Out The Box Festival
The Out The Box Festival claims to be the largest puppetry and visual performance festival in Africa.
Also billed as Out The Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance or simply as Out The Box
Not to be confused with a number of other international festivals using the title Out of the Box, including the Out of the Box Festival, a children's theatre festival held annually in Queensland, Australia[1], The 100Hands company's Out of the Box Festival 2.0 in Breda, Netherlands[2] and the more recent Dutch music festival presented at De Kuilen in Langenboom, Netherlands[3].
There is a similar bi-annual festival in French-speaking Switzerland, which also aims to rethink the relationship between art and disability.[4].
The festival
Founded in and run by UNIMA (The International Union of Puppetry South Africa) it is an annual Out The Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance is a 9-day multidisciplinary event which celebrates innovation, diversity and sustainability. The festival provides a platform for performing and visual artists to collaborate, to push boundaries and to blur the lines of their disciplines in order to create provocative and groundbreaking work.
Website: https://biennaleoutofthebox.ch/.
https://www.wheretostay.co.za/topic/4931-out-the-box-festival
Sources
It used to have the website https://www.outtheboxfestival.com, but this has since been put up for sale.
https://www.facebook.com/outtheboxfestival/about_details
https://www.qpac.com.au/engage/projects-and-events/out-of-the-box-festival
https://outoftheboxfestival.nl/
https://www.the100hands.com/out-of-the-box-en
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