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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.
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.
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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.
Tom Tuke leads a three-session workshop on building and performing shadow puppets, exploring history, jointed figures, screen movement, light, refraction, and shadow effects.
ShadowLight's Jess Nguyen performs Earth Paper Cut, a youth-scripted shadow show, followed by a guided story-to-shadow-play exploration and puppet-building workshop.
A three-day youth project where students create Chinese shadow puppets and stage a short Journey to the West shadow play while learning about Pi Ying Xi.
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.
A free family workshop for ages 6-12 where children watch a shadow show, learn about light and projected silhouettes, then build characters, scenery, and a mini shadow theatre.
ArtStart offers a puppetry course within its Fantastic Voyages camp where Kallie Melvin guides students in creating shadow puppet characters, scenery, and story worlds.
A weeklong youth camp for ages 6-9 focused on shadow puppet construction, screens, scenery, props, movement, music, and filmed short performances.
A museum floor program where children use cardstock cutouts and projector light to cast shadows and turn a blank wall into a story theater.
A weeklong youth camp for ages 10-13 focused on shadow puppet construction, screens, scenery, props, movement, music, and filmed short performances.
Artist, puppeteer, and theatre-maker Deni Dominguez leads children in building recycled-material shadow puppets, then closes with a short shadow puppet show.
A youth camp brought by Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre where campers create shadow puppets, tell stories, and perform short pieces together.
A practical evening class on building and performing with simple shadow puppets, light sources, and screens.