Barcelona, a string-puppetry capital
In recent years Barcelona has become a veritable String Capital, not the most important in Europe, of course, but of growing significance in terms of the number of highly prestigious string puppeteers...
View ArticlePuppets and cities of Catalonia – Part 1 – Barcelona
It is worth looking closely at how puppets are organised in a specific geographical ecosystem, as in Catalonia. A territory with about seven and a half million inhabitants and an area of 32,106.5 km²,...
View ArticlePuppets and Bridges
(Devil’s Bridge -Rakotzbrücke- in Kromlauer Park, Gablenz, Germany. Photograph by Kilian Schönberger.) Catalonia, as everyone knows, is going through delicate and confusing times. At Puppetring, and...
View ArticleSir Pendulum and the suitcase of 2018
We tend to experience the arrival of each new year as though we had stepped on to a staircase going in one direction, that of biological time marking growth, maturity and decrepitude. And, certainly,...
View ArticlePUPPET MUSEUMS – THEIR INTEREST AND NECESSITY
A recent visit to the Lisbon Puppet Museum leads us to reflect on the importance of museums. Puppetring collaborates closely with the Lisbon Puppet Museum (Museu da Marioneta de Lisboa) (see here), the...
View ArticlePUPPETRING, 7 YEARS: SUPPORTING THE EXPANSION OF PUPPET THEATRE AND THE...
(Devil by Cesário Cruz Nunes. Museu da Marioneta, Lisbon.) The month of March 2019 marked the seventh anniversary of Puppetring and its sister portals Titeresante and Putxinel·li. The project...
View ArticleHAPPY (STRANGE) CHRISTMAS
(Virgin and Child. Castille, between 1340 and 1350. Alabaster with polychrome paint fragments. Federic Marés Museum, Barcelona. Photo T.R.) To say we have never experienced such a strange Christmas...
View ArticleWith Nature: project in support of Biodiversity. Article by Rebecca Simpson
(Hand of a lizard. Image from mosaic created on a rooftop in Barcelona. Report to come of the various experiences on Biodiversity Day) for International Day for Biological Diversity – Saturday 22 May...
View ArticleIntersection of National and Regional Meetings in Europe: UNIMA, THEMAA,...
(Some of the participants in the Atelier of 9 June 2021. Screenshot by Adolfo Ayuso) During the months of May, June and July 2021 a number of meetings were held between various individuals and...
View ArticleChristmas 2021/New Year 2022: ¡e pur si muove!… – On mirrors and their surfaces
Let us borrow this well-known phrase attributed to Galileo Galilei, after he abjured the heliocentric vision of the world before the Inquisition: And yet it moves… A phrase adopted for the name the...
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