The giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian girl has reached the UK, making her first stop in Folkestone, Kent, after walking thousands of miles across Europe. Choirs sang and children greeted Little Amal on the beach on Tuesday after making the same cross-Channel journey that has been taken so far this year by more than 17,000 people seeking refuge from conflict, hunger and persecution. On the last leg of her journey, Little Amal will visit Canterbury, London, Oxford, Coventry, Birmingham, Sheffield and Barnsley before the extraordinary and complex 14-week travelling street theatre ends in Manchester on 3 November

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Little Amal in Britain: giant puppet of Syrian girl reaches her journey’s end ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/17/little-amal-in-britain-giant-puppet-of-syrian-girl-reaches-her-journeys-end

‘People felt threatened even by a puppet refugee’: Little Amal’s epic walk through love and fear ► https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/18/threatened-puppet-refugee-little-amals-epic-walk

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