One festival in Canada joins the grants program in order to attend festivals and would offer lodging, food and free tickets for the shows, as well the possibility to attend to the training workshops. There is the Festival de Casteliers – Montréal, Québec, March 2015 So, there are 48 international puppetry festivals in 25 countries offering […]
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The Commission for Latina America is very glad to invite you to read the last issue of its Electronic bulletin – “La Hoja del Titiritero” # 30 – July 2014 – Year 11. As always, many informations and very interesting texts, specially after the Council in Cuba. A Dossier written by Prof. Dr. Valmor Níni […]
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The Commission for Latin America, again, in collaboration with the UNIMA Federación España, UNIMA Euskal Herria and the Topic, offers grants to latin american artists puppeteers, permiting them to attend the Summer School that would be held in the TOPIC of Tolosa from June 30th to July 7th, 2014. This year, the grant holders will […]
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In order to promote the work of female artists, the Women’s Commission has decided to dedicate an encouragement award. The whole of UNIMA national centres are encouraged to propose names for the awards. The commission accepts nominations for a living woman puppetry artists or fields associated with puppetry (eg therapy/community cultural development), using puppetry, or […]
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The WEPA project progresses. Karen Smith, president of the Publication and Communication Commission, announced during the recent UNIMA Council in Cuba that the English translation of the encyclopedia has been completed. To date, approximately 90% of the Spanish translation is done, and the full translation will be completed by September 2014. These two new language […]
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The Research Center at the Institut international de la marionnette (IIM) in Charleville-Mézières has launched within the framework of the Web Portal for Puppetry Arts (PAM) an International Project of Linguistic Research in order to ease translation tasks and prepare the interoperability of databases concerning the puppet in the context of semantic Web. This work […]
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