GENERAL PROGRAM
SATURDAY 21/5
Time: 11.00
OSE Park
Free play 4+ (60')
"The king who was hungry like a wolf"
- ΜΟΥ-ΦΑ
Time: 12.00 – 14.00
OSE Park
“How to make a puppet” workshop for children
Free particpation 5+ (120')
Peiramatiki Skini Kalamatas
Time: 18.00
Central Square - Aristomenous Str.
Music parade (70′)
- QUILOMBO Band
Time: 19.30
Ice rink OSE Park
Open puppet show, 4+ (40')
"The loony circus"
- ANTAMAPANTAHOU Puppet Theatre
SUNDAY 22/5
Time: 11.00
Labour Centre
Play 4+ (45′)
"A stone soup"
- KARABOLA Puppet Theatre
Time: 12.00
Labour Centre - Central Square
Music parade (70′)
- QUILOMBO Band
Time: 13.30
Central Square
Open puppet show, 4+ (40')
"The loony circus"
- ANTAMAPANTAHOU Puppet Theatre
MONDAY 23/5
Time: 10.00
Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
Play 4+ (60')
"Moonsoup"
- KOKOU-MOUKLO Puppet Theatre
Time: 11.00
Labour Centre
Play 4+ (45′)
"A stone soup"
- KARABOLA Puppet Theatre
Time: 18.30
Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
Play 4+ (60')
"Moonsoup"
- KOKOU-MOUKLO Puppet Theatre
Time: 20.00
Labour Centre
Play 16+ (45′)
"Karagöz tribulation"
- Demetrakopoulos Shadow Theatre
TUESDAY 24/5
Time: 10.30
Cultural Centre of Kalamata
Play 6+ (55′)
"Little Rigas and the secret symbols of Charta"
- Painttellings Lida Varvarousi
Time: 18.00
Labour Centre
Play 4+ (45′)
"Karagöz baker"
- Demetrakopoulos Shadow Theatre
Time: 20.00
Kalamata Dance Megaron
Play 12+ (105′)
"Body Absence"
- PLEFSIS and AYUSAYA
WEDNESDAY 25/5
Time: 11.00
Cultural Centre of Kalamata
Play 6+ (55′)
"Little Rigas and the secret symbols of Charta"
- Painttellings Lida Varvarousi
Time: 11.00
Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
Play 5+ (75′)
"A flame in Dark City"
- PLAGGONES Puppet Theatre
Time: 18.00
Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
Play 5+ (75′)
"A flame in Dark City"
- PLAGGONES Puppet Theatre
THURSDAY 26/5
Time: 10.00
Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
Play 4+ (60')
"The Fish Funk"
Puppet Theatre of CRETE
Time: 11.00
Labour Centre
Play 6+ (45′)
"Giraffe"
- HOP SIGNOR
Time: 18.30
Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
Play 4+ (60')
"The Fish Funk"
Puppet Theatre of CRETE
FRIDAY 27/5
Time: 10.00
Cultural Centre of Kalamata
Play 5+ (45′)
«Garbage for Plums»
- Pro Rodopi Art Center
Time: 12.00-14.00
Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
Play 8+ (50′)
«Error 404»
- Angeles de Trapo
Time: 18.30
Labour Centre
Play 6+ (45′)
"Giraffe"
- HOP SIGNOR
SATURDAY 28/5
Time: 11.00
Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
Play 8+ (50′)
«Error 404»
- Angeles de Trapo
Time: 15.00 – 18.00
EXPERIMENTAL SCENE
Puppet theater workshop
for adults, by Francisco Brito
(Part 1)
Time: 18.30
Cultural Centre of Kalamata
Play 5+ (45′)
«Garbage for Plums»
- Pro Rodopi Art Center
Time: 20.00
Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
Play 15+ (60′)
«Clown’s houses»
- Merlin puppet theater
SUNDAY 29/5
Time: 11.30
Central Square
Free show 4+ (55′)
"The terrible enemy"
- X-SALTIBAGOS Street Theatre
Time: 14.00 – 17.00
EXPERIMENTAL SCENE
Doll making & animation seminar
for adults, by Francisco Brito
(Part 2)
Time: 19.00
Labour Centre
Play 5+ (50')
"The mystery of the East"
- BARUTI
Time: 20.15
Labour Centre
CLOSING CEREMONY
Musical finale in collaboration with the Music School - Short recap video of the festival
6th INTERNATIONAL PUPPET FESTIVAL of KALAMATA
Additional gratis puppet plays at special schools
MONDAY 16/5
Time: 11.00
Experimental Stage Room for the children from "Grandma's Orchard"
Free show (40′)
"The Quilt's Gift"
Kalamata Experimental Stage Puppetry
TUESDAY 17/5
Time: 10.00
EEEEK School
Free show (50′)
"The colorful monsters"
GOUTOU GOUPATO
THURSDAY 19/5
Time: 10.00
Asprochoma Elementary School
Free Show (50')
"The colorful monsters"
GOUTOU GOUPATOU
MONDAY 23/5
Time: 10.30
Special Primary & Kindergarten
(V. Georgiou 79)
Free show (40′)
Shadow Theater
"The Haunted Tree»"
Dimitrakopoulos Troupe
WEDNESDAY 25/5
Time: 10.30
Grandma's neighborhood
Free show (40′)
Shadow theater
"The Haunted Tree"
Dimitrakopoulos Troupe
As part of the 6th KALAMATA INTERNATIONAL PUPPET THEATER FESTIVAL
Performances and workshops outside Kalamata
WEDNESDAY 11/5
Time: 10.00 and 11.00
The Open-Air Water Power Museum, Dimitsana
Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation
Two puppet shows (50')
"The colorful monsters"
- GOUTOU GOUPATOU
WEDNESDAY 11/5
Time: 12.00
The Open-Air Water Power Museum, Dimitsana
Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation
Workshop for making & animating a figure – monster (30′)
- GOUTOU GOUPATOU
SATURDAY 28/5
Time: 20.30
Nafplion Theatre School
University of Peloponnese
Puppet show 6+ (45')
"Giraffe"
- Hop Signor Puppet Theater
QUILOMBO Band
Music parade
Parade - happening, Duration: 70', Ages: 3+
MUSICAL EVENTS:
SATURDAY 21 May at 18.00, Central Square - Aristomenous Str.
SUNDAY 22 May at 12.00, Labour Centre - Central Square
Quilombo band
Quilombo Band consists of 17 musicians and dancers all of them playing different percussion instrument giving an explosive result, Samba Batucada and Samba Reaggae , a different kind of samba in terms of rhythm that flourishes in northern Brazil, influenced by Jamaican grooves that were introduced gradually into Brazilian traditional music. The band’s percussive style is enriched by the players’ continuous movement offering an unforgettable audio- visual spectacle.
The team
Quilombo Centro Cultural
Address: 8 Servion Str. & 44 Athens Avenue , Akadimia Platonos
Contact: Tel.: 210 5227961, 6973212650, 6938736307
Email: info@quilombo.gr
Web: www.quilombo.gr
Facebook: Quilombo Centro Cultural
Contact person: Stefanos Korakas
https://www.youtube.com/c/QuilomboAthens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LinXXOYkA8Y&authuser=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-K_nXHL-Eg&authuser=0
“ANTAMAPANTAHOU” Marionette Theatre
"The loony circus"
Puppet show, free, Duration: 40', Ages: 4+
PERFORMANCES:
SATURDAY May 21st at 19.30, Ice rink OSE Park
SUNDAY May 22nd at 13.30, Central Square
The performance
An interactive street theatre show with masks and puppets that borrows its theme from the circus. The protagonists are a pair of clowns (puppeteers with masks), a magician without legs (direct- acting large sized puppet) and 3 marionettes – acrobats.
Direction: Nikos Tombros
Puppets, animation: “ANTAMAPANTAHOU” Marionette Theatre
Costume designer: Olga Gerogiannaki
The group
"Antamapantahou" workshop of manufacture and puppet theater was established in 1992 by Nikos Tompros and Eleni Panagiotou at Vasilika of Northern Evoia in Greece. From 1994 onwards, it has been performing in the streets, theaters, schools and international festivals in Europe, Asia and S.Africa.
As an integral part of its overall policy, Antamapantahou organizes and delivers seminars and workshops for children and adults in the fields of puppet and marionette manufacture and puppet animation. Its working method combines a variety of puppet theatre ,pantomime and physical theater techniques.
Nikos Tombros apart from his career as a puppeteer and puppet constructor, has attended various seminars such as :physical theater, acting,dance, clown and contemporary shadow theater.
Eleni Panagiotou, also puppeteer and puppet constructor, is a a social worker and has attended seminars such as: animating objects, theatrical lighting, painting and stop motion animation.
Address: 37 Ifigeneias Str., Ilion
Contact: Tel.: 6932274208
Email: antamapantahou@gmail.com
Web: puppetryanimation.blogspot.gr
Contact person: Eleni Panagiotou
"KARABOLA" Puppet Theatre
"A stone soup"
Puppet show, Duration: 45', Ages: 4+
PERFORMANCES:
SUNDAY May 22nd at 11.00, Labour Centre Amphitheatre
MONDAY May 23rd at 11.00, Labour Centre Amphitheatre
The performance
A traveler arrives with his pear-bike in a colourful town! This town is on the slope of a mountain surrounded from trees and springs. Its inhabitants however are all locked inside their houses. The traveler is looking for a place to stay for the night . Something is wrong with this strange place. What happened to this colourful town? Why are all the doors and windows closed?
What will happen when our traveler knocks the first door?
Based on a traditional Portuguese tale with puppets and live music. A story that touches sensitive and human subjects like strength and offering.
Script: Folklore tale
Direction, puppets, animation: Fay Reizidou
Music: traditional songs
Artistic techniques: Direct handling table puppets
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfJgiKOyePM
The group
Karabola Puppet Theatre was established in 1996 in the island of Rhodes, with various plays and workshops of making puppets in the National Theater of the city, in villages of Rhodes and several islands of Dodecanese until October of 2004. For the last 10 years is based in Athens and runs plays in theatrical scenes, festivals, museums, schools, hospitals and institutions for children with special needs. Our teachers who have inspired us are : Takis Sarris, Kaiti Mpouli, Alfred Casas, Rene Baker, Nikos Tompros, Stathis Markopoulos, Peter Schumann. Member of UNIMA HELLAS. From June 2020 on radio Lychnari our tales are told all over the world.
Address: 27 Filerimou Str., 85132 Rhodes
Contact: Tel.: 6979500615
Contact person: Fay Reizidou
Email: karabola.puppet.theatre@gmail.com
Web: karabolapuppettheatre.blogspot.gr
Facebook: Karabola Puppet Theatre
"KOKOU-MOUKLO" Puppet Theatre
"Moonsoup"
Puppet show, Duration: 60', Ages: 4+
PERFORMANCES:
MONDAY May 23rd at 10.00 and 18.30, Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
The performance
The foxy Magician mixes a miraculous Moon Soup in his casserole! But his spells are stale and his magic is spoiled. His faithful helper is always by his side but he makes a lot of mistakes! Until two small strange creatures get entangled in his legs. Will they manage to become like the others and make friends? A show that will give children the stimulus to think that the uniqueness of each of us is the most valuable treasure!
Script: Fillipos Mandilaras, Vaso Giareni
Animation: Vaso Giareni, Iro Theodorou, Aggeliki Gounaridi
Constructions, animation: Kokou-Mouklo team
Lighting: Yiannis Neroulidis
Music: Sofia Tamvakopoulou
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytb_NU21xRY
The group
The Puppet Theatre troupe was established in 2003 by Vaso Giareni and Iro Theodorou with ten children's performances and two performances for adults to date. Over the years the group has been framed with remarkable new collaborators, musicians, illuminators, actors, set designers, costume designers, writers, etc.
Also, through the collaboration with other arts and artists, the group evolves expressively, technically and aesthetically. The group is an active member of the Hellenic Center of the International Puppet Union of UNIMA.
Contact: Tel.: 6937126015
Email: kokoumouklo@gmail.com
Contact person : Iro Theodorou
Shadow theatre "Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos"
"Karagöz tribulation"
Shadow theatre, Duration: 45', Ages: 16+
PERFORMANCE:
MONDAY May 23rd at 20.00, Labour Centre Amphitheatre
The performance
It is a combination of different episodes from different shadow theater performances to a larger one, composing a new fun and adventurous story for adults. Our popular hero more relevant than ever, through his sarcastic humor and his source momentum will overturn reality, will meet demons but will also face death..
Concept/Direction/Shadow puppets: Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos
Animation, voices: Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos
Stage assistant: Georgia Demetrakopoulou
Poster: Nikoleta Vasilopoulou, Nikos Vamvakas
Artistic techniques: Shadow theatre
Trailer:
https://puppetfest.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/vasano.mp4
The shadow theatre
Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos was born in 2002 and comes from Kalamata. He is a student at the Department of Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. From the age of eight he has been involved in the art of the Shadow Theater together with his sister and collaborator, Georgia Dimitrakopoulou. From 2011 until today, they play traditional Karagiozi performances based on experience and improvisation, in several areas of Messinia, in schools, cultural associations, villages and festivals. Konstantinos is also a member of the Panhellenic Association of Shadow Theater and the Experimental Stage of Kalamata. During these years of activity the Troupe has dealt with classic texts of the Shadow Theater but also with original ideas and texts. He has collaborated with Municipalities and cultural institutions as well as with the Kalamata Puppet Theater Festival.
Address: 24 Lykourgou Str., 24100 Kalamata
Contact: 6987447476
Email: demetrakopoulosk@gmail.com
Facebook: Dimitrakopoulos Shadow Theatre
Contact person : Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos
Painttellings© Lida Varvarousi
"Little Rigas and the secret symbols of Charta"
Visual art, Duration: 55', Ages: 6+
PERFORMANCES:
TUESDAY May 24th at 10.30, Cultural Centre of Kalamata
WEDNESDAY May 25th at 10.00, Cultural Centre of Kalamata
The performance
We follow the story of Rigas Velenstinlis when he was a kid. A fiction story of how he inspired Greece Charta in which the beginning of Greek Revolution was based. A story for all ages.
Script: Lida Varvarousi
Direction: Lida Varvarousi
Puppets, animation: Lida Varvarousi
The creator
Lida Varvarousi's -writer-illustrator-performer- "Paintellings” is a visual art. Aim to bring us closer to inspiration by evolving us, emotionally and freeing us from our inner creative braking. It therapeutically acts as a mirror for the souls of children and adults, releasing inner joy as the relationship with the public is interactive. The story evolves in front of the public eye and looks like a live cinema! The Paintellings travel to Greece and abroad for 20 years.
Address: 103 Zoodohou Pigis Str., Athens
Contact: Tel.: 6932464769
Email: lidavarvarousi@gmail.com
Web: www.lidavarvarousi.com
Contact person: Lida Varvarousi
Shadow theatre "Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos"
"Karagöz baker"
Shadow theatre, Duration: 45', Ages: 4+
PERFORMANCE:
TUESDAY May 24th at 18.00, Labour Centre
The performance
Hatziavatis, after the urging of Gero-Dimitrakis to work his bakery in the central square of the city, tries to find Karagiozis as his collaborator. Our popular hero responds to the call of his friend, convincing him that he is a professional baker! The typical heroes of the shadow theatre will pass by the berde, who will want to cook their food in the Oven of Karagiozis. Will they finally succeed or will something go wrong?
Concept/Direction/Shadow puppets: Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos
Animation, voices: Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos
Stage assistant: Georgia Demetrakopoulou
Artistic techniques: Shadow theatre
The group
Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos was born in 2002 and comes from Kalamata. He is a student at the Department of Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. From the age of eight he has been involved in the art of the Shadow Theater together with his sister and collaborator, Georgia Dimitrakopoulou. From 2011 until today, they play traditional Karagiozi performances based on experience and improvisation, in several areas of Messinia, in schools, cultural associations, villages and festivals. Konstantinos is also a member of the Panhellenic Association of Shadow Theater and the Experimental Stage of Kalamata. During these years of activity the Troupe has dealt with classic texts of the Shadow Theater but also with original ideas and texts. He has collaborated with Municipalities and cultural institutions as well as with the Kalamata Puppet Theater Festival.
Address: 24 Lykourgou Str., 24100 Kalamata
Contact: 6987447476
Email: demetrakopoulosk@gmail.com
Facebook: Dimitrakopoulos Shadow Theatre
Contact person : Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos
"PLEFSIS" Physical Theatre, "AYUSAYA" Modern Puppet Theatre
"Body Absence"
Visual performance in 7 scenes, Duration: 105', Ages: 12+
PERFORMANCE:
TUESDAY May 24th at 20.00, Kalamata Dance Megaron
The performance
A narrative focusing both on theatrical puppets and the physicality of the performers. Through a dreamy atmosphere, performers, puppets of different sizes and natural materials will meet each other, will talk about the loneliness, the closeness of the body, the contact. They will talk about the dystopia that human existence is experiencing today. Search, connection and memory are the patterns that define and connect the images and situations of the narrative. The stage space gradually comes to life in an emotional and moving story for humanity.
The visual universe of the performance is inspired by 3 poles of contemporary Art: the visual artist Giannis Kounellis, as well as the Spanish sculptors Juan Munoz and Isaac Cordal.
Concept, direction: Antonis Koutroumpis
Creation, Performance: Olga Gerogiannaki, Stathis Markopoulos, Giota Kotrona, Antonis Koutroumpis
Puppets: Stathis Markopoulos, Eleni Panagiotou, Nikos Tompros
Costumes: Olga Gerogiannaki
Stage objects: Stathis Markopoulos, Thenia Koutroumpi, Antonis Koutroumpis
Lighting: Elisa Alexandropoulou
Music composition: Minas Emmanouil
Sound art, Live electronics: Loukas Messinezis
Live camera: Pavlos Mavrikidis
Photos: Thanasis Karatzas
Trailer, play video: Pavlos Mavrikidis
Trailer: https://www.facebook.com/koutroumpisantonis/videos/1380940729021148
Collaborating companies:
PLEFSIS
Since its inception, in 1996, Plefsis group has been working in the field of physical theater, developing a distinctive artistic language which stems from the combination of different genres: theater, contemporary dance and mime. Since 2004, the group has been participating with various productions in festivals abroad, earning rave reviews.
Contact: Tel.: 6947517025
Email: thiasos.plefsis@gmail.com
Contact person: Antonis Koutroumpis
Web: www.plefsis-space.gr/el – Facebook: Plefsis
Instagram: @plefsis_theater – YouTube: Plefsis
AYUSAYA
Stathis Markopoulos, Puppet player - Puppet maker
He studied for two years at the Prague State Academy of Puppetry and Alternative Theater (ALD-DAMU). Apprenticed in the workshop and street performances of the MarionetasdelMatadero troupe. In 1992 he founded the Ayushaya Puppet Theater! (www.ayusaya.com) and works professionally in Greece and abroad with his own productions as well as in collaboration with other troupes and artists. He has participated in many international festivals, conferences and educational programs around puppetry. He teaches in workshops for professional puppeteers, deals with relevant publications and is an active member of the Hellenic Center of the International Puppet Association (UNIMA).
Address: 41 Palamidiou Str., 10441 Athens
Contact: Tel.: 2155253778, 6977150305
Email: ayusayapup@gmail.com
Web: www.ayusaya.com
"PLAGGONES" Puppet Theatre
"A flame in Dark City"
Puppet show, Duration: 75', Ages: 5+
PERFORMANCES:
WEDNESDAY May 25th at 11.00 and 18.00, Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
The performance
Little Kallistratos who lives in Dark City, discovers a very important information about every citizen of his city including his little sister Nefeli. In his attempt to save everybody, with the help of his new four legs friend Zoro, he travels around our solar system. An imaginary story of a kid who is going to learn to feel, think, expect, decide, choose, play and travel with the help of a narrator , a puppet player and a crazy scientist. The puppet show includes a representation of the solar system (5 meters in diameter) which will move live through a system of pulleys with human movement, with live narration, puppet show and scientific information about the planets, with more than ten originally made theatrical puppets and with original music and specially designed lighting!
Author - Script: Maria Varsou
Direction: Konstantis Mizaras
Original music: Nikos Bardis
Constructions, animation: Maria Varsou, Nikos Garozis, Konstantis Mizaras
Lighting: Melina Mascha
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVnrE8nWivs
The group
The love and respect for the puppets and the puppet show became the reason for the birth "under the wings" of the street theater group "X-Saltibagos" of the group "Plaggones". It has been active since 2016 and its purpose is to highlight the art of puppetry as well as to create performances that will "blow" magic in the hearts of the audience. The groupis consisted of Maria Varsou, Nikos Garozis and Konstantis Mizaras.
Address: 30 Diomias Str., 26332 Patras
Contact: Tel.: 2610313023, 6947341506
E-mail: salti_bagos@yahoo.gr
Web: saltibagos.wixsite.com/circus
Contact person: Nikos Garozis
PUPPET THEATRE Of CRETE
"The Fish Funk"
Puppet show, Duration: 60', Ages: 4+
PERFORMANCES:
THURSDAY May 26th at 10.00 and 18.30, Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
The performance
Alarm in Fishland! Fish funk is coming!
He is getting ready to build his new palace, expelling the fish from their homes! Will the fish, together with their friend Gorgona, be able to stop his plans and "fish" him? ”A fascinating puppet show! With the black theater technique, impressive scenes and colors! A play written by Froso Chatoglou in the 80s. This is a timeless children's play taken from life where in an artful and humorous way it conveys the messages of democracy, solidarity and cooperation!
Author - Script: Froso Chatoglou
Direction: Elias Anagnostakis
Constructions, animation: Elias Anagnostakis, Georgios Anagnostakis, Eirini Stavroulaki, Michalis Fragkiadakis
Original music, lighting: Georgios Anagnostakis
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awlx2S4KNqA
The group
For the past six years, the play "The Fish Funk" has been presented in hundreds of schools, dozens of small remote islands, in the rest of Greece, Athens, Corfu, Ioannina, Crete, Evros, but also abroad, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Turkey. Our goal is for the art of Puppetry to reach as many remote areas as possible, but also the Greek Diaspora.
Address: 9 Mirtias Str., 71409 Heraklion Crete
Contact: Τηλ.: 28103632310, 6977987248
Email: info@kouklotheatro.gr
Web: www.kouklotheatro.gr
Contact person: Georgios Anagnostakis
HOP SIGNOR Puppet Theatre
"Giraffe"
Puppet show, Duration: 45', Ages: 6+
PERFORMANCES:
THURSDAY May 26th at 11.00, Labour Centre
FRIDAY May 27th at 18.30, Labour Centre
SATURDAY May 28th at 20.30, Nafplion Theatre School, University of Peloponnese
The performance
A money box in the shape of a giraffe changes hands and becomes alive in the minds of its different owners. Without it, a little boy would lose its only friend and, later on, a lover of the sky would never reach so high. Can a money box be something more than just a box for coins?
Blending the animate with the inanimate, the story explores the life which exists in every object that carries emotions and sentiments.. Movement, original music and specially designed lighting are combined in a symbolic and poetic story where man, dolls and objects interact and explore the relationship between them.
Author - Script: Ηop Signor Puppet Theatre
Direction: Hop Signor Puppet Theatre
Puppets, animation: Evgenia Tsichlia, Thanos Sioris
Original music: Aggelos Aggelidis, Antonis Skamnakis, Michalis Kalkanis
Lighting: Melina Mascha, Christina Thanasoula
Artistic techniques: Table puppets
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/232554057
The group
Hop Signor puppet theatre was founded in 2012 by Evgenia Tsichlia and Thanos Sioris. The group draws its inspiration from the art of puppetry, as it has been historically shaped and evolved through modern experimentation.
Evgenia completed an undergraduate degree in Theatre Studies at the University of Athens and took a postgraduate degree in Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean.
Thanos completed an undergraduate degree in Mathematical Physics at Edinburgh University. His background in construction techniques came from studying musical instrument repair and construction at Anniesland College-Glasgow (classical guitar) and at the school of Kastoria (traditional Greek instruments).
Important teachers who have influenced the troupe were Rene Baker, Katy Deville, Nevill Tranter, Antonis Koutroumpis, Camillo Betancor, Stathis Markopoulos. HopSignor’s wish is to give life to stories and tales of different places , people and objects using the power of the puppet.
The performances are based on the absence of speech, the study of movement, sound and light. They invite the viewer to reconstruct them in his personal narrative with materials from his imagination and emotions. They have traveled to over twenty countries, presented themselves to children and adults and have received nineteen awards.
Address: 48 El. Venizelou Str., 17122 Nea Smyrni
Contact: Tel.: 2114048956, 6947254893
Email: hopsignorpuppet@gmail.com
Web: www.hopsignor.gr
Contact person: Evgenia Tsichlia
PRO RODOPI ART CENTER
«Garbage for Plums»
Puppet show, Duration: 45', Ages: 5+
PERFORMANCES:
FRIDAY May 27th at 10.00, Cultural Centre of Kalamata
SATURDAY May 28th at 18.30, Cultural Centre of Kalamata
The performance
It is a production with puppets for children, but also for the whole family full of humor based on a traditional Bulgarian folk tale. It describes a man who wants to find a good and housewife wife, choosing a strange but clever way. He goes with his donkey from the village in a village and offers nice fresh juicy plums to give him the garbage of their house. Many women come carrying piles of garbage. In the end a modest girl appears without garbage, because her house is clean and she finds no garbage. The man happily chooses her for his beloved bride.
Script - Direction: Petar Todorov
Animation: Desislava Mincheva
Puppets: Hannah Schwartz
Original music: Bulgarian Folklore Music
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSOUvuKF7H8
The group
Pro Rodopi Art Centre has been established in 2004 by Bulgarian artists Petar Todorov and Desislava Mincheva in Bostina, Bulgaria. The main artistic profile of this independent entrepreneurship is object/puppet theatre and physical theatre and the combination of both. They have been participated in many festivals worldwide and their show have beeb awarded various national and international theatre prizes.
Address: Bostina 4745, Smolyanarea, Bulgaria
Contact: Tel.: +359888639923
Email: prac@prac.biz
Web: www.prac.biz
Contact person: PetarTodorov
ANGELES DE TRAPO Puppet Theatre
«Error 404»
Puppet show, Duration: 50', Ages: 8+
PERFORMANCES:
FRIDAY May 27th at 11.00, Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
SATURDAY May 287th at 11.00, Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
The performance
Error 404 is a performance without words addressed to both children and teenagers, an audience increasingly used to new technologies, like Steve, our main character, a run-of-the-mill young boy with a simple and ordinary life, who is absolutely immersed in a world full of electronic devices.
This delicate and emotional play encourages you to reflect about the meaning of life, the wonders that life offers us and what we often overlook.
Author - idea - scenario: Wagner Gallo
Direction: Julio Gallo & Wagner Gallo
Constructions, animation: Antonio Martín
Illuminatin, photography: Wagner Gallo
Original music: Kevin Macleod
Trailer: https://youtu.be/k5i_wPd6jKA
The group
Ángeles de trapo is a family-owned company with 40 years of experience in puppet theatre, run by Iolanda Atalla, Julio, Maicol and Wagner Gallo. Since the company was established it has been recognized for the professional level of its theatrical productions during all these years. The company is always trying to innovate, to surprise audience and to break away from the established preconceptions in the world of puppet theatre. Its last productions have travelled around the world and have been included in the most famous national and international festivals, having won several awards.
Address: Avenida Axarquía 3, Portal 1, Bajo E, Torre de Benagalbón, 29739, Spain
Contact: Tel.: (+34) 656 465 672
Email : angelesdetrapo@gmail.com
Web: angelesdetrapo.com/error404EN.html
Contact person: Sara Paredes
The show «error 404» of Wagner Gallo of the Ángeles de trapo troupe is presented at the 6th International Puppet Festival of Kalamata with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) through the Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE), in the framework of the Mobility grants.
MERLIN PUPPET THEATER
«Clown’s Houses»
Puppet show, Duration: 60', Ages: 15+
PERFORMANCE:
SATURDAY May 287th at 20.00, Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kalamata
The performance
One building, five apartments and six main characters. Comedic tragic personalities, who live a miserable life that they are not afraid to lose but are afraid to live. The viewer watches them live conventionally in a dark, claustrophobic setting, with their fears, obsessions and loneliness. The "Merlin" dramatizes and demonizes their obsessions until they are finally punished and released in the most violent way.
Artists do not attempt to make existential analysis through their work. They dramatize the modern way of life in its current form. The loneliness of modern man is projected through the dark rooms of "Clowns’ Houses", houses like a prison, people trapped in their routines and habits, far from their dreams.
Script - concept: Merlin Puppet Theatre
Scenario: Merlin Puppet Theatre
Direction: Merlin Puppet Theatre
Puppets, cartoons: Merlin Puppet Theatre
Original music - illumination: Achilleas Charbilas
Photopgaphy: Dimitrios Poupalos
The group
Merlin Puppet Theater was founded in Athens, Greece in 1995. Dimitris Stamou and Demy Papada started of creating masks and puppets for the theatre. In 2001 they started performing with their own performances. Since then they have created stories for adult and young audience, and they’ve run hundreds of performances at theatres and international festivals in more than 42 countries around world , including workshops on puppet creation and play. Their work received couple of international theater awards.
They ’ve participated in festivals, exhibitions, conferences and educational seminars for theater and the art of puppetry. They ’ve created puppets and props for other performers and artists such as The Tiger Lillies, Dirty Granny Tales and Opera Chaotique. They are members of the Greek Puppet Centre UNIMA HELLAS.
In 2019 they collaborated with the French Company 'AnimaTheatre' in the creation and construction of the puppets and the set design for the play "Rebetiko" which premiered in 2020 in France.
They live in Berlin.
Address: Hasenheide 9, 10967 Berlin
Τηλέφωνο: 0030 6936561126
Email: merlinpuppetry@gmail.com
Web: www.merlinpuppetry.com
Υπεύθυνος επικοινωνίας: Demy Papada
X-SALTIBAGOS Street Theatre
"The terrible enemy"
A show of narration with masks and circus techniques, Duration: 55', Ages: 4+
PERFORMANCE:
SUNDAY May 29th at 11.30, Central Square
The performance
What happens when two people try to tell the same story?
Who, after all, is the most powerful man in the whole kingdom? The king or the magician?
What good is a huge red ball and a spy looking for it?
Narrative performance with masks and circus techniques. Based on the story of Jorge Bukay.
Direction: Maria Varsou
Masks: Maria Varsou, Nikos Garozis
Music: Nikos Garozis
Artists: Maria Varsou, Nikos Garozis
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-TeXow84M
The group
Street theater company X-SALTIBAGOS is a group of circus artists existing since 2002 throughout Greece based in Patra. As stilt walkers, clowns, balancers, acrobats, jugglers, mimes and dancers have given hundreds performance, in schools, theaters and countless squares of Greece in collaboration with municipalities and private entities. The artists of the group have attended classes in circus and dance schools abroad (Spain, France) and many workshops in Greece and abroad.
Their performances: An idea that becomes a story ... Like this everything is beginning. With classic theater, street theater, circus, love and absolute respect for ideas of each member as tools, we build representations in order to induce thought, feeling and smile. Our shows are for children as well as adults.
Address: 30 Diomias Str., Patras
Contact: Τηλ.: 6947341506
Email: salti_bagos@yahoo.gr
Contact person: nikos garozis
TEATRO BARUTI Puppet Theatre
"The mystery of the East"
Puppet show, Duration: 50', Ages: 5+
PERFORMANCE:
SUNDAY May 29th at 19.00, Labour Centre
The performance
Turlum Suklum dreams of becoming a magician and sage like his grandfather, Kadar. But his scandals do not allow him to concentrate. Kadar advises him to follow the path of the caravans, in order to find the power hidden inside him and to reveal his wisdom. His adventurous journey into the desert begins. His only companion is the Magic Book. The story is a hymn to love that proves that with its power, even "… the desert blooms…
The show, rich in images and alternations, imagination, humor, intense emotions and naturalness in the movement of the doll, leads the viewer on a journey where nothing is impossible!
Direction: Baruti Teatro
Animators: Francisco Brito, Alexis Papachatzis, Filio Agrimanaki, Aneta Stefanopoulou
Stage design: Voula Kourou
Lighting: Yiannis Neroulidis
Music: Pavlos Sarantinos
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAhBGHERznA
The group
The Baruti troupe was founded in 1987. It has participated in many International Festivals, such as: Seoul Korea, Izmir Turkey, Kaohsiung Taiwan, Golden Dolphin Varna Bulgaria, Sofia Bulgaria and La Canary Islands Spain, Plovit BulgariaTragaria (France) many other countries around the world .This constant contact with different cultures and civilizations has given the group an open vision, which offers the necessary material for the creation of each performance.
This constant contact with different cultures and civilizations has given the group an open vision, which offers the necessary material for the creation of each performance.
Address: 32 Bizaniou Str., Iraklio
Contact: Tel.: 6932263893
Email: baruti1teatro@gmail.com
Facebook: Baruti Teatro
Contact person: Francisco Brito
TEATRO BARUTI Puppet Theatre
Theater puppet making & animation workshop
Part A: SATURDAY 28 May 2022, Time: 15.00-18.00, Experimental Stage Room
Part B: SUNDAY 29 May 2022, Time: 14.00-17.00, Experimental Stage Room
Duration: 6 hours, Participation of 12 adults
The doll is an extension of ourselves, acting as a bridge or medium that transmits messages. And sometimes as a mask, allowing us to express and communicate freely, feelings, ideas and thoughts. The main objective of this workshop will be to make and animate simple puppets from different materials and to create and direct a short story.
The programme:
* Warming up, familiarization exercises, trust exercises, group games
* Improvisation, activation of the imagination
* Body language and our hands like our first doll
* Construction and animation of a doll with simple materials (fabrics, foam, boxes, objects everyday use, etc.)
* The journey from the abstract to the concrete
* Basic animation guidelines
* Basic directing guidelines
* Creating a story
* Presenting the story to an audience
Trailer: https://youtu.be/iwshByefxIY
Francisco Brito bio
Francisco Brito studied theater at the drama school of Philipp Gaulier (Paris).
In 1987 he founded the puppet group Baruti. With this group he travels around the world performing at festivals. He has been teaching the art of puppetry since 1992.
Since 2008 he has been the artistic director of the International Puppet Theater Festival in the Canary Islands, Spain and in Athens since 2015
Contact: 6932263893
MU-FA Puppet Theatre
"The king who was hungry like a wolf"
Puppet show, Duration: 60', Ages: 4+
PERFORMANCE:
SATURDAY May 21st at 11.00, OSE Park
The performance
A spoiled monarch, driven by his incurable greed, inadvertently enters the eye of the evil fairy witch. She, in order to teach him a good lesson, will transform him into a wolf. Now the bad-mannered but kind-hearted king, in order to regain his human form, will have to correct all his shortcomings in just one year. Otherwise ... he will remain a wolf forever. But first the unthinkable must succeed:learning to survive without his service staff.
Script: Markos Tsipouras
Animation: Marianna Bayiabou, Markos Tsipouras, Theodosia Pseftea
Puppets: Ilona Tsipoura, Constandinos Tsipouras
Music, songs: Tasos Kapetanakos, Marianna Bayiabou
The group
The MOU-FA Group (Music - Fantasy) was created in 2019 in Kalamata, by a small group of friends who share their love for theater, music and creation. She does not have another show in her assets but she intends to continue performing. He participated for the first time in the 4th Panhellenic Puppet Theater Festival of Kalamata, under the auspices of the Experimental Stage of Kalamata with the original play "The King who was hungry like a Wolf".
Contact: Tel.: 6959557769, 6983504165
Email: sokramsaruopist@yahoo.gr
Facebook: Κουκλοθεατρική ομάδα Μου-Φα
Contact person: Ilona Tsipoura
EXPERIMENTAL STAGE PUPPET TROUPE
"The Gift of the Quilt"
Puppet show, Duration 40', Age 4+, Free
PERFORMANCES:
MONDAY 16 May 2022, Time 11.00, Experimental Stage Hall
The performance
A sensitive woman had a purpose in life to offer help to the poor, homeless and downtrodden. With her magical hands she made handmade, wonderful quilts, with which she covered those who were cold and had no home to rest. But in the same state lived a greedy king whose purpose in life was to collect gifts from his subjects.
Will the sweet and magical quilt manage to change the king's character? Will she earn his trust? Will she convince him to be kind and merciful in order to win one of her quilts? A tender tale that rewards giving, solidarity, love for our fellow man, especially the one who needs us and embellishes avarice, greed, selfishness and lack of humanity.
Adaptation, direction, scenery: Letta Petroulaki
Music editor: Katerina Petroulaki
Puppet construction: Letta Petroulaki, Ioanna Koutela, Mariza Daifa
Lighting: Giorgos Minos
Special constructions: Giorgos Angelopoulos, Takis Sofikitis
Poster: Tzeni Dekele
Animation: Fani Alexandridis, Vera Georgakopoulou, Ioanna Kostopoulou, L. Petroulaki
Sound Technical Support: Popi Mavrea
Artistic Techniques: Direct Control Tabletop Puppets
The group
The "Puppet Troupe" of the Experimental Stage of Kalamata has been dealing with puppet theater since 1990. The love for children and puppet theater prompted Fani Alexandridis and Letta Petroulakis to establish a permanent puppet theater group for adults at the Experimental Stage of Kalamata. They engaged with passion and imagination in the construction and animation of the doll through educational seminars and creative workshops and offered their experience for free to the younger members. They have staged 24 puppet shows with different types of puppets and a variety of techniques.
The "puppet group" has presented puppet shows in municipalities, schools and festivals.
The troupe has taken part 2 times in the Kilkis International Puppet Theater Festival. (Young Puppeteers section) and at the Kakogianni Foundation within the framework of UNIMA HELLAS.
They organize seminars and workshops on making and animating theatrical puppets for children and adults. She has in her collection over 200 theater dolls with different techniques that brought heroes to life in her shows. He is a member of UNIMA HELLAS. Since 2017, they are organizing the Kalamata Puppet Theater Festival.
Address: Evripidou 2, 24100 Kalamata
Contact: tel. 2721021653, 6971540945
Contact person: Letta Petroulaki
Email: pei.ski.kal@gmail.com, lettapet@gmail.com
Web: www.peiramatikiskinikalamatas.com, www.puppetfest.gr
Fb: International Puppet Festival of Kalamata
GOUTOU GOUPATOU
"The colorful monsters"
Puppet show, Duration: 50', Ages: 3+
PERFORMANCES:
WEDNESDAY May 11th at 10.00 and 11.00, The Open-Air Water Power Museum, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation
TUESDAY May 17th at 10.00, EEEEK School
THURSDAY May 19th at 10.00, Asprochoma Elementary School
The performance
The colorful monsters live carefree in their beautiful and bright village. Their life is without a doubt very happy. They walk around and greet each other in their own special way.
Until no one knows how, no one knows why, a lonely monster appears with a dream... to become their king. By making a cunning plan he tries to tempt the colorful monsters by "offering" then the world of technology.
Where will they finally draw strength from in order to resist and regain their old companion life?
In this magical journey, children are transformed into magical helpers, playing a decisive role in the development of the story.
A timeless play about love and solidarity, against the isolation proposed by tempting technology.
Scenario: Mariza Ntaifa, Iro Theodorou
Direction: Goutou Goupatou
Puppets - stage design: Iro Theodorou, Mariza Ntaifa
Animation: Iro Theodorou, Mariza Ntaifa
Music: Despoina Salkitzoglou, Stefanos Paterakis
The collaboration
Iro Theodorou from the Kokou-Mouklo team and Mariza Daifa from Goutou Goupatou from different routes met each other in Kalamata, opened their magic suitcases and began to confuse colors, music and emotions.
With skeins, fabrics and stories, they weave the path of their dreams in a wide range of activities, including puppetry.
The performances and workshops can take place at schools and other places of cultural activities by arrangement.
With the vaccination certificates at hand and in coordination with the respective health body, all the health protocols will be honored.
Contact: Tel.: Iro Theodorou 693 7126015 – Mariza Ntaifa 693 2908753
Web: www.kokoumouklo.gr, Fb: Κουκλοθεάτρο Κοκου-Μουκλό
Web: www.goupatou.gr, Fb: Γουτού Γουπατού Project
Email: kokoumouklo@gmail.com
Contact persons: Iro Theodorou, Mariza Ntaifa
PEIRAMATIKI SKINI Kalamatas Artistic team
“How to make a puppet” workshop for children
SATURDAY May 21st, 12.00 - 14.00, OSE Park
Duration: 120', Free participation
The workshop
In the beautiful green area of the Municipal Park of OSE, next to the Refreshment Room, the art team of the Peiramatiki Skini organizes a workshop for making a theatrical doll, in which the children are invited to assemble and draw the features of the face. With all the parts of the doll ready by the art team (head, hair, hat, hands), the children complete the construction and take part in a group animation game of their doll.
Duration: 2 hours
Participation: up to 50 children, aged 5+
The Peiramatiki Skini Kalamatas Artistic team
Simultaneously with the art of puppetry, the puppet theater team of the Peiramatiki Skini (translating to: Experimental Stage) was trained by taking part in workshops for making a theatrical puppet with various materials. Gaining significant experience, it organized, in the process, workshops for adults, construction and animation of a theatrical puppet, many times in collaboration with important puppeteers and puppeteers.
As part of the theatrical play lessons and during the festivals, doll making workshops were held for children, while great importance was given to the workshops for adults on the subject of making a doll with various materials and techniques.
Εκπαιδευτές: Η εικαστική ομάδα της Πειραματικής Σκηνής Καλαμάτας
Contact: Tel. 2721021653, 6977437279
Email: pei.ski.kal@gmail.com, puppetfestivalkalamata@gmail.com
Web: www.peiramatikiskinikalamatas.com, www.puppetfest.gr
Shadow theatre "Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos"
"The Haunted Tree»"
Shadow Theatre, Duration: 40', Age: 4+, Free
PERFORMANCES:
MONDAY 23 May 2022, Time: 10.30, Kalamata Special Primary & Kindergarten
WEDNESDAY 25 May 2022, Time: 10.30, "Grandma's Orchard"
The performance
According to Officer Tahir, the Seragi tree is haunted by elves every hundred years. Today is such a day. Thus, the command is given that no one should pass under this particular tree as there is a risk that the elves will take it and transform it. But this is all a farce that Pasha has set up for the big feast he is preparing for all the citizens. Will the beloved heroes of the beret finally transform? Will the barefoot Karagiozis meet the Gnomes? The sequel to the sail...
Idea / Direction / Production: Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos
Animation, voices: Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos
Stage assistant: Georgia Demetrakopoulou
Artistic techniques: -
The group
Konstantinos Dimitrakopoulos was born in 2002 and comes from Kalamata. He is a student at the Department of Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since the age of eight, he has been involved in the art of Shadow Theater together with his sister and partner, Georgia Dimitrakopoulou. From 2011 until today, they have been performing together traditional Karagiozi shows based on experience and improvisation, in several areas of Messinia, in schools, cultural clubs, villages and festivals. Konstantinos is also a member of the Panhellenic Shadow Theater Association and the Kalamata Experimental Stage. During these years of activity, the Troupe has dealt with classic texts of the Shadow Theater but also with original ideas and texts.
Address: 24 Lykourgou Str., 24100 Kalamata
Contact: 6987447476
Email: demetrakopoulosk@gmail.com
Facebook: Dimitrakopoulos Shadow Theatre
Contact person: Konstantinos Demetrakopoulos
IRO THEODOROU, MARIZA DAIFA
Workshop for making & animating a figure–monster
WEDNESDAY May 11, 2022, Time: 12.00, Open-Air Museum of Hydrokinesis, Dimitsana
Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation
Duration: 30’
The workshop
Through this creative activity, children get the joy of realizing their own unique idea.
Each child will manage to construct their own character and then the workshop will change form and focus on animating the doll with the aim of a small presentation with the cooperation of all the children in the group.
The trainers
Iro Theodorou from the Koku-Mukloteam and Mariza Daifa from Goutou Goupatou met in Kalamata, opened their magic suitcases and started mixing colors, music and emotions.
Having experience in coordinating groups of children in construction and animation workshops, we offer you a workshop, where each child will make their own monster figure inspired by our show "The Colorful Monsters"
Contact: Tel.: Iro Theodorou 693 7126015 – Mariza Ntaifa 693 2908753
Web: www.kokoumouklo.gr, Fb: Κουκλοθεάτρο Κοκου-Μουκλό
Web: www.goupatou.gr, Fb: Γουτού Γουπατού Project
