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Discover festivals, performances, workshops, and annual observance days connected to shadow puppetry.
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The Polish National Opera offers educational workshops on shadow puppetry and Polish legends, ending with a mini-production of the Legend of Lech, Czech, and Rus.
Veronica Barron leads a five-evening workshop where participants develop a shadow puppet show while exploring flat puppets, overhead projectors, hand-held lights, and body shadows.
Exhibition featuring a world-class collection of Asian shadow puppets gifted by theatre scholars, alongside puppets from the University of Hawaii.
Teatro Gioco Vita brings back its shadow-and-actor circus piece for the Piccole Platee series, with morning school performances and a Friday evening family show.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar as an animated shadow-story program for young children.
Manual Cinema tours its live cinematic Macbeth adaptation combining shadow puppetry, miniatures, acting, and a cinematic soundscape.
New York State Puppet Festival presents a free Manual Cinema exhibition exploring the shadow-puppetry company's history, techniques, and storytelling magic.
Drew Colby brings hand shadowgraphy to A Day By The Sea at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Dow Phumiruk's Mela and the Elephant as an animated shadow-story program for young children.
Reykjavik Arts Festival presents Ingoma Nshya's story with drum, dance, song, and live shadow puppetry by Kristine White Katese Aurore.
Bermondsey Puppet & Storytelling Festival hosts an after-dark workshop and show-and-tell where participants make shadow puppets with Sarah Sparkes and share optical tricks on screen.
Tom Lee performs and designs a solo adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's EDEN using shadow screens, moving panoramas, stop-motion animation, and miniature worlds.
A weeklong youth camp for ages 6-9 focused on shadow puppet construction, screens, scenery, props, movement, music, and filmed short performances.
Darebin Arts Speakeasy presents a contemporary Southeast Asian ghost story told through shadow puppetry inspired by Malaysian wayang kulit, live music, and dance.
Ash Winkfield's Water Walker explores the Igbo Landing of 1803 through object movement, tabletop puppetry, shadow puppetry, set design, and original music.
A weeklong youth camp for ages 10-13 focused on shadow puppet construction, screens, scenery, props, movement, music, and filmed short performances.
A practical evening class on building and performing with simple shadow puppets, light sources, and screens.
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.
Drew Colby presents Mr. Shadow, a family hand-shadow show built from shadowgraphy, vintage routines, and playful audience participation.
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.
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Make your own haunted shadow puppet show
Shadow puppetry is UNESCO-protected world heritage
Before cartoons, there were shadows — the original animation
One thousand years of Indonesian shadow puppetry
The darkest day of the year — grab a flashlight and make some shadows
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Sunway University presents a wayang kulit exhibition with AR and VR experiences, archival documentation, traditional games, and puppets from the collection of Prof. Ghulam Sarwar-Yousof.
Glowing Bug Puppet Theatre leads a magical shadow puppet theater adventure for kids — build puppets and perform your own shadow story.
Shadow Girls Cult pairs surreal marionette ritual with a black-and-white overhead projector shadow piece in a double-feature evening.
Cass Bray and Zane Exactly teach students how to create live overhead projector shadow performance using cut materials, bodies, and simple props.
Manual Cinema reimagines Macbeth with live cinema, projected puppetry, shadow play, miniatures, and a music-driven ensemble performance.
The 9th annual Object Movement Puppetry Festival includes Diane Matyas's shadow theatre project and Michael Vandergard's light puppetry work among its residency showings at Dixon Place.
Jim Henson Foundation-supported puppeteer Sam Rotengold leads a hands-on workshop on traditional and contemporary shadow puppet construction and performance. Ages 14+.
Chicago Puppet Fest hosts Linda Wingerter for a live online workshop on shadow puppet mechanisms beyond basic joints, including design concepts and practical construction approaches.
Sha Sha Higby's world premiere uses shadow puppets, costume installation, and projected images to move through changing animals, weather, and disaster.
CactusHead Puppets premieres a cave adventure about Jamie and a missing Echo, using tabletop puppetry, shadow puppet bats, and a dash of humor.
Sunny Seki shares Japanese folktales through classic shadow puppetry in an Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month program for children.
Manual Cinema premieres a live cinematic work built from overhead projectors, handmade visions, puppetry, projection, physical theater, clowning, and spectacle.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Karma Wilson's A Frog in the Bog as an animated shadow-story program for young children.
Center for World Music presents dhalang Woro Mustiko Siwi in a condensed English-language wayang kulit performance with Javanese gamelan and a post-show Q&A.
Frankston Arts Centre presents a family shadow-puppet performance and play-along workshop about Kiki and Zuki, blending visual storytelling, narration, and shadow scenes.
Drew Colby stages Hans Christian Andersen's tale using hand shadows, body shadows, light, and a few simple props in a family-friendly 45-minute performance.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents The Gigantic Turnip as an interactive shadow-story program for young children.
A school-holiday intensive where children build shadow puppets, experiment with light, and create a short shadow show.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Peter Brown's The Curious Garden as an animated shadow-story program for young children.
America's shadow day
Tell a story with nothing but shadows
The biggest day in puppetry, worldwide
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Leonardo studied light and shadow — celebrate art with your hands
America's day to celebrate the art of puppetry
Learn it on the app, then put the phone down and perform
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