We are very excited to launch our new online store on Redbubble for UNIMA Oz Merchandise! This includes T-shirts, pins, bags, socks and kids clothes (perfect for dressing puppets!)! There is a special 20-60% off site-wide sale which ends TONIGHT at 11.59pm (Discount code: FALLDEALS)!
www.redbubble.com/people/UnimaOz/explore?asc=u&page=1&sortOrder=recent
The UNIMA Australia Logo was designed by the renowned Norman Hetherington, creator of Mr Squiggle and the first President of UNIMA Australia when it began in 1970.
We have also had special permission from his daughter, Rebecca Hetherington, to use his beautiful Aussie emu graphics for our limited edition 50th Anniversary merchandise.
The images were used in the 1974 publication 'Puppets of Australia' and we are thrilled to share his art with the wider puppetry community.
All proceeds from our store go to supporting UNIMA Australia. Please share and support Aussie puppetry! ... See MoreSee Less
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Check out some happy snaps from our latest Puppet Doctor session with Sue Wallace and Steve Coupe from Sydney Puppet Theatre (@sydneypuppettheatre)!
Sue and Steve gave us a virtual tour of their amazing puppet workshop in the Southern Highlands (NSW), which also has a rehearsal space, puppet storage and office (and a 4-legged canine ‘puppetry foreman’ named Ruby!)
They showed us different ways to make puppet joints, how to laminate wood (particularly ‘handy’ for making puppet hands!), and demonstrated various puppet mechanisms including a self-standing puppet (based on a design by Barbara Scheel) and a control for operating blinking eyes and a moving mouth. And on top of all that, we geeked out on glues and wood for marionettes!
Sue and Steve also run ImaginArta - the Australian Puppet Centre Inc in Sutton Forest (NSW). They have shows every Sunday at 11am and for the next 2 months you can see ‘In Search of the Giddy Gird Bird’ - a visual feast of delightful, colourful and lively marionettes! Book ahead on their website. Contact details at www.imaginarta.com.au
We have more fun zoom sessions planned soon for our members, including a 'Puppet Zoom and Sip: Halloween Edition' where members can present live puppetry pieces with a spooky theme! For more info on membership please go to www.unima.org.au/membership/ ... See MoreSee Less
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Presenting the winners of our Silver Linings Online Puppet Festival 2020!
First Place
“Hope’ is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson -A shadow poem”
Jenn Thurston (@jenn22allen) and Rosy Thurston (@rosy.travellinglight)
UK/VIC, Australia
Prizes: 12 months membership to UNIMA Australia and UNIMA badges
Second Place
“The Kotzebue Shuffle”
Ali DeRegt (@alideregt), Monica Ila (@monica.ila) & Emma Fisher (@emcfish11), Campfire Tales
Canada and Ireland
Prizes: 6 months membership to UNIMA Australia and UNIMA badges
Honourable Mention
“Silver Linings – Small Actions”
Georgie Rose (@georgierosepuppetry)
VIC, Australia
Prize: UNIMA Badge
Thank you again to everyone who contributed to this online festival, and to our UNIMA Australia Committee judges Philip Millar (President), Larissa Deak and Adam Bennett. We hope you all enjoyed watching these puppet films. You can still view our playlist at www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvY_CkuVhyYjaLDSlEcLrmvRS_BkJc4FN
Please share and spread the joy!
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Presenting our Silver Linings Online Puppet Film Festival, 2020! Click on the link to view our playlist - please share!
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvY_CkuVhyYjaLDSlEcLrmvRS_BkJc4FN
2020 has been a tough year, but we wanted to find some silver linings and put some joy out into the world. We invited people from around the world to join the UNIMA Australia Silver Linings Project – a call to submit short, uplifting puppet films.
We received entries from around Australia as well as the UK, Ireland, Canada and Uruguay. Thank you to everyone who contributed! Awards will be announced soon. Here are the films:
1. Pivoting - Suzannah Griffith (VIC, Australia)
2. Stretchy Pants Song - Kay Yasugi (Pupperoos), Leon Hendroff, Jill Webster (Story Bubble), Katherine Hannaford, The Drama Studio, Pete Xander (One Orange Sock), Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins (Larrikin Puppets), Sue Wallace and Steve Coupe (Sydney Puppet Theatre), Kristen Clerke, Dominique Davillé, Angie Macmillan
(NSW, QLD, VIC, WA, Australia)
Song by Brian Buffington Music (USA)
3. Cuckoo! Cuckoo! - Clare Jefferson Jones and Paul Jones, Splodge Designs (UK)
4. 'Nothing Much to Do' 2020 - Angie Macmillan (VIC, Australia)
5. In the Garden - Clare Jefferson Jones and Paul Jones, Splodge Designs (UK)
6. The Kotzebue Shuffle - Ali DeRegt, Emma Fisher, Monica Ila, Campfire Tales (Canada and Ireland)
7. Silver Linings with Larrikin Puppets - Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins (QLD, Australia)
8. My Objects - Alena Skalova, Missing Pages Theatre (UK)
9. Teddy Interview - La Casa del Árbol
(Montevideo, Uruguay)
10. The Memories She Doesn't Need - Kristen Clerke (QLD, Australia). Song by Susie Hurley
11. "Hope" is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson. A shadow poem - Jenn & Rosy Thurston (UK & VIC, Australia)
12. Silver Linings - Small Actions - Gemma Rose (VIC, Australia)
UNIMA Australia is the official puppetry organisation of Australia. Membership is open to anyone around the world. For more information please go to www.unima.org.au/membership/
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Check out our trailer for the UNIMA Australia Silver Linings Online Puppet Film Festival, 2020! Screening films on Sat 26 Sept at 8pm (AEST)!
2020 has been a tough year, but we wanted to find some silver linings and put some joy out into the world. We invited people from around the world to join the UNIMA Australia Silver Linings Project – a call to submit short, uplifting puppet films.
We received entries from around Australia as well as the UK, Ireland, Canada and Uruguay. We will award prizes after the screening.
The films will be available to view from Saturday 26 September at 8pm (AEST) via:
👉 our Facebook page
👉our UNIMA Australia Youtube Channel (www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvY_CkuVhyYjaLDSlEcLrmvRS_BkJc4FN)
Please join us! More info at
www.unima.org.au/projects/
The music (to the tune of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' by Judy Garland) was taken from one of our entries - 'Pivoting' by Suzannah Griffith.
The puppetry in the trailer is by (in order of appearance):
- Suzannah Griffith (VIC, Australia)
- Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins, Larrikin Puppets (QLD, Australia)
- Steve Coupe and Sue Wallace, Sydney Puppet Theatre (NSW, Australia)
- Katherine Hannaford (NSW, Australia)
- Kristen Clerke (QLD, Australia)
- Angie Macmillan (VIC, Australia)
- Clare Jefferson Jones and Paul Jones, Splodge Designs (UK)
- Gemma Rose (VIC, Australia)
- Ali DeRegt, Monica Ila and Emma Fisher (Canada and Ireland)
- Dominique Davillé (VIC, Australia)
- Alena Skalova, Missing Pages Theatre (UK)
- Alvaro, Marcos and Salvador Adib, La Casa del Árbol (Uruguay)
- Rosy & Jenn Thurston (VIC, Australia and UK)
UNIMA Australia is the official puppetry organisation of Australia. Membership is open to anyone around the world. For more information please go to www.unima.org.au/membership/
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Gary Friedman Productions are launching puppetry and stop motion animation workshops online! Check out their website for more info: www.garyfriedmanproductions.com ... See MoreSee Less
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The first round of the Bristol 48 Hour Puppet Film Festival is live now! Check it out! ... See MoreSee Less
Direct from rural Victoria, Randy Feltface proudly presents a cavalcade of special guests, sketches, songs, and real-time audience participation. Tune in live for some old-fashioned internet frivolity; trousers optional.
SUN SEPTEMBER 13 • 12pm AEST
TICKETS: www.eventbrite.com/e/feltface-time-tickets-118356077213 ... See MoreSee Less
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Check out the Bristol 48 hr Virtual Puppet Film Festival this weekend! 😄🙌 ... See MoreSee Less
Vintage Aussie Tv- Skippy the bush Kangaroo featuring puppet’s supplied by Norman Hetherington. ... See MoreSee Less
The deadline is coming up for submissions for our UNIMA Australia Silver Linings Project: Online Puppet Film Festival!
👉👉👉 www.unima.org.au/projects/
2020 has been a tough year, but we want to find some silver linings and put some joy out into the world. You are invited to join the Unima Australia Silver Linings Project - a call to submit short, uplifting puppet films as well as photos showing puppetry activities you have been doing during COVID times.
This project is open to anyone around the world, and there will be prizes!
Check out this shadow puppet made by high school drama students at The Drama Studio in Wollongong, NSW. They made a cutout of the UNIMA Australia logo, which was originally designed by the late Puppet Master Norman Hetherington.
Making a work for the project? Show us your work progress and post your photos using the hashtags #silverliningsunima #unimaoz
SUBMISSIONS DUE BY SEPTEMBER 7 2020 ... See MoreSee Less
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Dream Puppets are live streaming their beautiful blacklight puppet show 'Dreamer in the Deep' this Sunday! It's a free show but you'll need to book to register 🙂 This event is organised through Glen Eira City Council.Next Sunday as part of Live Sunday Sessions get ready to visit the underwater world with Dream Puppets. Dreamer, an adorable half child, half animal character ventures into the Australian deep seas to rescue a leafy sea dragon held captive by a greedy scorpion fish and along the way encounters many exotic sea creatures. This event is for the Glen Eira little peeps and the young at heart! Book in now: www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=643822& ... See MoreSee Less
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