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News from UNIMA: Canada

International Creative Residency for Foreign Puppeteers

Canada - 5/12/2018

Petits bonheurs, Casteliers, the Maison internationale des arts de la marionnette (MIAM – International House of Puppetry Arts) and the borough of Outremont are partnering to offer a creative residency for a professional puppeteer from abroad, in April-May 2019. The residency’s objective is to support the creation of a new children’s puppet theatre work for […]

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CUBA QUEBEC A MANO 2014

Canada - 21/05/2014

Coordinated by Magali Chouinard and Isabelle Payant, this project aimed to support 10 Cuban puppet companies by sending the materials to make puppets (during the UNIMA council in Cuba, April 2014). The UNIMA Cooperation Commission contributed 2000 Euros to the project and UNIMA Canada (section Quebec) 880 CAD, section Ontario, 100 CAD. The material was distributed […]

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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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