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SWEDEN THE HERDS

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20250725The art project 'The Herds' visits Sergels Torg in central Stockholm, on July 25, 2025. The Herds is an international art and climate manifestation with a herd of life-size animals, made of cardboard and designed by puppeteers in South Africa, on tour in Africa and Europe.Photo: Oscar Olsson / TT / Code 12046

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SWEDEN THE HERDS

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20250725The art project 'The Herds' visits Sergels Torg in central Stockholm, on July 25, 2025. The Herds is an international art and climate manifestation with a herd of life-size animals, made of cardboard and designed by puppeteers in South Africa, on tour in Africa and Europe.Photo: Oscar Olsson / TT / Code 12046

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SWEDEN THE HERDS

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20250725The art project 'The Herds' visits Sergels Torg in central Stockholm, on July 25, 2025. The Herds is an international art and climate manifestation with a herd of life-size animals, made of cardboard and designed by puppeteers in South Africa, on tour in Africa and Europe.Photo: Oscar Olsson / TT / Code 12046

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SWEDEN THE HERDS

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20250725The art project 'The Herds' visits Sergels Torg in central Stockholm, on July 25, 2025. The Herds is an international art and climate manifestation with a herd of life-size animals, made of cardboard and designed by puppeteers in South Africa, on tour in Africa and Europe.Photo: Oscar Olsson / TT / Code 12046

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SWEDEN THE HERDS

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20250725The art project 'The Herds' visits Sergels Torg in central Stockholm, on July 25, 2025. The Herds is an international art and climate manifestation with a herd of life-size animals, made of cardboard and designed by puppeteers in South Africa, on tour in Africa and Europe.Photo: Oscar Olsson / TT / Code 12046

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SWEDEN THE HERDS

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20250725The art project 'The Herds' visits Sergels Torg in central Stockholm, on July 25, 2025. The Herds is an international art and climate manifestation with a herd of life-size animals, made of cardboard and designed by puppeteers in South Africa, on tour in Africa and Europe.Photo: Oscar Olsson / TT / Code 12046

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SWEDEN THE HERDS

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20250725The art project 'The Herds' visits Sergels Torg in central Stockholm, on July 25, 2025. The Herds is an international art and climate manifestation with a herd of life-size animals, made of cardboard and designed by puppeteers in South Africa, on tour in Africa and Europe.Photo: Oscar Olsson / TT / Code 12046

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Tunisia holds Carthage Puppetry Arts Days

STORY: Tunisia holds Carthage Puppetry Arts Days SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 4, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 5, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:57 LOCATION: Tunis CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Carthage Puppetry Arts Days STORYLINE: The fifth edition of the Carthage Puppetry Arts Days is being held in the Tunisian capital of Tunis. The eight-day event, which started Saturday, is expected to gather more than 100 puppeteers from 19 countries and regions to stage 55 shows, according to the official TAP news agency. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tunis. (XHTV)

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CHINA-FUJIAN-QUANZHOU-PUPPET ARTISTS (CN)

(231212) -- QUANZHOU, Dec. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chen Daigong (4th R), puppeteer and inheritor of a local Chinese puppet performing art, talks with Iranian puppeteers at a puppet art preservation center in Jinjiang of Quanzhou City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Dec. 11, 2023. Puppet artists from 12 countries are invited to Quanzhou, a city widely believed to be the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road, to give puppet performances and communicate with local puppet artists. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)

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Japan Bunraku troupe to take part in Palermo puppet festival

KUMAMOTO, Japan - An amateur ''Seiwa Bunraku'' puppet troupe from Kumamoto Prefecture will take part in the Morgana Puppet Festival in Palermo, Italy on Dec. 14-16. This photo, taken Dec. 9, depicts a scene in a Seiwa Buraku performance held at the Seiwa Bunraku Museum in Yamato, Kumamoto. Seiwa Buraku, a local Kumamoto form of traditional Japanese puppet theater, is typically staged by three puppeteers in black costumes, their faces covered in hoods.

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CHINA-JIANGXI-PUPPET TROUPE (CN)

(220817) -- NANCHANG, Aug. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A member of Qixin puppet troupe packs puppets in Qitian Village of Tangfang Township in Guangchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 10, 2022. Tangfang puppetry is an opera in which artists perform stories with puppets. The puppetry was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2013. In 1997, Xie Bangyin, a folk puppeteer from Tangfang, founded Qixin Puppet Troupe with fellow puppeteers. During festivals and important events, local villages would invite the troupe to perform puppetry. Over the past 25 years, the troupe has given more than 3,500 performances. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

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CHINA-JIANGXI-PUPPET TROUPE (CN)

(220817) -- NANCHANG, Aug. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Aug. 10, 2022 shows a truck of Qixin puppet troupe on its way for a performance in Qitian Village of Tangfang Township in Guangchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province. Tangfang puppetry is an opera in which artists perform stories with puppets. The puppetry was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2013. In 1997, Xie Bangyin, a folk puppeteer from Tangfang, founded Qixin Puppet Troupe with fellow puppeteers. During festivals and important events, local villages would invite the troupe to perform puppetry. Over the past 25 years, the troupe has given more than 3,500 performances. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

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CHINA-JIANGXI-PUPPET TROUPE (CN)

(220817) -- NANCHANG, Aug. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Villagers watch a performace of Qixin puppet troupe in Dazhu Village of Tangfang Township in Guangchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 10, 2022. Tangfang puppetry is an opera in which artists perform stories with puppets. The puppetry was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2013. In 1997, Xie Bangyin, a folk puppeteer from Tangfang, founded Qixin Puppet Troupe with fellow puppeteers. During festivals and important events, local villages would invite the troupe to perform puppetry. Over the past 25 years, the troupe has given more than 3,500 performances. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

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CHINA-JIANGXI-PUPPET TROUPE (CN)

(220817) -- NANCHANG, Aug. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Villagers watch a performace of Qixin puppet troupe in Dazhu Village of Tangfang Township in Guangchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 10, 2022. Tangfang puppetry is an opera in which artists perform stories with puppets. The puppetry was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2013. In 1997, Xie Bangyin, a folk puppeteer from Tangfang, founded Qixin Puppet Troupe with fellow puppeteers. During festivals and important events, local villages would invite the troupe to perform puppetry. Over the past 25 years, the troupe has given more than 3,500 performances. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

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CHINA-JIANGXI-PUPPET TROUPE (CN)

(220817) -- NANCHANG, Aug. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Members of Qixin puppet troupe perform in Dazhu Village of Tangfang Township in Guangchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 10, 2022. Tangfang puppetry is an opera in which artists perform stories with puppets. The puppetry was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2013. In 1997, Xie Bangyin, a folk puppeteer from Tangfang, founded Qixin Puppet Troupe with fellow puppeteers. During festivals and important events, local villages would invite the troupe to perform puppetry. Over the past 25 years, the troupe has given more than 3,500 performances. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

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CHINA-JIANGXI-PUPPET TROUPE (CN)

(220817) -- NANCHANG, Aug. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Xie Bangyin (R), head of Qixin puppet troupe, performs with troupe members in Dazhu Village of Tangfang Township in Guangchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 10, 2022. Tangfang puppetry is an opera in which artists perform stories with puppets. The puppetry was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2013. In 1997, Xie Bangyin, a folk puppeteer from Tangfang, founded Qixin Puppet Troupe with fellow puppeteers. During festivals and important events, local villages would invite the troupe to perform puppetry. Over the past 25 years, the troupe has given more than 3,500 performances. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

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CHINA-JIANGXI-PUPPET TROUPE (CN)

(220817) -- NANCHANG, Aug. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Members of Qixin puppet troupe have dinner by the stage in Dazhu Village of Tangfang Township in Guangchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 10, 2022. Tangfang puppetry is an opera in which artists perform stories with puppets. The puppetry was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2013. In 1997, Xie Bangyin, a folk puppeteer from Tangfang, founded Qixin Puppet Troupe with fellow puppeteers. During festivals and important events, local villages would invite the troupe to perform puppetry. Over the past 25 years, the troupe has given more than 3,500 performances. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

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CHINA-JIANGXI-PUPPET TROUPE (CN)

(220817) -- NANCHANG, Aug. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Xie Bangyin, head of Qixin puppet troupe, assembles a puppet in Dazhu Village of Tangfang Township in Guangchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 10, 2022. Tangfang puppetry is an opera in which artists perform stories with puppets. The puppetry was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2013. In 1997, Xie Bangyin, a folk puppeteer from Tangfang, founded Qixin Puppet Troupe with fellow puppeteers. During festivals and important events, local villages would invite the troupe to perform puppetry. Over the past 25 years, the troupe has given more than 3,500 performances. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

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CHINA-JIANGXI-PUPPET TROUPE (CN)

(220817) -- NANCHANG, Aug. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Xie Bangyin (R), head of Qixin puppet troupe, practices puppetry with a troupe member in Qitian Village of Tangfang Township in Guangchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 10, 2022. Tangfang puppetry is an opera in which artists perform stories with puppets. The puppetry was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2013. In 1997, Xie Bangyin, a folk puppeteer from Tangfang, founded Qixin Puppet Troupe with fellow puppeteers. During festivals and important events, local villages would invite the troupe to perform puppetry. Over the past 25 years, the troupe has given more than 3,500 performances. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

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Puppeteers from Japan's Hyogo region perform at Expo Milano

Puppeteers from the Awaji district in Hyogo Prefecture perform a puppet theater play during a Japan pavilion event held at Expo Milano 2015 in Milan, Italy, on July 18, 2015, to showcase specialties from the western Japanese region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mobile stage used for open-air "Bunraku" puppet theater performance

Puppeteers rehearse on an assembled stage made entirely with Japanese cypress in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2015, ahead of the first open-air performance in the traditional art's birthplace. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Bunraku troupe to take part in Palermo puppet festival

KUMAMOTO, Japan - An amateur ''Seiwa Bunraku'' puppet troupe from Kumamoto Prefecture will take part in the Morgana Puppet Festival in Palermo, Italy on Dec. 14-16. This photo, taken Dec. 9, depicts a scene in a Seiwa Buraku performance held at the Seiwa Bunraku Museum in Yamato, Kumamoto. Seiwa Buraku, a local Kumamoto form of traditional Japanese puppet theater, is typically staged by three puppeteers in black costumes, their faces covered in hoods. (Kyodo)