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Thursday, November 10

Traditional Japanese Puppetry in Dialogue with Contemporary Puppet Theater
Time:
11:00 am
Presenter:
Tom Lee
Location:
Chevron Hall, Room 135
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Japan Iron and Steel Federation

Join us for this talk with director, designer, and puppet artist Tom Lee. Mr. Lee is the creator of the multimedia puppet piece "Akutagawa," which he will be directing in Pittsburgh this February. During this talk, he will discuss this piece and his process to puppetry as an art form. For questions about the event, please contact Elizabeth Oyler (eaoyler@pitt.edu). This talk is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature and with support from the Japan Iron and Steel Federation Endowments of the University of Pittsburgh and the Asian Studies Center of the University Center for International Studies.