Presentation of the International Puppet Museum of Catalonia, at the Masia de Can Falguera

The opening ceremony will take place on Saturday November 19 and an open day will be held on Sunday with prior registration

The International Puppet Museum of Catalonia-Teia Moner has today offered a presentation and a guided tour to the media, prior to the opening day, which will be held next Saturday, November 19, from 5 p.m. The event was attended by Teia Moner and the Michael Espinosa, promoters of the equipment, of Joan Gispert, representative of UNIMA (International Puppet Union) in Catalonia, of the Councilor for Culture, Eva Soler, and of the mayor of Palau-solità and Plegamans, Oriol Lozano.

The International Puppet Museum of Catalonia-Teia Moner (MIT), is the first facility of this type in our country, it is located in the Can Falguera farmhouse (14th century) and was born from the initiative of the prestigious and renowned puppeteer , versatile creator, Teia Moner. She herself heads the Teia Moner Cultural Cooperative SCCL, the entity that manages the MIT through a state concession granted by the city council, which owns the building. The puppetry movement in our country generates a wealth that needs to be guarded, catalogued, interpreted and exhibited to illustrate how the popular and scholarly imagination approaches reality on stage from a plastic point of view. This is MIT's raison d'être.

In today's event, Teia Moner explained the mission of MYTH and the peculiarities of its museological discourse: "Usually the discourses of other museums are historicist and the pieces are grouped by periods and countries. At the MIT, the pieces are grouped by manipulation techniques, so this allows us to compare the pieces and the techniques according to the country and also helps us discover part of the historical and social evolution of the countries of origin.” Moner, who reviewed the trajectory of the building that houses the museum (Can Falguera farmhouse) and the evolution of management to take charge of it, noted the pedagogical nature of the equipment, which has closed for the moment the visits of up to 2,000 schoolchildren in the coming weeks and has announced that after the inauguration, during the coming month of December, it would be open to the public.

One of the functions of MIT, according to Moner, will be "strengthen the technique and promotion of the Catalan puppet, which is being lost and is native to the country." MIT will also have a very strong side of puppet therapy and is actually running a course with Lebanese master Karim Dakroub.

The Councilor for Culture, Eva Soler, wanted to expressly thank the museum's promoters for their efforts and remarked that this equipment returns to "put Palau-solità and Plegamans on the map at a cultural level and it is a privilege to have this museum. I also want to appreciate that the MIT is located in the Masia de Can Falguera, a restored municipal building and an outstanding heritage element of our town".

the mayor, Oriol Lozano stated that the birth of the museum is "another example that Palau-solità and Plegamans is a culturally alive town and, for this reason, it is a historical milestone to be able to have this space in our town. We are very grateful to the promoters of the museum for their work and everything you are doing for the town. We will give everything from our side, all the help and push necessary to carry it forward. I think that from now on, a new story will be written in this building in which people will hear about the farmhouse, Palau-solità and Plegamans and, above all, the MIT".

Joan Gispert, on behalf ofUNITE, expressed the organization's support for the new museum and expressed his satisfaction with the fact that this equipment existed: "It is the first of its kind in our country and its opening is great news. We don't just celebrate that there is a museum - explained Gispert - but that it is alive, dynamic, because this brings vitality to the sector in a small family of the performing arts such as that of puppets."

Opening on Saturday 19 November

The inauguration will take place this Saturday, starting at 6 p.m., with several events aimed at an audience of all ages, although before that, at 5 p.m., there will have been a guided tour by to the authorities. Later, at 6 pm, there will be short talks in the square in front of the museum, which will kick off various performances and the opening of the MIT to the invited public. On Sunday, MIT will hold an open day with visiting hours every hour on the dot from 10am to 1pm and from 4pm to 7pm. These visits are interspersed between various performances.

POST-INAUGURATION ACTIVITY (Open registration)

• Tadeusz Wierzbicki / A study in chaos. inflammations On November 26 (5 p.m.), at the MIT, in collaboration with the IF Barcelona, Tadeusz Wierzbicki, Polish poet, fabulist and screenwriter, who will have been in residence for 5 days at the museum, will show the artistic intervention inflammations. In this creation, the screen becomes a visual instrument that plays with chance and the music of forms. We will see how figures that change shape and color are created on the screen using the phenomena of light polarization and electrostatic forces.

Palau-solità and Plegamans Town Council website