Tanja Eloranta started as the new Executive director of Aura of Puppets
Tanja Eloranta has been chosen as the new executive director of the Aura of Puppets and started her new job over the summer. She holds a masters degree from dance…
Seminar: Ecoscenography & Sustainable practice in Puppetry and Performance 13 December 2024
IMPULSE! -project hosts a seminar on sustainable practices in puppetry and performance design. Time: Friday 13 December 2024 at 10:00–13:00 EETPlace: Online, Zoom This presentation and workshop will explore ecoscenography…
TIP-Fest becomes a biennale
The 15th Turku International Puppetry Festival, held 6 to 10 November 2024, brought a diverse and topical programme of contemporary puppet theatre to the city. The theme of "the future"…
Become a volunteer at TIP-Fest!
Turku International Puppet Theatre festival presented by Aura of Puppets, is happening November 6-10, 2024. Experience a captivating array of puppet theatre performances at venues including Manilla, Turku City Theater,…
TIP-Fest 2024 Programme is here!
Turku International Puppetry Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary on 6-10 November 2024. The theme of the festival is Tomorrow. TIP-Fest peers into the future through a puppetry lens. This year's…
Work and Play in Montreal
Experiences from an artist residency in CanadaText and photos: Outi Sippola I arrived in Montreal on the 3rd of March, a couple of days before the 19th Festival International de…
Experiences from exchange in Manipulate Scotland
Text: Valtteri Alanen In the beginning of February 2024 I had the joy of taking part in the artistic exchange “Dialogues of the In-Between” hosted by the Manipulate Scotland festival…
A Small interview with Sophie Deslauriers about the Finnish-Canadian cross-residency experience in Turku
With the goal of developing puppetry, bringing together and exchanging contemporary practices between puppeteers from various backgrounds, Casteliers, the Montreal Arts Council (Conseil des arts de Montréal-CAM) and Aura of…
Taking a Look at the First Year of the Project IMPULSE! – New Focus on Puppetry and Visual Theatre
This December marks almost a year of collaboration with the IMPULSE! Project, and during the first year, we have made progress forming and fostering networks, enabling touring for artists, and…
Slow transitions: Exploring ways to connect while on tour or as an artist in residence 8 November 2023
Aura of Puppets hosts a seminar regarding social, ecological and psychological sustainability of working abroad or away from home as an artist. The event…
TIP-Fest & Friends pre club 4 November 2023
A head start to Turku International Puppetry Festival on All Saints Day! Pre-club TIP-Fest & Friends invites everyone to gather around puppetry share thoughts and spend some time…
Have Demos Ready, the Puppeteers are Coming – a physicists’s point of view on a puppetry performance
It was a typical April day in Ithaca, New York: the calendar said “spring”, but the weather hadn’t quite caught on yet, with a chill lingering in the air and…
