International Conference on Puppetry Heritage Protection in Critical Situations KOLK 17 Puppet Theatre & Museum in Lübeck, April 25–26, 2025 Puppetry has a long and rich cultural history, yet its heritage remains under constant threat from disasters such as war, earthquakes, floods, and social upheaval. Recognizing the urgency of preserving this unique art form, the […]
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PuppetOscope 2.0: A Celebration of Global Puppet Cinema and Performance PuppetOscope is an exciting international puppet film festival organized by the Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust, a renowned Delhi-based puppet theatre group. Over the years, Katkatha has brought together talented artists from across the globe, not only for its innovative puppet theatre productions but also for […]
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LINDA BLANCHET – Click on the name to access the bio. Crying Over the Death of a Robot In 2017, while searching for my next show topic, I read a lot and became passionate about artificial intelligence. I then discovered this news story: in the summer of 2014, hitchBot, a small hitchhiking robot designed in […]
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International Online Puppet Therapy Course Therapeutic Animated Forms General Information Start Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025 End Date: Saturday, June 30, 2025 Schedule: Saturdays from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Spain time) Language: Spanish The course is online Academic Director: Andrea Markovits Coordination: Polo Fernández Supported by: The Education, Development, and Therapy Commission of UNIMA […]
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Presented by W.P. Puppet Theatre Society together with the Education, Development and Therapy Commission. Are you harnessing the power of puppetry to spark change? We want to hear from puppetry practitioners, researchers, scholars, and theorists who are using puppetry arts to explore the vital issues of immigration, refugees, and newcomers. Share your insights, inspire others, […]
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“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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