Create a Shadow Puppet
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Armenia / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2018 June 27
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2018, Item SFF2018_0627_Armenia_The_Workshop_0003
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Ashkhen Khudaverdyan; Armen Kirakosyan; In Armenia, as in the wider region embracing the Middle East and Greece, shadow puppet theaters typically perform plays in which a trickster hero (known as Karagyoz) and his more sedate partner experience a series of comic and sometimes rude situations. Although somewhat similar to the shadow theaters of Turkey, Syria, Greece, and Egypt—all of which feature luxurious and colorful puppets—Armenian puppets are relatively simple and colorless, emphasizing the shadow more than the puppet itself. Make your own shadow puppet with members of "Ayrogi" Theater from Yerevan. Activities for all ages.