Moving Parts: Newcastle Puppetry Festival
About Moving Parts: Newcastle Puppetry Festival
The 2nd Moving Parts: Newcastle Puppetry Festival
6th - 14th April 2019
Moving Parts: Newcastle Puppetry Festival Description
Moving Parts is a unique performance and training festival situated in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, focussing on puppetry, mask, stop-animation and object manipulation. Spanning seven days across five venues, the ambitious event is geared to providing inspiring visual theatre experiences for adults, teens, children & families, as well as emerging artists and experienced practitioners.
With the aim of further enriching Newcastle's visual theatre scene and developing an audience for this unique artform in the North East, Moving Parts delivers a week-long programme evenry one and a half years that includes:
- Large-scale productions for adults and children
- Cabaret, fringe shows and live music at the festival hub
- Diverse performance masterclasses
- A puppet making residency course
- Children's puppetry, including shows and workshops
- Puppetry and stop-animation short and feature length films
- New commissions for artists
- Talks and networking events, including Meet the Practitioner series
- A Puppetry Research Conference and open call for papers
- An Education Project with local organisations
- Outdoor performances and walkabout
- Two bursary positions for North East based emerging artists within making and performance
- Nationwide competitions
- Puppetry Open Mic Night where performers can demonstrate their skills
- Regional community engagement from Berwick to Redcar
We successfully delivered the debut Moving Parts: Newcastle Puppetry Festival between 27th March - 1st April 2017 across 5 venues in the city centre. Check out the summary video below to get a feel for what we are trying to achieve. We are now looking towards the next festival, with a planned instalment (funding dependent) of Monday 29th October - Sunday 4th November 2018.
Reviews
Had a brilliant time at Materia Magica / Lėlių teatro festivalis / Puppet Theatre Festival in Lithuania experiencing the puppetry scene and the culture! Was fantastic to meet and make connections with puppetry programmers from across Europe. Massive thanks to Klaipėdos lėlių teatras, Lietuvos kultūros institutas / Lithuanian Culture Institute and all that made it possible!
Vilnius Puppet Theatre Museum 🎭
We have our programme and are ready to go! 🇱🇹 #lithuania #puppet #puppetfestival #puppetry #klaipeda
We have arrived in #lithuania 🇱🇹 for the Magica Puppet Festival with our Moving Parts hats on - looking forward to the first show The Sandman tonight in Vilnius! #klaipeda #lithuania #magicapuppetfestival #magicafestival
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AHHH!! WE GOT THE FUNDING!! Moving Parts 2019 will be happening 6th - 14th April 2019! Get the dates in your diaries - details coming soon! Thank you, thank you, thank you Arts Council England!!
Such a great festival. An important step forward in puppetry as entertainment and as a conscious industry. Well done everyone involved, a true feat. Proud and privileged to be a part of it, long may it continue!
Such a great festival. An important step forward in puppetry as entertainment and as a conscious industry. Well done everyone involved, a true feat. Proud and privileged to be a part of it, long may it continue!