During the first month of my residency with Papermoon Puppet Theatre, Papermoon hosted their biennial international puppet festival: Pesta Boneka #9: Seeds of Hope. This year’s pesta was their biggest one yet: featuring 120 artists from 25 countries. It was truly an all you can eat buffet of puppetry, object manipulation and mask.

An update on my first two weeks of my two month residency with Papermoon Puppet Theatre in Yogyakarta, Indonesia