Each different weekend we spherical up puppetry alternatives and puppetry information from English talking media all over the world. Right here’s a fast have a look at a few of what’s been occurring these days on the earth of puppetry:
Africa & The Center East
Josh Selig displays on the failure of Rechov Sumsum/Shara’a Simsim, the Nineties Israeli-Palestinian Sesame Road co-production.
Palestinian puppeteer Yousef al-Hindi is creating puppetry within the midst of the warfare in Gaza.
Asia
Fan Zheng’an is protecting the custom of Mount Tai shadow puppetry alive in Jap China.
Pakkay Dost, a Pakistani youngsters’s collection utilizing puppetry to advertise the Urdu language, is about to begin filming its second collection.
Anupama Hoskere has been awarded the Padma Shri – India’s fourth-highest civilian award – for her dedication to preserving conventional Indian puppetry.
The twentieth version of the Ishara Worldwide Puppet Theatre Pageant is going down February sixteenth – twenty fifth in New Dehli and Chandigarh.
Varuna, which payments itself as “Indonesia’s First Underwater Theatrical Present and Eating Expertise” incorporates a distinctive mixture of music, dance, paper animation, and conventional wayang kulit shadow puppetry.
Mulat Theatre’s famend Filipino adaptation of The Little Prince is returning to the stage in Manilla.
Europe
The seventeenth version of Manipulate Pageant is going down in Scotland till February eleventh.
A life measurement a hyena puppet by Jodie Jew Yates is featured in a brand new exhibit of labor by rising British stage designers on the Nationwide Theatre in London.
A few of the UK’s main puppetry theatre firms might be performing on the inaugural Smethwick Puppetry Pageant February eleventh – 18th within the West Midlands.
London Northeast Rail has launched a brand new advert marketing campaign that includes their new puppet mascot, Eleanor.
The Bristol Submit calls Lifetime of Pi on the Bristol Hippodrome a “beautiful spectacle”.
New York-based Phil Soltanoff and Steven Wendt are bringing their shadow puppetry to MimeLondon in February.
Puppets in Prague founder Mirek Trejtnar has printed a model new guide on the craft of marionette making entitled Puppet Expertise.
North America
One of many greatest issues on TikTok proper now’s Nanalan’, a twenty 12 months previous Canadian TV present.
The Jim Henson Basis has introduced the recipients of their 2024 grants for puppet theater in the US.
In presumably the week’s weirdest information, American comic Larry David spontaneously attacked Elmo from Sesame Road on reside tv.
A have a look at a few of the greatest issues from the Chicago Worldwide Puppet Theater Pageant this 12 months.
Schroeder Cherry is performing Civil Rights Kids Campaign at Metropolis Lore Gallery in New York Metropolis on February tenth.
America’s Acquired Expertise’ alum Abigail Baird introduced her distinctive fusion of animation, aerial acrobatics, and puppetry to Rojofest on the College of Connecticut final weekend.
Calls For Entry
UNIMA is at present looking for puppetry movies for the 2024 World Puppetry Day video.
Purposes at the moment are being accepted for the 2025 World Pageant of Puppet Theatre in Charleville-Mézières, France.
The 2024 TheatreAir Road Arts Pageant is now accepting functions from artists keen on performing in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
The forty seventh version of Café Concret in Montreal, Canada is looking for brief experimental puppetry and performing object performances and works-in-progress for his or her subsequent reside cabaret on March sixteenth.
Purposes are open for the Puppetry eXploratory Laboratory program on the Toronto Faculty of Puppetry in Toronto, Canada.
Puppet Pageant Mississauga in Ontario, Canada is at present looking for acts for its puppet slam on March 14th. Electronic mail puppeteertaylor ( at ) gmail dot com for particulars.
Registration continues to be open for The Superb Women of Puppetry’s 48 Hour Puppet Movie Competitors, which takes place February ninth – eleventh.
Job Alternatives
Artwork Camp UK is at present on the lookout for Artistic Practitioners with puppetry expertise to show in Leeds and Yorkshire throughout college holidays.
The College of Calgary is hiring sessional Instructors with puppetry expertise to show in its Faculty of Artistic and Performing Arts in Alberta, Canada.
Sundog Theater is at present looking for a part-time Puppetry Instructing Artist in Staten Island, New York.
Cirque du Soleil is at present hiring a Costume Character Artisan in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jurassic World: The Exhibition is hiring skilled puppeteers for its upcoming exhibit in Katy, Texas.
Workshops and Coaching Alternatives
Tim Gosley is internet hosting a Muppet Type 101 foam puppet building workshop in Victoria, B.C. February seventeenth – 18th. Electronic mail timgosley ( at ) telus.web for particulars.
The Middle for Puppetry Arts is internet hosting a particular on-line design and puppetry on-line workshop in partnership with Concrete Temple Theatre that explores the utilizing rattan in pupetry on February sixth.
Puppet Pie has upcoming on-line video puppetry workshops for rookies with Stacey Gordon and intermediate stage video puppet teaching with Michael Schupbach on February seventeenth.
Registration is now open for the 2024 Puppets in Prague workshops within the Czech Republic (a scholarship is out there).
Acclaimed puppet carver Vladimir Sosna is providing his puppet carving course in English for the primary time August 2nd – eleventh close to Plzen within the Czech Republic.
Andrew Kim is instructing a big puppet masterclass at Animal Cracker Conspiracy in San Diego, California February 29 – March tenth.
