In the European Year of Culture the Puppet Theatre Maribor along with The Kurent as the central artistic project will also implement the following contents:
Puppet occupation and Ramtamtamcigu
Part of the production workshops, which will result in puppet activity around the city. Through music and stories the puppets will address random people in the streets and squares, in clubs, shopping malls and other less conventional places.
Played stories
Part of the production workshops, which will produce separate small puppet performances based on motifs of well-known European fairy tales. These will be little artistic morsels, rare puppet fragments, and visual aesthetics of words that will find their place on smaller theatre stages.
12 for 12
Puppet Theatre Maribor will extend its policy of exchange within the PLP to all year and every month in the year 2012 invite one superlative puppet show from abroad. Thus, we will render possible an additional permanent festival program throughout the year.
Japanese Autumn
The program has been planned as a comprehensive presentation of traditional and modern puppet theatre in Japan. It is designed as a short "pocket-edition" study program through the fields of Japanese puppet arts. The main purpose of creating the program is the natural urge for exchange, mutual learning, and mutual exploration of new paths. With its extraordinary and rich tradition, as well as its highly increased development during the last 50 years, Japan represents an affluent source of inspiration, which can most definitely convey appropriate values upon the Western civilization once again, especially, when it comes to art.
MARIBOR 2012 - European Capital of Culture, official website: www.maribor2012.eu