A series of webinars by the Education, Development and Therapy Commission
Organised by the UNIMA Education, Development and Therapy Commission, the series will feature online lectures, workshops, exchange of ideas, and examples of good practice in all three fields: education, development and therapy.
The webinars will be held once every two months on Zoom in English, Spanish or French (the official UNIMA languages), starting on February 26th.
Duration: 40 to 45 minutes plus 20 to 40 minutes for Q&A and sharing experiences with participants.
Maximum duration: 90 minutes.
UPCOMING ZOOM WEBINARS:
Webinar No. 7
Matt Smith: Applied Puppetry: A Field Guide
Date: Monday 3rd March 2025
Time: 15:00 CET
Language: English
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This talk explores how we positively use puppetry in the community as applied puppetry. This talk cites the thirty years of practice Smith has developed in ecological practices using material performance with both puppets and performing objects. This talk shows us how we can make sensitive and responsible practices with groups. Themes of environmental concerns in performance practice when working with puppetry are examined and analysed. Using Object Oriented Ontology OOO (Harman 2018), New Materialism (Brown 2016) and ideas about vibrant matter drawn from Bennett (2010) this talk asks us to consider how stuff (Miller 2010), things and objects shape us and our practices in performances and workshops. This talk explores how we can become more ecological through practice that valorises our material spaces. The talk connects to Smith’s monograph Applied Puppetry (2024). It also draws from Smith’s extensive practice that asks us to collaborate with puppets. Haptic joy with objects is explored bringing to practices a pathway to well being. The practices that he will reference include; ecological making with junk in Marlsite residencies 2000-2009, workshops in an Immigration Removal Centre 2014-2016, his installation Puppet City 2018 and recently exploring Ukrainian Puppetry 2023.
RECORDED ZOOM WEBINARS:
Webinar No. 1
Livija Kroflin : The Language of Puppets
Date: Monday 26th February 2024
Time: 15:00 CET
Language: English
Webinar No. 2
Cariad Astles : Puppetry Healing Stories in Hospital Care
Date: Monday 29th April 2024
Time: 14:00 CET in EnglishLanguage: English
Webinar No. 3
Andrea Markovits: Therapeutic Animated Forms: From Personal to Collective Memory
Date: Monday 17th June 2024Time: 15:00 CEST
Language: English
Webinar No. 4
Hélène Ducharme: “Research and creation for neurodiverse and children with an intellectual disability”
Date: Monday 30th September 2024
Language: English
Webinar No. 5
Maurizio Gioco and Felice Amato: “Specific Children, Specific Puppets: Considerations When Designing Puppet Experiences”
Date: Monday 11th November 2024
Time: 15:00 CET
Language: English
Webinar No. 6
Carmela Núñez Linares and Leovaldo Díaz Fernández: Ice Puppets – “On the Omniscience of Mutant Reality”
Date: Monday 20th January 2025
Time: 15:00 CET
Language: Spanish