The workshops incorporated shadow puppetry, scrap puppet making, and collage techniques, inspiring participants to think creatively through games and hands-on activities, such as crafting junk ...

Gaspard opened the show with her “A Mermaid’s Life Story.” The piece combined Gaspard’s siren-like singing with a mermaid puppet and shadow box to tell her tale. Not only is Gaspard a creator of ...

Over the years, my friends would often ask me where I would spend my Holy Week break, and I would simply say I would travel ...

Togalu Gombeyatta, or “leather doll play” in Kannada, is a traditional shadow puppetry form from Karnataka, where handmade leather puppets bring epics and folktales to life. As this ancient ...

To combine a personal family saga with the horrifying, not-so-long-ago history of an entire people, and to tell that story onstage, is a challenge for which Syrian-Armenian-American performer ...

This book is authored by two emeritus faculty of the UC Davis Music Department. Hanggoro Murti is a shadow puppet master from Eromoko Wonogiri, Indonesia. He was born as the first child of three ...

Each year, believers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on a Sunday after ... As for the Easter bunny, its origins are not necessarily rooted in Christianity. The exact origins of the ...