Alpe Adria Puppet Festival

34th edition International puppetry festival

Alpe Adria Puppet Festival is an international puppetry festival composed by several borderless projects such as Transport, six shows of foreign companies, all national premieres, talking about environment and social sustainability.

In the festival there are also two free workshops of photography and videomapping and also a flash art in which there will be shown the work of the videomapping workshop. 

As far as sustainability is concerned, some of the partecipants at the festival, attending SpettAttori project, will use footbike and in this time, aprt from the shows, there will be also some meetings (part of the project Art &Part) made by Isig (International Institute of Sociology of Gorizia) talking about borderless architecture, theatre and social inclusion and actuality of theatre.

Alpe Adria Puppet Festival, featuring days of puppet theater performances for Italian and Slovenian schools, children, and families in various venues in Gorizia and Nova Gorica.

In the mornings, by reservation, a video mapping workshop for young people aged 18 to 23, led by Strip Core of Ljubljana, will be held.

The workshop will focus on the creation of a final flash art project, scheduled for Saturday, October 4th.

During the festival, meetings held in collaboration with ISIG as part of the Artpup project will focus on topics covered in the festival's performances, with the participation of industry experts. 

Ticketed performances, workshops, and free meetings are available by reservation.

The ARTPUP project is financed by the European Union through the GO! 2025 Small Project Fund of the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia 2021–2027 Programme, managed by the EGTC GO.