16th March 2025
Time: 07:30pm
Duration: 40 Min
Venue: Ahmedabad University Central Campus
This innovative performance combines traditional shadow puppetry techniques with modern storytelling and puppetry styles, exploring themes or human condition,when all the commons of fables, myths, parables and stories are tending to disappear. Manek baba myth retelling through a collaborative puppetry will also be a tribute to oral memory, a lived era.
The installation will be built using bamboo as the framework, with layers of fabric and paper adding texture and dimension. It will tower over Gate 10, serving as both a welcome and a statement - a powerful visual prelude to the festival's commitment to exploring boundaries through art while also symbolising the festival's overarching theme: Art Leads
Collaborators
- Scrapyard Theatre: Innovative and inclusive theatre practitioners, bringing expertise in puppetry and storytelling.
- Shadow Puppetry: Traditional shadow puppeteer Sajeesh Pulavar adds his mastery of this ancient art form.
- PATRIC SIM: Seasoned puppeteer Patrick Sims contributes his experience and creative vision.
Workshop Details
As part of the Sabarmati International Contemporary Arts Festival, the puppet theatre workshop, inspired by the Manek Baba legend of Ahmedabad, will commence on March 3.
