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Tom Lee’s The Great Zodiac Animal Race

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Saturday, May 9

2 PM

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Free with General Admission

Residents of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties receive free general museum admission

Location

Lecture Hall

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Narcissus blooms, tasty dim sum dishes, bowing to elders, and lucky red envelopes filled with money. These images reflect puppeteer Tom Lee’s childhood memories of celebrating Lunar New Year in Hawai’i.

In The Great Zodiac Animal Race, Lee retells the classic Lunar New Year zodiac tale with shadow puppet animals inspired by Asian languages and pictograms in this charming, family-friendly performance honoring the Year of the Horse.

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About the Artist

Tom Lee

Tom Lee is a puppet artist, designer and director based in Chicago. He began his career at La MaMa in New York. He is a student of Japanese master puppeteer Koryū Nishikawa V, with whom he created Shank’s Mare (2015) and Akutagawa (2023). In addition to his original work for puppet theatre, his performancesinclude WarHorse (Broadway), Florencia en el Amazonas & Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera) and The Queen of Spades (Lyric Opera Chicago). He is co-director of the Chicago Puppet Studio and Chicago Puppet Lab, a 2025 3Arts Teaching Arts Awardee and the 2025-2026 Astere E. Claeyssens resident artist at Northwestern University's Theater Department.

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