This year puppet animation film programme for children and adults is diverse in both discussed topics and its unique puppet form. Not one, but several short films from this programme have won international awards – during the festival we will even show a couple of Oscar nominated films. We will try to talk to children...

This year puppet animation film programme for children and adults is diverse in both discussed topics and its unique puppet form. Not one, but several short films from this programme have won international awards – during the festival we will even show a couple of Oscar nominated films. We will try to talk to children...

This year puppet animation film programme for children and adults is diverse in both discussed topics and its unique puppet form. Not one, but several short films from this programme have won international awards – during the festival we will even show a couple of Oscar nominated films. We will try to talk to children...

These days it’s becoming more and more popular to devote attention to one’s inner world, to look at oneself. Since I live in times of fast consumption, these topics resonate with me. I raise questions like how can one maintain balance between his inner and outer self, how not to succumb to fast living and...

International Puppet Theatre Festival Materia Magica invites everyone to an explosive festival opening concert by Planeta Polar! Planeta Polar performs in Spanish, but those guys look and sound like three fairies right from the Galaxy of dreams. Such colourful cosmic cocktail with a dash of electronic music will definitely make you tipsy and you won’t...

Theatrical installation Soap Opera: Bubble’s Love is a journey through the ages of the Earth, through colonies of bacteria producing oxygen for future life; a journey through different layers of the Earth – from underground to the tops of trees following the life of ants; forms transforming into different ones; forests and oceans full of...

Death is always somewhere nearby, just in case. Although it not death, but life, that bring misfortunes... It does, of course, bring lots of nice things as well – friendship, chats and games, and warm friendly atmosphere that surrounds us. It can seem strange but by getting to know death, we get to know life...

Death is always somewhere nearby, just in case. Although it not death, but life, that bring misfortunes... It does, of course, bring lots of nice things as well – friendship, chats and games, and warm friendly atmosphere that surrounds us. It can seem strange but by getting to know death, we get to know life...

One day Virginia wakes up feeling wolfish. She becomes rude and even aggressive towards people around and frightens everyone. Her sister Vanessa does her best to cheer her up, but Virginia still does not like anything. Finally, she stops talking. After unsuccessful Vanessa’s attempts, they lie in bed in silence and look at the floating...

This time a play that’s been shown for a decade turns away from Oscar Wildes’ tale A Fisherman and His Soul that has inspired it in the first place. This tale tells a story of a young fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid, but who has to give up his soul to be...

To be as close to nature as to your own mum. To experience the rhythms of nature – see the insect crumbling the grass, hear the sea waves rustling, feel your foot soaking in the soft moss and experience the unconditional love of the Mother Nature when you lay down in grass and treetops are...

Using various materials, children, along with the adults they’ve come with and artists from the Theatre of Senses, will build their own sensory toy – a little caterpillar. The children will invent their own design of a caterpillar while touching, listening and playing with special materials. They will also fill it with various heavy, stretchy,...

To be as close to nature as to your own mum. To experience the rhythms of nature – see the insect crumbling the grass, hear the sea waves rustling, feel your foot soaking in the soft moss and experience the unconditional love of the Mother Nature when you lay down in grass and treetops are...

The performance Somewhere Else tells us about a little girl who finds herself caught in the middle of the war. It is through her eyes that we observe her changing city, filled with horrors, violence and fear. And hope, too. The performance includes a variety of modern technological approaches to puppet theatre. The classical puppet...

During this educational programme the children will learn to watch, to see, to discover, to name and to visualize their own Diving beetle from Ieva Babilaitė’s book Diving beetle, air and water. How? The answer is simple! By using various colouring techniques and multi-textured pieces of paper the participants will create a finger puppet –...

You most definitely can’t surprise anyone with holes in cheese or in an old sock. But what does one do with tiny holes in a book? Befriend them and make them characters of some great story! For this friendship to occur, workshop participants will learn to make a book that looks like a harmonica. Monika...

The performance Somewhere Else tells us about a little girl who finds herself caught in the middle of the war. It is through her eyes that we observe her changing city, filled with horrors, violence and fear. And hope, too. The performance includes a variety of modern technological approaches to puppet theatre. The classical puppet...

Participants of this educational programme will find out some intriguing facts about shadow theatre and will have a chance to watch and learn how to build a shadow theatre at home, using simple household items. Puppet theatre engineer Audrius Bartninkas will thoroughly demonstrate how to build a special screen, some lighting, silhouette puppets and decorations,...

Did you know that butterflies breathe through the tiny holes in the back of their bodies? Did you know that if plants didn’t breathe, we would also have nothing to breathe? A sensorial performance Little Creatures by Theatre of Senses was created for children with special sensorial needs and their families, as well as for...

Did you know that butterflies breathe through the tiny holes in the back of their bodies? Did you know that if plants didn’t breathe, we would also have nothing to breathe? A sensorial performance Little Creatures by Theatre of Senses was created for children with special sensorial needs and their families, as well as for...

You most definitely can’t surprise anyone with holes in cheese or in an old sock. But what does one do with tiny holes in a book? Befriend them and make them characters of some great story! For this friendship to occur, workshop participants will learn to make a book that looks like a harmonica. Monika...

The production Eliza: uncanny love transfers the ancient myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who falls in love with his statue, into the 21st century and replaces the statue with a robot with artificial intelligence. Pygmalion becomes an engineer, a programmer, who creates a humanoid robot. He falls in love with his creation during the creation...

People of different religions, beliefs and customs spend their days from dusk till dawn at the foot of the mountain, not being able to decide whose religion is more important and whose God is mightier. One day a tiny flame appears on top of the mountain, starting a rumour that anyone brave enough to touch...

The Big Bang spectators will be carried back to the very beginning of the Universe that followed the Big Bang. After that many planets appeared – one of those planets is the place where this performance takes place. In this world of progressive society, big cities and different cultures we follow the life of a...

Traversées is a visual journey, a series of paintings reminding us of fragments of existence, scraps of memories, invested by a central figure revealing itself, multiple and one. Through darkness, it guides spectators, opens doors for them, transforms and animates each world. The exterior landscape mixes with the decor, the boundaries between reality and fantasy,...

Traversées is a visual journey, a series of paintings reminding us of fragments of existence, scraps of memories, invested by a central figure revealing itself, multiple and one. Through darkness, it guides spectators, opens doors for them, transforms and animates each world. The exterior landscape mixes with the decor, the boundaries between reality and fantasy,...

When night falls and the world of people calms down for a while from its turmoil, a writer tries to write a short story. Tired, he falls asleep and in his dreams the objects around him and the characters he has imagined, come to life, and stories and tales begin to weave among them… This...

“I've called my mother last week to announce her she will appear in the new piece 'Dust' we are creating in Leipzig. It's frightening to create involving family stories. Furthermore, when the stories are not just my own family, not just Ari's, but also of Michael and Charlotte. Our grandparents could, theoretically, have met somewhere...

Every child is a little world, worth to value regardless of its racial, cultural and social origin. All these little worlds compose the world. It is important to cherish every little world, so later they cherish and value the world. The idea of the diversity of the world is introduced to baby audience by means...

Every child is a little world, worth to value regardless of its racial, cultural and social origin. All these little worlds compose the world. It is important to cherish every little world, so later they cherish and value the world. The idea of the diversity of the world is introduced to baby audience by means...

A dreamy and elegant flight in the sky, up and down, tearing the sand of the sky, but falling as light as a feather, graceful as the twisting of a fish’s tail in the depths of the ocean. The unique, ephemeral, moment-to-moment movement of large puppets and objects made of polyethylene films will remind some...

Michal Svironi combines art and theatre to create a unique stage language she calls ‘Paint-theatre’. In a colourful collage of separation, using broad strokes of colour and paint, she evokes characters who have left their impression on her. They come to life in a macabre parade, filling up the stage. Each figure is a creation...

Aliaksandra Tratsiakova was born in 1996 in Minsk, Belarus. She studied design at Belarusian State University and graduated in 2020. In 2022, she moved to Vilnius, Lithuania, where she began actively pursuing a career in the arts. Aliaksandra's artistic practice focuses primarily on papier-mâché sculptures. Through her figurines, she explores themes of emigration and solitude....