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CactusHead Puppets premieres a cave adventure about Jamie and a missing Echo, using tabletop puppetry, shadow puppet bats, and a dash of humor.
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.
Manual Cinema premieres a live cinematic work built from overhead projectors, handmade visions, puppetry, projection, physical theater, clowning, and spectacle.
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.
US Karagoz Theatre Company performs Ayhan Hulagu's solo Turkish shadow theatre work, blending 700-year-old Karagoz tradition with contemporary storytelling.
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.
Fusion Wayang Kulit presents a one-day programme with gallery tours, dialogue sessions, puppet-making, student performances, and classical and fusion wayang kulit showcases.
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.
Manual Cinema tours its live cinematic Macbeth adaptation combining shadow puppetry, miniatures, acting, and a cinematic soundscape.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar as an animated shadow-story program for young children.
Drew Colby brings hand shadowgraphy to A Day By The Sea at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre.
Reykjavik Arts Festival presents Ingoma Nshya's story with drum, dance, song, and live shadow puppetry by Kristine White Katese Aurore.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Dow Phumiruk's Mela and the Elephant as an animated shadow-story program for young children.
Matt Sandbank presents an interactive live shadow puppetry performance where poetry springs to life on screen for families and young audiences.
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.
Expert puppeteer Matt Sandbank brings a 45-minute family shadow puppet show to life with comic poetry and interactive performance.
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