Digital Learning Workshop | Ages 13+ | Online
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Live, Interactive Online Workshop with Damon Young!

Experience the captivating art of shadow puppetry firsthand by designing and constructing your shadow puppet! 

In this fun, hands-on workshop, explore how shadow puppetry can be a source of artistic inspiration, self-expression, and spiritual connection. Learn about the global reach of this ancient art form and how modern-day artists maintain its traditions and foster technical innovation. Discover how the simple elegance of its construction offers the perfect entry point for anyone to create a shadow puppet whenever and wherever inspiration hits. Ignite your creative spark as you design and build your shadow puppet.

The full list of supplies is located here. After registration, you will receive your ZOOM link along with a PDF of a puppet pattern you can use if you choose to not design your own puppet. 

Cost: $35 (recording provided if you miss the session)

Program Length: 1 hour

Location: ZOOM

Once registered and paid, you will receive an email from ZOOM with the link for the program

*If you do not see your ZOOM email with the link in your inbox, please check your SPAM folder. If you have any issues, please contact distancelearning@puppet.org

Damon Young
Teaching Artist
Damon Young
Damon has been with the Center for Puppetry Arts for 15 years, and is the Lead Teaching Artist in the Education Department. He loves learning new things and is a part-time ethnomusicologist (applying these skills to puppetry by specializing in the intersection of music, culture and puppetry traditions). Amongst other responsibilities, Damon creates the learning activities for instructor-led Create-A-Puppet Workshops, curates the Discovery Days programming and collaborates on international puppetry workshops. He is on The Georgia Council for the Arts teaching artist registry, and the founder of his own shadow puppet performance company, Mr. Damon’s Shadow Puppet Theater. As an ardent creator and teacher, he empowers students in design and performance of puppet theatre by mentoring them to access their natural state of creativity, kindness, self-actualization and cooperation.

About the Puppetry Pro Series: 

Our Puppetry Pro Series gathers an array of puppetry professionals to host hands-on, interactive online workshops that can be experienced from wherever in the world you happen to be. These workshops will cover the basics you need to get started to build and/or perform a variety of puppetry styles, along with the tips and tricks our instructors have developed and honed over the course of their careers. 

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