Passport Program

with the International Festivals Commission

Puppetraining 

with the Professional Training Commission

Three Americas Commission

The UNIMA Three Americas Commission's new interim president*, Tito Lorefice, reports that the first activity managed jointly by the Three Americas Commission (Latin America subcommission), the Professional Training Commission, and the Joinville "Animaneco" Festival, was a complete success. It was a face-to-face and online meeting for a week, in a seminar on Contemporary Dramaturgies in Animation Theatre, with the participation of puppeteer artists representing Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Bosnia. Daily, on average around 250 puppeteers from different Latin American countries' National Centers participated online. The meetings were recorded and can be viewed on Youtube.

On September 28 and 29, the Commission will hold an intensive shadow theater workshop by Alessandra Amicarelli, also under the auspices of the Professional Training Commission, in combination with five festivals in Latin America that coincide on those dates. 

UNIMA's Cooperation Commission's mission is to provide aid to puppeteers in situations of catastrophe. This encompasses disasters caused by weather or climate, industrial, political or social situations of extreme distress. With so many crises in the world today, this mission is even more pressing.

Most recently the Commission sent aid to UNIMA Sudan to support puppeteers affected by the civil war in the country.

Nordic Working Group

UNIMA Nordic is a voluntary grouping of UNIMA Centres from the Nordic region, including Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The centres initially came together in response to the Russia-Ukraine war and through a wish to support Ukrainian puppeteers and puppetry students who are displaced or unable to continue their work or studies. UNIMA Nordic proposes to set up a series of online and in-person workshops and lectures over the next two years for Ukrainian and Nordic puppeteers, to foment cultural exchange and the development of new puppetry skills.

UNIMA Nordic will be launching this project at the International puppetry festival in Charleville on 22nd September this year. The lectures and workshops will then continue over the next months beginning with lectures and presentations by Ukrainian and Finnish puppeteers in November, and will follow with a programme focusing on puppetry heritage, applied puppetry, creative and experimental practices and popular puppetry techniques from the different countries. Each workshop or session will be hosted by a different country within UNIMA Nordic.

For more information about UNIMA Nordic, please contact Tiina Suhonen

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