The Periferias Festival celebrated Puppet Day with Peripheral Conversations about the Art of Puppets. The celebrations began with the book launch: Marionetas e Formas Animadas – Teorias e Práticas [Puppets and Animated Forms – Theories and Practices] by Miguel Falcão and Catarina Firmo (coord.), a response to the call for the revaluation of puppets and animated forms. In partnership with Unima – Portugal, the festival then invited spectators to participate in an open and intriguing dialogue entirely dedicated to the theme of contemporary puppet theatre: its potential and prospects.
Book Launch: Marionetas e Formas Animadas: Teorias e Práticas
This book was presented as a response to the call for the revaluation of animated forms, necessarily combining creation, research and training, and whose confluence has given rise to the recovery or preservation of traditions and the renewal or dissemination of artistic practices. If puppets and animated forms have, for many and for some still today, been seen as disquieting things (either because they challenge the limits of the human, or because the life they acquire calls into question antitheses such as animate/inanimate), discovering them and being in their presence—whether by chance or intentionally—can also be an increasingly unsettling challenge.
Those wishing to participate could send an e-mail to conversasmarionetas.periferias@gmail.com
Attendance could be via Zoom or live streaming at the Chão de Oliva Facebook page
Free access
21st March 2021
