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Create Online Puppetry Summer School (Wales/Pakistan)

Pakistan, United Kingdom - 25/07/2023

The Create Online Puppetry Summer School in puppetry skills is supported by The British Council Wales and Pakistan under the Go Digital initiative and provided by CREATE Puppetry Festival organisers PuppetSoup (Wales) and Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop (Pakistan) This online accessible training in puppetry encourages learners to make their own short form piece of puppetry […]

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Join UNIMA during the World Puppet Festival of Charleville-Mézières

UNIMA space – An International meeting point 19 > 22 September Find us on the map: Espace UNIMA > n°28 /// 75 Forest avenue > n°10   UNIMA organises Happy Apéros and meetings to join together and celebrate friendship among puppeteers as well as to exchange ideas and discuss the challenges facing our international organisation. […]

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EVOC – A European project combining education and vocational training / The booklets

Since 2018, several actors in the puppetry arts in Europe have formed an informal network for exchange and reflection, entitled “Puppet.Net” and coordinated by UNIMA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette). In 2020, they decided to put the results of these exchanges into practice in the form of a European mobility project enabling young puppeteers from […]

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Registrations open for the Summer School courses at Centro del Títere

Notices, Spain - 7/06/2023

Registrations open for the Summer School courses at Centro del Títere Intensive courses for adults from 3rd to 14th July Centro del Títere inaugurates the second Summer School with a program of intensive courses for adults from 3rd to 14th of July. Centro del Títere summer school pretend enabling access to training on puppets to professionals […]

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An International Puppetry Magazines’ Review

Jenö Virág, editor in chief of Hungarian art and puppetry magazine “Art Limes” shares the first two volumes. “Dear Fellow Editors, Friends in Puppetry, I am happy to send you the first two volumes of our international puppetry magazines’ review. The magazines are presented in alphabetical order, the first volume comprehending titles from A to […]

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Tomorrow’s puppetry in Africa – A look back at the last two workshops

In May were held the last two workshops of the project ” Tomorrow’s puppetry in Africa “. Second francophone workshop: ” Puppetry and dramaturgies in public space “. The workshop for French-speaking African countries on the theme ” Puppetry and dramaturgy in public space ” was led by Alessandra Amicarelli (Italy) and Athanase Kabré (Burkina […]

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International PUPPET THERAPY Training Summer 2023 in BARCELONA by Andrea Markovits & Polo Fernández

A 5-day training session in the Barcelona Center aims to bring together former diploma students and other professionals interested in the therapeutic power of puppets. In response to international scenarios of emergencies and learned hopelessness, this training will present and review Muñecoterapia Chile’s model of research and intervention with adults, in the context of memory, […]

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PUPPETPLAYS CONFERENCE : PORTRAIT OF THE PUPPETEER AS AUTHOR

News - 22/05/2023

PuppetPlays (2019-2024) is a research programme funded by the European Union under the framework of Horizon 2020 programme funded by the European Research Council (GA. 835193). Led by Didier Plassard (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3), it aims at gathering, studying and making know the plays written for puppet and marionette in Western Europe, from the […]

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7th German Puppet Theatre Conference: “From a different perspective”(August 18th – 27th, 2023)

7th German Puppet Theatre Conference: “From a different perspective” August 18th – 27th, 2023, in the “Theater der Nacht” in Northeim, Germany Download the digital flyer A meeting of german puppeteers and international puppeteers, organized by Theater der Nacht, Northeim in cooperation with UNIMA Germany and Verband Deutscher Puppentheater (VDP), the union of the professional […]

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UNIMA Council Meeting – Day 5

Agenda, News, Notices - 4/05/2023

Desa Kala Patra On Day 5 of the council meeting, final statute revisions proposed by Fabrice Guillot to improve the clarity and functioning of the organization were considered, National Center reports from Iraq and Singapore were shared, SE Asia reported on the establishment of a working group to increase collaboration among countries, UNIMA Korea shared […]

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