The 2012 UNIMA World Puppet Festival (officially known as The 21st UNIMA Congress & World P{uppetry Festival) was held last month in Chengdu, China and was by all accounts a huge success. Gary Friedman attended the festival and has cut together this short compilation of performances and events at the festival, which looks like it was amazing!

You see more performances and interviews that Gary filmed while he was in China in a recent series of posts on his Puppetry News Blog:

• Songs From The Yellow Earth
• Old Chinese Puppet Master
• Vietnamese Water Puppetry
• Puppetry News From China

Additional videos from the festival organizers (in Chinese) can be found on Toudou.com here and here.

The next UNIMA World Puppetry Festival will be held in Tolosa, Spain in 2016!