In 2017 and 2018 Julie Boada, Gustavo Boada and Anne Sawyer presented three short folk tales from Mexico, Myanmar and Somalia featuring shadow, rod and felted puppets.

“Cucú” (Mexico) is about a lazy and vain bird who doesn’t help the other animals with gathering for the harvest. She redeems herself when I fire breaks out on the farm.

“Hyenas Never Share the Meat” (Somalia) is a classic tale about cooperation and mistrust.

“Heros Into Monsters” (Karen story) is about trusting ones’ community to solve problems. Folk music curated by local composer Jim Parker.