Puppet rites: a Minneapolis-based theatre reaches back to the ritual power of puppets for healing and community building.(In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre)

This past September, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre was invited to bring the spirit of our local Mayday Parade and Festival to the opening ceremony of an international theatre festival in Gwacheon, South Korea. Together with a team of professional Korean artists, students and families from the Gwacheon area, and the dance-theatre company Mardohk from Iraq, we created and enacted a "Prayer for Harmonious Coexistence." It was a stunning privilege to work as collaborative celebrants with Koreans and Iraqis across the divide of fear and nations.

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