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News from UNIMA:

Death of Francis Houtteman

Secretary General - 28/04/2014

It is with great sadness that we have learned the death of Francis Houtteman, founder of Créa-Théâtre in Tournay (Belgium). This extremely dynamic man was not afraid of getting involved in every way possible in order to incite encounters and questions at all artictic, political and social levels. His various creations have succeeded to stimulate and touch thousand of spectators […]

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UNIMA Council 2014

Cuba, Secretary General - 24/04/2014

The UNIMA Council opened on 22 April 2014 in the Congress Center of Plaza America with the following agenda: presentation of projects, reports of commissions and preparation of 22th Congress.   On April 24, the new website was officially presented.   UNIMA gathers its councillors for the first time in Latin America. The president of UNIMA, Dadi Pudemjee thanked for the […]

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Nordic Puppetry Days 2014 in Stockholm

Notices - 16/04/2014

The Nordic Puppetry Days will offer excellent moments for adults and children during three days and are an opportunity to speak about the puppet theatre: future, education, training, status and  proximity with other artistic forms.   These days will take place in the Kulturhuset-Stadsteatern (House of Culture-City Theatre) in Stockholm from 9 to11 May 2014. They were born of the partnership between […]

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Participatory picture library of UNIMA

Unima Projects - 16/04/2014

UNIMA develops a Participatory picture library on the Flickr platform, in order to collect photos, pictures and videos.   This collection has to show as many people as possible the vitality of the puppetry art in the world and  enrich the Worldwide Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts (EMAM/WEPA) and all other projects wich UNIMA is partner (PAM, documentaries, various […]

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