World Puppetry Day with Szeged puppet artists
Kövér Béla Puppet Theater joins the worldwide celebration of World Puppetry Day on March 21. On this day, the well-known Szeged puppets will turn up at different places in the city between 14:30 and 16:30 — expect to meet them downtown, or on the trams and busses, surprising people going home after school or from work.
Also between 14:30 and 16:30, members of the puppet theater will conquer Széchenyi Square, offering playful activities: learning songs and discovering music, playing with puppets, and crafting badges.
The idea for World Puppetry Day came from Iranian puppetry artist Javad Zolfaghari. In 2000 he proposed a discussion at the Congress of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette (UNIMA) in Magdeburg. The date of the celebration was identified two years later, at the meeting of the International Council of UNIMA in Atlanta. World Puppetry Day was first celebrated in 2003.
Featured image by Luca Szabó / Kövér Béla Puppet Theater
