🏮 Shadow Lantern Premiere Night

Small ensembles present their polished bilingual shadow puppet scenes for families, museum partners, bilingual volunteers, and school guests, then guide visitors through a Behind the Screen Showcase of finished scripts, translucent puppets, prop sketches, rehearsal photos, and story-to-stage journals. Each group gives a brief spoken introduction in English and Chinese and answers audience questions about how real community stories, photographs, oral histories, or artifacts shaped the final scene. Audience members leave feedback cards on clarity, emotional impact, cultural accuracy, and what moment stayed with them.