Puppeteer Yaya Coulibaly and her new show “Le baptism du lionceau”


Cultural meeting


Yaya Coulibaly, Malian puppeteer has more than 25,000 puppets.

Africapitales is a new festival that celebrates African creativity in Paris through theatre, music and exhibitions. For this first edition, which takes place until the end of March, the spotlight is on Bamako, the capital of Mali, with Yaya Coulibaly. Grand master of Malian puppets and heir to an ancestral tradition. His new show, The baptism of the lion cub, mixes music, wooden creatures, tales and issues of our time. Yaya Coulibaly has been traveling the planet for more than 20 years with her company, Sogolon. The baptism of the lion cubis on view from March 18 to 20 at the Lavoir Moderne Parisien, in the Goutte d’Or district of Paris.

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