Little Amal’s journeys are produced by The Walk Productions in association with Handspring Puppet Company and an international and grassroots network of producers, artists and partners.
The Walk Productions is a not-for-profit company, founded by David Lan and Tracey Seaward. The Artistic Director is Amir Nizar Zuabi, the Executive Producer is Sarah Loader and the Associate Producer is Alice Evans.
We present large scale participatory public art that brings communities together to celebrate art, community and each other, challenge assumptions, rethink narratives and provoke change. We believe art is an essential means of tackling urgent issues. To face the world’s biggest problems and help to create lasting change, we need to dream big and act boldly.
Our next production – coming in 2025 – is The Herds, a journey of life-size puppet animals from West Africa to Norway, fleeing climate disaster.
The Walk – 12 foot puppet of a 10 year old Syrian refugee child Little Amal – has been described as ‘the most ambitious public art project ever attempted’ and it won the ‘Time Out Public Art Award’ for 2021. Amal’s visit to NYC in September 2022 was named New York City’s No. 1 Art Event of 2022 by Time Out, and named one of the Best Theatre events of 2022 by the New York Times.