Stephen Guy has been collaborating with Cabaret Mechanical Theatre for many years, starting in Covent Garden in the early 1990s. If you’ve been to one of our exhibitions in the UK or worldwide you will have certainly enjoyed some of his playful machines. Steve is also keen to share his love of all things moving […]
Meet the Artist – Loulou Cousin
Have you seen our newly launched Mechanical Making Project Mini Automata kits? The quirky characters and concept were created by artist and artist facilitator Loulou Cousin who we’ve been working with over the past couple of years. She skilfully brings to life comical scenes with card and collage and is one of the facilitators of […]
New US touring hub for Mechanics Alive
New Cabaret Mechanical Theatre US touring Hub at Explora Science Centre, New Mexico, US. Our history of exhibiting and collaborating with numerous science centres in the US goes back to October 1999 when we were invited to MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be part of MindFest, an experiment looking at playful invention and exploration. Through […]
43 Years of Family Friendly Automata Exhibitions
By Lisa Finch, CMT Development Director Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is an iconic collection of automata, or moving sculpture. These whimsical mechanical artworks illustrate their inner workings at the push of a button or turn of a lever often reflecting on social and cultural identity through a mix of ingenuity, irreverence, idiosyncrasy and humour. Simultaneously they […]
The Story Behind our Online Automata Courses
UPDATE: 2024 Workshop Available Now We are overjoyed to be running our online Automata Tinkering Global Workshop in January for the 7th time. We never imagined back in Sept 2020 that there would continue to be such an appetite for online making. Like everyone in the pandemic, we cautiously ventured into meeting online and discovered […]