Turku International Puppetry Festival 6.–10.11.2024: Tomorrow
Turku International Puppetry Festival celebrates puppetry and it’s 15th edition 6 to 10 Nember 2024. Theme of the year, Tomorrow, takes us to the future of puppetry and our civilization. The programme includes science fiction, utopias as well as dystopias, all in all fictional futures seen trough the lense of puppetry!
Tickets available from lippu.fi
TIP-Fest 2024 timetable
Wednesday 6.11.
18:00-19:30 Tehdas Teatteri & Alma Rajala: Pandora – Opening, Manilla
19:30-20:30 Tehdas Teatteri & Niina Lindroos: Tainaron, Tehdas Teatteri
20:30-22:00 Festival opening, Tehdas Teatteri
Thursday 7.11.
10:00-10:30 Babygonia, Seikkailupuisto
11:30-12:00 Babygonia, Seikkailupuisto
15:00-16:30 Tehdas Teatteri & Alma Rajala: Pandora – Opening, Manilla
18:00-19:30 Tehdas Teatteri & Alma Rajala: Pandora – Opening, Manilla
19:30-20:30 Tehdas Teatteri & Niina Lindroos: Tainaron, Tehdas Teatteri
20:30-21:30 Drinks with Elina, (Artist talk in Finnish) Tehdas Teatteri
Friday 8.11.
10:00-11:00 Ugo Dehaes: Simple Machines, Jokistudio
14:00-22:00 Puppets 4.0-VR-Museum, LTA Studio
15:00-17:00 IMPULSE-seminar: Beyond the Festival, Tehdas Teatteri
17:00-18:00 Ugo Dehaes: Simple Machines, Jokistudio
18:30-19:30 Satan’s Callback, Turku City Theatre
20:00-21:00 Ugo Dehaes: Simple Machines, Jokistudio
Saturday 9.11.
12:00-13:30 Anna Ivanova – Baby Boom: Lecture about baby-theatre, Tehdas Teatteri
14:00-15:00 Ugo Dehaes: Simple Machines, Jokistudio
14:00-22:00 Puppets 4.0-VR-Museo, LTA Studio
16:00-17:00 Trial & Theatre: Nano Steps – A Particle Performance, Turku City Theatre
17:00-18:00 Ugo Dehaes: Simple Machines, Jokistudio
18:30-19:30 Satan’s Callback, Turku City Theatre
18:30-19:30 Trial & Theatre: Nano Steps – A Particle Performance Turku City Theatre
19:00-20:00 Ugo Dehaes: Simple Machines, Jokistudio
20:00-21:00 Fernando Mota: Sursum Corda, Vanha viinatehdas
21:00-22:00 Drinks with Elina (Artist talk in English), Tehdas Teatteri
22:00-02:00 Festival club: Cleaning Women, Tehdas Teatteri
Sunday 10.11.
14:00-15:00 Fernando Mota: Sursum Corda, Vanha viinatehdas
15:00-15:30 Babygonia, Seikkailupuisto
PROGRAMME 2024
‘Baby boom’ Lecture by Anna Ivanova-Brashinskaya
Baby Theater is a direction of modern theater that is extremely in demand today and
Satan’s Callback
Satan’s Callback is a contemporary puppet theatre piece that offers a glimpse into the human
Opening party
TIP-Fest 2024 opening party on Thursday 6 November at 20:30 we gather to Tehdas Theatre
Beyond the festival: Expanding Perspectives on Sustainability in the Performing Arts
on 8 November 2024 Aura of Puppets is hosting a seminar on current and future
Puppets 4.0
Museum without walls Immerse yourself in the history of puppetry through this virtual reality experience.
Tehdas Theatre & Alma Rajala: Pandora – Opening
Welcome to the feast of the gods, where the gods are gone. And none of
Festival Club: Cleaning Women
TIP-Fest festival club on Saturday 9.11.2024 at Tehdas Teatteri is packed with rituals, speeches and
Trial & Theatre: Nano Steps – a Particle Performance
Contemporary puppet theater combined with applied physics Nano Steps is a performance that portrays an
Fernando Mota: Sursum Corda | Through everything
Sursum Corda (*) is a multidisciplinary show where Fernando Mota creates experimental musical instruments and sound
Ugo Dehaes: Simple Machines
In Simple Machines, Ugo Dehaes shows how he grows organic-looking robots in his basement, raises
Babygonia
This performance invites babies from eight months up to two and a half years old
Tehdas Teatteri, Niina Lindroos & Aura of Puppets: TAINARON
Tainaron is not a place, as you perhaps think. It is an event which no
Meeting point for artists, presenters and audience
TIP-Fest is the largest contemporary puppetry festival in Finland. Founded in 2009, the festival hosts more than a dozen performances each year, with a focus on creatively innovative contemporary puppetry and a festive, community-building atmosphere.
The programme is curated by an artistic director chosen by Aura of Puppets artists. We do not hold an open call for working groups.
TIP-Fest welcomes artists and presenters globally to meet Finnish puppeteers and discover contemporary puppetry pieces. See past festival programmes here: 2023, 2022.
Immerse into puppetry: become a volunteer!
We are looking for volunteers to help us build an international Puppetry festival. Come and discover puppetry as an art form and take a peek how TIP-Fest is done.
Volunteers receive tickets to performances, meals and an Aura of Puppets tote bag.
Contact information
Festival is produced by Finnish puppetry network Aura of Puppets
Artistic director: Ishmael Falke ishmael.falke@grusgrus.fi
Producer: Lotta Valtanen lotta@auraofpuppets.com, +358 41 486 1222
Volunteer coordinator and festival intern: Jarkko Peltonen, tuotanto@auraofpuppets.com, +358 44 939 2548
Festival is supported by: Pro Manillasäätiö, Tehdas Teatteri, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, City. of Turku, Ministry of Culture and Education
Festival is supported by
