"World Puppet Day"

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20 August 2025

A puppet shows members of the Mazahua community in the state of Toluca, Mexico, and various neighboring areas and states, gathered at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Mexico, on August 19, 2025, to share their customs and traditions as indigenous peoples. They also denounce racist and selective displacement for the sale of their handicrafts and food.

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21 March 2023

The puppet performance during the World Puppet Day celebrations in Colombo on March 21, 2023. This giant puppet has a height of 14ft and was built under the direction of Swedish artist Felix Widen Norgren (Director, Compania Pirata) in collaboration built with 60% recycled materials, the Little Girl Giant Puppet is an eco-friendly spectacle bound to fascinate.

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21 March 2023

The puppet performance during the World Puppet Day celebrations in Colombo on March 21, 2023. This giant puppet has a height of 14ft and was built under the direction of Swedish artist Felix Widen Norgren (Director, Compania Pirata) in collaboration built with 60% recycled materials, the Little Girl Giant Puppet is an eco-friendly spectacle bound to fascinate.

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21 March 2023

The puppet performance during the World Puppet Day celebrations in Colombo on March 21, 2023. This giant puppet has a height of 14ft and was built under the direction of Swedish artist Felix Widen Norgren (Director, Compania Pirata) in collaboration built with 60% recycled materials, the Little Girl Giant Puppet is an eco-friendly spectacle bound to fascinate.

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21 March 2023

The puppet performance during the World Puppet Day celebrations in Colombo on March 21, 2023. This giant puppet has a height of 14ft and was built under the direction of Swedish artist Felix Widen Norgren (Director, Compania Pirata) in collaboration built with 60% recycled materials, the Little Girl Giant Puppet is an eco-friendly spectacle bound to fascinate.

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12 February 2023

A giant puppet representing justice created by Ariane Mnouchkine, the director of the Theatre du Soleil, is present at the trade union demonstration organised by the eight main trade unions of salaried workers and youth organisations in Paris on 11 February 2023 to protest against the pension reform project presented by the French government, which would push back the retirement age from 62 to 64 years. For this fourth day of mobilisation, exceptionally organised on a Saturday, no strike has been announced in order not to disrupt the French people's holiday departures and not to harm the movement's popularity.

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31 January 2023

A protester is holding a puppet depicting Macron and reading 'Macron's reform, retired people in trunks' as more than 60,000 people (80,000 for the unions) take to the streets in Toulouse for the second time in two weeks to protest the planned reform of pensions and retirement age. France's labour unions have jointly called for a new day of major strike action and protests across France against plans by President Emmanuel Macron's government to reform the pension system and raise the retirement age to 64 from 62, a move that opinion polls show is opposed by a vast majority (93%) of workers already facing a cost-of-living crisis. Nearly all sectors unions have called for this strike and protest: mining and energy, health, schooling sector, transportation, truck drivers, refining workers, bank workers, etc. The retirement age would be raised to 64 years (for 43 years of continued work) and the pensions would be lower, especially for women, 'short careers' and low-wage people. The COR (Counsel of Pension Guidance), which depends on the Prime Minister's Office directly, said in its latest report on September 2022 that it sees no need to reform the pension system as its share in the French GDP will remain steady at least until 2070. Toulouse, France, on January 31st 2023.

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20 January 2023

A protester holds a puppet depicting Macron and reading 'Macron's reform, retired people in trunks'. More than 50.000 people took to the streets in toulouse against the planned reform of pension and retirement age. France's labour unions have made a rare joint call for a day of major strike action and protests across France against plans by President Emmanuel Macron's government to reform the pension system and raise the retirement age to 64 from 62, a move opinion polls show is opposed by a vast majority (93%) of workers already facing a cost-of-living crisis. Nearly all sectors unions called for this strike and protest : mining and energy, health, schooling sector, transportation, trucks drivers, refining workers, bank workers, etc. The retirement age would be raise to 64 years (for 43 years of continued work) and the pensions will be lower specially for women, 'short careers' and low wages people. The COR (Counsel of Pension Guidance), which depends of the Prime minister Office directly, said on September 2022 in its latest report that it sees no needs to reform the pension system as it shares in the French GDP will remain steady at least 2070. Toulouse. France. January 19th 2023.

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22 April 2022

Extinction Rebellion hosts a a rally and march against fossil fuels at the John Wilson building, where the DC government is located. In addition to a general protest against fossil fuels, demonstrators specifically demanded that DC refuse to permit Washington Gas to expand its methane delivery infrastructure. It is not clear how much of the roughly $5 billion investment would be used to repair the hundreds of gas leaks documented in DC.

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22 April 2022

Members of Extinction Rebellion work a puppet during a rally and march against fossil fuels. In addition to a general protest against fossil fuels, demonstrators specifically demanded that DC refuse to permit Washington Gas to expand its methane delivery infrastructure. It is not clear how much of the roughly $5 billion investment would be used to repair the hundreds of gas leaks documented in DC.

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8 February 2020

Participants seen performing with a bamboo puppets during the festival. Cap Go Meh festival in Bogor, West Java, on February 8, 2020.Cap Go Meh is a tradition that Chinese citizens around the world perform on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, which marks the end of the Lunar New Year celebration.

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24 January 2020

A protestor wearing the mask of the French President Emmanuel Macron holds up a puppet reading, 'Black rock » during a demonstration in Paris on January 24, 2020 against the government pensions reform, which will be officially unveiled after weeks of strikes by unions warning that millions of people will have to work longer. It will be the seventh day of mass rallies since a crippling transport strike was launched on December 5 by unions hoping to force French President to back down on his push for a "universal" pension system. The reform would sweep away 42 separate regimes, some dating back hundreds of years, that offer early retirement and other benefits to public-sector workers as well as lawyers, physiotherapists and even Paris Opera employees.

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4 December 2018

A worker hangs a coloured Batik Betawi to dry in Jakarta on December 3, 2018. Batik Betawi is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth with a motif associated with the traditional patterns, city’s iconic National Monument and ondel-ondel as a folk puppet.

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20 August 2018

August 19th, Leeuwarden. The world-famous production of Royal de Luxe makes its Dutch premiere in the European Capital of Culture. Over the course of three days, these towering giants walk the streets of Leeuwarden and provide an unforgettable experience with their 'Big Skate in the Ice' show. Royal de Luxe is an extraordinary street theatre company. The company flies around the world with their impressive Giants, puppets several meters high and taller than the buildings around them. In their third and last performance, they marvelled the people with a very spectacular performance that took place along the canals of the city. More than one million people gathered during the three days in the streets of Leeuwarden as French theatre group Royal de Luxe brought its giants to town. The event was one of the major highlights of the European Capital of Culture 2018 programme.

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20 August 2018

August 19th, Leeuwarden. The world-famous production of Royal de Luxe makes its Dutch premiere in the European Capital of Culture. Over the course of three days, these towering giants walk the streets of Leeuwarden and provide an unforgettable experience with their 'Big Skate in the Ice' show. Royal de Luxe is an extraordinary street theatre company. The company flies around the world with their impressive Giants, puppets several meters high and taller than the buildings around them. In their third and last performance, they marvelled the people with a very spectacular performance that took place along the canals of the city. More than one million people gathered during the three days in the streets of Leeuwarden as French theatre group Royal de Luxe brought its giants to town. The event was one of the major highlights of the European Capital of Culture 2018 programme.

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20 August 2018

August 19th, Leeuwarden. The world-famous production of Royal de Luxe makes its Dutch premiere in the European Capital of Culture. Over the course of three days, these towering giants walk the streets of Leeuwarden and provide an unforgettable experience with their 'Big Skate in the Ice' show. Royal de Luxe is an extraordinary street theatre company. The company flies around the world with their impressive Giants, puppets several meters high and taller than the buildings around them. In their third and last performance, they marvelled the people with a very spectacular performance that took place along the canals of the city. More than one million people gathered during the three days in the streets of Leeuwarden as French theatre group Royal de Luxe brought its giants to town. The event was one of the major highlights of the European Capital of Culture 2018 programme.

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