Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam 2023
Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam has been offering a stage to genre-transcending forms of visual theatre and puppetry since 2022. A fusion of craft and technology, where traditional categories are lifted before the eye of the beholder. Plein Theater and Puppetry Workspace defy the norm with this festival full of colourful visual excesses from home and abroad. QPFA is LGBTQI+ friendly, feminist, activist and above all: Brilliant in stubbornness!
Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam 2023
The Feminine & Nature
This year the focus is on the themes of the feminine and nature in relation to society. The festival and programming is pro connection and emancipation, anti-war and power, pro-strength and intuition and pro the unseen and indescribable that is considered subordinate in society. Femininity, the creative, the vulnerable and Mother Earth.
Programme
The Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam will take place from Tuesday March 28 to Sunday April 2, 2023 in Plein Theater and Hotel Arena. During the festival, expect large and smaller performances, street theatre, acts, installations, exhibitions, workshops and more for youth and adults. Performers include, among others, Corporación Humor y Vida from Ecuador, Opposable Thumb Theater from England, Daniel Hellmann aka 'Soya the Cow' from Switzerland, The Paper Ensemble, Studio Figur, Cezanne Tegelberg Company and more!
Opening and anniversary party
The festival opens on March 28 with an exhibition by Theater maker/Ceramicist Meike van de Akker 'Vulva Variety', an exhibition by Matt Jackson Studios (puppet maker) in Hotel Arena and a performance by the Paper Ensemble in the theatre hall. This marks not only the start of the second edition of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam, but also the celebration of Plein Theater's 40th anniversary!
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 of Plein Theater and theatre maker).