WAP-World Association of Puppeteers
Karlova 44/147, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Email: wap.prague@yahoo.com
In Prague, the capital of Puppet Art was born the new association of all world puppeteers - WAP.
WAP - World Association of Puppeteers has a purpose to unite all puppeteers in one big family.
Goals of WAP are:
-To put together people of different states, nation, cultures, faiths and races through the Puppet Art.
-To encourage children and young people to get self-confidence in their life development.
With puppets raising family values and consolidate relationship between children and parents
-To educate and help puppeteers from developing countries.
-To open the puppet theaters on the places around the world where they don’t exist.
-To afford scholarship for puppet education and workshops in theaters.
-To organize the puppet festivals and other puppet actions in the world for good of puppet art.
-Editing of WAP magazine “Puppet World“ about puppet art world wide.
Also for the first time WAP is organizer of the World Festival of Puppet Art
-Prague 2008 from 1st to 8th June.
WAP Activities for 2008
Spring 2008:
World premiere of multimedia Puppet show "Gypsy never die" in which will be involve artists from 7 countries.
Exhibition:
Slovenian puppet theatre today - a one month exhibition about modern Slovenian puppet theatre which will open during World Festival of puppet art Prague 2008 and lasting one month.
The first meeting of WAP
World Association of Puppeteers
Prague, November 1 to 4 2007.
During this 4 days meeting, the members of board has discussion about main goals of WAP as a non profit organization and had agreed on the following decisions:
-The main office of WAP will be in Czech Republic, Prague, Karlova 44.
-In honor of this event Board of WAP baptized the theatre in Karlova 44 as a WAP theatre.
-For better communication WAP will start a WEB site; the chief editor is Behrooz Gharipour.
-WAP will publish a magazine “World Puppeteers” to evaluate knowledge of Puppet Art; the chief editor will be Bogdan Ulmu.
-To hold workshops – free education courses for members of WAP.
-To produce performances in different countries with same play with the same occasion.
-To organize symposiums and seminars in different subjects of world puppetry.
-To found an archive of puppet art (video, posters, photos, etc).
-To help puppet organizations and festivals worldwide.
-To became the main organizer of 12 edition of the World Festival of Puppet Art, Prague 2008 from 1 to 7 June.
-All the members of WAP Board approve that WAP have to be open “door” for everyone who loves puppet art.
-To put together people of different states, nations, cultures, faiths and races through puppet art. To encourage children and young people to get self-confidence in their life development and with puppet art to evaluate human rights and peace on our planet.
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These decisions have been made in the benefit of puppet art by the Board of WAP.
President
Mr.Todor Ristic
Director, Professor of Puppet theatre, Founder of International Institute of Puppet Art, Founder and Director of World Festival of Puppet Art Prague, Member of Czech Unima
wap.prague@yahoo.com
Committee of Counselors
President
Mr. Behrouz Gharibpour, Iran
Professor of Tehran University, President of Professional Training of UNIMA, President of Mobrak UNIMA-Iran, Writer and Director of Aran Puppet Theatre Company, Member of Culture Academy of Iran
gharibpourbehrooz@yahoo.com
www.behroozgharibpour.com
Mr. Yurij Titarov, Ukraine
Director and Actor, Theater Ravlik Kiev, Member of UNIMA
theatre_ravlyk@rambler.ru
Mr. Walid Dakroub, Lebanon
Puppeteer, Professor Scenography and Puppet Technologies in Lebanon University, Member of the Board of Khayal Association for Arts and Education, Member of Lebanese Puppet Theater Beruit
waliddakroub@hotmail.com
Dr. Bogdan Ulmu, Romania
Professor, University of Arts Iassy
bulmu14@yahoo.com
Ms. Miryam Reategui, Peru
General Secretary ASSITEJ-Peru, Presidente Ande-Peru-Idea,
Director of Cultural Centre Nosotros ONG, Director of Theatre, Actress and Drama Teacher
assitej_peru@yahoo.es
Mr. Valery Bugaev, Russia
Artistic Director of Kursk State Puppet Theatre, Honored Art Worker of Russia, Honored Artist of Ukraine
ku-dolls@kursknet.ru
Mr. Walid Badr, Egypt
Director and Puppeteer of Theatre “Welyawel Troupe”
Member of Cairo Puppet Theatre – ministry of culture
info@welyawel.com
Mr. Sid Ahmed Meddah, Algeria
President of UNIMA-Algeria, director of company “Aladdin”, Director of Festival Sidi Bel-Addes-Algeria
wap.algerie@yahoo.fr
Mr. Robert Waltl, Slovenia
Theatre Director, Author and Puppeteer, Manager and Art Director of Mini Teater Ljubljana, Assistant Professor for Puppetry at Universities in Slovenia and Croatia, General Secretary of UNIMA-Slovenia
info@mini-teater.si
Mr. Jerry Bickel, USA
Director of Florida’s Bits N Pieces Puppet Theatre and International Children’s Festival, Member and past Director of UNIMA-USA
jbickel663@aol.com
Mr. Sten Wallin, Sweden
Artistic leader of Pygmeteatern in Stockhom. Playwright, Director and maker of puppets and design, member of UNIMA, ASSITEJ and ITA
sten@pygmeteatern.se
Mr Dimitar Dimitrov,Bulgaria
Actor and Assistant in International Academy of Puppet Art
golubpt@abv.bg
Mr. Apostol Gabriel, Romania
Dr. Lecturer in Puppet Art, University of Drama and Cinema – Bucharest
Counselor of UNIMA-Romania, Puppeteer of “Tandarica Theatre“
gabrielapostol@yahoo.com
Mr. Carles Cañellas, Spain
Theatre Director, Author, Actor and Puppeteer, Manager and Art Director of Rocamora Teatre. Lecturer of the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona. Member of CIATRE (Catalan Association of Theater Companies).
rocamorateatre@telefonica.net
Mr. Ronny Aelbrecht, Belgium
Artistic director, Actor and Puppeteer, President Unima Belgium
vlinders@telenet.be
R.A@telenet.be
www.vlinders.be
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