Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Puppetry is an ancient form of artistic expression, and is one of the oldest forms of art-entertainment that still exists. We’ve loved it on stage seeing Avenue Q, War Horse or Little Shop of Horrors, but puppetry in performance goes far beyond that, and we can see performers pushing boundaries and creating bridges of empathy through puppetry at La Mama, Puppet Slams, Dixon Place, the Eugene O’Neill National Puppetry Conference and more. I first discovered puppetry through the O’Neill Theater Center and as a musical theatre performer and playwright, felt like I had found home. Puppetry became an ideal way to fuse multiple mediums to tell a universal story. A few years later, I couldn’t be more excited to celebrate World Puppetry Day, which comes every March 21. The idea came from the puppet theater artist Javad Zolfaghari from Iran. In 2000 at the XVIII Congress of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette, (UNIMA) in 2003 UNIMA, and has become a real tool for the promotion of puppetry arts and a project allowing to unite the puppet actors of the same territory.