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UNIMA PC & 20th Tehran-Mobarak International Puppet Festival: Shadows on the Silk Road

“Shadows on the Silk Road” 20th Tehran-Mobarak International Puppet Festival & UNIMA PC  Online Webinar 23-27 November 2024 Meetings and Workshops of the 20th Tehran-Mobarak International Puppet Festival Co-organized by UNIMA PC (UNIMA Puppetry Collaboratorium) Date: 23-27 November 2024 Language: Persian – Farsi and English Join us on an inspiring journey along the ancient Silk […]

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FLUM & UNIMA PC – MOSTAR 2024

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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FLUM & UNIMA Puppetry Collaboratorium: “Let There Be Light”

“Let There Be Light” Dates: September 21 (World Peace Day) to 25, 2024 Location: Mostar Puppet Theatre, Bosnia and Herzegovina “Let There Be Light” is a puppetry collaboration that will take place in Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Mostar, at the Mostar Puppet Theater, from September 21 to 25, 2024, as part of the FLUM International Puppet […]

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19th INTERNATIONAL BURSA KARAGÖZ, PUPPET AND SHADOW THEATER FESTIVAL

Notices, Turkey - 9/11/2021

On behalf of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, Bursa Culture, Art and Tourism Foundation and with the UNIMA Turkey National Center supports we have the pleasure to inform you that the 19th Bursa International Karagöz, Puppet and Shadow Theater Festival will take place on 15-19 DECEMBER 2021 in Bursa, Turkey. Our aim is to introduce “Shadow and […]

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Death of Tacettin Diker

Turkey - 7/04/2014

Tacettin Diker, Turkish Karagöz Master, passed away on 31 March in Ä°stanbul. He was one of the founders of UNIMA Turkey and one of the “Living Human Treasures” of Turkey.   He was born in 1923 in Ä°stanbul, Turkey. He begun to be interested in Karagöz and traditional Turkish  theatre from 1930. He performed his first […]

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