.

About the Presenter

DNA Co-founder Adam Bennett has 20 years of puppetry and performing arts experience and works at Scitech, Perth’s science education and interactive visitor attraction. SciTech was founded in 1988, about the same time Adam got his first job as a puppeteer at Perth’s Spare Parts Puppet Theatre. Having returned to Perth in 2010 after 20 years in Europe as a freelance performer and puppeteer, founding DNA Puppetry and Visual Theatre with Rachel Riggs, Adam is now strategically developing the Western Australian Youth Theatre Company as well as working on the performances for Scitech’s puppet theatre.

Adam has also directed the ‘Things that Glow’ science show in the Lotterywest Science Theatre for a special After Dark adults-only performance.