UNIMA is currently working on the creation of an international magazine that aims to bring together articles from all over the world. We expect it to be available for the UNIMA Congress in May 2025.

This magazine will be made up of articles from magazines dedicated to puppetry among others. This collection of articles was made within the framework of a first call broadcast in April 2024.

📢 About This Call

❓ Proposed Questions

1. What dialogue, confrontations, exchanges, clashes, hybridizations, collaborations, crossbreeding, twinning, geographical crossings, influences and/or connections does the puppet enable between cultures?
2. The puppet as a ritual object. How does the ritual object/ritual form become a performance object/form of performance?
3. What unifying elements have opened up common spaces for puppeteers on a regional, national and/or international scale?
4. What is the relationship between puppet and puppeteer? What is the role and viewpoint of the spectator?
5. What new window of expression and relationship opens up with the use of digital tools?
6. The puppet, object of belief, symbolic force. What does the puppet allow us to believe? What beliefs, metaphors and symbols does the puppet intrinsically convey?
7. How does the puppet enable the creative process to draw closer to reality? How do real-life narratives translate onto the stage? (Documentary puppetry, dramaturgies of war…)
8. Moving on from the self, towards the other and then towards society, how can the puppet position itself as a mediating tool between these three levels? (Social applications of puppetry)
9. How does the puppet interrogate existing conventions, norms and crises (through satire or otherwise)?

📝 Submission Guidelines

It must be sent to the referent of your continent (see contacts below).

This is a project based on voluntary contributions, so articles will be sent free of charge for publication in the magazine in its digital and possibly physical form.

Articles can be those already published in other magazines, or new ones. In the case of an article already published, the National Centre will ensure that the magazine concerned agrees to the new publication.

🎨 Opportunity for Graphic Designers

If you have good-quality photos and the permission of the artists and photographer, please send us photos that will join the UNIMA image database and can be used freely by UNIMA for its website, projects, WEPA and this edition.

If you would like to join our international editorial committee, please do not hesitate to contact us.

🌍 Continental Referents