Participants build and animate their own life-size paper puppets and are taken through an emergent process that evokes material imagination, experiential solidarity, and an ecology of becoming. Welcome to a ritual of emergent kinship, a space of relational encounter, a philosophy of embodied responsiveness. Deep Puppetry is an applied puppetry approach in which engaging with a puppet as an autonomous partner uncovers new ways of relating that challenge systems of exclusion and domination while providing a rehearsal ground for imagining and enacting new futures. Through material embodiment in aesthetic space, we foster an orientation in which "otherness" is not a threat but a source of connection and learning.