All together now STRATH

Hosted by Melek and Zac, stars of the Australian children’s book series “Hijabi Girl”, this colourful, exciting musical puppet variety stage show is for ages 5-9 and their families. It features a fun, colourful, diverse cast of Muppet-style puppet characters performing skits, jokes, catchy original songs (as heard on Spotify and Apple Music) and live interaction with the audience.

Show stoppers include:

• A song about school playtime performed by two food puppets: a Turkish Kebab and a plate of Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls.
• A song performed by Melek, a Turkish Muslim girl puppet who wears a hijab and wants to start her own all-girls Aussie Rules football team – and DOESN’T want to dress as Little Red Riding Hood in the Book Week Parade.
• A Sicilian language lesson, including a discussion about endangered languages.
• An AFL football puppet.
• A teacher rod puppet (large glasses).
• A song about how everyone has different interests and skills, performed by Tien, a Vietnamese girl puppet, with a chorus of singing pencil puppets.
• A reading of an excerpt from “Hijabi Girl: Making Friends”, a children’s book by prolific Australian author Hazel Edwards OAM and Turkish-Australian Muslim co-author Ozge Alkan, and illustrated by Serena Geddes.