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News from UNIMA:

Publication of 3d UNIMA Portugal Magazine’s issue

Portugal - 7/04/2014

UNIMA  Portugal invites you to discover the third issue of its review. Contents of this issue: An article on the message of World Puppetry Day, The history of Dom Roberto theatre, The puppet museum of Porto, An article on the portugese puppet writtent by the Institut International de la Marionnette (France). To learn more, we invite you to read […]

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Puppet Master Class: call for applications

Notices - 7/04/2014

UNIMA India in collaboration with the Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust announces it first Puppet Master Class.   Master Puppeteer from the Togalu Gombayetta Shri Gunduraju will conduct master classes in the Karnataka shadow puppet form from June 15-30. This residential workshop will be held in Mussoorie.   The course focusses on training in making and […]

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Death of Tacettin Diker

Turkey - 7/04/2014

Tacettin Diker, Turkish Karagöz Master, passed away on 31 March in İstanbul. He was one of the founders of UNIMA Turkey and one of the “Living Human Treasures” of Turkey.   He was born in 1923 in İstanbul, Turkey. He begun to be interested in Karagöz and traditional Turkish  theatre from 1930. He performed his first […]

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Project of UNIMA Canada in Cuba

Canada - 4/04/2014

Presented to the AQM General Assembly of members in November 2013, and within the meeting of UNIMA councillors in Matanzas (Cuba, 22-24 April 2014), UNIMA-CANADA (section Quebec-AQM and section Ontario) in partnership with the Mano a Mano workshops and Air Transat, has developed a project to give puppet theatres equipment to 10 Cuban companies.   Each company will receive 250$ of […]

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