Festival Dates

2026-06-07 > 2026-08-29

Location

Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Description

The project promotes the contemporary achievements of the multi-layered puppet theatre art creating opportunities for the presentation of cultural diversity in the country and abroad. It also allocates space for traditional puppet theatre performances. The festival offers a variety of events included in the additional accompanying module. The project includes puppet shows for family audiences outdoors, performances for babies, art workshops for making puppets, one-man shows, puppet miniatures. The events are for family audiences and for organised visits from kindergartens and summer children‘s centres. The project contributes to the improvement of the educational level of young viewers and expands the building of audiences. It meets the needs for communication with art accessible to children, creates an emotional environment for communication with its creators, expands the imagination and their creativity, provokes children’s fantasy and perceptions. It creates aesthetic criteria and assessment opportunities from an early age. The performances are selected so as to support not only the aesthetic, but also the spiritual formation of adolescents.