Ei! Marionetas / Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora

Ei! Marionetas / Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora

Ei! Marionetas - Encontro Internacional de Marionetas de Gondomar 2025

Festival Finissage [ CLOSING CEREMONY ]


13 JUL 17h45 . SUNAuditório Municipal de Gondomar

Festival Finissage

Hundreds of artists from all corners of the world have attended this celebration of art and culture.

We are launching the image for the next Festival edition, and we say see you soon! Long live the art of puppetry!

what the festival has to say

In stories, departure rituals serve to set our minds in a different direction. They point the way so that we can think about the future. With this in mind, for some years now, Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora has been launching the graphic proposal for the next edition of Ei! Marionetas on the last day of each edition.

We kept the blue that symbolizes the river, and the gold we could combine with the other and the sunny days of summer, visions that we consider fundamental to the image we want to implement and make last. Boxes were opened, and new proposals were sought. This is how, through building blocks, the identity of the megaphone was constructed, an element that has always been prominent as the identity of the Festival. A megaphone shouting loudly for art, culture, and the art of puppetry.

In this construction, we thought about the aggregation of modules, the overlapping of pieces that articulate and fit together. A metaphor for the material world that, once built, can convey the message through symbols and pictorial figures. It is also the assumption of a commitment, a responsibility that we intend to perpetuate, establish, and root in the community, leaving marks and highlighting future perspectives of a common cultural evolution and construction. The territory has an identity and, as it evolves, it always deserves a close look at the constantly changing community.

Growing with this event, evolving with this event, making it ours and yours, from everyone to everyone.

Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora

Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora is a professional puppet theater company with artistic direction by Clara Ribeiro and Filipa Mesquita and art direction by enVide neFelibata. The company was founded on April 2, 2002. In the symbiosis of a symbolic language that combines heritage and traditional legacy with contemporary society's thought and dynamics, often in a not-so-peaceful dialogue, a fundamental element emerges: the puppet. This element supports us in the search for our own cultural identity.

Our goal is to discover the aesthetic, visual, scenic, and dramatic potential of the puppet itself, as well as in its relationship with the actor, and in this discovery, explore the dramaturgy that characterizes us: to explore culture, belief, and legend allied with the city, technological exploration, and the speed of the global village. Throughout our artistic journey, we have presented various proposals to different audiences, including adults, youth, school, and family groups, as well as in basic and specialized training. One of our major commitments is the national and international tour of our projects. Decentralization, community work, partnership creation, and social and inclusive value are predominant concerns in our daily activities.

Over these 22 years, we have established the company as a contemporary artistic creation structure through dozens of show proposals presented nationally and internationally, whether they are our own creations or collaborations with other national and international cultural structures and entities. Our premise is to provide space for the creative freedom of our artistic team, ensuring the existence within the structure of various languages and diverse visions that unite in the common goal of developing the art of puppet theater. Reflection on social fragility issues and a keen eye on traditions and heritage form the basis of the Company's dramaturgy, consolidated in distinct yet simultaneously convergent perspectives.

Dialogue with diverse audiences and the involvement of creation in different contexts and spaces, as well as the intersection between entities and structures, is fundamental, creating multidisciplinary proposals aimed mainly at artistic communication with audiences. Noteworthy is our collaboration with numerous educational services in the implementation of activities in institutions such as monuments, museums, and heritage buildings.

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