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Friday // 7. OCTOBER

Glove Puppets for Little Hands
Sylwia Zajkowska (Poland/Iceland) 

10:00

Age Suitability: 3+
Running time: 60 minutes
Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga

Sylwia Zajkowska will take our youngest puppetry fans on a creative adventure as they design, build, and create characters from upcycled materials.  This workshop is for kids aged 3 - 8 and will be taught in English, Polish, and Icelandic. 

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Screening & Workshop: The Spider´s Thread​  and introduction to Paper Theatre
Aya Nakamura (Japan/UK)

7.  October: 11:00 - 12:30
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Age Suitability: All ages
​Running Time: 90 minutes
Location: Felagsheimili Hvammstanga

London based Japanese theatre-maker Aya Nakamura takes on a journey through her exploration of the Japanese tradition of Kamishibai combined with a western approach to Paper Theatre in this special combined event of film screening and hands-on workshop for professionals, adults, and children. 

The Spider´s Thread is based  on the famous short story by the renowned modern Japanese writer Ryuunosuke Akutagawa. Using the art of Paper Theatre, this short film is cinematically created with college, hand drawings and photographs, inspired by Hokusai and old Samurai movie posters. With music specially composed by Verity Lane, a British sound artist who has dedicated herself to creating highly visual soundscapes for traditional Japanese instruments. 

This class is taught in English. 

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Masterclass: This is How We Do It (Day 1 of 2)
Merlin Puppet Theatre (Germany/Greece)

7. October: 13:30 - 17:30
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​​Age Suitability: Professionals and passionate amateurs
​Running Time: 4 hours
Location: Studio Handbendi
Tickets: 8.000 for both days

Merlin Puppet Theatre lead an exclusive masterclass for professionals and passionate amateurs. Together we will delve into the working practice of one of Europe's most acclaimed puppetry groups. Learn about planning and developing practical touring designs and unique stories that capture the imagination.

This is a 2-day masterclass totalling 8 hours. The course is taught in English. 

Light refreshments are included. 

Paper Theatre
RAUXA CIA (Spain)

7. October: 19:00

​​Age Suitability: All Ages
​Running Time: 50 minutes​
Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga - Main Stage
Tickets: 3.500

Paper Theater is a contemporary circus show that through the manipulation of objects, extraordinary puppets and physical theater, seeks to vindicate the power of the Imagination. 

​A mono-dialogue where the imagination lightens the weight of loneliness to give space to a poetic and dreamlike world.

It is a pause, an error within an accelerated system. A moment suspended in time where the world stops and poetry dances. ​

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Puppet Social - Welcome to HIP Fest MINI
UNIMA Iceland

7. October: 21:00 - 23:00

​Age Suitability: 18+
​Running Time: 2 hours
Location: Sjavarborg
Tickets: 3.500​

An informal gathering for artists, festival guests, and local residents to come together to share food, drinks, and conversation.  Welcome to HIP Mini!

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Saturday // 8. OCTOBER

Island Home
Katanari (Slovakia)

8. October 11:00 

​Age Suitability: All Ages
​Running Time: 30 minutes​
Location: Studio Handbendi​
Tickets: 2.500

Island Home is an experimental performance combining storytelling, object theatre, puppets, pop-up and installation elements. It is a compilation of tiny stories reviewing different aspects of journeys in life, each with its own visual representation. The journeys are depicted in short symbolic stories woven together around the theme of leaving home voluntarily or involuntarily, searching for one’s place in the world, peace and acceptance.

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Heimferð: Moetivi Caravan
 Handbendi Brúðuleikhús (Iceland)

8. October: 10:00, 12:00, 15:00, 16:00

​Age Suitability: All Ages
​Running Time: 30 minutes​
Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga - Outside
​Tickets: 2.500

Heimferð is a unique micro-theatre experience for a small number of guests, set in a travelling caravan. This captivating production for all ages explores the difference between the optional mobile home that a caravan symbolizes for many, and how the experience changes when a mobile home is the result of an involuntary journey or a crisis.

The audience is guided by three unusual characters as they glimpse into small worlds, private lives, and explore a thousand tiny moments that bring us back home.

Created in collaboration with ProFIT ART and Arctic Culture Lab as part of the Moetivi Caravan project. Each company has created a production in parallel across three countries:  Iceland, Czechia, and Norway. 

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Claytime
Indefinite Articles (UK)

8. October: 13:00 

​Age Suitability: All ages
​Running Time: 45 minutes
Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga - Main Stage
​Tickets: 3.500

The award-winning Indefinite Articles present: Claytime, a play with clay, where the audience are invited to participate.

Come to a place where the earth’s natural material meets with children’s imaginations: a world of fabulous forms, amazing animals and morphing monsters.

Each Claytime is totally unique - creating its own world, its own characters and its own stories drawn directly from its young audience. Truly, interactive theatre at its most engaging.

The piece culminates with a short on-stage free-play experience where the children have their own opportunity for some hands-on clay time, so you may want your children to be wearing clothing suitable for getting a bit messy.​

"..an out-of-the-ordinary theatrical experience" Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
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Making miniatures from natural and upcycled materials
Katanari (Slovakia)

8. October: 15.00
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Age Suitability: All ages
Running time: 90 minutes
Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga 
​Tickets: 1.500

Join Katanari in a special workshop for makers of all ages and skill level as we discover the characters that are hidden inside found and natural materials.​ You will have the opportunity to develop miniature characters, try out different techniques and work with a variety of materials under expert guidance.  Materials are provided. 

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Screening: Moetivi Caravan
ProFIT ART (Czechia)

8. October: 17:00

​Age Suitability: All Ages
​Running Time: 90 minutes
Location: Stúdíó Handbendi
​Tickets: 1.500

An expedition to the essence of what makes a home a home.

Inspired by the landscape, rhythm, meeting people and their stories- assembled, disassembled and reassembled fragments of memories, feelings, sounds, colors, shapes, ornaments, objects, tastes and smells. Familiar motifs that repeat themselves across time and space are brought together in Moetivi Caravan.

An authorial performance about home in collaboration with artists in Iceland and Norway, where two more original productions were created in parallel. With our uniquely conceived mobile homes, we are excited to share with you  the Moetivi Karavan project. 

Join us for a screening of the Czech performance and discussion about the project led by producer Šárka Pavelková and director Dominika Špalková.
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LIght refreshments are included. 

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Noose
​Merlin Puppet Theatre (Germany/Greece)

8. October: 20:00

​Age Suitability: 15+
​Running Time: 60 minutes​
Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga - Main Stage​
​Tickets: 4.000

A surreal performance in between black comedy and the theater of the absurd in which the lives of all of us unfold. Noose is a spectacular piece of puppetry theatre presented by one of Europe's top groups with the use of top table puppets and cinematic narration.
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​At its premiere in October 2019, the performance won the first prize for “Expressing Life with a Puppet” for the best animation performance in “Puppet is A Human Too” Festival at Theater Institute of Warsaw, Poland.
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Sunday // 9. OCTOBER

Masterclass: Playing with the Edge of the Light
​Bringing puppetry to life
David Duffy (England)

9. October: 10:00 - 12:00

​Age Suitability: professionals & passionate amateurs
​Running Time: 2 hours
Location: Studio Handbendi
​Tickets: 4.000

David Duffy (Little Angel Theatre) discusses the challenges and rewards of lighting puppetry to create rich and complex theatre, while sharing some of the tools and tricks behind this visual storytelling art.

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Masterclass: This is How We Do It
(Day 2)
Merlin Puppet Theatre (Germany/Greece)

9. October: 14:00-18:00

​Age Suitability: professionals & passionate amateurs
​Running Time: 4 hours
Location: Studio Handbendi
Tickets: included in purchase of Day 1​

Day 2 of this exclusive masterclass with Merlin Puppet Theatre. 

Light refreshments are included.