Summer Puppet Pier Festival

Contact info

Poletni lutkovni pristan - mednarodni lutkovni festival, Maribor
http://www.lg-mb.si/poletni-lutkovni-pristan/
info@lg-mb.si
Vojašniški trg 2, SI-2000 Maribor
Phone	386 (0) 2 228 1970
Fax	386 (0) 2 228 1978
Region	SI-2
Organised by	Maribor Puppet Theatre
Frequency	annual
Festival dates	8.8.2015 - 31.8.2015 6.8.2016 - 31.8.2016 5.8.2017 - 28.8.2017 3.8.2018 - 26.8.2018 3.8.2019 - 31.8.2019 1.8.2020 - 30.8.2020
Tanja Lužar, Dramaturge
tanja.luzar@lg-mb.si
Phone	386 (0) 2 22 81 964

Launched in 1990, the annual Summer Puppet Pier - International Puppetry Festival, Maribor offers a review of recent Slovene puppet creativity activity alongside many foreign performances for both children and adults. The Summer Pier Festival collaborates with several other Slovene puppetry producers and promoters.

The festival has invited performers from Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Bulgaria and Israel, and even as far away as Iran, Taiwan, China, Brazil, and Japan.

Since 2019 the best performance selected by the children's jury receives the Golden Giraffe Award.

Venues

The festival used to take place first at Lent, in the Atrium of Maribor Castle or Astoria garden and at the Rotovški Square, however in 2010 it has moved with the Maribor Puppet Theatre into a renovated Minorite building at Lent.

Performances had often toured also to Ptuj, Lenart, Celje, Medvode, Nova Gorica, Ljubljana, Lendava and to the Coast; Slovene productions have also toured to Austria (Carinthia and Styria).

See also

• Maribor Puppet Theatre

External links

• Summer Puppet Pier Festival web page

Gallery

Poster for the Summer Puppet Pier Festival, 2020.

Poster for the annual Summer Puppet Pier Festival – International Puppetry Festival in Maribor.

Performance and children audience, Summer Puppet Pier Festival, 2019.

Summer Puppet Pier Festival, 2019.

Summer Puppet Pier Festival, 2019.

Summer Puppet Pier Festival, 2019.

Workshop, Summer Puppet Pier Festival, 2019.