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Tom Tuke leads a three-session workshop on building and performing shadow puppets, exploring history, jointed figures, screen movement, light, refraction, and shadow effects.
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.
The museum hosts a drop-in floor program centered on shadow puppets, included with general admission during summer hours.
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.
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.