New Webinar Series!
UNIMA-USA
by UNIMA-USA
1M ago
A series of webinars by the Education, Development and Therapy Commission News for 2024: A series of webinars on Zoom “What a Puppet Can Do – applied puppetry in theory and practice”, starts on February 26th. Organized 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. A number of themes are already being considered: the benefits of using puppets in education, specific means of expression in puppetry, the development of a scient ..read more
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Building Worlds of Sound
UNIMA-USA
by UNIMA-USA
1M ago
Observations from the 2023 World Festival of Puppet Theaters in Charleville-Mézières: Part 1 by Felice Amato One of three immersive works by E. Garcia Romeu, Opus 2 of Le Petite Theatre du Bout du Monde (or The Little Theater at the End of the World) was staged in the gym of the Franck-Mozart Primary School, in Charleville. A large space with high ceilings, it is dark. An enormous white table-like surface, which is itself the size of a small room, is lit at the center. It is reminiscent of a skate park, made of undulating chipboard, bolted together to form the suggestion of a barren la ..read more
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World Puppetry Day Zoom Event
UNIMA-USA
by UNIMA-USA
1M ago
World Puppetry Day is March 21. The idea came from the puppet theater artist Javad Zolfaghari from Iran. In 2000 at the XVIII Congress of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette, in Magdeburg, he made the proposal for discussion. Register now for the World Puppetry Day Zoom event on March 21 at 7pm ..read more
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List of Intangible Cultural Heritage Puppetry
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by UNIMA-USA
3M ago
Puppetry is well represented by 50 entries in UNESCO’s list. Check it out ..read more
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Song of the North Puppet Recovery
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by UNIMA-USA
5M ago
Hundreds of Shadow Puppets Were Stolen. A Bystander Helped Crack the Case. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Published in The New York Times Oct. 25, 2023.Updated Oct. 27, 2023 Many of the puppets were still missing, however, after the theft of a U-haul truck in San Francisco holding props for the critically acclaimed Persian epic “Song of the North.” It was unclear if the show would go on. Inside the U-Haul were nearly 500 handmade shadow puppets and dozens of masks, costumes and backdrops — the culmination of three years of painstaking labor, which, on Sunday evening, came to life in a balletic perform ..read more
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Open call for the 2024 36th Chuncheon Puppet Festival
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by UNIMA-USA
8M ago
UNIMA Korea is recruiting overseas participants for the 36th annual Chuncheon Puppet Festival in 2024 Click HERE to find out more about applying  (website provides translation to English) CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: August 31, 2023 RESULT ANNOUNCEMENTS: October 2, 2023 Festival Dates: September 6th-11th, 2024 (Rough Schedule) Location: Chuncheon Puppet Theater and downtown area of Chuncheon City, South Korea To download the application, click HERE Apply through email at chuncheonpuppetfestival@gmail.com More Questions? Contact us at: Email: chuncheonpuppetfest ..read more
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Chasing the Shadows - a UNIMA India Project
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by UNIMA-USA
8M ago
UNIMA India is organizing a 15 day Puppet Tour of the Shadow Puppetry Traditions in South India early next year. (Jan 28th /Feb  10th 2024)These are tentative dates- subject to change. The Shadow Puppetry Traditions of Southern India go back hundreds of years. The continuity of these traditions has been ensured by a community of Puppet families, the local temples and the rural communities for which the organic context remains unbroken. It is a rare opportunity to be hosted by Master Puppeteers, to watch them work, engage with their community and watch them perform. You will get to experie ..read more
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Bewildered Anew
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by UNIMA-USA
11M ago
LʼAUTRE by Lei-Lei Bavoil (Recent recipient of an UNIMA-USA Study Abroad Scholarship) When I found myself in the audience of Loco at the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes in Charleville-Mézières, I had been working as a puppeteer for some years, and as an actor for some more. That is to say that even though Iʼm still early in my career, as an audience member, Iʼm not exactly innocent to the tricks of the trade. But as I sat and watched Tita Iacobelli and Marta Perreira flit around the stage with the puppet made by Natacha Belova, I became once more a child before a birthday par ..read more
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Jacques Félix Birth Centenary- March 31, 2023
UNIMA-USA
by UNIMA-USA
1y ago
Jacques Félix In 1961, Jacques Félix organized an international festival of puppetry in his home town Charleville-Mézières, the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes. It continues semi-annually to this day, attracting hundreds of puppeteers and presenters from around the world. Jim Henson acknowledged attending one of those festivals was a pivotal element in determining puppetry as a viable career for himself and Jane. Jacques Félix was a kind, modest, generous gentleman. His puppet company, Petits Comédiens de Chiffons, was invited to perform at the UNIMA Congress in Moscow, 1976, w ..read more
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Remembering Aurora Valentinetti
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by UNIMA-USA
1y ago
Aurora Stella Valentinetti, known to her family as Zizi LaLa, passed away on July 22, 2022, She was a skilled stage performer and the university puppetry professor from the early forties to her retirement in 1992. Through her career, Aurora was able to successfully work in four separate, yet closely related, fields as a professional singer, puppeteer, director of community theaters and their allied activities, and professor of speech, children’s theater and puppetry at the University of Washington. Her legacy as an educator was acknowledged when she was the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished ..read more
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