PRESS RELEASE
WORLD PUPPETRY
DAY
23 - 24 March, 2013
A 2-day festival by the Greek
Centre for Puppetry UNIMA – Hellas
at Technopolis - City of Athens
For 2 days the puppets are taking over Technopolis!!!
The Greek Centre of UNIMA and TECHNOPOLIS
- City of Athens are
co-organizing the World Puppetry Day
2013 for the second consecutive year.
The event will be held on Saturday
the 23rd and Sunday the 24th of March, at the Technopolis
facilities in Gazi.
This is our Grand Celebration, where
puppeteers offer their heartfelt art to their puppets and their friends. More
than a 1,000 minutes of puppet theatre for both our young and old friends!!!
This year the program of events includes:
Full puppet theatre performances in two stages, street puppet theatre performances,
workshops for children (puppet making and animation) as well as outdoor games, large puppet making and animation workshop
for adults, art projects and activities, exhibitions, film projections and
music concerts.
In particular:
The full puppet theatre performances
will be held at the Athens
9,84 Amphitheatre and at the Gasholder 2
venue. Admission to the performances is free,
while on a first come - first serve basis!
The puppet workshops for children,
as well as the festival secretariat, will be located in the “New Retorts”
building. All children workshops can also
be interpreted in sign language. The
Theatrical Mask exhibition will be held at the Old Retorts building.
The Central Courtyard will be the
venue for street puppet theatre performances, puppet theatre games (constructions
made by puppet theatre groups-members of UNIMA-Hellas), art projects and activities,
music concerts as well as the Presentation of the large puppet making and
animation workshop for adults.
A detailed program of events is available at the festival secretariat.
Admission is free
For more information please contact:
www.unimahellas.org
τηλ. 2118009240, 6974713655, 6977150305
Some details regarding the Greek Center
of UNIMA, its members and the, now, institution of the celebration of World
Puppetry Day.
UNIMA (Union International de la
Marionnette) was founded in 1929, in Prague.
It has National Centers in about 80 countries and it is a full member of UNESCO.
The Greek Centre of UNIMA was
established in 1990 and it is an open organization that unites all
professionals, amateurs and friends of puppetry in Greece, while it promotes the art
of puppetry through various events all over the country.
The World Puppetry Day is the celebration
of our art. Although, professionally, we
are considered competitors, we participate and do our best and give performances,
free of charge, in many common, collective actions, in an effort to understand different
aspects of ourselves, as well as to make the statement that we have not been
crushed by the self-serving reality of today’s society. The single-handed development of our
performances and our family-like relationships are reflected in both the content
of our art and the feeling received by our audience: a message of
optimism. We believe that the end does not
justify the means, on the contrary, the means reveal the end purpose. We want our celebration to inspire exactly
this sense of honest devotion, because we believe our puppets deserve it.
We do our job and try to do it as
best as we can. Not because we want to
be ‘competitive’, ‘productive’ or ‘innovative’ but because this is the only way
we can do our job. Puppet theatre
demands and promotes a culture of responsibility and ultimate self-sacrifice towards
which we might come up short, but we consider it unthinkable not to try. For us puppeteers, that we serve soulless objects
in order to give them life, the self-evident demand of the master from himself
is a daily quest, a silent practice and
not an idealistic front against all types of crises, from the common cold to
the crises of the capitalistic economy. Action
“Technopolis”
City of Athens: 100
Pireos Street, Gazi, 210 3475518, 210 3453548
Access:
By Metro: “Keramikos” station; By Trolley Bus: No.
21 (from Omonia Square),
“Fotaerio” stop; By Bus: 049, 815, 838, 914, Β18, Γ18 “Fotaerio” stop.
Very nice post. I just stumbled upon your weblog and wished to say that I have really enjoyed surfing around your blog posts. In any case I¡¦ll be subscribing to your rss feed and I hope you write again very soon!
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήvenues in hollywood