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Time: 12:00
Age Suitability: 12+ Running Time: 45 min Venue: Stúdíó Handbendi Tickets: Free |
Puppet Lunch with Merlin Puppet Theatre
Merlin Puppet Theatre/Studio Handbendi (Greece/Germany) Stúdíó Handbendi Residency Programme opens its doors for a special informal presentation with Merlin Puppet Theatre who have been developing new work here in Hvammstangi. |
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Time: 18:00
Age Suitability: 8+ Running Time: 45 minutes Location: Studío Handbendi Tickets: 3000 |
Diva
Sofie Krog Theatre (Denmark) In the depths of a dark and quirky cabaret, the lives of a beautiful diva, her lovesick butler, a mischievous lab assistant and a beyond-mad scientist are about to collide. Audience members are lured into the mystery within the cabaret walls as each character endures an ill-fated night that may well be their last. DIVA is a tour de force of manual dexterity that features the talented puppeteer Sofie Krog manipulating all of the action on multiple stages from inside a small revolving theater. |
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Time: 19:00 - 23:00
Age Suitability: All Ages Running Time: 5 - 30 minutes. Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga - Outside Tickets: Free |
Pop up Cinema Van
featuring Handmade Puppet Dreams (USA) Enjoy a selection of short films in our campervan cinema. Specially curated by Handmade Puppet Dreams for HIP Fest. Space for 8 viewers at a time. Films are between 1 and 15 minutes in length - stay for one or watch them all. |
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Time: 19:30 - 20:30
Age Suitability: All Ages Running time: 7 minutes Location: Félagsheimli Hvammstanga Tickets: Free |
Pop - up Performance: Shadow Dreams
Bonnie Kim (Hawaii, USA) A special miniature pop up performance for small audiences will be running between 19:30 & 20:30. Charming, playful, and lovely. A perfect warm-up for the festival. |
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Time: 20:30
Age Suitability: All Ages Running time: 20 minutes Location: Félagsheimli Hvammstanga Tickets: Free |
Opening Ceremony
Join Handbendi and UNIMA Iceland for the opening of HIP Fest 2024! Meet our professional and children´s jury, hear some speeches, drink some drinks, have some snacks. and enjoy. |
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Time: 21:00
Age Suitability: All Ages Running time: 50 minutes Location: Félagsheimli Hvammstanga Tickets: 2.000 |
Manual
Coriolis Object Theatre (Urugauy/Spain) A visual feast of imagination and creativity. Immerse yourself in a world where the human hand becomes a storyteller that transforms figures, objects and the human body into a captivating theater of spectacle. A show that touches the very core of puppetry, where gestures and movements give the human spirit a fleshly form. Winner of the Children´s Choice award at La Fira de Titelles, Llieda in 2023. |
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Time: 22:00 - 23:59
Age Suitability: 18+ Location: Festival Hub Tickets: Free |
Puppet Party
The Festival Hub and bar is open until midnight. Join us for drinks, pop ups, and special guest artist chats. |
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Time: 22:30
Location: Felagsheimili Hvammstanga Tickets: Free |
Artist Chat with Claudine Rivest & Greta Clough
Claudine is a multidisciplinary Quebec artist, dedicated to the art of puppetry. Trained in visual arts (Atelier Sfumato, 2008) and contemporary puppet theater (DESS/UQAM, 2017), she creates worlds without words, both playful and strange. Greta is the Artistic Director of Handbendi Puppet Theatre in Iceland. HIP Fest digs into their artistic practice in this informal bar interview. |
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Time: 23:59
Age Suitability: 7+ Running time: 50 minutes Location: The Freezer at the Harbour Tickets: Free |
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Silent Tide (United Kingdom) Mike Shepherd (Kneehigh) and Sarah Wright (Curious School of Puppetry) present a site specific adaptation created especially for HIP Fest 2024. Join us for a very special performance at midnight on the summer solstice. When a strange old man with enormous wings washes up on the beach in a small village, the residents must decide what to do with him. Is he an angel? Or something else entirely... Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s story this is a startling world of ruined beauty and magic reality where everyone dreams of their five minutes of fame and riches, and the extraordinary takes flight. |
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Time: 11:00
Age Suitability: 0 - 6 years Running Time: 35 minutes Location: Studio Handbendi Tickets: 2.000 |
Me, You, and That
Studio Damúza (Czech Republic) An abstract treatise on the roundness of the world for the little ones. The world is round, the world spins. Come spin too! Go on an adventurous journey through the galaxies together with the cosmonauts, for example to a glowing planet or a planet made of soft toys! Dancers will take the smallest audience around the world. The performance offers children their first contact with the theater – it respects their needs and sensitively introduces them to the world of movements, sounds and touches. For children from 10 months and their parents. Children under 3 have free entry, but you need to register them in the ticket link due to capacity restrictions. All children need to be attended by an adult. |
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Time: 11:00 - 23:00
Age Suitability: All ages Running Time: 1 - 30 minutes Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstangi - Outside Tickets: Free |
Pop up Cinema Van
featuring Handmade Puppet Dreams (USA) Enjoy a selection of short films in our campervan cinema. Curated by Heather Henson´s Handmade Puppet Dreams . Space for 8 viewers at a time. Films are 1 - 15 minutes in duration. Watch one or watch them all. |
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Time: 11:00
Running Time: 30 minutes Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga Tickets: Free |
Artist chat with Sofie Krog
Join us for an informal chat with artist Sofie Krog about her work, thoughts on puppet theatre, and more. Sofie Krog Teater is one of the leading puppet theaters in Denmark, who is known for a unique comical universe with magic set designs that opens up, amaze and wonders the audience. The company was started in 2003 by puppeteer and puppet maker Sofie Krog and was expanded in 2009 with the set designer and puppeteer David Faraco. The theatre is touring nationally and internationally and has won numerous awards for their performances. |
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Time: 12:00
Age Suitability: All Ages Running Time: 40 minutes Location: Gallerí Bardúsa Tickets: 2.000 |
Búkolla
Rootstock Puppet Co. (USA/Iceland) A one-man puppet show featuring hand-carved, folk-toy-inspired puppets and live music. This telling stays true to the original folk tale and is presented with loving care. Travel with the farm boy and his magical cow in a world created solely from wood, steel and leather. The whole family is welcome to a big ol’, heapin’ helpin’ of this good-natured, beloved Icelandic story of looking out for the little guy and escaping the clutches of the greedy ogress! Language: English and Icelandic |
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Time: 13:00
Age Suitability: All Ages Running Time: 40 minutes Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga Tickets: 3.000 |
Follow the Wind Home (Icelandic)
Handbendi Brúðuleikhús (Iceland) World Premiere of Handbendi´s exceptionally beautiful new play about friendship, acceptance, freedom, and finding one's way. Adapted from Auðar Þórhallsdóttir's book of the same name. When a young duckling gets seperated from his clutch, a wise old dog takes him in. The duckling is welcomed into the family. Even though he is happy, the duckling dreams of flying and the freedom of the birds. But the joy and memories the family shared that summer will live on for a lifetime. The 13:00 performance will be in Icelandic. |
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Time: 14:00 -16:00
Age Suitability: All Ages Running Time: 30 minutes, drop in Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga Tickets: Free |
Nature Crown Workshop
Þykjó (Iceland) A creative drop in crafting class working with natural materials to create your very own nature crown! Stop by and get crafty with us. ÞYKJÓ (pronounced thickyo) is the Icelandic noun for make-believe. ÞYKJÓ's design projects aim to stimulate the imagination and creativity of children during free play. |
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Time: 16:00
Age Suitability: All Ages Running Time: 40 minutes Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga Tickets: 3.000 |
Follow the Wind Home (English)
Handbendi Brúðuleikhús (Iceland) Handbendi´s exceptionally beautiful new play about friendship, acceptance, freedom, and finding one's way. Adapted from Auðar Þórhallsdóttir's book of the same name. When a young duckling gets seperated from his clutch, a wise old dog takes him in. The duckling is welcomed into the family. Even though he is happy, the duckling dreams of flying and the freedom of the birds. But the joy and memories the family shared that summer will live on for a lifetime. The 16:00 performance will be in English. |
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Time: 17:00
Age Suitability: All Ages Running Time: 40 minutes Location: Galleri Bardusa Tickets: 2.000 |
Búkolla
Rootstock Puppet Co. (USA/Iceland) A one-man puppet show featuring hand-carved, folk-toy-inspired puppets and live music. This telling stays true to the original folk tale and is presented with loving care. Travel with the farm boy and his magical cow in a world created solely from wood, steel and leather. The whole family is welcome to a big ol’, heapin’ helpin’ of this good-natured, beloved Icelandic story of looking out for the little guy and escaping the clutches of the greedy ogress! Language: English and Icelandic |
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Time: 18:00
Age Suitability: 7+ Running time: 60 minutes Location: Harbour Tickets: Free |
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Silent Tide (United Kingdom) Mike Shepherd and Sarah Wright present a site specific adaptation created especially for HIP Fest 2024. When a strange old man with enormous wings washes up on the beach in a small village, the residents must decide what to do with him. Is he an angel? Or something else entirely... Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s story this is a startling world of ruined beauty and magic reality where everyone dreams of their five minutes of fame and riches, and the extraordinary takes flight. |
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Time: 20:30
Age Suitability: 8+ Running Time: 45 minutes Location: Studío Handbendi Tickets: 3000 |
Diva
Sofie Krog Theatre (Denmark) In the depths of a dark and quirky cabaret, the lives of a beautiful diva, her lovesick butler, a mischievous lab assistant and a beyond-mad scientist are about to collide. Audience members are lured into the mystery within the cabaret walls as each character endures an ill-fated night that may well be their last. DIVA is a tour de force of manual dexterity that features the talented puppeteer Sofie Krog manipulating all of the action on multiple stages from inside a small revolving theater. |
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Time: 22:00
Age Suitability: 12+ Running Time: 55 minutes Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstangi Tickets: 3.000 |
Kindred Windows
Claudine Rivest (Canada) Kindred Widows paints a dreamlike portrait of a family that is both terrifying and banal. Through the story of Amanda, who was mute during the last 18 years of her life, this work examines how memory is passed along between women of different generations. Drifting between reality and imagination, the dining room table serves as a theatre where the past resurfaces. As the violin plays, fragments of life, loaded with secrets, flow into each other, and overlap with everyday gestures. An invitation to step into the elusive world of memory. Premiered in 2023. Created by Claudine Rivest in co-production with Les Sages Fous. |
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Time: 23:00
Location:Félagsheimili Hvammstanga Tickets: Free |
Artist chat with Mike Shepherd & Sarah Wright
Mike is the founder of Kneehigh theatre in the UK, arguably one of the most influential theatre companies of it´s generation. Sarah Wright is one of the UK´s most eminent puppetry artists. Sarah established the Curious School of Puppetry and the founder of Silent Tide, Associate Artist of Kneehigh and Little Angel Theatre. Together they have worked on a number of collaborations where puppetry and theatre come together in inspiring ways. Don´t miss the chance to discover more about these two inspiring artists. |
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Time: 11:00
Age Suitability: 0 - 6 years Running Time: 35 minutes Location: Studio Handbendi Tickets: 2.000 |
Me, You, and That
Studio Damúza (Czech Republic) An abstract treatise on the roundness of the world for the little ones. The world is round, the world spins. Come spin too! Go on an adventurous journey through the galaxies together with the cosmonauts, for example to a glowing planet or a planet made of soft toys! Dancers will take the smallest audience around the world. The performance offers children their first contact with the theater – it respects their needs and sensitively introduces them to the world of movements, sounds and touches. For children from 10 months and their parents. Children under 3 have free entry, but you need to register them in the ticket link due to capacity restrictions. All children need to be attended by an adult. |
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Time: 12:00
Age Suitability: All ages Running Time: 40 minutes Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga Tickets: 2.000 |
Búkolla
Rootstock Puppet Co. (USA/Iceland) A one-man puppet show featuring hand-carved, folk-toy-inspired puppets and live music. This telling stays true to the original folk tale and is presented with loving care. Travel with the farm boy and his magical cow in a world created solely from wood, steel and leather. The whole family is welcome to a big ol’, heapin’ helpin’ of this good-natured, beloved Icelandic story of looking out for the little guy and escaping the clutches of the greedy ogress! Language: English and Icelandic |
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Time: 13:00 - 15:30
Age Suitability: 12+ Running Time: 2.5 hours Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga Tickets: Free |
Masterclass: Playing with Light
David Duffy (UK) Lighting designer and expert David Duffy 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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Time: 17:00
Age Suitability: All Ages Running Time: 40 minutes Location: Félagsheimili Hvammstanga Tickets: 3.000 |
Follow the Wind Home (Icelandic)
Handbendi Brúðuleikhús (Iceland) Handbendi´s exceptionally beautiful new play about friendship, acceptance, freedom, and finding one's way. Adapted from Auðar Þórhallsdóttir's book of the same name. When a young duckling gets seperated from his clutch, a wise old dog takes him in. The duckling is welcomed into the family. Even though he is happy, the duckling dreams of flying and the freedom of the birds. But the joy and memories the family shared that summer will live on for a lifetime. This performance will be in Icelandic. |