PESTA BONEKA#7 ; "A Sip of Joy"

Pesta Boneka is an international biennial puppet festival in Yogyakarta, INDONESIA, which was initiated by the Papermoon Puppet Theatre back in 2008. In every performance, Pesta Boneka brings together puppeteers, audiences, as well as creative communities to experience various stories and cultures intimately and creatively. Pesta Boneka envelops its audience with a sense of warmth, displaying an awe-inspiring movement of puppets acting as living objects, telling various heart-wrenching stories, world culture, as well as local wisdom to its loyal audience.
This year, PESTA BONEKA#7 held as a virtual festival with
18 performances, 5 workshops, 6 discussions, 2 lecture performances and 13 cooking videos were presented by 40 groups and individual artists from 25 countries!
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PESTA BONEKA #7 (2020), participants are
ALISSA MELLO (USA), Ana Alvarado (AR), BERND OGRODNIK (Iceland), BONNIE KIM (HAWAII,USA), Cariad Astles (GB), CLAUDIA ORENSTEIN (USA), COMPANY EL CARACOL (FR) & LA BRECHE (BG), Deniz Basar (CA), DICKINSON COLLEGE DANCE THEATRE GROUP / MERMAID PLAYER PUPPETEERS (US) , EPIC TEAM THE ARTGROUND (SINGAPORE), FLYING BALLOONS PUPPET (ID), JAE SIRIKARN BUNJONGTAD (Thailand) , JEFF GERE ( HAWAII, USA), Jennifer Goodlander (USA), Kacak Kicak Puppet Theater (ID), KARILYO (PH), Katanari (Slovakia), KOMUNITAS SAKATOYA (ID), Laura Purcell- Gates (GB), Laura Vandewynckel (Belgium) , LINH VALERIE PHAM (Vietnam), Lone Wolf Tribe - Kevin Augustine (USA), Marianna Lis (Poland), MATT JACKSON STUDIOS (Netherlands), Mina Kyonghye Kwon (USA), Naomi Paxton (GB), NEMURIDORI Company (JP), Nereidi (IT), PAPERMOON PUPPET THEATRE (ID), Peter Balkwill (US), Phantom Limb Company (US), PRODJX ARTIST COMMUNITY (PH, MY, ID), PUPPET & ITS DOUBLE (TAIWAN), Silvia Giampaola, Chantal Gori, Francesca Rizzi and Elena Stable In Collaboration with Associazione Culture TEATROAVISTA (Italy), SUE GILES (AUSTRALIA), TALENT SHOW (THAILAND), THEATER DJEMPOL (NETHERLAND), THE BROTHERS CAMPUR (USA, ID), Theodora Skipitares (USA), TOM LEE (US), MIGUEL ESCOBAR VARELA (SINGAPORE), Namu: REYOUNG (KOREA), Yee Wen Soo (AUSTRALIA), Youbi Lee (AUSTRALIA), Wayang Hip Hop (ID), Wayang Suket Indonesia (ID), Wayang Sunar Community (ID)