The Festival of Puppets of Catalonia Teia Moner is inaugurated at Palau de Solità i Plegamans
The International Puppet Museum of Catalonia-Teia Moner gave a presentation and guided tour to the media today; prior to the opening day, which will be held next Saturday November 19, from 5 pm. The event was attended by Mrs. Teia Moner and Mr. Michael Espinosa, promoters of the equipment, who have guided the visit to the museum, accompanied by the Mr. Joan Gispert, representative of UNIMA (International Puppet Union) in Catalonia, of the Councilor for Culture, Mrs. Eva Soler, and of the Illustríssimo Mr. Oriol Lozano, mayor of Palau-solità and Plegamans.
The International Puppet Museum of Catalonia-Teia Moner (MIT); the first equipment of these characteristics in our country, is located at the farmhouse of Can Falguera (XIV century) and was born from the initiative of the prestigious and renowned puppeteer, multifaceted creator, Teia Moner. She herself heads the Cultural Cooperative Teia Moner SCCL; entity that manages the MIT through a state concession granted by the Valais 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.
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In today's event, Teia Moner has explained the mission of MIT and the peculiarities of its museological discourse: "Usually the discourses of other museums are historicist and the pieces are grouped by periods and countries. In the MIT, the pieces are grouped by manipulation techniques; so this allows the parts to be compared and the techniques according to the country; and it also helps us discover part of the historical and social evolution of the countries of origin.”
Moner, who reviewed the history of the building that houses the museum (Can Falguera farmhouse); and the evolution of the management to take charge of it, he has remarked on the pedagogical nature of the equipment; which has for the moment closed 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; would already 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 powerful side to puppet and fact therapy. is taking a course with the Lebanese teacher Karim Dakroub.
Joan Gispert, on behalf ofUNIMA, 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.”
The Councilor for Culture, Eva Soler, he wanted to expressly thank the museum's promoters for their efforts and remarked that: "this equipment puts Palau-solità and Plegamans back on the map", an appreciation shared by the mayor: Oriol Lozano who stated that the birth of the museum is "one more sign that the town is culturally alive. We are very grateful to the promoters of the museum for their work, which in 2019, before the pandemic: when we got serious about it, it seemed so far away and now it's a dream. We will give everything from our side, all the help and push necessary to carry it forward", replied the mayor.
The inauguration
The inauguration will take place this Saturday, from 6 pm, with several events aimed at: an audience for all ages. Although before that, at 5pm: a guided tour will have already taken place for the authorities. Later, at 6 p.m., there will be some short talks in pl. 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 at 10am sharp. at 1 p.m. and from 4 p.m. at 7 p.m. 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.
