After the AKUTAGAWA performances on Sunday, puppeteers Koryu Nishikawa V (Tokyo) and Tom Lee (Chicago) will join Pittsburgh-based puppeteer David English in a panel discussing how puppetry can be a vehicle to express art and literature, as well as the cultural differences in the medium.

This panel is conducted in partnership with City of Asylum. Register on their website.

This lecture is part of the 2023 Japan Lecture Series sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc.