{"id":7783,"date":"2026-08-14T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martajanik.com\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:36:53","slug":"puppet-is-a-human-too-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martajanik.com\/en\/puppet-is-a-human-too-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"“Puppet is a Human Too” Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How the poster for the 20th edition of the \u2018Puppet is a Human Too\u2019 festival was created<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The title of the “Puppet is a Human Too” festival has been on my mind for a long time. I\u2019ve thought about it at length, and to be honest, I\u2019m still thinking about it. I wanted to show on the poster that people and puppets are very close to one another. But where exactly does the line between them lie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a collage artist, I collect vast quantities of illustrations. I browse through books, old engravings, sketches, photographs and all sorts of images. Sometimes I come across something that makes me linger. That\u2019s what happened with a certain face. It was a pencil sketch. It wasn\u2019t, of course, a beautiful or pretty face. But that\u2019s precisely what captivated me about it. It was interesting. And for me, interesting often means beautiful. I started working on it. I added colours, and then a top hat. And suddenly, someone new began to emerge from the face. Part human, part wizard. I sprinkled some glitter on it, because this year\u2019s festival is special \u2013 it\u2019s already the 20th edition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then came the suit. I adorned it with old engravings relating to theatre and puppet theatre. I added a tie featuring musical notes, and pinned a pearl into the tie. He got a second pearl for his ear. Autumn leaves and raspberries appeared on the hat. This, in turn, is a small nod to “Balladyna”, the production that won last year\u2019s festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then something important happened. I added some strings. And suddenly it turned out that my wizard is a puppet. It\u2019s just that you only realise this after a moment. He has one purple eye, the other green, and he\u2019s smiling slightly. He\u2019s looking at us, but at the same time he\u2019s being moved by someone. But by whom? On one of the strings, I\u2019ve hung a heart separately. I don\u2019t know if it can be controlled. And I don\u2019t think I want to decide that. I\u2019ll leave that question to the viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The festival is taking place in Warsaw, so my wizard couldn\u2019t just appear out of thin air. In the background are the Mermaid Statue, Sigismund\u2019s Column and the Palace of Culture and Science. And high up in the sky, you can see the Earth with Warsaw marked on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My poster is a bit of the theatre world, a bit of magic, a bit of history, a bit of Warsaw. And loads of questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joanna Braun, a long-standing member of the festival\u2019s jury, told me that a puppet is just as important as a person. Kevin Augustine, who won the festival\u2019s Grand Prix in 2024, revealed that a puppet had helped him understand himself better and get through difficult times in his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you like puppet theatre?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Read my interview with Toni Rumbau – a puppeteer and writer, member of the jury<\/a>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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