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We want to share the news with you that our wonderful Festivals and Projects Manager, Melanie, will be stepping down from her post later this month. A huge thanks from everyone at the Puppet Animation Scotland team for all of Melanie’s work over the years, and wishing her all the very best in her future endeavours.

To experience the MANIPULATE Digital Festival at its best, we have provided some guidelines and top tips for utilising our livestream and watch again features.

This year there are more obstacles to togetherness than usual, and if you’re feeling disconnected from a wider creative community, read for some opportunities to chat, think together and socialise during MANIPULATE week.

MANIPULATE #14 will see the return of our animated film programme, featuring diverse and award-winning animated shorts from Scotland and around the world over two evenings in our Digital Festival.

The International Emerging* Critics Programme will offer 5-10 aspiring or emerging writers/bloggers based in Scotland the opportunity to develop their critical skills in writing about and discussing live performance over a 2-year programme.

In an exciting new venture for MANIPULATE Festival #14, we have commissioned eight kinetic artworks in a new live promenade project called RESTLESS WORLDS. Through the project, audiences in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow can enjoy a live, artistic, outdoor experience in their city during this particularly challenging coronavirus winter.

We are delighted to bring the Puppet Animation Festival to audiences across the UK once again in 2021. This year’s festival will take place entirely online and will include digital puppet theatre, animated short films and creative family workshops for children between the ages of 0-12 and their families.

The 14th edition of MANIPULATE Festival features lots of opportunities to develop practice and sharpen skills through a series of workshops, delivered for the first time entirely online, and spanning puppetry, object theatre and animation.