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Death of Henryk Jurkowski

Secretary General - 3/01/2016

UNIMA and the world of puppet theatre has lost one of its greatest pillars of scholarly research and artistic talent beyond compare. Henryk Jurkowski, our Honorary President and dear friend is no more. Henryk was an inspiration to puppeteers all over the world, those he met, those he taught and many who read his articles […]

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Recipients of the Training grants 2016

Professional Training - 9/12/2015

The Professional Training Commission is glad announcing the name of the recipients of its Grants 2016: Feith-Anne Chester Inn (Guyana), Alina Cristina Tane (Romania), Izabela Zachowicz (Poland) Thank to these grants, Feith-Anne Chester Inn will take part to the workshop “The Unusual body – Theatre of animation” with Miguel Vellinho (Cie PeQuod) in the Espaço […]

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Annual Day of the Belgian UNIMA Centre

Belgium - 10/11/2015

On November 7th, 2015, on a beautiful Saturday, the friends of the puppetry from the whole Belgium gathered themselves at the foot of the castle of the Counts of Flanders to participate to the traditional Annual Day of the Belgian UNIMA Centre, organized in Gent (Ghent), in the frame of a great Flemish festival, the […]

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First Egyptian puppet exhibition

Egypt - 8/11/2015

An enchanting gathering of puppets and dolls was presented at Al-Hanager exhibition room until Wednesday November 4th, 2015, as part of the third Arab Forum for Puppet Arts and Shadow Theatres. This first exhibition regarding the Egyptian puppet was organized in collaboration with UNIMA-Egypt, Cairo Puppet Theatre and the Arab Theatre Institute. The idea was […]

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The President of the CAL present during the inauguration of an exhibition in Uruguay

Latin America - 30/10/2015

Responding an invitation sent by Analía Brun, independent productor of the exhibition “Los Títeres de Muestra” y profesor in the EMAD, “Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art Margarita Xirgú” ( http://www.emad.edu.uy ), where is existing a space de production off puppets within the Chair Transforming of the Object and Materials, Susanita Freire, President of the Commission for […]

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