– Letter from the President and the General Secretary of UNIMA Dear Colleagues, These first seven months at the helm of UNIMA International have taken us around the world, allowing us to discover your remarkable projects—projects that unite, inspire, and structure the development of the art of puppetry. They have made us realize the scope […]
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Paris, December 18, 2024 – UNIMA International proudly announces a landmark achievement at the 2024 International Conference of NGOs in Official Partnership with UNESCO. Held from December 17-19 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris under the theme “Building Capacity for Action,” the conference witnessed a historic moment for the organization. Svetlomira Stoyanova, a distinguished member of […]
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Photo of the geometric puppet built by Buckmeister Füller for Bill Baird in 1958, which disappeared in 1987, thanks to the artist Zaven Paré for sharing to me. Magic lanterns, physicality of the doll, and capacity, ‘The puppet was born at the first dawn, when the first man saw his own shadow for the first […]
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“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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What are the numbers that encode beauty, the encrypted grip that encloses, transforms, transmits, decodes but, somehow, fails to imprison or stifle the soul of this beauty? Not because of technology, but in spite of it, beauty, that spectre, that treasure, circulates unharmed in the new technologies. (Salman Rushdie, Furie, Part One, 2001) “Anyone today […]
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Join us on May 20th from 10:00 AM to 12:45 PM CET at the Théâtre Royal du Peruchet in Brussels or online from anywhere in the world for the “Roundtable on the Culture of Peace,” marking the 95th anniversary of UNIMA International. The meeting will be conducted in English. The event will begin with opening […]
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