Experience the joyful tradition of Kamishibai (paper play)! Ta-chan, a kamishibai artist from Japan will be touring all through town this fall and will perform at the Garden on 10/8. Bring your whole family to the Garden for this special opportunity.
Kamishibai or "paper play" is a form of Japanese street theatre and storytelling that was popular during the Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in Japan until the advent of television. Kamishibai was told by a kamishibaiya (kamishibai narrator) who travelled to street corners with sets of illustrated boards that he or she placed in a miniature stage-like device secure on a bicycle and narrated the story by changing each image. Kamishibaiya would also sell candies before his story so that children could eat it while listening to the story.
First show starts at 11 a.m. & Second show starts at 1:00 p.m.
Each performance is a one-hour programming with four stories.
* Free admission to all youth 12 and younger from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for Family Saturday.
