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Exhibition featuring a world-class collection of Asian shadow puppets gifted by theatre scholars, alongside puppets from the University of Hawaii.
Indonesia Travel lists Rafflesia Kemumu Festival programming with all-night wayang kulit performances alongside traditional dance, rituals, art, music, and local cultural activities.
Paper Monkey Theatre and The Gleam House present an English shadow play for young children that uses light and shadow to explore bedtime fear, comfort, empathy, and listening.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Peter Bently's Underpants Wonderpants as a superhero shadow-story program.
Drew Colby is listed for Kleines Fest Bad Pyrmont with Shadowgraphy, using hand shadows, light, and simple props to create animals, people, and stories.
Victoria University of Wellington hosts a Mandarin Corner session with a live demonstration of traditional Chinese shadow puppetry, cultural context, and a puppet-making activity.
Chinese Theatre Works teaches a live online introduction to shadow puppetry covering desktop theatres, basic figures, environments, music or text, and world traditions.
Drew Colby appears at Kleines Fest Ludwigslust with Shadowgraphy, a hand-shadow performance built from light, shadow, hands, and simple props.
SpringWorks lists a shadow puppetry workshop as part of its World in a Weekend international puppet festival programming in Stratford.
Verge Center for the Arts offers an August shadow puppetry camp for ages 6-9, covering puppet construction, screens, scenery, props, dialogue, movement, and music.
Festival of Fantasy lists Drew Colby's Shadows on the Wall as Hand-Schatten-Theater, a hand-shadow theatre performance using two hands, simple props, and light.
This 10-day figure-theatre conference earns inclusion for confirmed shadow-focused programming, including Fabrizio Montecchi's contemporary shadow theatre workshop and Kathy Foley's Wayang workshop.
Rhythmix in the Parks presents String & Shadow Puppet Theater in a free outdoor family performance of Night at the Grand Opera.
Puppet Showplace Theater presents a summer puppet slam whose official listing explicitly includes shower curtain shadow puppetry among the evening performances.
Drew Colby presents Mr. Shadow, a family hand-shadow show built from shadowgraphy, vintage routines, and playful audience participation.
A night of shadow puppetry featuring Jeighk Koyote's Ocean Kin and two short works by Dawn Brandes, using plexiglass puppets, sculptural props, projected illustration, flashlights, and overhead projection.
Mochinosha hosts a two-day shadow art festival with five shadow puppetry productions, workshops, hands-on exhibits, gamelan and violin music, and artists from Japan, Canada, and Indonesia.
The East Lyme Puppetry Committee hosts Sova Theater's musical performance combining live music, dance, and shadow puppetry.
Drew Colby brings My Shadow and Me to Firobi Festival Titelles, using hand shadows and shadowgraphy to build a comic visual world.
Wisconsin Union Theater presents Manual Cinema's shadow-puppet retelling of Frankenstein, combining handmade shadow puppetry, live music, cinematic technique, and projected visuals.
Performing Arts Houston lists Manual Cinema's The 4th Witch on Oct 28-29 as a Macbeth spin-off told through shadow puppetry, live music, and cinematic silhouettes.
CINARS Biennale lists Manual Cinema's The 4th Witch, a Manual Cinema shadow-puppetry and silhouette-theatre production.
Drew Colby's hand-shadow adaptation of The Ugly Duckling at The Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre in Glasgow.
Drew Colby's hand-shadow adaptation of The Ugly Duckling at The Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre in Glasgow.
Mr. Damon's Shadow Puppets presents an interactive adventure built from shadow and light where audience choices steer each performance through a different story route.
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