Celebrating Ukrainian Puppetry – Join the Online Festival!
15 Feb - 23 March - UNIMA-UKRAINE invites you to experience the magic of puppetry with online performances every weekend
UNIMA-UKRAINE warmly welcomes you to take part in a celebration of puppetry through a series of online performances. Our colleagues and friends at UNIMA-UKRAINE have once again organised their remarkable annual online festival, Premieres of a Season. This inspiring event, which has been running since 2011, gives puppet theatres across Ukraine a platform to showcase their latest productions. Despite the challenges they face, the puppetry community in Ukraine continues to create and share their incredible work with the world.
The festival features performances competing in categories such as Best Performance for Children, Best Performance for Teenagers and Adults, Best Acting, Best Direction, Best Scenography, and Best Dramaturgy. A jury has carefully selected standout performances from the 2023-2024 season to be streamed online for audiences everywhere.
We encourage you to support our friends by tuning in to these special performances, which will be streamed every Saturday and Sunday at 18:00 (EET) from 15th February to 23rd March.
How to Watch
All performances will be broadcast on the UNIMA-UKRAINE YouTube channel. Watch them here: https://www.youtube.com/@unimaukraine5755.
You can also find the full playlist here: UNIMA-UKRAINE Online Festival Playlist.
Please note that each performance will only be broadcast once, so make sure to catch them live!
Performance Schedule:
15th February – Watch Out, Stranger! (Volyn Academic Regional Puppet Theatre)
16th February – My Neighbour-Dinosaur (Odesa Academic Regional Puppet Theatre)
22nd February – Goats and a Grey Wolf (Zaporizhzhia Academic Regional Puppet Theatre)
23rd February – The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Cherniakhivskyi Puppet Theatre)
1st March – Pessy and the Illusion (Chernihiv Regional Oleksandr Dovzhenko Puppet Theatre)
2nd March – The Painter and the Princess (Ivano-Frankivsk Academic Regional Puppet Theatre)
8th March – The Last Little Ram (Transcarpathian Academic Regional Puppet Theatre)
9th March – Vertep. Hope ("ARLEK_inn" Educational Theatre of the Department of Puppet Theatre Art, Kyiv Karpenko-Karyi National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television)
15th March – A Boy with a Violin in His Heart (Rivne Academic Regional Puppet Theatre)
16th March – Labyrinths of Art (Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Department of Theatre Studies and Acting)
22nd March – Viburnum Flute (Kharkiv State Victor Afanasiev Academic Puppet Theatre)
23rd March – The Wings (Chamber Theatre of Marionettes, Kharkiv)
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This is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the resilience and creativity of our fellow puppeteers in Ukraine. Please share this with anyone who might appreciate the beauty and artistry of puppetry. Let’s show our support by watching, spreading the word, and keeping this vibrant tradition alive!