The World Puppet Theatre Festival, the largest global gathering of its kind, is drawing nearer. Following tradition, this event will be held September 16-24 in Charleville-Mézières, France.
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Czech set designer and pedagogue. He was the author of the international message on the occasion of World Puppetry Day in 2009.
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In 2018, at the 13th Figura Theaterfestival in Baden, Switzerland, the Cantonal Council of Aargau will award the «Grünschnabel» Prize. This is worth 10’000 Swiss Francs and will go to a young theatre company starting out on its professional career working in an original way with puppets, objects and figures. Participation in the «Greenhorn» competition is subject to the following conditions: • […]
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In sweden, Michael Meschke was honored by the king during a ceremony at the Royal Palace of Stockholm where he received the Kings Medal for meritorious services as a theatre manager. The King’s Medal was instituted around 1814, and is awarded to Swedish and foreign citizens for exceptional contributions. Read more…
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On behalf of Guangxi Normal University Publishing Group, the plan to translate a monograph from English to Chinese, on Chinese puppetry, is the first translating and publishing co-project with the China Puppeteer Training Basement International project (Beijing). This translated book will be published next year, as one of a series in Sinology Abroad. After being approved by […]
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There will be a pilot meeting of a new puppetry and object theatre research working group affiliated to the UNIMA Research Commission. This will be held within the IFTR conference tuesday 11th july at the University of Sao Paulo – 2 to 4pm. For more information please email research@unima.org. The Broken Puppet:a symposium on puppetry, disability and […]
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Since 2012, the Research and Documentation Centre of the Institut International de la Marionnette has implemented some tools designed to encourage research on puppetry and object theatre whatever the discipline may be: performing arts, anthropology, archeology, history, literature, visual arts, new technologies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and therapies, economics, physics, chemistry, etc. One of these tools aims […]
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Julio Michel, marionnettiste et fondateur du festival Titirimundi de Ségovie nous a quitté.
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UNIMA is glad inviting you to discover the latest issue, # 7 of May 2017, of Sutradhar, the review of UNIMA India. This issue contains a set of very interesting articles, largely dedicated to the Fifth Master Class organised by Unima India, held in Jawahar Kala Kendra – Jaipur. Read the #7 of Sutradhar
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