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A new councillor for NVP-UNIMA Netherlands
Created in 1955, NVP-UNIMA Netherlands is celebrating its 60th Anniversary, with an international festival, an agenda with pictures of its members and the publication of a book about their education of puppeteers. Also, they welcomed a new councillor, Martine van Ditzhuyzen. As she wrote a wonderfull motivation letter, UNIMA Netherlands is very glad to share […]
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Days about Marionettes 2015 in Uruguay
The puppetry art continues to grow in Uruguay and that development, as well in quantity, as in offers and heterogeneity, made necessary a meeting which not only includes the puppeteers, but, also, these domains of the society where the puppet is present. The results produced during those days, these round tables, between July and October […]
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The applicants for the grant
The application for the grant has closed in end of May. We received 15 applications in total, they are: 1. Artsolute (Singapore) 2. Carol Sterling (USA) 3. Cengiz Ozek (Turkey) 4. Dafa Puppet Theatre (Czech Republic) 5. Elizabeth Goldsmith-Colney (USA) 6. Frans Hakkemars (The Netherlands) 7. Gibdel Wilson (Costa Rica) 8. King Ho Wong (Hong […]
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Project of exhibition “Masquerade and iberian popular characters”
Amongst other projects, UNIMA Federación España is working on the creation of an exhibition which goal would be to gather the numerous characters that built the history of the Iberian Peninsula, in order to show it as part of the Worldwide UNIMA Congress in 2016. Our companion, Juan Catalina, together with other fellows from UNIMA […]
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New issue of Marionnettes en Castelets – June 2015
The French-speaking section of UNIMA Belgium is pleased to invite you to discover the issue # 52 of June 2015 of its review Marionnettes en Castelets. > Read the newsletter (in French)
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World March ”Puppets for Peace and Intercultural Dialogue”
On June 1st 2015, in Yerevan, Armenia, the Official Launching Ceremony of the World March ”Puppets for Peace and Intercultural Dialogue” and the International Festival of Puppet Theatres took place under the patronage of Mrs Rita Sargsyan, First Lady of the Republic of Armenia. It’s with great humility, compassion and friendship that I joined myself […]
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A Grant holder of the Training Commission took part in the workshop of Frank Soehnle
The company Arketal was glad welcoming, in its workshop in Cannes, the young puppeteer LIN Xiaoran, coming from the Shanghai Theatre Academy of China. She came to attend the workshop “Contemporary strings puppet theater” managed by the master Frank Soehnle. LIN Xiaoran received one of the grants 2015 of the Commission for Professional Training of […]
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Propositions of nomination for Women’s Commission Award
To all UNIMA National Centres and Councillors, I kindly request all of you to make propositions of nomination for the “Award for Encouragement”, Women’s Commission award, by filling and sending of the online form. You can get more details, seeing, in the main website of UNIMA, the Women’s Commission page, as well reading, in English, […]
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