Million Puppet Project
It’s a bit crazy, even scary, to imagine a million puppets of all sorts in one place, but that’s the objective of the Million Puppet Project which was launched yesterday (on World Puppetry Day) by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre in Western Australia. Under the project, people from around the world are invited to make and send a puppet to Perth, WA, to participate in a new Guinness World Record: The World’s Largest Puppet Display! This will be part of the UNIMA 2008: 20th UNIMA Congress and World Puppetry Festival, which is being held in the southern hemisphere for the first time.
If you need a jump-start to make a puppet, there are various simple puppet design templates ready to dowload, or you can strike out on a design all your own. Let your imagination run free! Puppets will not be able to be returned to you, but they will be donated to charities afterwards. And when the display is being finalized in April 2008, you will be able to see the installation in progress via a web cam linked to the site.
Wow. Hil you are so lucky being there in Australia this time
Yes! Although I still have to get to the other side of the country, it’s great to have it in Australia. Any chance of you coming over, and have you been to any of their festivals in Europe?
Hi Hil,
right now I don’t thik I will be in Australia next year, but you never know (I’ll love it). I know people from UNIMA Spain who will be there -they were in the last Congress in Tolosa, Spain too-.
In Europe as far as I know there are not many UNIMA’s festivals, there are rather a lot of festival wich are managed by UNIMA’s members.
I’ve visited a lot in Spain and a couple in rest of Europe.
The best, for me is Lutke in Slovenia where I’ve participated in 1998.
Generally festivals in Europe are great to meet people and enjoy some performances, and they work promoting coexistence, mainly among puppeteers.
Well, whether you make it here or not, I hope you are going to both make us at least one puppet for the project!