Beijing International Puppet Festival

05/08/2024

Since February 1, 2024, the day we launched public call for plays, until April 30, the Beijing International Puppet Festival Organizing Committee has received a total of 143 works from 124 troupes from 23 countries (China included), such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, South Korea, Brazil, Poland, Switzerland, Iran, Egypt, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Turkey, Israel, Ukraine and so on.
Compared with previous years, the radiation area is wider, and the style of works is more diversified.Unique traditional performances, varied object circus, physical expression from hands to feet, brilliant light and shadow play, naked and profound realistic themes ......
In the seventh year of the Festival, we have connected with more and more artists and troupes around the world, and have had the opportunity to serve even more great troupes.The art of puppetry is growing and taking on a more and more vibrant and rich look on the stage we are building together.All of this could not be achieved without your trust and love.🤗❤️
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the registered teams!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Adhering to the selection criteria of "paying tribute to the classics, encouraging innovation, and embracing diversity", we have finally selected 28 participating works after strict preliminary selection by the organizing committee and final evaluation by experts.

They are now publicized.🗣

Note: The publicity period is 5 working days from now.If you have any objections, please contact the organizing committee within the publicity period to reflect your name.

See you at the theater in September.

09/02/2024

Wish you happy Chinese New Year🐉🎆

🎆Spring couplets, also known as "door couplets", is a kind of festive elements posted during the Chinese New Year.

❤️It is a unique form of Chinese literature and an important custom for Chinese New Year to depict beautiful images and express good wishes in neat, concise, ingenious and ryhming words.

🙌When people put up New Year couplets on their doorsteps, it means that the Spring Festival has officially started.

09/02/2024

2023 The 6th Beijing International Puppet Festival Highlights.🙌🙌

12 countries, 31 selected puppet shows, 40 performances, 15 live broadcasts, 9 workshops ......

This was the year with the largest number of repertoires and the richest activities, and also the year we had the freedom to get together ( JU )🤗.

Happy Chinese New Year🐉, see you next year.

01/01/2024

21/12/2023

☠️Review of 2023 Beijing Shadow Puppet Art Week - “Journey to the West - Selected Segments of Three Strikes of Bones”

🕓Taihu Performing Arts Workshop Qing Auditorium October 1st and 2nd

😃🪅Beijing Shadow Puppet Troupe presents “Journey to the West - Selected Excerpts of Three Strikes of Bone Demons”, which selects the most classic three excerpts from the Beijing shadow puppet show “The Monkey King Three Strikes of Bone Demons”.
In “The Shadow in the Bone Cave”, the Bone Demon transforms into a graceful girl in seconds, which is breathtaking. “Mountain of Flowers and Fruits” shows the funny scene where Bajie asks for help from Sun Wukong and is ridiculed. “The Fight” shows the fierce battle between Sun Wukong and the Bone Demon.

“An Occasion Encountering a Fairy Tale” presented by the China Puppet Art Theater is a set of original traditional stick puppet shows, consisting of four short plays with different styles: “Mr. Dongguo”, “Butterfly Lovers”, “The Fox and the Grapes” and “Clever Case” constitute. Exquisite puppet characters meet classic fairy tale legends, and the performance is both technical and story-telling.

👏🍬The little shadow figures and puppets attracted the attention of the audience, and their wonderful skills made everyone admire them again and again.

Friends are welcome to share feedback on watching the drama.🙋

19/12/2023

Beijing International Puppet Festival, sponsored jointly by Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Beijing Theatre Association, is a exchange platform for international puppet art. It has successively invited nearly 100 professional teams from 27 countries to join the performance. 2024 the 7th Beijing International Puppet Festival is scheduled to take place in September next year.

We are now globally collecting puppet shows for children, teenagers and adults.

Contents of the call:

①theatre performance repertoires
Requirements: A complete puppet show suitable for small and medium-sized theatre
performances Duration: no less than 40 minutes
Performance method: Theatre performance

②HD video of puppet theatre
Requirements: large-volume works, all kinds of puppet videos (including but not limited to films, animations, documentaries and other kinds of visual works of puppets)
Duration: no less than 30 minutes
Performance method: online screening

Call for entries: From now until April 30th

Copy the Google Drive link And Download the entry form：https://docs.google.com/document/d/104hmS4JzQ8bl6wFsnbiIkr9MV7tHREAE/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108987334354760545727&rtpof=true&sd=true

our email: [email protected]

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17/12/2023

🥳🥳Review of 2023 Beijing Shadow Puppet Art Week - ”The Land of Fools“ Shadow Puppet Workshop

😍😍Dahua City Performing Arts Center Artist Living Room October 12
(Spain) El ball de Sant Vito ”The Land of Fools“

🎭🎭Artists Manel Manguer and Xavier Learretta led everyone to use their imagination to make their own traditional Spanish glove puppets using recycled paper cores, colored cardboard and fabrics

Thank you to all friends who love shadow puppet art👏👏

Everyone is welcome to continue to share feedback about watching dramas and activities.💐💐

17/12/2023

👏👏Review of 2023 Beijing Shadow Puppet Art Week - ”The Secret of Quanzhou String Puppetry“ Shadow Puppet Workshop

🤔How many strings do Quanzhou string puppets have? What is the function of each wire? How to control puppets for performances?
😃On October 15, at the Dahua City Performing Arts Center Theater, three intangible cultural heritage inheritors from the Quanzhou Puppet Intangible Cultural Heritage Performance Team taught through words and deeds, allowing everyone to experience the fun of puppet control through personal experience, and to immerse themselves in the endless charm of this thousand-year-old art. shocked

🎆🎆Thank you to all friends who love shadow puppet art

🫡Everyone is welcome to continue to share feedback about watching dramas and activities

15/10/2023

🎭泉州提线木偶戏，古称“悬丝傀儡”，是中国传统木偶戏的重要代表，国家级非遗项目，以其精湛的操线功夫及独具特色的木偶造型艺术闻名。泉州木偶剧团的三位非遗传承人、资深表演艺术家给北京的观众带来了一组泉州提线木偶戏最具代表性的小戏，《钟馗醉酒》《若兰行》《猴趣》《青春梦》《小沙弥下山》，现场非常欢乐。

👹 Quanzhou String Puppetry, known as "Suspended Silk Puppetry" in ancient times, is an important representative of traditional Chinese puppetry and a national intangible cultural heritage project. It is famous for its perfect string manipulation technology and unique puppet modeling art. Quanzhou Puppet Theater Troupe's heirs to the Sanfei tradition and senior performing artists brought a batch of Quanzhou's most representative local puppet plays to the Beijing audience, such as "Zhong Kui Drunk", "Ruolan's Journey", "Monkey Fun", "Youth" "Dream" "The Little Novice "Goes Down the Mountain"", the scene was very joyful.

13/10/2023

🙌今晚将是西班牙圣维多之球剧团《愚人之地》在北京的最后一场演出。
为了能让中国观众更好地观看表演，两位艺术家带着最大的诚意学习了中文，改编了剧本，把剧中的每句台词都转变成汉语拼音来反复练习～
幸运的是，他们的付出同样在中国观众这里得到了反馈，每一句台词都会逗笑观众，每场结束后观众都久久不愿离开。
致敬，致谢！💗
从此，我们都知道瓦伦西亚这个叫“Mingo”的木偶了！

👏Tonight will be the last performance of "Land of Fools" by the Spanish Ball of San Vito theater company in Beijing.
In order to allow the Chinese audience to better watch the performance, the two artists learned Chinese with the greatest sincerity, adapted the script, and converted every line in the play into Chinese pinyin for repeated practice
Fortunately, their efforts have also received feedback from the Chinese audience. Every line will make the audience laugh, and the audience will not leave for a long time after each performance.
Salute and thank you! 💗
From then on, we all know Valencia’s puppet named “Mingo”!

21/03/2023

World Puppet Day🎭

The Beijing International Puppet Festival is a celebration of all puppet artists and aficionados. Over the past five years, this platform has brought together nearly 100 teams and artists from all over the world, and it is through their works with various cultural backgrounds and expressions that Art Week has gradually matured, with a more mature and inclusive attitude, dedicated to the dissemination and exchange of shadow and puppetry art and diversified development.

We would like to thank and recognise all of the teams that helped and participated in our event.

To the quiet heritage and their perseverance. 🩰

To your childlike eyes, imagination, and creation.🧩

04/03/2023

We are calling for submission of Online Theatre!!!

📆 Submission Period～From now until June 30th

📨 Method～Send your materials to the email [email protected].
PLZ indicate "2023 Drama Collection" in the subject of the email.

💕 For more detailed information, please read the texton the pictures, or you can message us on Facebook and Instagram, we look forward to receiving you!