PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Little Amal the Handspring puppet will be in Dover's Pencester Gardens today and from 6pm leave in a lantern procession for Dover Castle according to Kent Live.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/_media/img/750x0/FE9GWTV4U94A0O7GBNPC.jpgCaptain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
Reminds me of the tale of the Trojan Horse? Watched it on YouTube last night expecting at any moment a number of swarthy young men to burst out of the puppet and disappear into the crowd like they do from lorries on the A2.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
I know this will make me into a grumpy old woman but although it is very cleverly done I fail to understand why there was such a fuss about this giant puppet.
Did anyone on here actually go and watch it being 'walked' in the town, at least I can not say nothing ever happens in Dover.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
I expect all of the well paid directors of the Samphire group would have been in attendance. Them and the school groups that were coerced into contributing.
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Arte et Marte
Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
I didn't go to it, but then I forgot about it. I know there are strong opinions on here about the migrant problem, but this project is a national thing, with the puppet (representing a young child migrant I believe) coming to this country.
The migrant problem is massive and needs sorting to prevent poorly educated attitudes boiling over, but a little child arriving fleeing genuine fear will always have my support.
And before anyone says "but they've come from a safe country, France" clearly knows nothing about trafficking or the migrant issue at all.
I thought it was good from what I saw on YouTube and would have gone if I had remembered.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
It was packed in pencester
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