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The purpose of this blog is to document the experience of my month-long internship with the Great Small Works Toy Theatre Festival in Brooklyn, New York. In doing so I hope to show what a vibrant, thriving and interdisciplinary artistic community is brought together in Brooklyn by Great Small Works' annual festival, and how the renewal of the 'archaic' form of toy theatre is creating a new platform for political debate, as well as creative diversity. To be part of this festival, and temporarily part of John Bell's and Trudi Cohen's 'collective', is to be within an incredibly rich melting-pot where performance, music, ritual, visual theatre, storytelling, teaching and celebration collide, and the possibilities are endless. I hope this blog succeeds in sharing the findings from this melting-pot as much as posssible.