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“Golden Magnolia” Shanghai International Puppet Festival & Competition . The
2nd Shanghai International Puppet Festival & Competition will hold in Shanghai from October 11th to
15th this year.
This Festival will be a grant Celebration for the puppeteer from all over the world.
Welcome to Shanghai Festival to celebrate Puppetry Art.
Festival committee will give some Awards.
Read
the
Details
Bulletin n° 8 of the Unima Mexico
We invite you to read the last Bulletin of the Mexican Unima.
Boletín Informativo n°
8
-
Febrero
2010
Review of the Commission Africa The African Commission invites you to read the
third issue of its Informative Letter
"La Marionnette Africaine - The African Puppetry".
With a large
text
about Denis Nidzgorski-Gordier,
articles
on
Janny
Young
and
about
the
Topic
of
Tolosa,
many news from many countries; this third issue hopes to give you a lot of informations about the African puppetry.
Read the Review (N° 3 - February 2010)
at: http://www.takey.com/cafriq.pdf
4th International Student Puppet Festival
Central School of Speech and Drama, London,
5th -
8th May 2010 Applications now open.
The Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre at the Central School for Speech and Drama is pleased to present the fourth International Student Puppet Festival from the
5th to the
8th of May 2010.
The festival showcases the work of students, new and emerging practitioners (less than three years of professional practice) and recent graduates (less than three years since graduation).
It also supports a number of international groups from around the world to share work with the aim of developing and encouraging the art form of puppetry within the world of contemporary performance.
Applications are open until
28 February
2010. To apply, and for further information, please go to:
http://www.studentpuppetfestival.com
The Naive Theatre - Liberec, Czech Republic celebrates its
60th Anniversary 
On the
20th of February 2010, there is the first night of the new show of The Naive Theatre - Liberec.
By that occasion we remind ourselves the
60th Anniversary from the founding of our theatre.
Stanislav Doubrava
Naivní Divadlo Liberec
http://www.naivnidivadlo.cz
First World Festival of Puppet Theatre Schools
The organizers of the First World Festival of Puppet Theatre Schools, scheduled on
August
25th - September
5th 2010 in Saint Petersburg.
The festival is being managed and held in cooperation by Theater Union of Russia and UNIMA in partnership with KUKART international festival, and with support from Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
They invite all the puppetry theatre schools to come there and to take part in this great event.
Yet, they have received responses of schools from Armenia, Iran, England (London), Croatia, Israel.
Ukraine (Kharkov Institute) and Byelorussia have confirmed their intent to participate.
The dead line for application is moved to February 1st, but even this date is very close.
So, they invite you to discovery the program and to take contact with them as soon as possible.
Presentation Booklet
Death of Micheline Legendre
 The puppeteer Micheline Legendre died on 5 January, 86 years old.
Micheline Legendre played a crucial role in the development of puppetry in Quebec and Canada.
With her company Les Marionnettes de Montréal, founded in 1948, she was one of the first to bring Canadian puppetry to the international scene. An entire generation of puppeteers would ultimately be trained by Micheline Legendre.
After being introduced to puppetry in Montreal in 1945 by German puppeteer Albert Wolff, she continued her training in 1951 and 1952 in Paris and Europe.
Working exclusively with marionettes, she would mount around 65 productions, which were presented both in Canada and abroad. She has created works for stage, television and film.
Highly active at the international level, she has participated in numerous conferences, cultural delegations and exhibitions, and organized the first international puppetry festival in Canada during Expo 67.
Decorated with the Ordre National du Québec in 1991 and the Order of Canada in 1998, member of the Société Royale du Canada in 2001; in 2000, she was named Honorary Member of the Unima.
Also, she was musician, historian, teacher and writer.
Among her other accomplishments is the 1986 publication of
Marionnettes, Art et
Tradition.
TOPIC - Tolosa Puppets International Centre
From 27 November 2009, Europa, the World accounts with a new Puppetry Centre.
It is el TOPIC in Tolosa - Spain.
This wonderful centre, with its theater of 250 seats, its well-equipped installations, and especially its incredible museum designed by the architect Dani Freixes, offers us a magic place where we can find out and learn more about the puppets of all over the world, of all times and of all techniques.
We invite you to discovery the presentation booklet of the TOPIC.
Presentation Booklet
Next Festival of Charleville - France
 The website
(http://www.festival-marionnette.com) has been updated.
L'Ardennais, the local newspaper, published the news at the beginning of January 2010.
Now, it is official: the next Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes will take place from
16 to 25 September
2011.
It seems that, following its idea to do a festival every 2 years, the organization has decided to short the time between two editions.
Following the website of the Festival; the companies interesting to play in Charleville have to fill the Application Form and send it before 31 August 2010.
Review Móin-Móin
 We are happy to
inform
you
that
the
n°
6
of
the
review Móin-Móin
was
just
published
and
all the issues
can be readed online in
the website of the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina - UDESC - Brazil.
Móin-Móin - Revista de Estudos sobre Teatro de Formas Animadas is conjointly published by the Sociedade Cultura Artistica - SCAR de Jaragua do Sul and the Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Teatro (Mestrado) da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina - UDESC.
Read the
Reviews
Death of Freddy Artiles
 With much sadness we have received the new of the death of the considered and famous dramatist, researcher and professor, specialist of high level in theater for children, Freddy Artiles, in a medical center of La Havana, on 24 December 2009.
It was born in Santa Clara, the 13 of January of 1946.
Dramatist, theater researcher and professor in theater. Specialist in theater for children and puppets theater.
Doctor in Sciences of Art and graduated in Theatrical Arts by the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Universidad de las Artes de Cuba. He was Titular Assistant Professor in the Instituto Superior de Arte.
In 1971 he obtained the Prize of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, with the play Adriana en dos tiempos.
His plays have been represented or published in Cuba, Germany, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Peru, Nicaragua and the former USSR.
Like scriptwriter, he wrote for the TV the versions of El conde de Montecristi, El príncipe de los zorros, El caballero del Rey and the puppets series for children Despertar con Pelusín.
Also Freddy Artiles contributed with his numerous works in the fiel of the theater investigation.
He received several decorations as the Distinción por la Educación Cubana (2000) y la Medalla Alejo Carpentier (2001), granted by the Consejo de Estado de la República de Cuba, and in 2007 he received the Premio Gorgorito, that grants UNIMA Madrid.
La
Hoja
del
Titiritero
n°
18
We
invite
you
to
read
the
issue
n°
18
of
the
Hoja
del
Titiritero,
Informative
review
of
the
Commission
for
Latina
America.
You
will
discovery
the
new
Dossier
about
the
last
Festival
of
Charleville
through
the
eyes
of
puppeteers;
and
also
the
maximum
of
news
and
informations
we
were
able
to
collect
about
the
puppetery
in
this
large
continent.
Hoja del Titiritero n°
18
2
Grants
for
Students The UNIMA Commission for Professional Training offers two grants of 1000 euros each to students pursuing a puppetry education, to take a course or workshop
in Puppetry Schools or Programs.
Read all the details
Festival of the Women Puppeteers in Bergamo (Italy)
On 2009 December 12,13,14, the Ravasio Foundation of Bergamo, organizes three international symposiums:
- The Puppeteers of Lombardy meets the Unima
- The Women Puppeteers
- The Conservation of the Patrimonies of the Puppetry.
Read the complete article of Albert Bagno (in French)
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