UNIMA develops a Participatory picture library on the Flickr platform, in order to collect photos, pictures and videos. This collection has to show as many people as possible the vitality of the puppetry art in the world and enrich the Worldwide Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts (EMAM/WEPA) and all other projects wich UNIMA is partner (PAM, documentaries, various […]
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The school of creative and performing arts organizes 3 workshops for its Humber College Puppetry Intensive 2014. The trainings are the following: “Mouth Puppetry” with Mike Petersen “Shadow Puppetry” with David Powell “Paper Theatres and Kinetic Collage” with Jamie Shannon > Discover these trainings in the school’s website.
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The International Puppet Festival The Golden Dolphin was founded in 1972. Each three years, in october,it is organized by the NGO The Golden Dolphin (Varna), the Ministry of Culture, the city of Varna, Union of Bulgarian Actors (UBA), UNIMA Bulgaria and the Varna State Puppet Theatre. The Varna State Puppet Theatre has launched a Call for applications to participate in the 16th International […]
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The Research Center at the Institut international de la marionnette (IIM) in Charleville-Mézières has launched within the framework of the Web Portal for Puppetry Arts (PAM) an International Project of Linguistic Research in order to ease translation tasks and prepare the interoperability of databases concerning the puppet in the context of semantic Web. This work […]
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We invite you to discover the exhibition of Marcel Violette, Illustrator for the WEPA/EMAM, called “Objets hétéroclites, du détritus à l’objet d’art” (“heterogeneous objects, from ribbish to art object”). The exhibition offers a poetic view on sculptures, puppets, toys, some pieces, etc. destined for the garbage. It is set up in the Library of Sucy-en-Brie (France) from 4 to 29 […]
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The UNIMA representation in Yemen has organized festivities in the Sana’a Culture House, in Sana’a, the capital city, in the presence of the vice-minister for Culture, Dr Adel Nasser. First World Puppetry Day in Yemen, this moment has attracted many people and personalities (writers, artists etc.). This event is also an opportunity to facilitate the foundation of an UNIMA National Centre.
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We invite you to discover the last issue of the newsletter “Puppet Slam Network”. > Read this issue (in english)
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UNIMA Portugal invites you to discover the third issue of its review. Contents of this issue: An article on the message of World Puppetry Day, The history of Dom Roberto theatre, The puppet museum of Porto, An article on the portugese puppet writtent by the Institut International de la Marionnette (France). To learn more, we invite you to read […]
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UNIMA India in collaboration with the Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust announces it first Puppet Master Class. Master Puppeteer from the Togalu Gombayetta Shri Gunduraju will conduct master classes in the Karnataka shadow puppet form from June 15-30. This residential workshop will be held in Mussoorie. The course focusses on training in making and […]
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Tacettin Diker, Turkish Karagöz Master, passed away on 31 March in Ä°stanbul. He was one of the founders of UNIMA Turkey and one of the “Living Human Treasures” of Turkey. He was born in 1923 in Ä°stanbul, Turkey. He begun to be interested in Karagöz and traditional Turkish theatre from 1930. He performed his first […]
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