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Last updated: 12-06-2023

UNIMA Tunisia

Date of nomination: 2022

Maison des associations de l'Ariana 1, rue Ali Belhaouane 2080 Ariana Tunisie
2080  Ariana  Tunisia

Presentation

The Center UNIMA Tunisia is going to work to concretize the goals that it is fixed, among others, to promote the arts of the puppet, in general and Tunisian in particular, under all its forms and in all its conception (creations, techniques, fabrications, manipulations, representations, etc.), to facilitate the contact between the members, as well on the national level as international in order to promote and to develop the Tunisian experience, to promote the valorization and the conservation of the heritages, as well as to develop the Tunisian experience. ), to facilitate the contact between the members, as well at the national level as international in order to promote and develop the Tunisian experience, to promote the valorization and the conservation of the heritages, as well as the creation of instruments apt to diffuse the arts and to emphasize the personalities of the world of the puppet, but also the arts and the living spectacles, to encourage the revival of the art of the puppet, to allow the training and the specialization in the arts of the puppet, to deepen the historical, theoretical and scientific research, and to propose the puppet as means of ethical and aesthetic education.

A program will be elaborated, annually, for this purpose.

Board

Hela BEN SAAD: President
Houcine AYACHI : Vice-president
Habiba JENDOUBI : General Secretary
Fethi DHIBI : Treasurer
Zouhour HARBAOUI : Councillor and communication officer

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