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7^th International Puppet Festival. 39 performances of 19 different shows over 4 weekends, 10 Premières by international companies in Belgium, 1 international exhibition “The Vessel”, 1 UNIMA International Round Table, and a Focus on South Korea (last weekend 8 and 9 June) for all the family, from 4-5 years upwards.

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Who better than the Peruchet to invite and show puppets in all their eclectic and bewildering forms, to keep us wondering and to entertain all audiences.
Launched in 2013, the JEM (Journées Européennes de la Marion-nette) festival at the Théâtre Royal du PERUCHET/MUSEE INTERNATIONAL DE LA MARIONNETTE has grown with the success it has met each time with spectators and audiences curious about puppetry arts for the widest possible audience and creative quality.
This festival gives Brussels an international and European profile. The festival promotes the art of puppetry, its tradition and its modernity, by inviting European theatres (but not only) of international renown. Over the years, the festival has established itself as Belgium’s most international puppet festival.
Recognised with the European EFFE label for the 6^th edition of the festival in 2022, this new edition is as promising as ever in inviting international artists and audiences from different European and international communities to discover puppets from different cultures, as open forms that play on the diversity of the puppetry arts.
10 Belgian premieres out of the 19 shows programmed
for 39 performances, workshops, a lot of non-verbal shows,
1 exhibition on American artist Matt Jackson and 1 international round table over 4 weekends.
The puppeteers will come from 4 corners of the world:
South Korea, DRC Congo, the United States, but also Ireland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Greece, France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
The 7^th edition offers a diversity of genres and shows that showcase the richness of this multifaceted art form. Paper puppets, glove puppets, shadows, rods, strings, hand puppets and objects will take us on improbable journeys, each more improbable than the last, journeys into puppet worlds.
Shows, meetings, exhibitions, happenings and workshops will be on the menu for this 7^th edition of the festival, which highlights the need for exchange between artists and cultures in Brussels, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world.