March 21: World Puppetry Day

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March 21 is World Puppetry Day. To join the worldwide celebration, on this day puppets of the Kövér Béla Puppet Theater will turn up at different places of Szeged: on the trams, next to trees, or on Kárász street, for instance. On Dugonics square, kindergarten-aged children are welcome to take part in a flashmob of the puppet theater from 10 to 11 a.m., and school kids are invited to take part between 4 and 5 p.m.

The idea for World Puppetry Day came from Iranian puppetry artist Javad Zolfaghari. In 2000 he proposed 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.

Source: Kövér Béla Bábszínház, Wikipedia

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