Pulling the right strings

Chennai | Thursday | 15th August, 2019

Summary:

The Backyard in Adyar is organising a creative puppetry workshop in collaboration with Theatre Akku for children aged 6-13 years on August 18. However, it was after the flood in 2018 in Kerala, that he stumbled upon creative puppetry. While visiting relief camps, the tremendous amount of waste generated haunted him and it was then that he realised he could make puppets using waste. “Making puppets requires some creative skills. Making puppets lets children think out of the box and also develops their cognitive skills,” he says..