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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.
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.
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.
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.
Tom Tuke leads a three-session workshop on building and performing shadow puppets, exploring history, jointed figures, screen movement, light, refraction, and shadow effects.
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.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents P. K. Hallinan's Father's Day story about the relationship between a child and his father.
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.
Malaysia Travel lists Kelantan traditional arts programming including wayang kulit performances alongside other regional folk arts, workshops, talks, and exhibitions.
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.
Tom Lee performs and designs a solo adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's EDEN using shadow screens, moving panoramas, stop-motion animation, and miniature worlds.
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.
Darebin Arts Speakeasy presents a contemporary Southeast Asian ghost story told through shadow puppetry inspired by Malaysian wayang kulit, live music, and dance.
A museum floor program where children use cardstock cutouts and projector light to cast shadows and turn a blank wall into a story theater.
Ash Winkfield's Water Walker explores the Igbo Landing of 1803 through object movement, tabletop puppetry, shadow puppetry, set design, and original music.
Little Wing Puppets performs a family theatre work about belonging and resilience, told through shadow puppetry, live theatre, interaction, and original music.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Bethany Roberts' Fourth of July Mice as a holiday shadow-story program for young children.
A weeklong youth camp for ages 10-13 focused on shadow puppet construction, screens, scenery, props, movement, music, and filmed short performances.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Eric Carle's The Grouchy Ladybug as a shadow-story program about friendship and manners.
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.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Frank Asch's Happy Birthday, Moon as a shadow-story program for young children.
Indonesia Travel lists Rafflesia Kemumu Festival programming with all-night wayang kulit performances alongside traditional dance, rituals, art, music, and local cultural activities.
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