UNIMA

UNIMA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette - International Puppetry Association) was founded in Prague in 1929 (the then Czechoslovak magazine Loutkář was UNIMA's first official journal in years 1929–1930). In 1981, the French puppeteer Jacques Félix moved UNIMA's headquarters to Charleville-Mézières, France, location of the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes since 1972. UNIMA is affiliated to UNESCO and it is a member of the International Theatre Institute.

National centers

UNIMA Festival, Armenia 2015 (Right to Left): Martine Levy (UNESCO); Jacques Trudeau (Secretary General of UNIMA); Dikla Katz (The Key Theatre, UNIMA Representative in Israel)

There are National centers throughout the world,^[1] which include:

UNIMA-USA founded by Jim Henson in 1966. In 1992 the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta became the headquarters for UNIMA-USA
UNIMA Australia
UNIMA Pakistan
British UNIMA
UNIMA France - THEMAA
UNIMA Spain

UNIMA World Congresses

World congresses have been held in:^[2]

1929: Prague (Presidency: Jindřich Veselý)
1929: Paris
1930: Liège
1933: Ljubljana (New presidency: Josef Skupa) (New General Secretary: Jan Malík)
1957: Prague (New presidency: Max Jacob)
1958: Bucharest
1960: Bochum-Braunschweig
1962: Warsaw
1966: Munich
1969: Prague (New presidency: Jan Bussell)
1972: Charleville-Mézières (New General Secretary: Henryk Jurkowski)
1976: Moscow (New presidency: Sergej Obrazcov)
1980: Washington D.C. (New General Secretary: Jacques Felix)
1984: Dresden (New presidency: Henryk Jurkowski)
1988: Nagoya
1992: Ljubljana (New presidency: Sirppa Sivori-Asp)
1996: Budapest
2000: Magdeburg (New presidency: Margareta Niculescu)
2004: Rijeka (New presidency: Massimo Schuster) (New General Secretary: Miguel Arreche)
2008: Perth (New presidency: Dadi Pudumjee) (New General Secretary: Jacques Trudeau)
2012: Chengdu
2016: Tolosa
2020: Bali : Holds non-face-to-face online a year later because of COVID-19
2025: To be held in Chuncheon