What Activities Are You Planning for World Puppetry Day 2021?

The following message comes from UNIMA-International inviting you to list any world Puppetry Day Activities for March 21 and announcing a March 20 UNESCO event that will deal with Pandemic impacts.

The World Puppetry Day 2021

We hope that everyone, in every country, will be able to celebrate World Puppetry Day, giving a special strength and color in this year 2021 with everything we are going through. It will be the occasion of a strong bond regained with the public!

You will find attached a press release about the event. We invite you to share it with your members and take ownership of the proposed video project as you do every year. You can upload your actions and events in an online form on the UNIMA website: www.unima.org/en/projects-and-achievements/world-puppetry-day/world-puppetry-day-share-event

You can also share them right now on social networks with the hashtags: #WPD2021 #UNIMA #WorldPuppetryDay2021. The poster will be available at the end of December. We are waiting for the response from the personality requested for the 2021 message and will keep you informed. We very much hope that the movement will be strong this year to celebrate this Day worthily! 
www.unima.org/en/projects-and-achievements/world-puppetry-day
www.facebook.com/WorldPuppetryDay

 ResiliArt roundtables

The ResiliArt roundtables continue. You can find them on the dedicated UNIMA page or on the Facebook page of the project. All the videos of the round tables organized since June are available here.

www.unima.org/en/projects-and-achievements/resiliart-round-tables
www.facebook.com/ResiliArtUnima

We invite the National Centers to organize their round table. They can contact Clément Peretjatko at the address: resiliart@unima.org in order to agree on a date and to be accompanied on the frame. 

Save the date, UNIMA will organize a debate jointly with UNESCO on March 20, 2021. 

In addition, UNESCO has published a guide of good practices and mechanisms set up around the world, you will find it by following this link: https://en.unesco.org/creativity/publications/culture-crisis-policy-guide-resilient-creative

 Emergency aid

UNIMA's emergency aid for puppeteers around the world continues. It is thanks to the mobilization of all that we can bring solidarity to those who are in serious difficulty, the emergency aid being primarily focused on basic needs: housing and food. To contribute to emergency aid or to request emergency aid, please go here: www.unima.org/en/useful-information/emergency-aid-for-puppeteers-2

I send you full of courage in this very difficult period for the arts and culture. Let us remain united to make the puppet live!

 Idoya Otegui, 
General Secretary of UNIMA