The 16th Turku International Puppetry Festival will be held November 12–15, 2026. The performance program has now been released and consists of five new Finnish contemporary puppet theater productions, as…
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…
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"…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Aura of Puppets hosts a seminar regarding social, ecological and psychological sustainability of working abroad or away from home as an artist. The event…
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…
Turku International Puppetry Festival 8.-12.11.2023 This Moment The 14th edition of TIP-Fest will be the bright spot of November and a meeting place for people interested in puppetrye. The festival…
The puppetry network Aura of Puppets has elected Timo Väntsi, a long-time puppet theatre artist, as its Executive Director. The association's artist-led board explained the choice, among other things, by…
