March 21, 2024
World Puppetry Day
Also called World Puppet Day
The World Puppet Day or also called in our house World Puppetry Day it is celebrated on March 21 of each year.
This day seeks to promote the art of puppetry by defending, among other objectives:
- The maintenance and safeguarding of traditions and, at the same time, the renewal of the art of puppets.
- The use of the puppet as a means of ethical and aesthetic education.
The International Union of Marionettes (UNIMA) first discussed the possibility of creating a World Puppet Day during the 18th Congress, in Magdeburg, in 2000.
The official date of March 21, proposed by Indian puppeteer Dadi Pudumjee, was approved in 2002 at the UNIMA Councilors' Meeting in Atlanta. The first International Message was issued in New Delhi in 2003 and has gained in popularity. It is now celebrated worldwide through its National Centers and its members.
First congress of UNIMA International in Prague 1920
First congress of UNIMA International in Prague 1920
A MESSAGE THAT CONNECTS US
Every year, since 2006, a personality from the arts or culture sector is asked to write the message for World Puppet Day.
This year the 2023 message is written by Nina Malíková (Czech Republic). It is about highlighting the values that UNIMA brings and that are found in this millennial art, to bring a message of cohesion and to shed light on this art. Nina Malíková is a professor in the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theater at DAMU, historian, translator and puppet theater journalist. He is also a member of ARTAMA's board of puppet theater experts.
Every year, since 2006, a personality from the arts or culture sector is asked to write the message for World Puppet Day.
This year the message of 2024 is written by Inés Pasic (Bosnia Herzegovina). Graduated from the Sarajevo Conservatory, piano teacher. Co-director of THI and director of Gaia theater at Teatre Hugo i Inés and Gaia theater. He is dedicated to the theater developing new body language techniques. In his professional career he has participated in more than 300 puppet, mime and dance festivals around the world, given hundreds of workshops for professionals and given master classes in more than 50 countries.
the theme that Unima proposes for World Puppet Day 2024 IS: THE CLIMATE
This theme suggests several dimensions, all essential for the manifestation of life, and even more so for the manifestation of the living.
This meteorological dimension reveals much more about the elements of time, material time, the cycle time of things and nature, ages and epochs, and even periods on a larger or smaller scale.
Rhythm is never far from the body, music is never far from silence.
The elements are imprinted on us in this footprint inscription. Nature is itself a creation that renews itself, but it is also constantly threatened, because time can be both an illusion and a source.
Weather changes, weather breaks, weather dries up. Even in the desert, life returns to the land.
That which is alive hides only to appear at the most propitious moment to restart the circle and the somewhat crazy wheel of the day: movement is the desire of gesture.
The upcoming World Day 2024 will focus more than ever on the importance of climate change, the elements and the fragile balance of life on earth.
Become the elements, snow, rain, sun, wind and clouds, become a rainbow.
And also the cycle of the planets, the waves and the seasons, as well as the cycles and ages of the body.
And remembering that all these cycles are rhythms that give us the choreography and gestures we need to make the world.
Dimitri Jageneau, Secretary General of UNIMA
PROGRAM WORLD PUPPET DAY
World Puppetry Day is an incredible opportunity to celebrate the magic of puppetry and the creativity it can inspire.
This festival is included in the official program of the Theater Week, which culminates on 24-3-24.
We always remember the wise words of Federico García Lorca:
"The theater is the poetry that rises from the book and becomes human. And when she becomes human, she speaks and screams, cries and despairs"
PRE-DAY AND POST
Decoration of the windows of the merchants of the Villa with puppets. The puppets will be displayed in the windows of March 11 to 22
Decoration with puppets of some institutional buildings. The puppets will be on display from March 11 to 22
14-3-24 Construction workshop of Puppets with grandparents of the Association of Residents of Can Falguera
20-3-24 Puppet construction workshop with recycled elements in charge of the The Avets de Moià community, dedicated to the care of adults with intellectual disabilities. A person who is part of this community offers the workshop to high school artistic students of theRamón Casas and Carbon Institute. With this inclusive activity we want to confirm that everyone has other abilities and create synergies between the students and this very special teacher.
25-3-24 Construction workshop of Puppets with grandparents from "My Grandparents" Day Center
MORNING
Place: MYTH
Exhibition of puppets made by the students of the Ramon Casas i Carbó Institute.
From 8:45 Storytellers with puppets in the Village Nursery Schools: El Sol, Patufet and Moixaina. Mercè Framis Company
10:00 Inauguration by theMayor of Palau-solità and Plegamans, Mr. Oriol Lozano, the president of UNIMA Catalonia, in Carles Canyelles and Teia Moner, Director of MIT.
10:15 We also commemorate the Poetry Day and we relate it to puppets. Reading of two poems by universal poets that talk about puppets, by the Palau-solità and Plegamans Arts Workshop
10:45 Performance of shows which will be distributed throughout the forest that surrounds the museum. The students and teachers of the village schools and anyone who wishes can enjoy them.
The functions will be carried out by:
12:30 Visit to the Museum by the members of UNIMA
NOON
Place: MYTH
13:00 Puppet Vermouth
13:30 Fellowship lunch with puppeteers fromUNIMA Catalonia and the people who want it.
Lunch will be paid for by everyone.
AFTERNOON
Place: MYTH
15:30 Presentation of the book:
Neighborhood Giants, by its authors: Manuel Delgado, Sandra Anitua, Analelly Castañeda, Mikel Fernandino.
All the authors are members of the Popular Culture and Conflict working group, CPC, of the Catalan Institute of Anthropology, ICA.
Place: Theater of the Village
17:30 Reading this year's message, written by Inés Pasic from Bosnia Herzegovina, in charge of theAlex Ollé director of the Fura dels Baus .
17:40 Video of the puppeteers of the world about the climate
17:50 Video of the storefronts of the town's merchants
18:00 Representation of a puppet show Company: KALI THEATER
Show: Rigoberta i the Windingo
*All activities are free
CIATRE, UNIMA Catalunya, MIT International Puppet Museum of Catalonia and Palau-solità i Plegamans City Council collaborate
THE PUPPETS COME TO THE TOWN. MAP WITH THE LOCATION OF THE PUPPETS
SHOPS - WINDOWS WITH PUPPETS
MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS WITH PUPPETS ON SHOW
