What are the numbers that encode beauty, the encrypted grip that encloses, transforms, transmits, decodes but, somehow, fails to imprison or stifle the soul of this beauty? Not because of technology, but in spite of it, beauty, that spectre, that treasure, circulates unharmed in the new technologies. (Salman Rushdie, Furie, Part One, 2001) “Anyone today […]
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UNIMA proposes each year a video project to be realized individually or through workshops with children. This proposal is sent all over the world and all the videos are edited to be broadcast on the 21st of March! Here are some previous montages! Video 2023 Video 2022 Vídeo 2020 Vídeo 2018 The theme for 2024 […]
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Puppet Power: Festival of Ideas, the 10th edition animates the theme of Celebration! We look at the role inanimate objects have had in ceremonies since time immemorial. It explores the impact and potential of Applied Puppetry in all sorts of practices. It wonders who’s at the party, who’s not and whether it’s time to take […]
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Dear National Centres, Dear Members, A moment of celebration is upon us! In 2003, UNIMA with your help launched World Puppetry Day. March 21 has become a day to celebrate the joy that springs from our imaginative use of materials, techniques and storytelling. This year’s theme is the Sea. The 2022 World Puppetry Day message […]
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As it has been done in recent years, UNIMA International will create a common and participatory video to celebrate World Puppet Day on March 21st. It is a video created from the videos received from puppet lovers, artists and children from all over the world. It’s a call open to all, so you can participate […]
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At the workbench with Erika Faria de Oliveira A workshop organized in prefiguration of the World Puppetry Day 2022. Poseidon is in pain, he has lost the students in his class! Erika Faria de Oliveira’s mission is to get his students back to him in the same shape for the next World Puppetry Day. Taking […]
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