Puppets Against Aids - Township to Tundra

Jan 1, 1992

0h 51m

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Overview

In 1992, an independent South African puppetry group, the African Research and Educational Puppetry Program, were invited by OXFAM (Canada) to bring their highly successful educational program 'Puppets Against Aids' to tour rural and regional Canada for twelve weeks. This is the one-hour documentary that was produced from their Canadian Tour.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Morag Loves Company

Canadian International Development Agency

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