“Anubhav #8” with Sylvie Baillon: A Special Theatre Event by UNIMA Puppeteers Trust India Date: 23 March 2025, Sunday UNIMA Puppeteers Trust India is excited to invite you to an upcoming event, Anubhav #8, featuring the renowned Sylvie Baillon from Le Tas de Sable – Ches Panses Vertes, France. As the director of the distinguished […]
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Commedia dell’arte workshop at Centro del Títere Centro del Títere in Spain offers a Commedia dell’arte Workshop based on Polichinela, a figure between the supermarionette and the sacred clown. This is a practical workshop on acting in which through improvisations and games the participants will be able to enter into the figure of Polichinela taking […]
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UNIMA International would like to especially celebrate all women puppeteers on International Women’s Day 2025! We are proud of the achievements of our women members and all puppetresses throughout the world who work so hard to create high quality, meaningful and boundary-breaking art. Women’s work is often, even today, hidden behind the image of men […]
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CALL FOR PAPERS Theatralia: Journal of Theatre Studies, 2026/1, Issue topic: Puppetry with(out) Classics Issue Editors: Kateřina Dolenská (DAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, Editor-in-chief of Loutkář [Puppeteer]) and Gabriella Reuss (PPCU Budapest, Hungary, and KU Ružomberok, Slovakia) Puppetry is an art form, both materially defined and conceptually abstract, that offers a rich medium for […]
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All-Ukrainian online festival “Premieres of a season” Dear puppeteers, dear colleagues and friends! UNIMA-UKRAINE welcomes you and invites all the connoisseurs of puppetry art to join the online events offered by our centre. Since 2011, UNIMA-UKRAINE has hosted the All-Ukrainian online festival “Premieres of a season”, within the framework of which all puppet theaters of […]
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PRESS RELEASE FROM THE 3 UNIMA CONSORTIUM (UNIMA Italy, THEMAA/UNIMA France, UNIMA Federación España) Presentation of the Project: Eco-Sustainability in Puppet Theatre Creation In 2025, the 3 UNIMA Consortium—comprising UNIMA Italy, THEMAA/UNIMA France, and UNIMA Federación España—launches the project Eco-Sustainability in Puppet Theatre Creation. The initiative aims to develop an ecological approach to the […]
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CALL FOR PASSPORTS Dear Festival Directors, The INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS COMMISSION is calling for new PASSPORTS for 2025 and 2026. The PASSPORT program aims to help young UNIMA puppeteers or puppetry students, both UNIMA and non-UNIMA members, to attend puppet festivals and increase their knowledge of the organization and programming of an international event. The success of […]
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS OF PUPPET AND CHILDREN’S PERFORMANCES FOR THE 30TH REVIEW OF THE PUPPET THEATRES IN RIJEKA, CROATIA Rijeka City Puppet Theatre, Croatia is delighted to announce that the jubilee 30th Review of Puppet Theatres will be held from November 3rd to 11th, 2025, in Rijeka, Croatia. This festival aims to showcase exceptional puppet […]
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BUY AN ADVERTISING SPACE IN THE UNIMA MAGAZINE! The first UNIMAgazine will be published in May 2025! Edited by UNIMA thanks to an international editorial committee, it will feature 42 articles from National Centres and magazines from Africa, America, Asia and Europe and will have more than 150 pages per language. UNIMAgazine will be […]
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In 2025, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, a fundamental text that serves as a key tool for our sector. Ratified by UNIMA, this convention supports the recognition and promotion of puppetry arts worldwide by fostering cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue, and […]
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