QUEERING PUPPETS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM 2023
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Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam offers a stage to genre-transcending forms of visual theater and puppetry since 2022. A fusion of craft and technology, where traditional categories vanish in front of the eye of the beholder. Plein Theater and Puppetry Workspace defy the norm with this festival full of colorful visual outbursts from NL and abroad. QPFA is LGBTQI+ friendly, feminist, activist and above all standing out in queerness!
“Queering is something we do, rather than something we are (or are not). Even the term queer itself can be queered, because much of queer theory involves working to fight against normalization even in the field itself." - Queer: A Graphic History - Meg-John Barker
THE FEMININE & NATURE
This year the focus is on the themes of the feminin and the nature in relation to society. The festival and it’s program is pro connection and emancipation, anti war and power, pro strength and intuition, and pro the unseen and untold that is considered subordinate in society. The feminin, the creative, the vulnerable ánd Mother Earth.
PROGRAM
The Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam takes place from Tuesday March 28 to Sunday April 2, 2023 at Plein Theater and Hotel Arena. During the festival, expect grand and miniature performances, street theater, acts, installations, exhibitions, workshops and more for youth and adults with, among others, Corporación Humor y Vida from Ecuador, Opposable Thumb Theater from The UK, Daniel Hellmann aka 'Soya The Cow' from Switserland, Studio Figur, The Paper Ensemble, Cézanne Tegelberg Company and more!
QUEERING PUPPETS FESTIVAL & 40 YEARS ANNIVERSARY PLEIN THEATER
The festival opens on March 28 with the exhibition Vulva Variety by Meike van de Akker (theatermaker/ceramist), the exhibition The Vessel by Matt Jackson Studios (puppetmaker) in the lobby of Hotel Arena and the performance #17 by The Paper Ensemble in Plein theater. This not only kick-offs the second edition of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam, but also the celebration of Plein Theater's 40th anniversary!
EAST& FESTIVAL & PARTY
On Sunday April 2, EAST&, the Pop Up Cultuurhuis in Amsterdam East, hosts a festival and party for and with Amsterdam East together with the Queering Puppets Festival! During the day between 12:00 and 17:00 there is a festival for the neighborhood in and around the Plein Theater on the Sajetplein next to the Oosterpark. The public square is freely accessible with musical acts, activities and workshops for children and adults. In the evening from 19:00 we celebrate the closure of the festival with the EAST & PARTY in the chapel of Hotel Arena!
TICKETS
- Tickets are including a welcomedrink
- Take a look at our agenda for more information per program
- For only €40,- you become a QPFA Member and you can enjoy áll performances all week long!
PROGRAM
28 March t/m 02 April 2023
EXHIBITIONS // CONTINUOUS
Vulva Variety - Meike van der Akker (theatermaker/ ceramist)
Plein Theater, Café
The Vessel - Matt Jackson Studios (puppet- and mask maker)
Hotel Arena, Lobby
TUESDAY 28 MARCH
Café open from 18:30
20:00 – 20:45
#17 – The Paper Ensemble
Plein Theater
From 20:45
DJ ROOSPEEE
Plein Theater, Café
WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH
Café open from 14:00
16:00 – 17:00
Geen oog dicht (8+) – Studio Figur
Plein Theater
17:00 - 18:00ish
Try walking in my hooves - Soya The Cow [SWITSERLAND]
Starting point Plein Theater
19:00 - 20:30
Masterclass “The Sustainability of the Puppet” by Matt Jackson
Plein Theater, Café
THURSDAY 30 MARCH
Café open from 17:00
NACER/BIRTH – Corporación Humor y Vida & Theatre Embassy [ECUADOR]
ICAF Festival, Rotterdam
20:30 - 21:30
Dear Human Animals - Soya The Cow [SWITSERLAND]
Plein Theater
From 21:30
DJ ROOSPEEE
Plein Theater, Café
VRIJDAG 31 MAART
Café open from 17:00
20:00 – 21:00
NACER/BIRTH – Humor y Vida & Theatre Embassy [ECUADOR]
Plein Theater
From 21:00
DJ ROOSPEEE
Plein Theater, Café
ZATERDAG 1 APRIL
Café open from 14:00
16:00 - 17:00
Mechanical Garden (Work in progress demonstratrie) - BetweenTwoHands
Plein Theater, Café
20:00 – 21:00
Big Boys Don’t Cry – Opposable Thumb Theatre [UK]
Plein Theater
From 21:00
DJ ROOSPEEE
Plein Theater, Café
ZONDAG 2 APRIL
Café open from 12:00
12:00 - 17:00
EAST& Queering Puppets Festival
Sajetplein
14:00 - 15:00
EXUVIA - 't Magische Theatertje
Plein Theater
16:00 - 16:55
16:40 - 17:35
17:20 - 18:15
HAG – Cézanne Tegelberg Company
Hotel Arena, chapel
19:00 - 00:00
EAST& Party
Hotel Arena, chapel
Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam is a co-production of Plein Theater and Puppetry Workspace and a collaboration with Hotel Arena. Initiators and artistic leaders are Cat Smits (theatre maker, puppeteer) and Berith Danse (director Plein Theater, theater maker).
With special thanks to Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsdeel Oost, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Mondriaanfonds, Stichting Amsterdam 750 and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
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