TED Talks
Art, Conservation, and Resilience: Transforming Challenges into Change
Amir Nizar Zuabi and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins discuss the power of art and conservation in addressing global challenges. Zuabi reflects on his projects, including the moving puppet Amal and "The Herds," which use beauty and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bonnie Koba - Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Schools
The Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Schools approach is a whole school education reform approach that helps schools and their teachers change their culture over a six-year process to strengthen arts, arts integration, and democracy. Mission:...
TED Talks
Compassion and Crisis: A Conversation on Humanity, Climate, and Change
Amir Nizar Zuabi and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins discuss their shared concerns about humanity's lack of compassion and the interconnected crises of climate change, social injustice, and species extinction. Zuabi reflects on storytelling...
TED Talks
A Conversation on Climate, Humanity, and Renewal
Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and Amir Nizar Zuabi discuss their views on optimism in the face of global challenges. Tompkins expresses concern for the current century due to the climate crisis and its devastating impacts but hopes humanity...
Mazz Media
Stories of the American Puppet
From the streets and taverns of Colonial America to the bright lights of today's Broadway stage, puppets have been a favorite form of American entertainment. The American Puppet is the first documentary to chronicle the arts fascinating...
Curated Video
Being Other - LGBTQ History
National Archives; This video looks at the history of otherness relating to LGBTQ history, and the legislation and culture that formed LGBTQ identities historically as 'the other' in cultural and sociological norms.This film is part of...
Curated Video
Rebels in the Records: Radclyffe Hall’s Revolutionary Novel by Elina
National Archives: This films is part of a series called ‘Rebels in the Records’. The films in the series were created by young people in July 2021 and combine puppetry, model-making and animation. They explore stories of people and...
PBS
Pbs: Japanese Culture: Bunraku
In this excerpt from a documentary on Bunraku, students meet an apprentice studying to be a puppeteer at Bunraku Theater in Osaka and learn a little bit about the history of this classic Japanese art form and see puppets being manipulated.
Other
Asia Foundation: Multimedia: Indonesia in Focus: Music and Dance
Video of traditional Indonesian music and dance in which a gamelan orchestra performs, a shadow puppet play is enacted, and a masked character dancer entertains. [5:54]