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3rd Baku International Puppet Festival – November 15/20th, 2015

Notices - 11/05/2015

Dear friends, The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan Republic is holding the 3rd Baku International Puppet Festival on 15-20 November 2015. The deadline for applications is on 1 July 2015. Please feel free to disseminate this news to your contacts. Look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Shaig Safarov Director of Baku […]

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II FIS – International Festival of Shadow Theatre

Brazil - 2/04/2015

ABTB – UNIMA Brazil, partner of this event, would like to emphasize that, from April 23rd to 29th, would be held in Taubaté (San Pablo) – Brazil, the II FIS – International Festival of Shadow Theatre. In adition of the performances that we can discover within the programme at: http://www.ciaquasecinema.com , other activities are very interesting: […]

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Happy World Puppetry Day

Secretary General - 21/03/2015

Dear friends around the world, Iin the name of all the members of the UNIMA Executive Committee, It’s with enthousiasm and a lot of joie that I wish you a very good World Puppetry Day! Jacques Trudeau UNIMA UNIMA Secretary General

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Death of Josef Krofta

Secretary General - 19/03/2015

It’s with profound sadness that we let you know the death of the great artist, pedagogue, and dear friend, Josef Krofta. Josef Krofta brought a new approach to puppetry as a theatre of metaphor, and marked generations of puppeteers and spectators with his thinking, creativity, and love.

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First meeting of the Strategic Development Commission

Strategic Development - 3/03/2015

On January 25 26, 27th, 2015, the Strategic Development Commission held its first meeting in Tehran. Ronny Aelbrecht and Hamidreza Ardalan worked intensely, thinking about the best ways in order to define and to propose a strategic development for UNIMA. They invite you to read the report written after this meeting.

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