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Latest Australian Puppeteer Mag is out

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Australian Puppeteer Magazine, Issue 41, Feb 2011

 

I received my copy of the latest Australian Puppeteer Magazine a couple of days ago. It’s a good looking production at the moment under the new editorship of Robert Reid. In this edition there are features on Terrapin Theatre Company‘s and Sydney Puppet Theatre‘s history and plans, and Tim Denton‘s reflections on his Bread and Puppet experience two years on. Also, interviews with Duda Paiva, Heath McIvor, and Richard Hart (the last being about the upcoming Tarrengower Puppetfest, a dialogue via Kay Yasugi about marionette puppetry in the classroom, and various reviews.

The magazine is available twice a year to members of UNIMA Australia. Don’t forget that you can also get news of the puppetry arts in Australia via the free monthly Oz Puppetry Email Newsletter.

Another change

Posted by hil

Unima Australia is the Australian branch of Union Internationale de la Marionnette, an 80 year old international organisation bringing together people from around the world to contribute to the development of the art of puppetry, so kind of like the closest thing we puppet makers and puppeteers have to a union. For the last six years or so I’ve looked after the Unima Oz website, but last weekend I handed the job over to Naomi Guss. There are plans afoot to reinvent the site, which is a Good Thing, and I wish Naomi and Sean Manners, and the rest of the committee all the best with it.

Naomi recently blogged her visit to the National Puppetry Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. It makes interesting reading for those of us who were not able to go.

UNIMA 2008: registrations open, looking cool

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Unima2008

Aha! The new UNIMA 2008 website has been launched, and registrations are open for a wonderful time next April in Perth! Looks like there are going to be some fabulous international puppetry acts, performances from many Australian puppet companies, exhibitions, master classes, carnival day, and an attempt to set a new world record for the largest number of puppets on display in the Million Puppets Project (you can send a puppet, even if you can’t get to Perth). Appropriately, given the festival theme of ‘journeys’, a bunch of intrepid puppet companies are making the journey to Perth overland from the eastern states in the Puppet Caravan road trip, giving performances and workshops along the way.

There are a range of Festival Explorer Packages and if you get in early and book one now, you can take advantage of early registration prices. This exclusive priority booking period ends at midnight Monday Oct 1, Australian Western Standard Time: (GMT+8.00), so go to it!

I’m hoping to go, not certain yet.


Unima 2008
Unima Australia
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre
Million Puppets Project
Million Puppets Project on MySpace
The Puppet Caravan
The Puppet Caravan on MySpace

New domain for UNIMA Australia

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UNIMA Australia, the Australian branch of Union Internationale de la Marionnette has recently moved to its own domain. UNIMA is an international organisation bringing together people from around the world to contribute to the development of the art of puppetry, and to use it in the pursuit of human values such as peace and mutual understanding between peoples.