"Call Me No.1!" The 2010 Yunlin International Puppet Festival
Attention puppet fans, this is a must-know: The 2010 Yunlin International Puppet Festival will be held from October 16 to October 24. This long-running festival has invited puppet troupes from both home and abroad to gather in Yunlin. You can not only enjoy cultural performances from different countries, but also help ensure the enduring legacy of Taiwan’s traditional puppetry, expanding the artistic horizons of the art form.
Yunlin is the birthplace of Taiwan’s glove puppetry. With two major schools—the Zhou and the Ge—passing down their traditions through generations, the county now hosts over a hundred puppet troupes, making it the top in Taiwan. Its performance styles include traditional, golden-light, and television puppetry, showcasing the richness of the puppet culture. Glove puppetry is a comprehensive art form that integrates literature, drama, music, storytelling, carving, painting, and embroidery, embodying a synthesis of beauty and representing a cultural marvel in Taiwan.
Since its first edition in 1999, the puppet festival has built up enough momentum to make Yunlin’s puppetry an intangible cultural asset of national and international renown. The 2010 "Call the Puppet No.1" event will offer a fresh interpretation of these miraculous "codes" at the Yunlin Glove Puppet Museum in Huwei, Yunlin County. The festival will feature world-renowned acts such as Japan’s string-controlled puppet troupe Taketa Ningyoza, Singapore’s Paper Monkey Theatre, France’s Tiramisu Theatre performing "Bear Bear, Go to Work Up!", and a Czech puppet troupe combining jazz and blues with marionette performances titled "Swinging Puppets." Local troupes will also creatively incorporate puppet education into activities including a nationwide creative puppet show, puppet art exhibitions, toy creation displays, and photography contests, inviting everyone to join in.
2010 Yunlin International Puppet Festival: http://www.folk.org.tw/2010puppet/index.htm
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