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Panel and Roundtable Meeting in Eskişehir - Turkey In the frame of 10th Anniversary Celebrations for the Agreement of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in UNESCO and the declaration of Eskişehir Province of Turkey as the Cultural Capital City of Turkic World events of the International Shadow - Puppet Festival, Panel and Roundtable Meeting were held in the Province of Eskişehir - Turkey, between April 23 to 25, 2013.
Dadi Pudumjee, UNIMA President was present there and made a speech, as well other interesting people and you can read the text of the lectures here.
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UNIMA Council - Cuba April 2014  Dear colleagues and interesting people on puppet theatre around the world,
Between April 19th and 27th, 2014, the Republic of Cuba, nice island with an area of 110.000 square kilometers and 11,3 millions of inhabitants, situated in the entry of the Golf of Mexico, right in the middle of the Caribbean sea and which the closer countries are Haiti, USA, Jamaica and Mexico, will welcome you in 2014, for celebrating for the first time in this zone of the planet, thank the music, a tropical geography and the contagious energy of its inhabitants, the International UNIMA Council that will be linked with the 11th edition of the Taller Internacional de Títeres de Matanzas (TITIM), the puppets and actors feast that, since 1994, is been receiving every two years who loves and defends that millenarian artistic manifestation.
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This little note deserves presenting publicly the promotional poster of both events, work of the Cuban set designer Zenén Calero Medina, in charge of the image of the Cuban festival from 20 years.
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As the feast is mainly dedicated at puppet theatre that is realized in the Americas, the poster contains the warmer colors of the retables in this part of the Earth.
Since now, welcome to everybody !
Soon, we will put online a website with all the useful information.
Organizing Committee of the UNIMA Council and TITIM 2014 CUBA
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The Puppet Slam Network - May 2013
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Death of Professor Atanas Ilkov  The Bulgarian UNIMA Center inform you about the death of the Professor Atanas ILKOV, director and pedagogue on 26th April 2013.
In 1962 together with Prof. Nikolina Georgieva and architect Ivan Tzonev he became co-founder of the Puppetry Department at the National Academy of Theatre & Film Arts, Sofia.
Prof. Ilkov is one of the founders of the national pedagogic methodology for professional training in acting and directing for puppetry.
He has educated many of the greatest Bulgarian artists of contemporary puppet theatre.
AKT - UNIMA Bulgaria
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Death of Mireya Cueto
 Mireya Cueto, puppeteer, writer and playwright, recognised as the great Mexican ambassador of the Puppetry art, died on April 25th, 2013, at the age of 91.
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Her work in the field of the children's literature and the spreading of the puppet theatre, the development of children's program for radio and television, is recognised in Mexico.
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In February 2012, she received the Medalla Bellas Artes in recognition of her live of more than 70 years dedicated at the theatre.
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Exhibition Richard Teschner in Vienna
 The Austrian Theater Museum, Österreichisches Theatermuseum, owner of the great Richard Teschners creation, has opened an exhibition on this great artist, since April 24th, 2013, which is going to last till February 10th, next year.
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Considering the inspiration Richard Teschner gave to puppet theatre creators all over Europe and beyond , this is such an important cultural event that all UNIMA members should be informed
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Please, find both the in as well as the outside of the folder (only in German), for a first information.
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Österreichisches Theatermuseum
Palais Lobkowitz
Lobkowitzplatz 2
A1010 WIEN
Tel: +43 1 525 24 5303
Fax: +43 1 525 24 5399
info@theatermuseum.at
http://www.theatermuseum.at
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"Pelusin el Mesajero" - Review of the Unima Cuba
We invite you to read the issue # 2 - Marzo/Abril 2013 of this review done by our friends of Cuba.
Pelusin n° 2 - Marzo / Abril 2013
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TALLINN TREFF FESTIVAL 2013 - Theatre summer starts here !  From 6th of June til 8th of June 2013, the streets of Tallinn Old Town will become more than a tourist attraction.
Tallinn Treff Festival has grown out if an initiative started by Estonian State Puppet Theatre in 1991 when the ESPT organized the first Puppet Theatre Festival of the Baltic Sea countries.
Since then the festival has evolved into a large-scale theatre festival and from 2006 started to take place under the name of Tallinn Treff Festival.
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The main objective of the festival is to introduce the magnificent world of performing arts in its full diversity. Tallinn Treff Festival is all about breaking borders, between different art forms and West and East.
The festival offers a wide variety of performances, including dance, drama, puppet theatre, performance art, visual theatre, music, art. The festival takes place on the streets and in the venues of Tallinn Old Town.
Tallinn Treff Festival is a meeting point for not only amongst professional artists but also engaging students of performing arts.
In this way the international students of dance, drama, puppetry, scenography and music will meet each other, get to see high-level professional performances and hear fascinating lectures by world famous theoreticians.
The festival aims to create a link between the present and future artists of performing arts.
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More info about festival program is available on the homepage of Estonian State Puppet Theatre: http://www.nuku.ee/english/festival
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Fiftieth anniversary of the British UNIMA  This year, British UNIMA is marking its fiftieth anniversary and they will be celebrating in suitable style.
They will be announcing the details soon and they hope that a lot of people will be able to join them in commemorating it. Meanwhile, they invite us to read their
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La Hoja del Titiritero # 27 - April 2013
 The Commission for Latina America is still very glad to invite you to read the last issue of its Electronic bulletin
"La Hoja del Titiritero" # 27 - April 2013 - Year 10.
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Many news, informations about festivals and very interesting texts like:
- Unforgettable People
- Women that shine
- Reportage
- Unima & World
- Education and Therapy
- Grants
- Dossier
- Puppetry Heritage
- Festivals and News from the world.
http://www.hojacal.info
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Death of Pina Patti-Cuticchio
 Widow of Giacomo Cuticchio, mother of Mimo, Nino (and the other ones) and grandmother of Giacomo, all of them great puppeteers "Pupari" of Palermo, in first, she was a great artist of that eternal theatre of the pupi.
She make the costumes of the puppets, but above all, she enters in the great history of the sicilian puppetry as one of the rare women, perhaps the alone that, during decades, has benn painting the "Cartelli" the posters, the back curtain and publicities of the company Cuticchio, of which she also was the set designer.
Few years ago, to enhance her valours of artist, her son Mimo dedicated to her an exhibition and a book that emphasize this natural art of the so called Pina.
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Death of Jane Nebel Henson
 The American puppeteer Jane Nebel Henson died on April 2nd, 2013 in her house of Greenwich in the Connecticut.
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She was the wife and the artistic partner of the creator of the Muppets, Jim Henson.
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At the origin of the famous saga of the Muppets, there is the artistic and in love couple that formaed the legendary Jim Henson and Jane Nebel.
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The Puppet Slam Network - April 2013
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The best Russian theatre performances on-line
On April 10th, 2013, the spectators all over the world will have an opportunity to see on the best marionettes performances of St. Petersburg Bolshoi (Grand) Puppet Theatre directed by famous puppeteer Ruslan Kudashov - "Penitence and Absolution" (after A.S. Pushkins's novels "The Station Master" and "The Blizzard").
It will be a part of a huge project of Ministery of Culture of Russia. Its aim is to show the best Russian theatre performances on-line.
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Message for the World Puppetry Day 2013
UNIMA is happy to present the Message for the World Puppetry Day 2013.
We invited this year a famous Italian musician, Maestro Roberto De Simóne, who is also author, director and eminent specialist of the Neapolitan tradition of Guarratelle and Pulcinella.
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2013 Summer Workshops in the International Institute of Puppetry of Charleville-Mézières
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 INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUPPETRY
Charleville-Mézières - France 2013 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER WORKSHOPS
“The appearance: creation of a life-sized puppet”
Directed by Natacha Belova (Belgium)
July 15th
- 31st, 2013
“Material of paper: at the crossroads of theater, storytelling and puppetry”
Directed by Alain Lecucq and Narguess Majd
PapierThéâtre Company (France)
August 20th - September 6th, 2013
Deadline for application: April 26th, 2013
More information:+33 (0)324 33 72 50
Website: http://www.marionnette.com
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"Pelusin el Mesajero" - Review of the Unima Cuba
We invite you to read the issue # 1 - January - February 2013 of this review done by our friends of Cuba.
Pelusin n° 1 - Enero, Febrero 2013
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Necessary Informations regarding the UNIMA National Centres for the new website .
Dear UNIMA National Centres,
As you probably know, UNIMA is rebuilding its website. To achieve this important task, a new employee was hired and will work exclusively on the different aspects of that project, including communication with the UNIMA Centers to update that website.
His name is Lothaire Claudel, a competent young man, from Charleville Mézières, who has an adequate university formation and had acquired knowledge on puppetry by working with le Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes.
With your collaboration, we expect to launch our new and exciting website in September.
So please give him your entire and fast support.
In addition to the general information (mail address, email, website, etc.....) which yet we have, in theory, at the General Secretariat, we would like to offer to the internet users some new elements.
So, we kindly ask you to send us, as soon as possible (deadline February 25th, 2013) and in an only message, all the requested following information (no more than 10-15 lines):
- Logo (if it exists) - in jpeg or png format and in the best quality/size possible.
- Date of creation of your National Centre.
- Great steps of your National Centre's history (6-7 lines, at least, in 2 of the following 3 officials languages: English, French, Spanish).
- Important realizations, such as review, partnership with national puppetry events (6-7 lines, at least, in 2 of the following 3 officials languages: English, French, Spanish).
- Facebook & Twitter or other social networks.
Nota:
- The General Secretary reserves the right to reduce or amend your texts if it's necessary.
- All information about your current or future activities will have to be sent separately.
- The activities of National Centres will be presented in the new website on a dedicated page, perhaps called "News from National Centres".
Thank you so much for your participation.
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Loutkář Magazine is now available in English !
 Dear friends, dear puppeteers,
We would like to inform you that starting from February 2013, we will be annually releasing one issue of Loutkář/Puppeteer completely in English, containing a selection of the best articles of the year.
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For more details please read our press release.
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Fell free to use all attached pictures - our new logo and cover pages of last three issues of Loutkář.
In addition, we are proud to announce that our new web page: http://www.loutkar.eu is now partly in English.
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Enjoy reading Loutkář a stay with us in our next one hundred years !
Nina Malíková
Editor in Chief
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Death of Yves Baudin Dear friends,
I have the painful duty to inform you about the death of Baudin, puppeteer, stage director, director of the Théâtre de la Poudrière and Co-director of the Weeks of the Marionette of Neuchâtel.
Since the years 80's, Baudin was really a main visage in the European puppet theater.
Yves deaded within the night of the Friday February 1st, 2013, victim of a cardiac accident.
The address of the theater is the following: info@theatre-poudriere.ch
I am very shocked after the passing of this dear friend. he rest in peace and that his dreams long still live in us !
Pierre-Alain Rolle
Unima Switzerland
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New Executive Committee of the Belgian UNIMA
We are very glad to announce you the new composition of the Executive Committee of the Belgian UNIMA, after our general assembly on January 29th, 2013.
| President: | Ronny Aelbrecht |
| Vice-President: | Philippe Sax |
National Secretary
and Treasurer: | Edmond Debouny |
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About the international Councilors, the following people was confirmed in their position:
- Ronny Aelbrecht
- Edmond Debouny
- Philippe Sax
- Veerle Wallebroeck
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Up, from left to right: Ronny Aelbrecht, Geert van Doorselaere, Philippe Sax, Veerle Wallebroeck.
Below, from left to right: Edmond Debouny, Carlo Trovato and Lot Van Uffel.
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Hands On 2 !
Call for papers, workshops, performances, demonstrations and other interventions Little Angel Theatre and CROPP* (Centre for Research into Objects and Puppets in Performance) present:
Hands On 2 !
Friday & Saturday, 19 - 20 of April 2013
Central School of Speech & Drama, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY and Little Angel Theatre, 14 Dagmar Passage, London, N1 2DN.
A two-day conference and training event on Applied Puppetry
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After the great success of the Hands on Symposium in 2011, it’s time to get together again and explore the world of puppetry in community and educational settings. This collaboration between CROPP (Centre for Research into Objects and Puppets in Performance) at Central and the Education & Participation Department at the Little Angel is a development following great demand from the previous symposium in 2011. The two-day event will be a vibrant mix of workshops, performances and discussions.
Practices and approaches within applied puppetry are growing both nationally and globally with increased awareness of the power of puppetry in applied settings. This event will provide a window into innovative research and practice within ‘Puppetry with a Purpose’ and offer a platform for discussion, networking and showcasing. The first day will be an opportunity to hear about and debate good practice and new approaches in multiple areas of applied puppetry with diverse groups; the second day will have a more in-depth training focus on puppetry with young people, in health care settings and in development contexts.
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Call for Proposals
We invite proposals for papers, workshops, demonstrations, performances, films and interventions which address some of the following questions:
What can puppetry bring to applied theatre ?
What are the training needs for applied puppetry ?
Is the art form important ? Is the puppet in applied puppetry important, or is it just another art form which can engage with groups ?
Workshop or performance: process and product ?
What are the global issues for applied puppetry ?
Hands On 2! is both for people who are curious about using puppetry in community and education settings, and professionals already established in the field e.g. teachers and health service providers; puppetry practitioners and educators; academics interested in applied puppetry.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words, and accompanied by a 100-word biography and contact information. Please only send links to images and video as the files clog up our inbox !
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Deadline for proposals extended to: 31st January 2013.
Please send your proposals to: slavka@littleangeltheatre.com
To discuss your proposal or the event before submission, contact:
Matt.Smith@port.ac.uk and/or cariad.astles@cssd.ac.uk
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KUNSTPIEP 2013
European competition for media art organised by FIDENA
FIDENA is aiming to promote the mutual inspiration of puppet theatre and media art by means of a competition called “Kunstpiep”.
The 2013 competition is open to applicants from all over Europe and is addressed to all those active in the world of figure, object and material theatre, performance, film and media art. Students at art, film and theatre colleges, as well as puppetry colleges are expressly invited to apply.
We are looking for digital works with a maximum duration of 5 minutes, which were not created before 2010. The entries should be animated or have an affinity to figures or objects as their visual or philosophical centre.
A selection committee will nominate a maximum of 80 submissions to be made public on our portal: http://www.fidena.de.
An international jury will decide on the winner. The Kunstpiep prize is 2.000 Euros.
Deadline for applications: 15th of April 2013
Details: http://www.fidena.de/home/kunstpiep-2013/mn_45410
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Annette Dabs
Managing and Artistic Director
Deutsches Forum für Figurentheater
Festival FIDENA
Hattinger Str. 467
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phone: + 49 234 47720
fax: + 49 234 47735
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Results of the Grants 2013 for Students
offered by the Professional Training Commission
The recipients of the UNIMA Commission for Professional Training Grants for 2013 are:
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- Marjan POORGHOLAMHOSSEIN from the Universidad of Teheran - Iran
- Oana PLOSCEANU from the Universitatea Naţională de Artă Teatrală şi Cinematografică of Bucarest - Romania
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Thanks to these grants, Marjan Poorgholamhossein will attend, in June 2013, the “National Puppetry Conference - Intensive puppetry workshop” given by many great professors and masters at the Centre Eugene O’Neill, Waterford, Connecticut - USA, and Oana Plosceanu will participe, in March, April 2013, to the workshop "Puppets and animated movie" leaded by Mina Trapp, Greta Bruggeman, Blai Tomas Bracquart in the Atelier Arketal, Cannes - France.
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Big Grin Symposium - International Perspectives on Puppets, Popular Culture and Heritage
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
This two-day symposium, held in London on March 1 and 2, 2013, co-sponsored by the UNIMA Research Commission, among other events, would like to propose 20 minute presentations on the following topics: Practicing heritage, Managing heritage, Playing with heritage, Contesting heritage.
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Website of the Asia-Pacific Commission
We are happy to inform you about the opening of the website of the UNIMA Asia-Pacific Commission.
http://www.apac-unima.com
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Death of Faizan Peerzada
 Dear friends,
I just got, through Facebook, this very sad news about our dear friend Faizan Peerzada ,who passed away some 12 hours ago today.
He was a very specially person and encouraged the arts , specially puppetry in very difficult times in his country, may his soul rest in Peace.
He was known to many of our puppeteers who performed at his festival in Lahore, and was a member of our AP commission for many years.
He was also President of UNIMA Pakistan.
Dadi Pudumjee
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Copy of the message published on Facebook
With deepest pain and grief we inform you that Mr. Faizaan Peerzada has passed away of a heart attack. May his soul rest in peace and may Allah give his family strength to bear this immense loss. His funeral (Namaz-e-Janaza) will be held today, 21st December at 2:00 p.m at Raiwind.
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British UNIMA Newsletter - December 2012
The British UNIMA Centre sends best wishes for Christmas, Solstice and Hogmanay, three very different ways we will be seeing off the dark days of winter here in Britain !
We invite UNIMA members from around the world to see how we spread the UNIMA news here in the UK.
This Newsletter is sent out to members three times a year either in hard copy or electronic versions, depending on the preference of the member and combines news from the unima.org website with news from the national centre and different companies here.
We thought international readers would like to see what we're doing and how we're spreading the news.
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Meg Amsden
Chair of British UNIMA
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New Puppet Library in Greece
We are happy and proud to announce that UNIMA-HELLAS, the Greek Centre of UNIMA, is opening its Puppet Library on the 2nd of December 2012.
The library is located in the hall of Michalis Cacoyannis Foundation (http://www.mcf.gr), Peiraios 206, Athens - Greece which kindly hosts the UNIMA office and various activities as well.
The library will be open to the public twice a week and the visitors will be able to read or borrow the books, magazines and videos included in our catalogues.
The whole project is materialized by the puppeteers-members of UNIMA and it is of great importance for the evolution of puppetry arts in Greece since the native bibliography is still rather poor !
We ask the international family of puppetry colleagues, friends, UNIMA Centers and other institutions to help us any way they can in our effort to gather more material.
Any kind of books, magazines, DVDs, CD-ROMs or other visual or printed relative item will be highly appreciated.
If you have something to share with us, please contact Stathis Markopoulos by email at: ayusayapup@gmail.com or send it directly by mail to our post address:
UNIMA-HELLAS
Palamidiou 41
10441 ATHENS
Greece
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Thank you very much !
and wish you all the best
Sincerely yours,
Stathis Markopoulos
President of UNIMA-HELLAS
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Poster of the next Festival of Charleville Mézières 2013
 To have his General Secretary in Charleville Mézières offers to our organization some "advantages".
Like to discover as soon as possible the poster of the Festival.
It was presented on December 18th, 2012 to the press and we are happy to emphasize its issue.
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Big Grin Symposium - London, 1-2 March 2013
Organised in London by Professor Matthew Isaac Cohen and Cariad Astles, co-sponsored by the UNIMA Research Commission, the Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Centre for Research into Objects and Puppets in Performance at the Central School of Speech and Drama, this two-day academic symposium, 1-2 March 2013, will include four paper panels, with keynote speeches and film showings.
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Grants for Students of the UNIMA Professional Training Commission
The UNIMA Professional Training Commission offers, in 2013, two grants, each of 1000 Euro, to students pursuing a puppetry education, to take a course or a workshop in a puppetry schools or programs.
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Results about the Grants 2013 of the Commission for Latin America
The Commission for Latin America communicates you the names of the Latin American Grant holders and Alternates of the Courses: ”Vivencia de Teatro de Sombras” and “Desdoblamientos del Cuerpo”, 2013.
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The Puppet Slam Network - December 2012
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News Statutes and Rules of Procedure
Presented and approved during the extraordinary Congress held in Dordrecht in June 2010, written by the Statutes Commission, verified by a staff of conscientious and devoted people we have to thank for this very meticulous work; the new Statutes and Rules of Procedure are now online and available. We invite you to read and study them.
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