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Happy World Puppetry Day
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
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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Review Dockument 2015 from UNIMA-Sverige
We invites you to read the review Dockument 2015, edited by UNIMA Sweden, and reminding the numerous activities of this National Centre during 2014.Read the review (in Swedish)
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First meeting of 6 African National Centres in Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso
In the frame of the 6th edition of the Festival “Rendez-Vous Chez-Nous” of Ouagadougou, the UNIMA Secretary General accepted the invitation from the president of Commission Africa and the president of the Festival to hold a first historic meeting of 6 UNIMA Centres from West Africa in order to organize in 2016 a meeting of […]
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National Consultation to elect the Emblematic Puppet of Mexico
UNIMA Mexico, in collaboration with the review En la Ruta del Titiritero; which a special issue was published for this inquiry, opened a survey in order to elect the Emblematic Puppet of Mexico. The results would be communicated on March, 20th, 2015. Read more
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First meeting of the Strategic Development Commission
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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Meeting of puppet theatre festival directors, 2014 – Feedback
The first global conference of puppet theatre festival directors took place in Bochum – Germany in 2003 and a second one was held in 2007, gathering more around 40 participants. The third Symposium, always in the framework of FIDENA, was the opportunity of a conference on 19th and 20th May 2014 which the them was […]
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Blog of UNIMA Chile
The UNIMA Chile invites you to consult regularly its Blog, where it is publishing news concerning the puppetry world in its country. Currently, there, is presented a statement about the puppeteers between 2013 and 2014. Read the blog
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The Cultural Exchange Commission thanks the 2014 Festivals
The Cultural Exchange Commission wants to recognize the collaboration that, over these years, the International Puppet Festivals have been offering, joined to the program of grants, allowing the UNIMA members to have the possibility to visit them. This year 2014, our recognition has been for the following events: – Puppet Festival FIDENA – Bochum (Germany) […]
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