The Making of Little Amal by Handspring Puppet Company

Handspring Artistic Director Adrian Kohler and Executive Producer Basil Jones, founders of Handspring Puppet Company and creators of Little Amal, tell us all about how they brought this giant puppet of a young refugee girl to breath-taking life so that she can walk 8,000km across Turkey and Europe in order to shine an urgent light on the stories of the millions of young refugees.
About The Walk
In 2021, from the Syria-Turkey border all the way to the UK, The Walk will bring together celebrated artists, major cultural institutions, community groups and humanitarian organisations to create one of the most innovative and adventurous public artworks ever attempted. At this time of unprecedented global change, The Walk is an artistic response: a cultural odyssey transcending borders, politics and language to tell a new story of shared humanity - and to ensure the world doesn’t forget the millions of displaced children, each with their own story.
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[@davidjaslow6458]

WoW! Just a beautiful illustration of a refugee’s plight.

[@vilmagonzalez11]

Looove this proyect! I could interact dancing with Amal, it was amazing! NYC loves her! Thank you so much for this marvelous work of art, so meaningful!

[@tmaffeo]

This is so amazing . especially what she represents . taking my grandchildren 5 and 3 in snug harbor Staten Island ny 🌻🌻🌻

[@karemirizarry]

You guys create something so amazing I’m so impressed how all ppl can communicate together to give live to Amal and the msg of awareness about immigrants and kids all around the world. So awesome

[@debrasmith3416]

Isn't it. Just amazing 💞

[@eileencelino6507]

I love you guys you have amazing creation

[@user-sv4wp4vj2m]

I hope to meet Little Amal in San Diego this weekend. She is Me. My name is Alma Rosa and I was born in Moroleon Guanajuato Mexico and immigrated to America at age of 2. Chicago to be exact. Her story resonates so deeply in my heart ❤️.

[@debrasmith3416]

W🥰W. I JUST LEARNED OF THIS.HOW BEAUTIFUL.

[@mindfulnessmusic9227]

✨🙃Mind blowing🙃✨your work look🙃✨ GOOD JOB💐✨💐✨

[@MerynMTG]

It's sad to see all the haters in the comments bashing this because they think she's ugly. Why would you bash on something (or someone) that's actively trying to spread a positive message to the world?

[@NKsEntertainment]

We met her in Central Park New York City 👍

[@csushmita04]

This look scary

[@zxyatiywariii8]

I wish they'd made her face more like the real Amal! This one does look creepy, the face is done to adult metrics, not child metrics, so it's an Uncanny Valley look.

[@marciafachini9118]

Sou do Brasileira e temos muitos problemas sociais também, espero vê-la por aqui, ela me emociona em muito vídeos Amal é linda e tem vida própria, tem quer ser muito insensível para não amar a Amal, eu amo a Amal e o que ela representa ♥️♥️👏👏👏

[@BuzzingGoober]

Fucked up

[@costantinemf4207]

good wood for my fireplace

[@user-uo1dv6pd3u]

Hell YES, I'm with you

[@costantinemf4207]

@@kermitfroggie5334 who tf said i want attention? All i did was show my negative view of this in a creative way

[@marcosomsen]

how heavy was thepuppet costume Little Amal?

[@ashiinoor9776]

what is the purpose of this Amal?

[@mudpiearts7266]

Can't wait to meet her in Sheffield. Our youth theatre have been working on her story and our welcome. We plan to build our own giant puppet to explore the theatrical elements of our welcome.

[@atticbrowser9698]

Sounds great

[@levi-i7430]

Trojan horse vibes

[@w1984t]

"Group mind" uh huh.

[@BonekaBejo]

Gout, salam kenal boneka Bejo Indonesia

[@hunterdixonrickthewalkingd6567]

I heard they didn't let her enter Greece 🤔

[@costantinemf4207]

sadly it was entered

[@astrogirl2675]

@@costantinemf4207 💀

[@1helluvawomen]

Why? Lol

[@hunterdixonrickthewalkingd6567]

@@1helluvawomen They say she is a Muslim 🤣

[@danieladonasc5849]

Walking in brazil

[@lindtwhite]

Are these coming to the U.S.? I love these large puppets. They are so amusing and exciting to watch. I'm so enamored with how human you make them. Please keep making them

[@rondoveneziano1360]

I saw her in Gerry photos I had to come search it on KZbin.. she’s amazing

[@SurajSharma-ww8ml]

Very good creation. It looks like as she is alive and want to say a message for us.

[@mariedolans24]

Chopt it. Burn it. Now!

[@joessiejoens3710]

The message left me crying a little and thinking about emotions that can be felt towards refugees... Thanks for this from germany.

[@all4dalulz]

xD

[@jeromebano1125]

In the area where I live here in south east England people can be a bit racist or hostile & ongoing issues like Brexit don’t really help I was pleased to see little Amal with my family in a town called Canterbury which is not far from where we live & it just made me realise about these problems which we have these days never seem to stop.

[@roywoodrom9277]

Well done!

[@ninnetapapadopoulou1247]

This is a monster i. Cant see that screem anymore

[@annekazi4578]

What a wonderful initiative. Congratulations to everyone part of the project!

[@petebeckham8562]

You are sadly short sighted, naive and ignorant, you poor little thing

[@engadvantage]

This is some sort of propaganda b s probably funded by the same people who brought us covid, lock downs, climate change, other nwo * * * *.

[@melissathomas2590]

They created a masterpiece. She is wonderfully made. I adore this project to her hair and her eyes.

[@SeanIgo]

It is objectively fugly, get some taste.

[@melissathomas2590]

@@SeanIgo Be quiet, hater.

[@mariedolans24]

@@SeanIgo True. It's evil.

[@anniepatton3767]

Its beautifully made..very emotional😢 ❤️

[@Taindog]

...thats a nc piece of sh*t...

[@Water8500]

Trojan horse.

[@dalajlamapeace]

❤

[@BoldBooksandBones]

Fantastic Project!!! Congrats! Thank you for doing this.

[@PattyKins764]

Some of the comments here are terrible! I loved seeing her visit Folkestone last week, so many people arrived to welcome her.

[@jeromebano1125]

She must have been brave going Dover as it quite racist there I went with my family to see little Amal in Canterbury on Thursday & really found exciting & very moving as well some people don’t realise that Syria is very poor like some parts of Eastern Europe Romania & Bulgaria etc.

[@claude196]

🤣😂🙄😣😭😱

[@afterlate8866]

@@jeromebano1125 For goodness sake! It'a a puppet! Everybody (who is sane) knows that Syria is very poor.

[@wd41]

We are the people really being puppeted by this kind of propaganda. Who is funding this expertly produced effort?

[@user-fm3xr9yz3i]

💯

[@ebonyschanelxo]

I’m learning about little Amal at school

[@cianews3009]

Brainwashing.

[@jeromebano1125]

Hi there Amal is designed to understand what it's like refugee or like that suppose this is why some people do not very a very good understanding about migration you could understand why Brexit had to happen such a bad mistake for the British economy.

[@flbreglass]

Literally amazing, great message. It is surreal seeing the interaction

[@IMVERYHAPPY1]

My name is amal

[@jetstreamjack5653]

My condolences.

[@vilmagonzalez11]

So you are Hope

[@arunkotsadiq7856]

pls put recording camera in her eyes..it will capture the world with her eyes...

[@kahkob]

Stop the hate!

[@jeromebano1125]

Well said nice said.

[@user-uo1dv6pd3u]

I see no hate but a TЯЦTH that'll you see, well maybe not now but you have to dump your naive and look on every details to know what its rly means. Let the time answer

[@sksisglgo796]

@@user-uo1dv6pd3u i don’t get whats wrong with her like if it’s something like racism or something then maybe i’ll be with you.

[@afterlate8866]

@@sksisglgo796 There's everything wrong about the puppet entering a Catholic Church and where everybody present, including the Cardinal ignores the presence of Jesus Christ in the Tabernacle.. That doesn't mean to say that Catholics don't work hard to look after displaced persons especially refugees, in fact Catholics do the most work to help poor people, but this is a political exercise embraced by left-wingers and a left leaning Cardinal and his globalist/Marxist leaning Pope. Oh and by the way, why did the puppet not go inside a mosque or a temple? Hope now, you understand a little better.

[@engadvantage]

You are brain washed to see hate everywhere. You are the problem.

[@nazlm196]

Yolun açık olsun Amal 🥰

[@yegenek]

There is no war in Syria now leave Turkey peacefully and return to your country else a time will come and we will send you by force.

[@fazelazarbeam8378]

THATS MY SISTERS NAME LMFAO

[@annebailey4021]

We need Amahl to visit the USA. Her message is phenominal!

[@engadvantage]

No we don't need 12 foot tall propaganda puppet in this country.

[@nightfury9016]

عديمين الاحساس كل المعلقين هي عباره عن تجسيد to soryian ababy she hah lost from her mom stop cokjing !!

[@erdevon3257]

Hope this is a joke

[@ChadFreeman757]

Nope. They built 3 of her.

[@anthi9191]

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@cianews3009]

Who PAYS for all this propaganda BS?

[@afterlate8866]

Good question

[@flbreglass]

Lmao ok

[@engadvantage]

Someone paid a lot of money to sell on some nwo * * * * ideas.

[@claude196]

Hare Krishna....Hare Krishna..🙄🤣😲🥴

[@yPA.]

Какое убожество.... 🤮

[@graziamocciaro8811]

Awful