

Photo credits (L-R): 1) Biidaaban, stop motion puppets, by Amanda Strong (Métis, Cree, Anishnaabe). Puppet Shows: Tesla vs Edison FEB 22- Mar 12.
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From graceful Vietnamese water puppets and comical British hand puppets to the captivating stop-motion puppet animation of the award-winning Indigenous artist Amanda Strong-the full spectrum of human resilience and creativity is on display.Ĭurator: Nicola Levell, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UBCĭiscover the artists and performers featured in this exhibition in the Museum Note, or view hereĮxplore the virtual exhibition website for Shadows, Strings and Other Things Create-A-Puppet Workshop, and the Worlds of Puppetry Museum. Shadows, Strings and Other Things is an immersive experience that illuminates how puppetry continues to evolve and innovate in the hands of artists and performers who keep the tradition alive. With a focus on Asia, Europe and the Americas, the exhibition draws from MOA’s stunning international collection of puppets-the largest in Western Canada-and reveals new acquisitions from China, Brazil, Sicily, Java, the UK and France. You can touch air and see what puppetry does to water, fire and earth - the main elements of everything we see. The museums main exhibition starts from the very beginning. The theatre aims to offer high quality and diverse visual theatre and puppetry to all ages.
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Whether animated using age-old techniques or digital technologies, puppets are manipulated by hand, and here you’ll discover more about the different forms of manipulation and animation that give them life: shadow, string, rod, hand, and stop-motion. NUKU theatre & museum is the country’s only professional puppet centre.

Extraordinary stories and fantastical characters fill the stages, cases and multimedia installations of this enchanting exhibition. The Worlds of Puppetry Museum features the Jim Henson Collection Gallery, the definitive collection of more than 500 puppets, props, and costumes honoring.

Puppets are the precious purveyors of our epics, dreams and satires.Įnter into a theatrical world of kings and queens, demons and clowns, supernatural beings and more. Puppet Museum (Marionette Museum), is the Baroque Puppet Theatre, which includes Baroque Machine Puppet Production Group and Puppet Drama Don Juan, Flute. Puppets have been delighting, entertaining and educating audiences of all ages, letting our imaginations soar. For thousands of years, knowledge holders and storytellers around the world have engaged puppets as a means to dramatize the human experience.
