Mar ~ Marionetas | Espinho International Puppet Festival

Mar~Marionetas - Festival Internacional de Marionetas de Espinho 2025

5 MAY > 1 JUN 2025

THE FESTIVAL YOU WON'T FORGET.

Let's celebrate the International Museum Day and the Children's Day together.

The Mar~Marionetas festival is celebrating 19 years of existence, a legacy full of experiences, of training audiences, of different artistic proposals that are now consolidated by the support given to the Festival by República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes. In this way, Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora empowers the Festival by expanding it in time, place, and space. In time, because the Festival will now last one month, in place, because in this edition we will have decentralized cultural events in all the municipality parishes, and in space, because in addition to the national companies we will also have a diverse range of international structures performing. International structures of excellence and recognized merit, the result of a partnership effort between Mar~Marionetas and other festivals of great national importance. This is the only way to bring major companies to this region, presenting them and making the culture of other countries known.

This adds up to shows, workshops, animations, and exhibitions. We travel to schools and extend the program to kindergartens, we host workshops, in more than two hundred cultural proposals that we are sure will leave you with a full soul. It is with a great sense of public duty, but also with a great deal of passion and professionalism, that we think of a dynamic program, the result of a joint effort.