Puppets and the Immaterial World Puppet Forum with Tim Cusack and Claudia Orenstein

The Puppets and the Immaterial World Forum will focus on Dr. Claudia Orenstein and Tim Cusack’s explorations of contemporary puppetry and spirituality in the recently published second volume of Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects. Volume Two is subtitled “Contemporary Branchings: Secular Benedictions, Activated Energies, Uncanny Faiths,” and the essays in it continue the series’ consideration of a difficult, perhaps uncomfortable, and certainly overlooked aspect of modern puppetry: its spiritual functions. For more information, visit bimp.uconn.edu/2024/09/19/puppets-and-immaterial.  

Admission to this event is free (donations greatly appreciated!), and refreshments will be served. This forum will also be streamed via Ballard Institute Facebook Live (facebook.com/BallardInstitute). For more information or if you require accommodation to attend a forum, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860.486.8580 or bimp@uconn.edu.