The International Prize Michael Meschke for Preservation and Renewal of Puppetry Arts has been granted, in 2016, to Syrian actor Bashar Sahyouni, living in Stjernholm – Sweden, and to his Syrian Puppets and Actors Club, for the following reason: “For his courageous initiative in order to gather, together, young refugees from Solbacka Refugee Camp, around […]
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We wish all the members of UNIMA around the world a New Year, united by the puppets, and that peace, health, work and happiness flood your lives.
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Surrounded by President Jean-Luc FÉLIX, her team, volunteers from the festival and many elected officials and representatives of the City and the Department of Ardennes, as well by puppeteer friends and professionals, Anne-Françoise CABANIS, director of the Festival Mondial de Marionettes (World Puppetry Festival) of Charleville-Mézières, was decorated on Sunday September 25th by Philippe VAILLANT […]
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The General Secretary is glad to announce the coming, in the big family of UNIMA, of the National Centre of Malaysia. To get more information, we invite you to visit its page of National Centre.
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It’s with deep sadness that we are announcing the death of Prof. Nikolina Georgieva, on June 27th, 2016. Director and pedagogue, she was one of the most outstanding directors in Bulgarian puppetry, being director in the Central Puppet Theater. In 1962, she has established the “Puppetry department” at the Higher Institute for Theatre and Film […]
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In Congress, in Tolosa (Spain), the UNIMA councilors elected for the next four years, the President Dadi Pudumjee, their general secretary Idoya Otegui Martinez and treasurer Lucile Bodson. Manuel A. Morán and Karen Smith are the vice-presidents.
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