Once again this year the Fair is committed to generating spaces for reflection, debate and
presentations around the puppet sector and to promoting networking between professionals. A meeting point for professionals in the sector, creative, informative or professional entities related to this artistic field and intended to disseminate their cultural work.
ARTISTIC RESIDENCES
BORJA SAND ART
The Fair hosts the residence of the Catalan company Borja Sand Art, so that it can work on the premiere of its new show Origen, within the framework of the Fair.
DAVID ZUAZOLA
Likewise, the Fair hosts the artistic residency of David Zuazola, so that during the two months prior to the Fair, he can work on the premiere of The City of Lights.
ARTISTIC RESIDENCES
The Fair hosts the residence of the Catalan company Borja Sand Art, so that it can work on the premiere of its new show Origen, within the framework of the Fair.
DAVID ZUAZOLA
Likewise, the Fair hosts the artistic residency of David Zuazola, so that during the two months prior to the Fair, he can work on the premiere of The City of Lights.
| MAY 2ND |
PERFORMING ARTS AND MUSIC
For the first time the Fair hosts this meeting and opens the doors to all the programmers and technicians attending so they can discover the Fair and participate in the activities.
The Program.cat is a support tool of the Public System of Stage and Musical Equipment of Catalonia (SPEEM), which allows the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the councils of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona to finance stable programming municipal performing arts and music professionals, financing part of their hiring and jointly reinforcing the artistic dissemination and cultural promotion policies of the Catalan municipalities.
The Department of Culture and the four Catalan councils organize a semi-annual meeting of municipal programming managers and technical staff where information of interest for the programming is offered and the shows and concerts recommended by the performing arts, music and shows working groups are presented relatives of the Programa.cat Advisory Commission. On this occasion, the meeting will also have information of interest on some of the upcoming performing arts and music fairs.
The Program.cat is a support tool of the Public System of Stage and Musical Equipment of Catalonia (SPEEM), which allows the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the councils of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona to finance stable programming municipal performing arts and music professionals, financing part of their hiring and jointly reinforcing the artistic dissemination and cultural promotion policies of the Catalan municipalities.
The Department of Culture and the four Catalan councils organize a semi-annual meeting of municipal programming managers and technical staff where information of interest for the programming is offered and the shows and concerts recommended by the performing arts, music and shows working groups are presented relatives of the Programa.cat Advisory Commission. On this occasion, the meeting will also have information of interest on some of the upcoming performing arts and music fairs.
Place: La Llotja. Leandre Cristòfol Hall
Audience: Professional
Co-organized by Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia, through the General Directorate of Cultural Promotion and Libraries
The Fair, together with the Museum of Lleida and the rest of the collaborators, will inaugurate the exhibition and mark the beginning of the representation of the show The City of Lights, created by the artist David Zuazola.
Place: Museum of Lleida. Temporary exhibition hall
Audience: Professional
The Fair team provides work and operating guidelines for the Drac d'Or Awards. Around 30 people, directors and programmers from different festivals and fairs, are part of this jury.
Presentation of the National Festivals attending the 35th Puppet Fair.
International Festivals
Presentation of the International Festivals attending the 35th Puppet Fair.
Place: La Llotja. Leandre Cristòfol Hall
Inscription: it is necessary to be accredited at the Fair and inscribe in the activity
Audience: Professional
The Fair wants to give visibility to all the companies that have registered with their shows for the 35th Puppet Fair and, finally, have not been in the programming, so that they can also show their work and projects to the professionals accredited to the Fair.
Place: La Llotja. Martina Castells Hall
Inscription: it is necessary to be accredited at the Fair and inscribe in the activity
Audience: Professional
Joan-Andreu Vallé, will present his new book From the pencil to the stage, in which explains the more than 50 years of experience in the world of puppetry and performing arts, the creation of the Center de Titelles, the Puppet Fair and a tour of all its shows.
Place: La Llotja. Leandre Cristòfol Hall
| MAY 3RD |
Image generation with artificial intelligence
In this new TTPforma co-organized by the TTP (Professional Association of Theater for All Audiences) and the Puppet Fair, we will talk about what artificial intelligence is, how it works and its possibilities applied to the performing arts with Jordi V. Pou.
What do we mean when we talk about image generation with AI? What it is and how it works explained in a simple way. How are image generation models trained and where do the images they generate come from?
Doubts will be resolved. Conflicts with copyright in the training of models and who is the author of the generated images. Where we are? Myths will be dispelled. The hands and the minions. The reality about what can and cannot be done currently, beyond interested opinions from all sides. The uses will be detailed to us. How can we use it? Tools and possibilities of use applied to the performing arts and puppets. Posters, character design, animation, set design...
Jordi V. Pou
Web de proyectos: www.jordivpou.info
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordivpou/
Since the 90s he has been professionaly dedicated to photography, working in very diverse fields, from press and documentary photography to teaching, without forgetting his most creative work.
His work focuses on the intersection between two well-defined work poles. On the one hand, the expressed desire to search for his images in the strictest proximity, in the most intimate and well-known spaces. On the other hand, question the uses of photography itself, seekin its limits, both in the most technical aspect and in the aspect of representation and meaning. HIs most recent projects investigate the interaction of photography with technilogical evolution, working with artificial intelligence to question the limits of photographic language.
His work is part of private and public collections, highlighting the National Photography Collection of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the art fund of the Lleida City Council. His work has been seen nationally and internationally in individual and group exhibitions. He has exhibited at festivals such as FotoEspaña, Panoràmic, Primavera Fotogràfica or Embarrat, and also in art centers such as La Panera de Lleida or Arts Santa Mònica. He has given talks at photography festivals such as l'Embarrat or Latitudes. In addition, he has taught courses at universities such as Menéndez Pelayo, Pompeu Fabra and the University of Lleida.
Schedule: from 10 am to 12 pmIn this new TTPforma co-organized by the TTP (Professional Association of Theater for All Audiences) and the Puppet Fair, we will talk about what artificial intelligence is, how it works and its possibilities applied to the performing arts with Jordi V. Pou.
What do we mean when we talk about image generation with AI? What it is and how it works explained in a simple way. How are image generation models trained and where do the images they generate come from?
Doubts will be resolved. Conflicts with copyright in the training of models and who is the author of the generated images. Where we are? Myths will be dispelled. The hands and the minions. The reality about what can and cannot be done currently, beyond interested opinions from all sides. The uses will be detailed to us. How can we use it? Tools and possibilities of use applied to the performing arts and puppets. Posters, character design, animation, set design...
Jordi V. Pou
Web de proyectos: www.jordivpou.info
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordivpou/
Since the 90s he has been professionaly dedicated to photography, working in very diverse fields, from press and documentary photography to teaching, without forgetting his most creative work.
His work focuses on the intersection between two well-defined work poles. On the one hand, the expressed desire to search for his images in the strictest proximity, in the most intimate and well-known spaces. On the other hand, question the uses of photography itself, seekin its limits, both in the most technical aspect and in the aspect of representation and meaning. HIs most recent projects investigate the interaction of photography with technilogical evolution, working with artificial intelligence to question the limits of photographic language.
His work is part of private and public collections, highlighting the National Photography Collection of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the art fund of the Lleida City Council. His work has been seen nationally and internationally in individual and group exhibitions. He has exhibited at festivals such as FotoEspaña, Panoràmic, Primavera Fotogràfica or Embarrat, and also in art centers such as La Panera de Lleida or Arts Santa Mònica. He has given talks at photography festivals such as l'Embarrat or Latitudes. In addition, he has taught courses at universities such as Menéndez Pelayo, Pompeu Fabra and the University of Lleida.
Place: La Llotja. Principal hallway
Registration: it is necessary to be accredited at the Fair and register on the day
Audience: Professional
Co-organized with the TTP
UNIMA Catalunya
Presentation of the action plans and representation work that is being carried out in front of the organizations and entities and the work commissions and their objectives.
Museum of the Performing Arts of the Theater Institute
The MAE team will explain to us the activities and projects carried out by the Museum and the Documentation Center.
RITTO - Network of International Autumn Puppet and Object Theater Festivals
They will explain to us the activities and projects that are being hatched for 2024.
RITTO is collaboration, coordination and communication between its festivals, which work together to hatch a Network of quality and professionalism..
NILAK
We will get to know the Nilak project; an itinerant scenic space that travels through those regions, which according to data from the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia do not have a theater (1 in 4), with the desire to be able to build a theater and bring contemporary performing arts closer to anyone. population.
Chuncheon Puppet Theatre
Its representatives will explain to us the wide range of activities carried out by the Chuncheon Puppet Theater of Korea, through the Chuncheon Puppet Festival, its Museum, the Puppet Theater, the puppet company, the Foundation and the work for community.
Schedule: from 12.30 pm to 1.20 pmPresentation of the action plans and representation work that is being carried out in front of the organizations and entities and the work commissions and their objectives.
Museum of the Performing Arts of the Theater Institute
The MAE team will explain to us the activities and projects carried out by the Museum and the Documentation Center.
RITTO - Network of International Autumn Puppet and Object Theater Festivals
They will explain to us the activities and projects that are being hatched for 2024.
RITTO is collaboration, coordination and communication between its festivals, which work together to hatch a Network of quality and professionalism..
NILAK
We will get to know the Nilak project; an itinerant scenic space that travels through those regions, which according to data from the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia do not have a theater (1 in 4), with the desire to be able to build a theater and bring contemporary performing arts closer to anyone. population.
Chuncheon Puppet Theatre
Its representatives will explain to us the wide range of activities carried out by the Chuncheon Puppet Theater of Korea, through the Chuncheon Puppet Festival, its Museum, the Puppet Theater, the puppet company, the Foundation and the work for community.
Place: La Llotja. Martina Castells Hall
Registration: it is necessary to be accredited at the Fair and register on the day
Audience: Professional
Projection of the short film Wireless, produced buy Zero en Conducta and Trukitrek companies.
Place: La Llotja. Leandre Cristòfol Hall
Duration: 18’
Audience: Professional
Quick 10-minute meetings between programmers and companies, to make it easier for them to get to know each other and have contact between them, the exchange and presentation of projects and enhance business possibilities.
Companies that want to attend must register when they receive the TTP email.
The TTP will manage the agenda so that everyone can meet.
Schedule: from 4 pm to 5 pm
Place: La Llotja. Martina Castells Hall
Inscription: it is necessary to be accredited at the Fair and register on the day
Audience: Professional
Co-organized with the TTP
MASTER CLASS
The artist Borja González, from Borja Sand Art Company, who will perform at the Puppet Fair, will teach a Master Class to teach the techinique of his shows: art with sand, using a light table, in which all the participants, following the artist’s guidelines, they can create and explore this technique.
Companies that want to attend must register when they receive the TTP email.
The TTP will manage the agenda so that everyone can meet.
Place: La Llotja. Martina Castells Hall
Inscription: it is necessary to be accredited at the Fair and register on the day
Audience: Professional
Co-organized with the TTP
| MAY 4TH |
The artist Borja González, from Borja Sand Art Company, who will perform at the Puppet Fair, will teach a Master Class to teach the techinique of his shows: art with sand, using a light table, in which all the participants, following the artist’s guidelines, they can create and explore this technique.
Place: Centre d’Art La Panera
Inscription: it is necessary to be accredited at the Fair and register on the day
Audience: Professional
| MAY 5TH |
A new “sTTriPtease” arrives at the Fair, a meeting that will allow us to exchange ideas, grow and wvolve as professionals. Aftter watchin the show we will meet, creatore and audience, to share ideas in a debate that will revolve around all those elements that make a show rich.
We will uncover the creation processes of this work, to discover what lies behind it and that cannot be seen with a naked eye, seeking to learn different ways of workin as well as the creative ideas that involve the production.
The Company will accompany us at this starting point to create debate, discussion and Exchange of ideas about the production processes in family shows. An entertaining, practical and effective way to grow and improve together, both for the Company that exhibits its work and for all of us who assist.
We will uncover the creation processes of this work, to discover what lies behind it and that cannot be seen with a naked eye, seeking to learn different ways of workin as well as the creative ideas that involve the production.
The Company will accompany us at this starting point to create debate, discussion and Exchange of ideas about the production processes in family shows. An entertaining, practical and effective way to grow and improve together, both for the Company that exhibits its work and for all of us who assist.
Place: Escorxador Theatre. Hall 1
Audience: Professionals and family
It will be on May 5th at Espai Orfeó.
The award resolution will also be published on the Puppet Fair's website.
This event is aimed at accredited professionals at the Fair and will be hosted by the Campi Qui Pugui company, featuring their show Cacos.
