NEW PUPPETRY FILMS WEBCAST LIVE

Our puppetry films are finally being webcast live, thanks to Google Video. The first short film to be made available online is 'Puppets in Prison'. The first is a documentary about our pilot prison workshop in a Soweto prison in South Africa in 1997. We will be adding new puppetry films each day until our entire collection of work is available for public viewing. The entire series of films are listed here under PUPPETRY FILMS LIVE WEBCAST in the right-hand column.

Our Wedding in Africa

On 10 Sept 2006, my partner, Sharon Gelber and I celebrated our wedding at Temenos Retreat in the Western Cape in South Africa. It was a weekend of great sprirituality, celebration and much joy, spent with family and friends in the village of McGregor. Amidst the celebration were performances and cabaret on the Saturday night and Sunday morning, in which Sharon sang, Adrian Kohler of Handspring Puppet Company did a very cute improvisation about our lives using two red socks and my dear friend Pedro Espi-Sanchez sang us some French and Spanish melodies. The Klezmer Band of Mathew Reid played us down the aisle on Sunday morning. I think it was a very memorable event that will certainly not be forgotton. You could take a look at the actual slide show by clicking here!

Kenya's International Festival of Puppetry

The Family Programmes Promotion Services (FPPS) will host the 3rd Kenya International Puppetry Festival (KIPF 2006), formally known as Edupuppets, in Nairobi Kenya. The festival will take place at the Kenya National Theatre /Cultural Centre and at the Goethe Institute as from October 14th-19th 2006.

KIP Festival 2006 aims to celebrate the power of puppetry as a performing art form that can promote cultural integration and cooperation. Its goal is to present puppetry that is multi-disciplinary, inter-cultural, cross-border and experimental.

The festival opens on 14 October at 18h00 at the Kenya National Theatre Auditorium. The highlight of the festival opening night will be a presentation of Magere, man of Stone, a puppet and figure theatre performance by CHAPS (Kenya).

For information, contact Phylmon Odhiambo