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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

💪🎉 Today is the first day of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which this year will showcase the boundless creativity of animation from across the globe, including Distance To The Moon, directed by Victoria Watson and Sacha Kyle from Scotland. www.edfilmfest.org/film/animation-shorts-2/

Images: Selection of stills from EIFF Animated Shorts 2025

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

If you still have a few gaps in your festival itinerary here are few ideas for animated film, puppetry and visual theatre shows from around the world that are on our radar. Follow the link below, to read a small selection and find out more. 👀 www.manipulatearts.co.uk/.../visual-t...

through warm temperatures By Mele Broomes

Distance To The Moon, Directors: Victoria Watson, Sacha Kyle.

Book of Mountains and Seas by Huang Ruo and Basil Twist

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Festival season is here! As Scotland’s home for animated film, puppetry and visual theatre, we wanted to share a few ideas to get you started and ensure that visual theatre is part of your festival itinerary! Read about a small selection of shows that are on our radar this year: tinyurl.com/4be2pjue

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Visual Theatre at the Edinburgh Festivals - Manipulate Arts

Festival season is here! With thousands of shows to choose from, the festival programmes can be overwhelming to navigate. As Scotland’s home for animated

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We’re looking for a Chair of the Board of Trustees at Manipulate Arts. The Chair will provide leadership for the Board of Trustees and work in close collaboration with the Artistic Director and CEO to steer the organisation’s activities, ensuring its long-term success...

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We're thrilled to be partnering with Edinburgh International Festival (@edintfest) to support 25 Scottish puppetry artists to attend Book of Mountains and Seas as part of their August festival this year. www.eif.co.uk/events/book-...

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Book of Mountains and Seas | Edinburgh International Festival

A giant tries to capture the sun. A drowned princess seeks revenge on the ocean. Ten suns compete to light the Earth.Huang Ruo, one of the most exciting fi

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Want to connect with people from around the globe working in puppetry and visual theatre at the August Edinburgh festivals? Join us for a relaxed afternoon of drinks and networking on Thursday 21st August at Summerhall. We'll be gathering on the decking in the courtyard from 2:15pm to 3:45pm.

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We’re delighted to announce that we’re hiring a freelance fundraiser to be a part of our team. We would like to work with someone who has a proven track-record of successful grant funding especially for organisations of our size. More info can be found here:

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Jobs & Opportunities - Manipulate Arts

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

There’s still time to apply to have your short featured in next year’s Manipulate Festival programme. More information, including rules and guidelines, can be found in the Jobs and Opportunities section in our website 👉

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Jobs & Opportunities - Manipulate Arts

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Our Artistic Director Dawn attended Go Figure! Festival in Oslo last week as part of our ongoing three-way partnership with the Norwegian festival along with Aura of Puppets/TIP Fest in Turku, Finland 🧵

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Have you seen our funding opportunity in partnership with Vanishing Point? Read more about this opportunity, along with guidelines and application form, on our website www.manipulatearts.co.uk/about/jobs-o...

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Jobs & Opportunities - Manipulate Arts

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🌟 FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 🌟 We’re delighted to announce the opening of our Visual Performance and Puppetry Fund for 2025. This fund focuses on creative exploration and development, with the opportunity to receive up to £5000 plus travel and access costs for your project.

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

We’re delighted to hear that The Yellow Canary by Tashi Gore won Best Production for Children and Young People last night at the CATS Awards. Gore’s exceptional piece first premiered at Manipulate Festival in 2023, and was originally developed through our Creative Fund

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Scottish-Japanese co-production the big winner at 2025 CATS

Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey, an international collaboration between Glasgow-based Vanishing Point and Kanagawa Arts Theatre of Yokohama,…

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The 17th Figura Theaterfestival is coming in 2026, with the Grünschnabel Prize returning for its 11th award. The award, worth 10,000 Swiss Francs, will go to a young theatre company starting out professionally and working in an original way with puppets and objects. Apply now:

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Grünschnabel-Preis 2026

Der Regierungsrat des Kantons Aargau verleiht am 17. Figura Theaterfestival 2026 in Baden zum zwölften Mal den Förderpreis für junges Figurentheater «Grünschnabel» in der Höhe von CHF 10’000. Er…

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Glasgow Film Festival has opened applications for its New Talent Mentorship Scheme, aimed at emerging professionals working in film, high-end television, or animation from backgrounds currently under-represented in the industry www.glasgowfilmfest.org/new-talent-m...

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New Talent Mentorship Scheme

Glasgow is one of the friendliest film festivals on the planet with a wide-ranging programme that celebrates every corner of world cinema and provides a fantastic showcase for the best of Scottish…

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Exciting to see the full programme announcement from our friends at Go Figure! Festival in Oslo for their 2025 edition. We’ll be attending with two Scottish artists for an invited artistic exchange in June as part of our ongoing partnership with Go Figure! and with TIP-Fest, Turku Festival in Oslo.

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Hello BlueSky 👋 we’re sorry for the silence here, but we have since left X (formally known as Twitter). Owing to the significant changes at Twitter over recent months, we no longer feel that the platform is a space which reflects our values...

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Delighted to be mentioned on last night's BBC Radio Scotland 'The Entertainment Mix'!⭐️

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Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The Warehouse was the perfect space for this amazing experiential event by @manipulatearts.bsky.social. We are so lucky to have @fruitmarket.bsky.social in #Edinburgh!

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 14/02/2025

"a truly postmodern concoction, where, along with the village's properties, narrative norms are deconstructed brick by brick": A TOWN CALLED PANIC (2009) screens 8pm tonight at the French Inst. Of Scotland Auditorium for @manipulatearts.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2022/04/29/a...

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A Town Called Panic (Panique au village) (2009) - Projected Figures

Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar's madcap stop-motion feature A TOWN CALLED PANIC offers anarchic adventures in (and out of) toy town

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We're so excited that Manipulate 2025 is officially well and truly underway. Did you catch our recent mention in @thetimes.com? 📰https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/five-things-to-do-in-scotland-this-week-sff8qcb8s

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Five things to do in Scotland this week: light shows to Cyndi Lauper

Plus Chicago and Zoe Lyons are in Edinburgh, and the RSW is hosting its annual water colour exhibition

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Fergus Morgan @fergusmorgan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Here is this week's issue of The Crush Bar, feat. Temi Wilkey, whose show Main Character Energy runs @sohotheatre.bsky.social later this month. Plus, there are three show recommendations @manipulatearts.bsky.social, @royalcourt.bsky.social and The Globe. thecrushbar.substack.com/p/i-think-se...

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"I think self-indulgence can be really radical."

Writer, actor and comedian Temi Wilkey on her one-woman show Main Character Energy, which opens at Soho Theatre later this month. Plus: three shows to see next week.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Still a few tickets left for Saturday's On The Edge screening - a series of animated shorts focussed on the global far North and climate change that we've partnered up with @manipulatearts.bsky.social for! Some brilliant films programmed for this, and a panel discussion afterwards, come along.

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cinemabang.com @cinemabang.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Scotland leads the way in animated film this February with Manipulate Festival, MOVE SUMMIT, Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Film Festival Full details at shorturl.at/l8ze0 @manipulatearts.bsky.social #gff25

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Details of Hopeful Monster's Open Studio have been announced! Find out more and reserve a free spot: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/open-...

Two of the Hopeful Monster team experiment with light and shadow processes on large printed parchment.

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Announcing our speakers for ChaosPlay! Join us on 15 February at 1pm at @traversetheatre.bsky.social Cafe Bar: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/event...

Sepia toned collage of Mamoru Iriguchi, who seems to be wearing a head of himself as he reaches out into a void wearing a jumper printed with the outline of a suit.

Collage illustration of Dan Castro, with hand drawn elements and shapes relating to play coming out of the top of his head. Courtesy of the artist.

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

In the studio with Groupwork, who’re getting ready to present When Prophecy Fails at Manipulate Festival 2025 👽 Info: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/when-... Thanks to @ntsonline.bsky.social for rehearsal space!

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Where are we? How do we relate to each other now? 🗺️ Cartography Every 13 mins, a small group will enter a labyrinth in the @fruitmarket.bsky.social Warehouse. Guided through a series of experimental, intimate, and highly interactive encounters. www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/carto...

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Cartography - Manipulate Arts

Where are we? How do we relate to each other now? How do we orientate and anchor ourselves in this tumultuous moment?

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I’m looking for a last-minute gift for an acrobat, who is also a puppeteer. Do you have anything? Well, it's your lucky day. We have three workshops for the acrobat, dancer, puppeteer, filmmaker, theatremaker or animator in your life taking place during Manipulate Festival 2025. 🎁

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

🗓️ From 2025, we want to review and redesign the ways in which we support animators and independent animation practice in Scotland. If you are an independent animator in Scotland, we'd really appreciate 15 minutes of your time! ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Survey open until 6 January.

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Support of Independent Animation Talent, Skills and Project Development in Scotland

Manipulate Arts is Scotland's regularly funded development body specifically dedicated to the support of animated film, visual theatre and puppetry. We do this through delivery of an annual internatio...

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Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🌙 Manipulate Festival 2025 | 18th edition Wed 12 - Sat 15 Feb 2025 Book now: manipulatearts.co.uk/festival/ Supported by Creative Scotland and @filmhubscotland.bsky.social | Media Partner @theskinnymag.bsky.social

Graphic overlay of Manipulate Festival titles, 12 - 15 February 2025. Edinburgh's International festival of animated film, puppetry and visual theatre. Two figures look out of a space craft towards the moon.

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