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Festival of Ideas
WP Puppet Theatre has produced the FESTIVAL OF IDEAS since 1999. (Formerly known as PUPPET POWER conference) We explore the theory and practice of how puppetry arts promote positive social change. Previous themes have included existentialism, multiculturalism & diversity, literacy, therapy, social action, and intergenerational connection.
ABRACADABRA – ISTRIA PUPPET FESTIVAL
The first Istrian puppet festival – Abrakadabra 2023 is a successfully realized festival, realizing a rich program from morning to evening on the streets of Rovinj and in the Gandusio Theater for three days. Children from the Neven Kindergarten participated in the program (opening program and puppet parade through the streets of Rovinj), students of […]
INTERNATIONAL PUPPET THEATER FESTIVAL KARLOVAC – INPUT FESTIVAL KARLOVAC
The puppet festival organized by the City Theater Zorin dom in cooperation with the city of Karlovac, Karlovac County, the Ministry of Culture and Media and the Croatian Center UNIMA was held for the first time in 2022. The festival offers various puppet shows and events at several locations in the city center. In addition […]
PUPPET FESTIVAL OF THE TEACHING FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB – LUF UF
The launch of the LUF UF festival arose out of the intention and need to enable educators and teachers and all other practitioners who were educated at teacher training colleges or related institutions to present their artistic work in the field of puppetry in front of experts, colleagues and children. Puppetry has a place in […]
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL ŠIBENIK
The festival was held for the first time in 1958, on the initiative of a few art lovers for children, but it soon turned into a large and complex festival mechanism of an international character. This multimedia cultural manifestation is a sort of review of the best in creativity for children and children’s creativity. The […]
MEDITERRANEAN PUPPET FESTIVAL – “MEDITERANEO”
Every year since 2019, the Zadar Puppet Theater, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Zadar County, the City of Zadar, the Tourist Board of the City of Zadar and the Croatian Center UNIMA, organizes the Mediterranean Puppet Festival – “Mediteraneo”. It is a festival that brings together the […]
PIF (INTERNATIONAL PUPPET THEATRE FESTIVAL)
PIF is the oldest and largest international puppet theater festival in Croatia. In its name, it kept the Esperanto name Pupteatra Internacia Festivalo in memory of the founders – Student Esperanto Club (SEK). Back in 1968, the unique language of Esperanto began to spread through culture, so, along with theater and film festivals, a puppet […]
PUPPET SPRING FESTIVAL
Puppet Spring is a meeting of puppet theaters from Croatia and the diaspora. It is held regularly in the week before Holy Week and the Easter holiday. It lasts five days (from Monday to Friday). The original founders are the Asser Savus Theater Company and the City Puppet Theater from Rijeka. All professional puppet theaters […]
SLUK – MEETING OF PUPPET PLAYERS AND PUPPET THEATERS OF CROATIA
The first meeting of puppeteers was held in October 1969 in Opatija, with the desire and idea that Croatian professional theaters would show their best achievements, exchange experiences in organized discussions, but also have fun in informal gatherings. After gatherings in various larger Croatian cities, and even occasional interruptions, the puppeteers settled permanently in Osijek […]