The WEPA project progresses. Karen Smith, president of the Publication and Communication Commission, announced during the recent UNIMA Council in Cuba that the English translation of the encyclopedia has been completed. To date, approximately 90% of the Spanish translation is done, and the full translation will be completed by September 2014. These two new language […]
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The Academy of Arts in Osijek invite you to contribute to an international scholarly conference. It will be held for the first time within the framework of the 5th LUTKOKAZ, on the theme “European Definitions of the Puppet Concept and Professional Puppetry Terminology”. > Read the call.
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It is with great sadness that we have learned the death of Francis Houtteman, founder of Créa-Théâtre in Tournay (Belgium). This extremely dynamic man was not afraid of getting involved in every way possible in order to incite encounters and questions at all artictic, political and social levels. His various creations have succeeded to stimulate and touch thousand of spectators […]
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The UNIMA Council opened on 22 April 2014 in the Congress Center of Plaza America with the following agenda: presentation of projects, reports of commissions and preparation of 22th Congress. On April 24, the new website was officially presented. UNIMA gathers its councillors for the first time in Latin America. The president of UNIMA, Dadi Pudemjee thanked for the […]
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British UNIMA invites you to discover the British UNIMA’s latest newsletter (April 2014). > Read the newsletter > Website of British UNIMA
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The Nordic Puppetry Days will offer excellent moments for adults and children during three days and are an opportunity to speak about the puppet theatre: future, education, training, status and proximity with other artistic forms. These days will take place in the Kulturhuset-Stadsteatern (House of Culture-City Theatre) in Stockholm from 9 to11 May 2014. They were born of the partnership between […]
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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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