A huge puppet designed by young people and more than 8ft (2.4m) tall is on display as part of an exhibition into folk stories, art, music and customs. Teenagers from the group Young Folk worked with ...

“This is really cool!,” exclaimed a fifth-grader, taking his seat for a student matinee of “Mwindo” at Seattle Children’s Theatre. One could share his enthusiasm for the terrific scenic design on ...

LAHORE, March 21: The seven-day eighth International Folk Puppet Festival opened at Rafi Peer Cultural Centre, Raiwind Road, on Monday amidst colours and music, celebrating the World Puppet Day. On ...

LAHORE, March 24: The four-day 10th International Folk Puppet Festival concluded here on Sunday at Rafi Peer Cultural Complex, Raiwind Road. The festival organised by Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop was ...

A shadow puppet play is a form of folk opera that involves cutting animal skin or hard paper into figures and using them in a performance in front of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of ...

Some new animals have moved in to the Philadelphia Zoo. And these animals can talk. “X-tink-shun: A wild puppet x-perience,” opening at the zoo Saturday, tells the important story of endangered ...

LAHORE: Puppeteers from India, Norway, Sri Lanka and Pakistan cheered each other at the International Folk Puppet Festival by Rafi Peer Theater Workshop (RPTW) that kicked off at Rafi Peer Cultural ...

At the opening of the fifth forum of Egyptian folk dolls comes the story of Egypt's oldest puppet The dying art of puppetry is the topic of professor Nabil Bahgat's latest book The Egyptian Aragoz.

There was a time when puppetry was a part of popular culture and hand puppets were made by children in their arts and crafts class. But with the advent of technology and its constant evolution, the ...

DHENKANAL: As the fine art of puppetry has slipped to the verge of extinction, one man, Susant Dhal, from a nondescript village of Rahidhi in Dhenkanal district has continued to provide the ...