Puppets bring purpose to puppeteer in lockdown
Puppets bring life to lockdown
Yohana Yara is fighting boredom
and gaining fans online with her puppets
Two months after she moved to Madrid
Spain went into lockdown
and all her plans fell through
With no work and lots of free time
she started a YouTube channel
where she performs
stories, poems and songs for kids
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COLOMBIAN ACTRESS AND PUPPETEER, YOHANA YARA, HOLDING HER PUPPET "LEO THE LION", SAYING:
"Doing online performances helped me, it was therapeutic and stopped me from feeling down and it gave me a creative outlet. I think that in times of crisis creativity surges and you start working with what you have at home. As I'm a puppeteer, fortunately I have a lot of puppets I can work with."
