Adult Craft: Shadow Puppet Workshop (In-Person)

Program Type:

Arts & Crafts

Age Group:

Elementary School, Teens, Tweens, Adults, Seniors, Parents
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Event Details

Artists in Partnership, Inc. presents “Chinese Theatre Works”, hands-on Shadow Puppetry Workshop. Chinese shadow performance (“Pi Ying Xi”) has a history going back 2000 years. This theater tradition uses beautifully carved and colored animal-hide figures, manipulated behind cloth screens in order to portray vivid episodes from history, literature and folktale.

In this workshop, we examine the world history of shadow theater through playing with puppets from around the globe and learning techniques for designing, building, and operating shadow puppets. Workshops focus on traditional on-screen shadow theater, and contemporary overhead projector shadow theater.

This program is open to adults and kids age 8 and up. Kids between the ages of 8 and 12 must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. 

“This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council.”