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New issue of the magazine of Mobarak UNIMA - Iran
 Dear Friends,
We respectfully invite you to read the new issue of the bilingual (Farsi, English) magazine of Mobarak UNIMA - Iran.
Many news and information of puppet theatre in the world and Iran such as:
The Multi-Voiced Chronicler of a Silent Heritage,
In Memory of Javad Zolfaghari
Post-Modern Art; Seriousness or Playfulness and Irreverence?
An Exclusive Interview with Professor John Bell
Crossing Borders and Limitations
A Look at the Ishara Festival and an Exclusive Interview with Dadi Pudumjee
I am not the Judge of History; I am just a Narrator,
A Conversation with Zohreh Behrouzi Nia and Nima Dehghani
The Art of Small Things,
A Dossier on Toy Theatre
The World of Lorca: Puppets and the Artist
with Articles and Pieces from Fariba Ra’isi, Salma Mohseni Ardehali, Sahand Abidi, Mehdi Koushki and …
The Idea is in the Model: Figures, Puppets and Toys,
A Conversation with Hasan Madjooni Regarding Micro-Theatre
Best Regards and hope to see you all very soon,
Salma Mohseni
Mobarak UNIMA
Magazine of Mobarak UNIMA - Iran
FIDENA 2012: May 10th - 20th - Bochum, Germany
FIDENA (the Puppet Theatre of the Nations) loves discoveries.
For 54 years it has been sniffing around in search of them, scraping away at surfaces and revealing new dimensions.
FIDENA 2012 will be turning machines into dancers and bringing paper to life, transforming one castle park into a zoo, and another one into a wonderland. Mission Impossible will be going solo and Hansel and Gretel will be landing in the middle of an installation.
On one whole evening FIDENA 2012 will be grinding everything to a halt and, on another, setting the stage alight.
http://www.fidena.de
Tallinn Treff Festival - Different Cultures, One Language
From 24th of May til 27th of May 2012 the streets of Tallinn Old Town will become more than a tourist attraction.
Tallinn Treff Festival is a meeting point for artists from the West and East, not only amongst professionals but also engaging students of performing arts.
1100 performers will be arriving from 20 countries around the world and give 178 performances during the four days of the festival.
Read more
Issue # 25 of La Hoja del Titiritero
 The Commission for Latina America is very happy to invite you to read "La Hoja del Titiritero", its Informative bulletin.
Many news, informations about festivals and very interesting texts like:
- Unforgettable People: Wilberth Herrera, un profeta en su tierra
- Reportage: El único paraíso
- Grants: Letters of Grant holders about the workshop "Los Desdoblamientos del Cuerpo", in Brazil
"Un Colombiano en l'ESNAM" by Jorge Agudelo
- Dossier: Monumento Número 21 de Bilbao, Guatemala
- Heritage: The Café Chat Noir
- Therapy: Títeres, Niños y Discapacidad, Al encuentro de una escuela creativa
- Festivals and News from the world.
La Hoja del Titiritero n° 25 - Abril 2012
SUMMER SCHOOL 2012 OF UNIMA SPAIN
Organised by the UNIMA FEDERACIÓN ESPAÑA, UNIMA EUSKAL HERRIA and the TOPIC - Puppetry International Centre in Tolosa, the School will be held from June 27th to July 4th, 2012.
Course 1:
The Power of the Puppet
handled by Neville Tranter
Course 2:
New Technologies in the Theatrical Stagecraft
handled by Juan Crego
Course 3: Construction and live of the puppets
handled by Greta Bruggeman
Course 4, organized in collaboration with the Universidad del País Vasco:
Puppets and Infantile Literature
Lecturers: Fernando Marías y Rodorin
Read more (in Spanish)
Registration Form
Launching of the Digital Review "Putxinel·li - Titeresante - Puppetring"
 Among the activities of the TOT Festival in Barcelona, there was on March 21st, 2012 the official launching of the digital revue in 3 languages directed by Toni Rumbau.
UNIMA is happy to promote this new information and communication tool.
Jacques Trudeau
UNIMA Secretary General
Artistic Director of TOT Festival
in Catalan: http://www.putxinelli.cat
in Spanish: http://www.titeresante.es
in English: http://www.puppetring.com
Death of Miguelito Santiesteban (Cuba)
The UNIMA Cuba is very sad to inform us about the death of Miguelito Santiesteban, the director of the Guiñol of Holguín.
Read the text written by Rubén Darío Salazar
Important Informations about Chengdu Festival
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Dear UNIMA members,
I want to remind you the opening ceremony of the Chengdu Festival will be held on May 27th, 2012 at 10:00 AM.
So, be careful to arrive the day before in order to attend this event the Chinese organisation promises magnificent.
Also, take note well that the City sightseeing (Panda Base, etc...) scheduled by the Chinese organisation will be only on June 3rd, 2012 (the day after the Congress) from 8:30 to 16:00 and the closing & award ceremony of the Festival in the same day at 19:30.
So, don't leave Chengdu too early !.
Jacques Trudeau
UNIMA General Secretary
Also, I invite to read again the CV of the candidates for the next Executive Committee 2012-2016. |
"Pelusin el Mesajero" - Review of the Unima Cuba
We invite you to read the issue # 3 - March 2012 of this review done by our friends of Cuba.
Pelusin n° 3 - Marzo 2012
Message for the World Puppetry Day 2012 Dear friends,
I'm pleased to send you the very beautiful Message for the World Puppetry Day 2012 written, this year, by the great Catalan multidisciplinary artist Joan Baixas.
Joan Baixas, painter and puppeteer, creates spectacles and performances with strong visual content based on live painting, video projections and handling of objects, telling little contemporary stories.
His company, Teatre de la Claca, collaborated with painters like Joan Miró and Roberto Matta as well as with musicians, actors and dancers and presented its productions around the world. He managed the Festival de Teatre Visual i de Titelles de Barcelona, directed multitudinous events and worked for television, fashion and advertising.
He published poetry, papers on his professional experiences and gave courses at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and other international institutions.
I'm asking you to send it to all your members, your friends, but also to all the medias, including magazines, written and electronic press.
Jacques Trudeau
4th International Festival of Puppet Theatres "Diven 2012" Dear Friends,
You are invited to take part in the 4th International Festival of Puppet Theatres "Diven 2012" which is held in May 21st - 26th,
2012st - 26th,
2012, at Khmelnytskiy Academic Regional Puppet Theatre.
Read more details
Application form
Sincerely,
Venеra Ibrahimova
Secretary of the Ukrainian Center of UNIMA
Tel: +38 067 451 96 78
Email: venerena@ukr.net
Skype: veneraunutmabeni
Web: http://www.unima-ua.org
Directory of International Puppet Festivals presented in Chengdu 2012 
International puppetry festival Lutke 2012 
Dear Colleagues,
Lutkovno Gledališče Ljubljana would like to remind you that Open call for applications to Lutke 2012, 11th edition of main Slovene International puppetry festival is still open and will be until March 2nd, 2012.
More info about festival and application forms are available at: http://www.lgl.si
We are looking forward hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Uroš Korenčan, General Manager
Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana / Ljubljana Puppet Theatre
"Pelusin el Mesajero" - Review of the Unima Cuba
We invite you to read the issue # 1 - January 2012 of this review done by our friends of Cuba.
Pelusin n° 1 - Enero 2012
Program of Summer Workshops 2012 in the International Puppetry Institute of Charleville - France - From July 10th to 27th, 2012: "Material and Movement" directed by Frank Soehnle, in collaboration with Karin Ould Chih (Figuren Theater Tübingen - Germany).
- From August 21st to September 7th, 2012: "On the theatrical vocation of shadow theatre (level II) - the creation of a shadow performance", directed by Fabrizio Montecchi (Teatro Gioco Vita - Italy).
Also read the last news from the Institute
To propose Shows for Charleville Mézières 2013
The 17th edition of the World Festival of Puppets Theatres will be held from September 20th to
29th, 2013, in Charleville Mézières (France).
The Companies that hope it can send their application.
The application form is available on the website: http://www.festival-marionnette.com
The due date to send the application files is fixed on August 31st, 2012.
Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes
BP 249
08103 CHARLEVILLE MÉZIÈRES Cedex
France
festival@marionnette.com
Phone: +33 (0)324 59 94 94
New book of Penny Francis
 Puppetry - A Reader in Theatre Practice is a book by Penny Francis published in January 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan - London.
It is one of a series on modern theatre practice and gives a contemporary perspective on what may be an unfamiliar branch of the performing arts for theatregoers, teachers, students, critics etc... in which they are often seeing puppets and animated objects.
The book is the result of many years of research and watching performances all over the world, and it gathers together material from an international selection of other writers on the subject.
The chapters are: Approach, Related Arts (ventriloquism, mask, automata), Techniques, In Performance, Dramaturgy, Aesthetics and History, with an extensive Bibliography and Index.
ISBN 978-0-230-23272-3
ISBN 978-0-230=23272-0 paperback
It can be obtained from Amazon; or from the publishers: http://www.palgrave.com who will give a discount if you order it with the promo code: WPUPPETRY11a
Results of the Grants for Students offered by
the Professional Training Commission The recipients of the UNIMA Commission for Professional Training Grants for 2012 are:
- Ana Celeste ROMERO GUNSET from the Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán - Argentina
- Vanda TOLLAS from the University of Arts, Târgu-Mure - Romania
Thanks to these grants, Vanda Tollas will attend the workshop of summer given by Frank Soehnle at the Institut International de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières and Ana Celeste Romero Gunset will attend the directing course given by Irina Niculescu at UQAM - DESS marionnette program in Montreal.
Exchange Grant of the Commission for Latina America The UNIMA Commission for Latina America and the Unima Centre of Cuba offer an Exchange Grant.
The CAL / UNIMA in collaboration with the 10th "Taller Internacional de Títeres de Matanzas" and the Unima Centre of Cuba opens a contest for a Grant of a latino american member that is member of an Unima Centre of Latina America. ( http://www.atenas.cult.cu/titeres )
Read (in Spanish) the details/conditions
14th International Puppet Theatre Festival - Tehran The 14th International Puppet Festival - Tehran (MOBARAK) will be held from
1st to 7th of July 2012 in Tehran.
We highly appreciate it if you could kindly submit some new productions of your theatre companies to our festival.
We invite you to read our official invitation letter
Best Regards,
MobarakUNIMA
Salma Mohseni Ardehali
Manager of International Affairs
salma.mohseni@gmail.com
Issue # 24 of La Hoja del Titiritero
 Once again, the Commission for Latina America is very happy to invite you to read "La Hoja del Titiritero", its Informative bulletin.
Many news, informations about festivals and very interesting texts like:
- Unforgettable People: Mario Herrera Asín de Perú
- Reportage: "Una Ventana a la Marioneta Suiza"
- Grants: Grants of the CAL and Letter of the brazilian grant holder from the ESNAM
- Dossier: The Theater Juan Redondo, popular marionette of Brazil
- Heritage: The Café Chat Noir
- Therapy: The Grupo 4 Elementos in the hospitals
- Festivals and News from the world.
La Hoja del Titiritero n° 24 - December 2011
Window to the Swiss Puppetry in Tolosa, 2011
The Festival Titirijai of Tolosa has always like main axle, each year, to offer a large exhibition about the Puppetry Theater in a country, called "Window to the .... Puppetry". In 2011, it was open on Switzerland.
Thank to the enthusiasm of Pierre Alain Rolle and Paola Busca, the Exhibition Swiss Puppetry was created during this festival and with the help of the center TOPIC.
It showed about 300 marionettes of the XXth and XXIst centuries. It highlighted the originality and the diversity of the swiss artists.
See the video of the Exhibition
Official Convocation to the World wide Unima Congress - Chengdu (China)
Dear friends,
I ask you to read the Official Convocation Letter to attend the XXI UNIMA Congress which will be held in
Chengdu (China) from May 29th to 2nd June 2012.
It's very important that all of you read this invitation.
I encourage you to attend this important UNIMA Congress and World Puppet Festival.
Please prepare yourselves in consulting the agenda and the full dossier.
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My best regards!
Jacques Trudeau
Unima General Secretary
Read the Letter
Death of Peter W. Loosli (29/10/19 - 09/12/11)  Peter W. Loosli started his life for the theatre as a professionally trained actor at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich. After having worked extensively in the theatre, for radio broadcasts, in films and on television, he got interested in puppets.
In 1948, he founded the "Looslis Puppentheater", together with his wife Trudi, and for over 50 years, their company captivated a public of children and adults. With the show of “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Peter W. Loosli in a certain way transformed the traditional way of performing puppets in Switzerland by getting on stage in person and using different techniques: string puppets, masks, visible as manipulator and narrator.
This show has been performed over five thousand times in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Russia. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is therefore the French author whose work is shown most in all German-speaking countries and for this reason, Peter W. Loosli was awarded the medal of "Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Minister of Culture in 1996.
"Pelusin el Mesajero" - Review of the Unima Cuba
We invite you to read the issue # 11 - December 2011 of this review done by our friends of Cuba.
Pelusin n° 11 - Diciembre 2011
International Workshop in the Theater Gioco Vita
The Theater Gioco Vita is pleased to propose A simulacrum of the Shadow
Role, techniques and function of shadow-objects within the Contemporary Shadow Theatre.
Exploring arts, comic strips, graphics and illustration.
May 14th - June 2nd 2012
Piacenza, Officina delle Ombre
Edited by Fabrizio Montecchi, Nicoletta Garioni and Federica Ferrari.
For all information and application form, see in the website
Emma-Chiara Perotti / Helena Tirén
Teatro Gioco Vita
Email: workshop@teatrogiocovita.it
Web: http://www.teatrogiocovita.it
Launching of the review Cachinchín of the Unima Chile
On Tuesday October 18, 2011, the launching of the review Cachinchín, of the Unima Chile, happened in the hall of the Cultural Institute of the State Bank.
The guests could appreciate with a Power Point the numerical format of the Bulletin, an exhibition of puppets in various techniques was presented and the event was closed with a cocktail.
The bulletin in available on the website: http://revistacachinchin.blogspot.com
See the diptych made (in spanish) for the launching
Recall for Unima Travel Fund
Dear Unima centres and friends,
As you all know, UNIMA will celebrate its World Congress in Chengdu, China, in May 2012.
A Travel Fund has been established for elected councillors who do not have the financial means to attend the official meetings (Congress, Council and Executive Committee meeting).
A first call was done in May 2011 and we would like to thank those few people and National Centres that donated money, yet.
During the Festival of Charleville-Mézières, we collected some money by selling special buttons. All incomes were fully remitted to a special account.
But, this still is not sufficient. If we want to assure that the people attending the Congress, the Council or the Executive Committee meeting will well represent the diversity of our organisation and its ideal of democracy, we need to make a bigger effort. Each donation (small or large) will be welcome.
We invite you to read again the letter written by the Unima Finance Commission about the Travel Fund and to give it the best diffusion among your members, your friends. May this letter remind you of the importance to enable councillors from all regions of the world to contribute to Unima meetings.
Applicants asking for a grant should fill in the form and send it to the General Secretary, not later than 6 months before the meeting. (For the Congress in Chengdu this means November 2011!).
Unima General Secretariat
Read the letter
International Puppeteer Residency - Canada, Spring 2012 Montreal (Quebec) - Canada
Petits Bonheurs, Casteliers and the district of Outremont offer a three week residency to a foreign puppeteer.
The artistic project
The residency aims to encourage the creation of a new work in puppet theatre for children between 0 to 6 years old.
This residency will promote and facilitate exchanges between the artist and other puppeteers from Québec, also offering him time, space and material to pursue his project.
The residency applies for a project at the beginning, in the middle or the end of the creating process.
For more details (in french)
"Pelusin el Mesajero" - Review of the Unima Cuba
We invite you to read the issue # 9 - October 2011 of this review done by our friends of Cuba.
Pelusin n° 9 - Octubre 2011
Grants for Students 2012
The UNIMA Commission of the Professional Training offers two grants of 1000 Euro each to students pursuing a puppetry education, to take a course or workshop with one of the Puppetry schools or programs cited.
The candidates must fill out and send the application form before December 31st, 2011
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and, also, they have to choose one of the workshops listed below:
To assist in the creation process of an new production: "Black Birds of Bialystok" by Eric Bass
BIALYSTOK (Poland) - Bialostocki Teatr Lalek (BTL)
Stage about the Paper Theater with Alain Lecucq
CANNES (France) - l’Atelier d’Arkétal
Directing workshop, course given in the frame of the DESS in contemporary puppet theatre with Irina Niculescu
MONTRÉAL (Canada) - École Supérieure de Théâtre de l’Université du Québec à Montréal
Workshop to attend the last trimestre of a training course in puppet theatre
BUENOS AIRES (Argentina) - Universidad Nacional de San Martín
A Workshop about the Animated Movement with Duda Païva
NYKOBING (Denmark) - Scenekunstens Udviklingscenter/Odsherred Teaterskole
Two summer workshops (the subjects will be announced later)
CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIÈRES (France) - Institut International de la Marionnette
The results of the selection will be communicated January 15th, 2012
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More Details
Award "Pillar of Theatre in Mexico" for Mireya Cueto  Dear friends of UNIMA,
We inform you that the Mexican Center for Theatre, the legal representative of International Theater Institute UNESCO and 15 international organizations, gived the Award for "Pillar of Theatre in Mexico" to the writer, director, puppeteer and teacher , who has had a lifetime of dedication to work with children through the puppets, etc..
This event was take place on October 23, 2012. This day was inaugurated the 11th Mireya Cueto Puppet Festival, which will take place at the Teatro Isabela Corona.
César Muñoz
Coordinador -
Centro Mexicano ITI UNESCO
International Directory of Puppet Theatre Researchers 2011 
The Unima Research Commission proposes you a new version of “The UNIMA International Directory of Puppet Theatre Researchers”.
Directory of Puppet Theatre Researchers 2011
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News Statutes and Rules of Procedure
Presented and approved during the extraordinary Congress held in Dordrecht in June 2010, written by the Statutes Commission, verified by a staff of conscientious and devoted people we have to thank for this very meticulous work; the new Statutes and Rules of Procedure are now online and available. We invite you to read and study them.
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