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Discover festivals, performances, workshops, and annual observance days connected to shadow puppetry.
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Midnight Radio Show stages original fairy tales with hand-crafted shadow puppets, songs, and live original music.
Hamid Rahmanian's shadow play based on the Persian epic Shahnameh, featuring 483 puppets, an ensemble of actors and puppeteers, and over 200 animated backgrounds.
US Karagoz Theatre Company presents a Turkish shadow theater satire in English for adults with live musical accompaniment.
US Karagoz Theatre Company brings a family-friendly Turkish shadow play about Belinda, a magician, and the forest witch Baba Yaga.
Firelight Shadow Theater's Daniel Barash brings folklore to life through shadow puppetry, stories, wisdom, and songs.
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.
Jim Henson Foundation-supported puppeteer Sam Rotengold leads a hands-on workshop on traditional and contemporary shadow puppet construction and performance. Ages 14+.
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