Moving Parts: Newcastle Puppetry Festival

The 2nd Moving Parts: Newcastle Puppetry Festival
6th - 14th April 2019

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.
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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
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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.