March 21, 2023
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 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.
the theme that Unima proposes for World Puppet Day 2023 IS: THE CALL OF THE FOREST
The imagination of a call or an escape, or simply the search for a refuge where the place of legends, myths and tales invite us to feel and walk the paths of the forest to find clearings, springs and freshness.
The forest gathers the trees and the leaves, it houses the wild and enduring part, the mysterious and dark part, the risk, loss and abandonment part, the shining and oblivion part. A territory that we never finish exploring.
This part of the territory is the place of breath and surprise, a place where noise becomes silence, birdsong into music, fear into courage, the world into enigma. And yet, nothing is closer, because the edge of the field and the first houses are never far away. Distances fade, as do addresses. Are we always in a blue forest? Once upon a time there was a piece of wood that talked.
Thus begins the story of the most famous string puppet, Pinocchio.
Are we still Geppetto or fire thieves?
the forest it is always in danger, because as a resource it can become an obstacle and a fire.
The forest and everything it conveys in terms of imagination and animality is an inverted mirror, from the trunk to the majesty of memory.
The forest is the face of the tree and of multiplicity. We don't just look at the trees, the trees look at us.
In a forest, "he who looks is looked at", he who touches a trunk is touched by the trunk, this is the "temple of living pillars".
Forests cover vast areas of non-human freedom. Branches and twigs are forces of heat.
We invite you to take a side path and play with the pineapples, as well as collect wild fruits, being careful of berries and other poisonous mushrooms. We invite you to listen to the stories of the past that the forests tell. We invite you to discover new paths to never return to the same place. Listen to the stories and songs of the birds. We invite you to discover the call of the forest.
Dimitri Jageneau Secretary General of UNIMA
PROGRAM WORLD PUPPET DAY
World Puppetry Day is included in the schedule of the official activities that take place to commemorate the Theater Week which culminates on 27-3-23.
These are good days to 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"
BEFORE THE DAY
Construction of a puppet with natural elements of the forest by the students of the Primary Schools of the Villa, with the help of UNIMA and the MIT.
Decoration of the windows of the merchants of the Villa with puppets. The puppets will be on display in the windows from March 13 to 26
Decoration with puppets of some institutional buildings.
Preparation, of Sweet MIT Puppet, created by Forn Pastisseria Coromines de Palau-solità and Plegamans
MORNING
Place: MYTH
9:30 Inauguration by the Mayor of Palau-solità i Plegamans, UNIMA Catalunya and Teia Moner, Director of the MIT.
9:45 Presentation and tasting of the Sweet MIT Puppet, created by Forn Pastisseria Coromines of Palau-solità and Plegamans.
Presentation of The virtual route of showcases with puppets from the town's shops
10:00 Exposure to the natural environment of the Museum. The school students will have to find the puppets they have made and which are integrated into the forest.
11:00 Representation 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:
NOON
Fellowship lunch with puppeteers fromUNIMA Catalonia and the people who want it. Place: MYTH
Lunch will be paid for by everyone. Here is the link to sign up: FORM
AFTERNOON
16:00 Talk and colloquium in charge of the lady Anna Valls, Director of the Museum of Performing Arts of Catalonia (MAE), about puppetry heritage and the new MAE claimed by the profession. Place: MYTH
17:00 Presentation of thePuppet and Therapy Association of Catalonia based at MIT.
18:00 Reading of this year's message written by Nina Malíková (Czech Republic), by theEloi Cordomí, TV3 meteorologist. Representation of a puppet show for adults Company: Maria Palomo productions. Show: Bostikians. Place: Theater of the Village
19:00 Walk through the shop windows of puppets from the town's shops. Each store will have a QR on site to be able to vote for the best.
20:00 End of the day with the reading of this year's message written by Nina Malíková (Czech Republic), in charge of President of UNIMA Catalonia. Later, viewing of the video made by the puppeteers from all over the world and some images of all shop windows who have participated in the Day. Place: Town hall Square.
Each puppeteer who is present will have a clearly visible puppet. People who have puppets at home can also add to the closing with their puppet and it will be done a joint photograph.
*All activities are free
CIATRE, UNIMA Catalunya, MIT International Puppet Museum of Catalonia and Palau-solità i Plegamans City Council collaborate
MAP WITH THE LOCATION OF PUPPETS IN THE VILLAGE
SHOPS - WINDOWS WITH PUPPETS
Do you like puppets on display? Play with us. Put stars on your favorite windows.
Each store will have a QR
You can also VOTE from HERE
MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS WITH PUPPETS ON SHOW
