Puppet Power 2025: A Call for Stories – Share Your Roots Through Puppetry! 18th-19th October 2025. Puppetry is more than play—it’s a powerful way to express identity, preserve culture, and spark social change. Our conference, Puppet Power 2025, explores the complex topic of immigration through the creative lens of puppetry, and we’re inviting you to […]
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Presented by W.P. Puppet Theatre Society together with the Education, Development and Therapy Commission. Are you harnessing the power of puppetry to spark change? We want to hear from puppetry practitioners, researchers, scholars, and theorists who are using puppetry arts to explore the vital issues of immigration, refugees, and newcomers. Share your insights, inspire others, […]
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Celebrating International Peace Day – 21st September 2024 There are no words to describe the events that took place this year in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This beautiful city, with a history spanning from the Ottoman era, preserves architectural marvels and puppetry traditions protected by UNESCO, the Old Bridge of Mostar (World Heritage List) and […]
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We are pleased to announce that the Casteliers festival in Montreal, scheduled from March 6 to 10, will be the distinguished host for the UNIMA Internationale Executive Committee 2024 hybrid meeting on March 5 and 6. Details: Event: Casteliers Festival and UNIMA Internationale Executive Committee Meeting Date: March 5-6, 2024 Location: Montreal, Canada Key Points: […]
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The Festival of Ideas is an annual conference, produced by W.P. Puppet Theatre Society. It explores the theory and practice of how puppet power promotes and impacts positive social change. In 2023 we ask, how can puppets, ‘metaphors of matter’, help us address our material world? The friendly two day hybrid event features […]
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Submissions for Bridges Festival 2024 are now open! If you have a puppetry show you would like to have presented at Bridges Festival 2024, apply today. Submissions close September 20 2022. Bridges Festival is an international festival of puppetry and animation located in Mississauga Ontario Canada. The Festival happens every year in March. We present […]
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