MUMMERS AT LINCOLN CENTER
Aurélia Thierrée (granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin and Ona O'Neill) arrives at Lincoln Center Festival this summer with Murmurs, a dreamlike, largely wordless rumination on a woman's adventure into a surreal and shifting landscape of deteriorating buildings and objects. This production of low-tech circus artistry, filled with visual trickery, fantastical monsters, and magical sleight of theatrical hand uses set design and puppetry to transform everyday things—cardboard boxes, bubble wrap, umbrellas, ladders, and staircases to nowhere—into manifestations of the soul, Murmurs straddles the delicate line between imagination and madness. July 24 - 28.
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WAR HORSE TEAM PRODUCES SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare's inexhaustible A Midsummer Night's Dream unfurls in a new adaption interweaving the lives of lovers, actors, friends, foes, and fairies. This is a future primitive world, a hard world, a world of survival and instinct; a world in which, thanks to the magic of Handspring Puppet Company, all objects are granted the right to life. The 12-performance engagement at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven CT will be one of only two American dates on the production's premiere tour, and the only engagement in Northeast United States. June 15 - 23.
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NASHVILLE HOSTS INTERNATIONAL PUPPET FEST
The Nashville International Puppet Festival features troupes from the USA as well as from China, Germany, Japan, France and Argentina.Tickets are now on sale. June 21 - 23.
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CALL FOR TOURING ARTIST PRODUCTIONS IN ATLANTA
The Center for Puppetry Arts strives to present the best in puppetry and is currently seeking engaging puppet productions from both the United States and abroad. The Center's season runs July 1 - June 30. Booking generally takes place 10-12 months before the beginning of each season. Performers are invited to submit proposals for both for the Family Series and New Directions Series for Adults and Teens.
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PUPPETS IN PRAGUE 2013 WORKSHOPS
Puppets in Prague gives you the chance to enter into the magical the world of Czech stop motion and puppetry. Working under the guidance of leading Czech artists, you learn the traditional way of creating puppets - and you become an artisan yourself, learning the secrets of designing, carving, performing and filming. For fourteen years, hundreds of students from around the world have brought their unique puppet designs to life with the help of expert woodcarver and puppet artist Mirek Trejtnar and his team of teachers in Prague, where the puppetry tradition is still very much alive. The following workshops coming up: Puppets for Stop Motion (April, October) Marionette Carving (June, July) Puppetry Carving and Performing (August).
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NEW ENGLAND PUPPET INTENSIVE
The New England Puppet Intensive offers 15 days of vigorous training in the creative art of puppetry and animated object performance presented by members of The Old Trout Puppet Workshop. The workshop will meet this summer in Williamstown, Massachusetts, July 29 to August 14, where instruction and exercises will focus on physical awareness, character development, ensemble building & puppet design. In addition, participants will work toward the development of original material that will be presented at the end of the workshop at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Tuition is $1550 US which includes materials, shared accommodation and on-campus meals.
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WOMEN PUPPETEERS IN INDIA FILM
A travelogue-style documentary film Magic in our Hands is seeking financial support. Directed by Vicky Hart and co-produced by Vicky Hart and UNIMA-USA board member Claudia Orenstein, the film is a collaboration among artists from the US, the UK, and India. UNIMA-USA has officially endorsed this project as it is in keeping with UNIMA's mission to link puppeteers internationally and publish information on and for the field. The film will demonstrate the social value of puppetry by exploring the lives of inspired women puppeteers in one of the fastest growing economies in the world- India.
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PUPPETRY INTENSIVE IN TORONTO
The Humber College Puppetry Intensive in Toronto is a rigorous, hands-on, 12 day training program in the art of puppet theatre, taught by some of the best professional puppet artists in North America including Faye Dupas, David and Ann Powell and Shawna Reiter. Participants will survey the many modes of puppetry through the study of breath, impulse, movement and voice as they relate to object animation and puppet manipulation. The principals and techniques of puppet design, construction, mechanisms of movement, and performance creation will be explored in a puppet lab setting. June 3 - 15.
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2013 GRANT RECIPIENTS
The recipients of the UNIMA Commission for Professional Training Grants for 2013 are:
- Marjan POORGHOLAMHOSSEIN from the Universidad of Teheran - Iran
- Oana PLOSCEANU from the Universitatea Naţională de Artă Teatrală şi Cinematografică of Bucarest - Romania
Thanks to these grants, Marjan Poorgholamhossein will attend, in June 2013, the "National Puppetry Conference - Intensive puppetry workshop" given by many great professors and masters at the Centre Eugene O'Neill, Waterford, Connecticut - USA, and Oana Plosceanu will participe, in March, April 2013, to the workshop "Puppets and animated movie" leaded by Mina Trapp, Greta Bruggeman, Blai Tomas Bracquart in the Atelier Arketal, Cannes - France.

PAGEANT PUPPETRY WORKSHOP IN ITALIAN ALPS
Master Puppetmakers Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles (designers for New York's Village Halloween Parade) will lead the workshop, drawing inspiration directly from the folklore and oral histories of Morinesio, a remote village in the Piedmont region of the Italian Alps. No previous experience is necessary. Participants will learn how to design and construct giant puppets, masks, banners, lanterns and musical instruments. Working collaboratively, participants will develop and perform ritual processions inspired by traditional observance of the Summer Solstice (or the Feast of St. John the Baptist), in tandem with regional musicians and other local residents. June 22 - 30.
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PUPPET THEATRE RESEARCHERS DIRECTORY
The UNIMA International Directory of Puppet Theatre Researchers is a good aid for all who want to find researchers in different parts of the world and be informed about topics of their research. It is useful not only for reseachers but for anybody who is interested in puppets, puppet theatre, its origin, history and dramaturgy including students, dramaturges, directors, various creators, amateurs as well as employees of libraries, museums and others professional workplaces. The first edition of this Directory was published in Warsaw in 1991. Researchers from the previous issues plus new names of researchers and theorists of puppet theatre from all over the world are In this updated version.
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REPERTORY OF INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS
460 festivals from 60 countries all over the world are listed in this new publication from the Commission for International Festivals.
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