{"id":36205,"date":"2025-06-04T03:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T02:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T03:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T02:02:48","slug":"theatre-of-tales","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre of Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Theatre of Tales is an interactive storytelling experience that celebrates the cultural diversity of Waterford through shadow puppetry and lived experience. In the lead-up to the festival, families and individuals from local and migrant communities take part in creative workshops where they craft personal stories of migration, identity, and belonging. These stories are then transformed into miniature shadow puppet theatres and filmed performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the A Slice of Culture Festival, audiences are invited to explore these puppet theatres and access the recorded stories via QR codes, allowing for an engaging, self-paced experience that fosters empathy and intercultural connection. Following the festival, the project will become a mobile exhibition touring libraries and community venues across Waterford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To further preserve and share these voices, the stories will be compiled into a publication featuring imagery from the puppet performances and embedded links to the video stories. Theatre of Tales not only highlights Waterford\u2019s evolving cultural identity but empowers communities to share their heritage in creative, accessible&nbsp;ways.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":36206,"template":"","class_list":["post-36205","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Theatre of Tales - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Theatre of Tales is an interactive storytelling experience that celebrates the cultural diversity of Waterford through shadow puppetry and lived experience.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Theatre of Tales - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Theatre of Tales is an interactive storytelling experience that celebrates the cultural diversity of Waterford through shadow puppetry and lived experience. In the lead-up to the festival, families and individuals from local and migrant communities take part in creative workshops where they craft personal stories of migration, identity, and belonging. These stories are then transformed [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CreativeIrl\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@creativeirl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/\",\"name\":\"Theatre of Tales - Creative Ireland Programme\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/zeynep-sumer-amjkrejjnuk-unsplash-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-04T02:02:48+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/zeynep-sumer-amjkrejjnuk-unsplash-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/zeynep-sumer-amjkrejjnuk-unsplash-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":1707,\"height\":2560},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Theatre of Tales\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Creative Ireland Programme\",\"description\":\"The Creative Ireland Programme is guided by a vision that every person in Ireland will have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential. It is a five year all-of-Government initiative, from 2017 to 2022, to place creativity at the centre of public policy.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Theatre of Tales - Creative Ireland Programme","description":"Theatre of Tales is an interactive storytelling experience that celebrates the cultural diversity of Waterford through shadow puppetry and lived experience.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Theatre of Tales - Creative Ireland Programme","og_description":"Theatre of Tales is an interactive storytelling experience that celebrates the cultural diversity of Waterford through shadow puppetry and lived experience. In the lead-up to the festival, families and individuals from local and migrant communities take part in creative workshops where they craft personal stories of migration, identity, and belonging. These stories are then transformed [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/","og_site_name":"Creative Ireland Programme","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CreativeIrl\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@creativeirl","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/","url":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/","name":"Theatre of Tales - Creative Ireland Programme","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/zeynep-sumer-amjkrejjnuk-unsplash-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2025-06-04T02:02:48+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/zeynep-sumer-amjkrejjnuk-unsplash-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/zeynep-sumer-amjkrejjnuk-unsplash-scaled.jpg","width":1707,"height":2560},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/theatre-of-tales\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Theatre of Tales"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/","name":"Creative Ireland Programme","description":"The Creative Ireland Programme is guided by a vision that every person in Ireland will have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential. It is a five year all-of-Government initiative, from 2017 to 2022, to place creativity at the centre of public policy.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/36205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}