Logo UNIMA

Union Internationale de la Marionnette

Non-Governmental Organization affiliated to UNESCO

Communications commission

Last updated: 11-09-2025

Introduction

To position UNIMA as a dynamic, inclusive, and strategic global cultural network in the field of puppetry arts through participatory, ethical, and transformative communication.

Objectives

  • To strengthen the organization’s internal network and external relations through international cooperation and networking, facilitating communication among professional puppeteers as well as enthusiasts, researchers, historians, and others.
  • To enhance the communication capacities of UNIMA commissions through active collaboration and support of project promotion.
  • To support National Centres project visibility interesting international scope.
  • To celebrate the centenary with a global campaign focused on visibility and participation.
  • To increase UNIMA’s presence in media and social networks, thereby expanding the reach of information about its activities.

Programme and Activities

  • Redesign the website and propose an interactive platform for members (a private space for resources, forums, projects, and participation).
  • Organize existing materials into an open multimedia library (videos, posters, audio recordings, essays, interviews, reviews, archives).
  • Support commissions projects to do a historical timeline with photos, audio, and documents.

Centenary support:

  • Create a new centenary logo and a storytelling campaign (blog, photos, etc.). #UNIMA100
  • Support visibility of communication tools created by Commissions for the centenary such as historical timeline or heritage visibility with photos, audios, documents…
  • Develop a global calendar and an interactive map of local and regional centenary celebrations.
  • Create a documentary entitled “UNIMA”.