An intimate playground for puppet arts
Lìzé Puppet Art Colony, Taiwan’s first art colony dedicated to contemporary puppetry, revitalizes a barn in Yilan into a dynamic creative hub. Built upon “Puppet and Its Double Theater’s” 25-year legacy, it explores puppetry’s possibilities while offering interactive cultural experiences. As a global center for puppetry, it serves as both a training base and a connection point for Taiwanese puppet artists to the world. With exhibition spaces, a professional puppet workshop, studios, rehearsal halls, and performance areas, it stands as one of the largest multipurpose spaces for contemporary puppetry.
The regular programs taking place here include artist-in-resident projects, puppetry workshops, masterclasses, collaboration projects, and an international network bringing performances from other countries together, followed by in-depth tours related to the art of puppetry and the Lìzé International Puppet Festival to make puppetry more accessible to Taiwanese of all ages and to make an impressive glocalized presence on the international space.