CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Chicago will transform into a stage for two weekends for the return of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.
"The theaters will be warm, and the work will warm your heart,” said Artistic Director and festival Founder Blair Thomas.
Thomas encourages Chicagoans to brave the cold this weekend to check out local and international puppetry at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.
"The puppet festival is a citywide event that started off as a collaborative affair between myself and several of the presenters in town,” Thomas said.
Now in its sixth edition, Thomas said the 11-day festival at the Fine Arts Building is the largest of its kind in North America and features over 100 poetry activities from nine different countries.
"Whether it's the German company that's doing work on poetry or whether it's the Iranian- American who's telling the Persian tale, or the company from Indonesia., you recognize that this work is not born on our soil, and that's really dynamic,” Thomas said.
The festival starts Thursday and runs through January 28.
"It ends up creating just wonder, and it opens up your mind to the world and it takes you out of our own existence of being here in Chicago, and being in the Midwest and kind of always present to things we grow accustomed to, and it broadens your perspective ultimately, and that's invaluable,” Thomas said.
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