After 6 years as President of UNIMA Australia, Richard Hart has stepped down from his role. We thank him for his years of service and significant contribution to our organisation – especially developing ties with UNIMA International as well as the Asia Pacific Commission.
He represented UNIMA Australia in the 5th China Quanzhou International Puppet Festival in 2017 and has advocated for artistic partnerships and skills exchanges with artists in Australia and overseas.
He will be sorely missed, and we wish him all the best with his future endeavours.
Best regards,
Kay Yasugi
General Secretary
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Check out the new Aussie puppetry podcast 'Talking Sock' by One Orange Sock! bit.ly/talkingsock
There are interviews with world renowned Master Puppeteer Richard Bradshaw (including memories of Jim Henson and Caroll Spinney), Kailah Cabanas (touring with War Horse and Cirque du Soleil), Philip Millar (so many dinosaurs!), Katherine Hannaford (Puppetry in Education) and Kay Yasugi from Pupperoos (talking about Unima Australia, crocheted puppets of Korean women divers, and meeting a banana-obsessed monkey).
There are 5 episodes that have been released, and more to come soon. Find them on Apple podcasts podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/talking-sock/id1503117341
Or go to bit.ly/talkingsock for more info and streaming options.
And if you are able, please consider supporting One Orange Sock Productions via Patreon, to help them keep creating more puppet podcasts from Down Under! You will also gain early access to episodes and bonus content :D bit.ly/OneOrangeSockPatreon ... See MoreSee Less
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Check out this video from Spare Parts Puppet Theatre on how to make puppets at home with things from around the kitchen :) This is a great activity for children and adults to do together! This is Day 1 (learning how to make a puppet), featuring Yvan Karlsson, Cezera Critti-Schnaars and Ming Yang Lim.
Here are links to their follow-up videos:
At Home with Puppets Day 2: Making your puppet move
At Home With Puppets Part 2
At Home with Puppets Day 3: Making a puppet show
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Hear Cheryl Henson from The Jim Henson Foundation talking about their streamed puppet shows and workshops - with online content for adults and family audiences :)
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The Lorrie Gardner UNIMA Australia Biennial Scholarship application deadline has been extended until September 30, 2020. There is still up to $2500 AUD up for grabs, and you can see more info at
www.unima.org.au/grants/
The decision on who will receive the Scholarship will be made by October 14 and applicants will be notified as soon as possible after this date.
The successful Scholarship project can commence no earlier than October 19, 2020 and no later than December 31, 2021.
We acknowledge that there may be postponed or cancelled events due to national and international restrictions on gatherings and travel.
Photo: 'POEms' (Written and Directed by 2018 Lorrie Gardner Recipient Fiona Finley at The Drama Studio - Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, NSW)
NB: Scholarship applicants must be Australian citizens or Permanent Residents. Applicants must also have been continual financial members of UNIMA Australia for a minimum of 2 years up to the closing date of the application. In the event of a group application, all members of the group must be UNIMA Australia Inc. members (with at least one participant being a continuous financial member for 2 years at the time of application).
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We wanted to inform you that the Lorrie Gardner UNIMA Australia Biennial Scholarship application deadline has been extended until September 30, 2020. There is still up to $2500 AUD up for grabs, and you can see more info at
www.unima.org.au/grants/
The decision on who will receive the Scholarship will be made by October 14 and applicants will be notified as soon as possible after this date.
The successful Scholarship project can commence no earlier than October 19, 2020 and no later than December 31, 2021.
We acknowledge that there may be postponed or cancelled events due to national and international restrictions on gatherings and travel.
Photo: 'POEms' (Written and Directed by 2018 Lorrie Gardner Recipient Fiona Finley at The Drama Studio - Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, NSW)
NB: Scholarship applicants must be Australian citizens or Permanent Residents. Applicants must also have been continual financial members of UNIMA Australia for a minimum of 2 years up to the closing date of the application. In the event of a group application, all members of the group must be UNIMA Australia Inc. members (with at least one participant being a continuous financial member for 2 years at the time of application).
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Happy World Puppetry Day! On 21st March 2020, @Unima Australia organised online gatherings via Zoom at 3 different times (to accommodate for different time zones) with members around Australia and with puppeteers overseas. We had people participating from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Italy, the UK and China! People brought puppets and toilet rolls (for those who had them - toilet rolls are still sold out in many Australian supermarkets) and we had lots of fun introducing our puppets and playing a game of 'pass the loo roll' around our screens! We also greeted each other with the collective message from UNIMA Internationale:
Happy World Puppetry Day
Together for Peace
Together against Coronavirus
You can also view this video on Youtube: youtu.be/NOleES_apf8
Jingjing Chen from Happy Box Theater in Guangzhou, China, shared "I want to bring all of you good news is that: the restaurant, national park, public Library and Museum in our city Guangzhou China is starting to open again....People are coming back for shopping and having fun, Even we still need to wear mask. It's getting control now in China after all those struggle. So we believe it will be under control in your country soon and all disaster will pass away.".
Their theatre is still closed (for the past 2 months) and we hope they will re-open again soon. She said that theatres are the last places to re-open for a city, so perhaps it will happen in a month. We really hope so!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Zoom gatherings - Richard Hart and Julia Davis (Dream Puppets VIC), Philip Millar (Puppet Vision VIC), Katherine Hannaford (NSW), Kay Yasugi (Pupperoos NSW), Pete Xander (One Orange Sock VIC), Ros Campbell (Wild Puppets QLD), Brett Hansen (Larrikin Puppets QLD), Fiona Finley (The Drama Studio, NSW), Mitchell Reese and Joshua Anderson (Curious Legends NSW), Jill Webster (Story Bubble NSW), Angie Macmillan (VIC), David Francis Morgan (NSW), Karen Hethey(WA), Leon Hendroff (WA), Rhoda Di Filippo Lopez and Remo Di Filippo (Di Filippo Marionette Italy), Roberta Cipollone and Stephen Bocchetto (Compagnia del Rospo Rosso Italy), Caroline Astell-Burt (London School of Puppetry UK), Linda Lewis (Tunbridge Wells Puppetry Festival, UK) and Jingjing Chen (Happy Box Theater in Guangzhou China). Thank you for sharing your puppets and positivity, and helping us to #SpreadCheerNotFear!
Happy #worldpuppetryday! And go #UNIMA!
#WorldPuppetryDay
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Happy World Puppetry Day everyone! Today UNIMA Australia organised online gatherings via Zoom at 3 different times (to accommodate for different time zones) with members around Australia and with puppeteers overseas, and we have just finished our last video call :) We had people participating from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Italy, the UK and China! People brought puppets and toilet rolls (for those who had them!) and we had lots of fun introducing our puppets and playing a game of 'pass the loo roll' around our screens!
Our last meeting had some big dinosaur enthusiasts so we had a go at a collaborative dinosaur drawing which was a lot of fun too :)
Thank you to everyone who participated - Richard Hart and Julia Davis (Dream Puppets VIC), Philip Millar (Puppet Vision VIC), Katherine Hannaford (NSW), Kay Yasugi (Pupperoos NSW), Pete Xander (One Orange Sock VIC), Ros Campbell (Wild Puppets QLD), Brett Hansen (Larrikin Puppets QLD), Fiona Finley (The Drama Studio NSW), Mitchell Reese and Joshua Anderson (Curious Legends NSW), Jill Webster (Story Bubble NSW), Angie Macmillan (VIC), David Francis Morgan (NSW), Karen Hethey (WA), Leon Hendroff (WA), Rhoda Di Filippo Lopez and Remo Di Filippo (Di Filippo Marionette Italy), Roberta Cipollone and Stephen Bocchetto (Compagnia del Rospo Rosso Italy), Caroline Astell-Burt (London School of Puppetry UK), Linda Lewis (Tunbridge Wells Puppet Festival, UK) and Jingjing Chen (Happy Box Theater in Guangzhou China). Thank you for sharing your puppets and positivity, and helping us to #spreadcheernotfear!
Happy #worldpuppetryday! And go #unima!
#WorldPuppetryDay
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We are so excited to announce the launch of a new Aussie puppetry podcast by Unima Australia Member Pete Davidson (Pete Xander) from One Orange Sock!
You can now access interviews with puppetry practitioners Philip Millar (Puppet Vision), Katherine Hannaford and Kay Yasugi (Pupperoos), with Richard Bradshaw and other wonderful puppetry folk soon to come.
Click on the links below to have a listen. Please subscribe and share!
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/talking-sock/id1503117341
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/464rqv0Aanxo8q7Xeup3DK
Youtube:
www.youtube.com/channel/UC8h40iuWiF4P7_SwL_Lzqrg
Please also consider supporting this new podcast on Patreon, for early access to episodes and extra content :) bit.ly/33Aflh1
Enjoy, and Happy World Puppetry Day!
#WorldPuppetryDay #talkingsockpodcast #talkingsockcast
#talkingsock #aussiepodcast #podcast #oneorangesock #australianpuppeteer #unima #unimaaustralia #unimaoz #oneorangesockproductions #puppetry #puppeteer #puppetbuilder #melbourne #sydney #theatre #entertainment #performingarts #performer #richardbradshaw #shadowpuppet #muppet #TheMuppets #creaturetechnologies #kingkong #kong #dinosaurs #actorIt’s finally here! Happy #worldpuppetryday Talking Sock’s first episodes with @misskhannaford @kay_yasugi and @flipmil are all LIVE on Spotify and YouTube for you to enjoy!
Check out our website www.oneorangesock.com for each episodes blog post with show notes
And find us on Twitter @talkingsockcast and Facebook @oneorangesockproductions to join the conversation
This podcast wouldn’t be possible without @chadbarnier and @snap_orama (Elizabeth Maniscalco) for their cover art and music respectively.
Please support this Aussie podcast bringing Australian Puppeteers and putting them on the proverbial podcasting map!
Talking Sock is a new One Orange Sock Production podcast of feature interviews with artists working in puppetry and performance. Season One is exclusively dedicated to Australian puppetry arts. Let’s put home grown Aussie Puppet Power!
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⚠️ Due to the pandemic situation of the corona virus announced by WHO, the UNIMA congress to be held in Bali Indonesia April 2020 is postponed by a year to April 20-26, 2021. ... See MoreSee Less
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Check out this project from UNIMA Internationale for World Puppetry Day - Let us sing and animate PEACE!
This year, under the sponsorship of UNESCO, UNIMA joins the many organisations which defend PEACE to celebrate the upcoming 20th UNESCO World Day of Peace (September 21st).
A special event will take place on September 19th in Tolosa, Spain, with the participation of international choirs who will perform an original composition written by Josu Elberdin for the occasion. Puppetry will be presented to give, with freedom, a visual dimension to these moments sung together.
UNIMA proposes World Puppetry Day on March 21, 2020 to be a first step in this celebration. UNIMA proposes two ways to participate:
🎵 Download the score and lyrics
🎥 Perform the composition with a puppet and send the vídeo
👉 www.unima.org/en/world-puppetry-day-2020-peace/
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Megafauna
www.worldsciencefestival.com.au
Ancient Megafauna come to life. These visitors from a forgotten time have returned to find a forest of concrete and steel. As they make their way through the altered landscape,... 
