Amal, la marionnette géante venue de Syrie, dans les rues de Paris jusqu’à vendredi

After a journey started in July 2021 in Gaziantep, Turkey, the giant puppet Amal continues its journey in France before reaching Great Britain. This 3.5 meter high doll, symbolizing a young Syrian refugee, can be discovered in the streets of Paris until this Friday, October 15, 2021.

She is a Syrian refugee and her name is Amal. This 9 year old child with long black hair has been crossing Europe since July in order to reach Manchester in the United Kingdom and try to find her mother, whose whereabouts she has lost during the war that has struck her country. If the story of this little Amal is extremely poignant, her character is fictional, symbolized by a giant puppet to discover until this Friday, October 15, 2021 in the streets of Paris. The 3.5 meter high doll arrived in France after a long journey taken by many refugee children. After crossing Turkey, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and several thousand kilometers, the little Amal began her " walk " in the Paris region on Tuesday, October 12.

As reported by our colleagues in Le Parisien, it was in Aubervilliers that onlookers were able to discover the giant puppet. Behind this committed and united project, we find Good Chance Theatre, a theater company created in 2015, which wanted to alert on the fate of migrant children. The company has therefore imagined an artistic festival called " The Walk " that follows the steps of little Amal. And highlighting these young, isolated refugees through this giant doll was a no-brainer for the company, which had already featured the character of Amal in the award-winning play"The Jungle."

" Children like Amal, unaccompanied minors as young as them, there are plenty," Claire Béjanin, producer of The Walk for France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, told the daily.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Little Amal (The Walk) (@walkwithamal)

Made by the creators of "War Horse", Handspring Puppet Company, the puppet Amal will invest several places in Paris these Wednesday 13, Thursday 14 and Friday 15 October 2021. Rendezvous notably this Wednesday from 7:45 pm on the square of theArab World Institute, where the Little Amal will discover an installation of tents in the heart of the city. Then, this Thursday, October 14, Amal will stroll in the Jardin du Palais Royal. Then on October 15, the choreographer Rachid Ouramdane has imagined a collective artistic event to receive the little Amal with the Company XY and isolated minors on the square of the Trocadero.

Where to meet the giant puppet Amal in Paris?

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13, 2021