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Nashville: Puppet performance helps
Kurdish youth feel part of community
25.4.2006
By Alexa Hinton
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Nashville, USA,
April 25, -- Knowing that Nashville has the
country’s largest Kurdish population, local
marionette master Brian Hull wanted to do a special
puppet production that appealed to youngsters of
that ethnicity.
Made possible through a grant, Hull, the artistic
director for the public library’s children’s
programming troupe Wishing Chair Productions,
adapted “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” into a
marionette production. A part of Thousand and One
Nights, the tale is a favorite in Persian and Arabic
cultures.
“It’s more of an adventure story than normally done
with puppets, but it really brings the story to life
for them,” said Hull, who wrote the puppet version,
designed the figures and sets, and performs the
production.
The show, which features an original score of Middle
Eastern and Mediterranean-influenced music by local
composer Dan Landes, plays Fridays and Saturdays
through May at 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. in the
Children’s Theater in the Children’s Division of the
Main Library, 615 Church St.
Tahir Hussain, the director of the nonprofit
Nashville Kurdish Forum, said the marionette
performance was the perfect example of how to help
Kurdish people and other minorities integrate into
the community.
“It makes me feel a sense of belonging to the
community, and when you have these efforts you don’t
feel strange or different — you feel that you are
part of the community,” Hussain said.
Nashville City Paper.com
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