Manipulate Arts
@manipulatearts.bsky.social
We champion, develop and present animated film, puppetry and visual theatre in Scotland and internationally.
Producers of Manipulate Festival: 12 - 15 Feb 2025 🌙
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Producers of Manipulate Festival: 12 - 15 Feb 2025 🌙
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💪🎉 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/
www.edfilmfest.org/film/animation-shorts-2/
August 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
💪🎉 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/
www.edfilmfest.org/film/animation-shorts-2/
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...
Follow the link below, to read a small selection and find out more.
👀 www.manipulatearts.co.uk/.../visual-t...
August 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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...
Follow the link below, to read a small selection and find out more.
👀 www.manipulatearts.co.uk/.../visual-t...
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
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
www.manipulatearts.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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
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...
August 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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...
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-...
www.eif.co.uk/events/book-...
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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July 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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-...
www.eif.co.uk/events/book-...
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.
July 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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.
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:
Jobs & Opportunities - Manipulate Arts
Please scroll down to find out more about the jobs and opportunities currently available with Manipulate Arts and how to apply. If the page is blank, there
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June 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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:
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 👉
Jobs & Opportunities - Manipulate Arts
Please scroll down to find out more about the jobs and opportunities currently available with Manipulate Arts and how to apply. If the page is blank, there
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June 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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 👉
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 🧵
June 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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 🧵
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...
June 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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...
🌟 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.
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.
June 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🌟 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.
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.
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
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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June 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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
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:
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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June 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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:
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...
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…
www.glasgowfilmfest.org
June 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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...
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.
May 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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.
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...
May 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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...
Delighted to be mentioned on last night's BBC Radio Scotland 'The Entertainment Mix'!⭐️
February 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Delighted to be mentioned on last night's BBC Radio Scotland 'The Entertainment Mix'!⭐️
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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!
We are so lucky to have @fruitmarket.bsky.social in #Edinburgh!
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...
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...
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?
www.manipulatearts.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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!
We are so lucky to have @fruitmarket.bsky.social in #Edinburgh!
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"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...
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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February 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"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...
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
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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February 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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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.
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Plus, there are three show recommendations @manipulatearts.bsky.social, @royalcourt.bsky.social and The Globe.
thecrushbar.substack.com/p/i-think-se...
"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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February 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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...
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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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.
Some brilliant films programmed for this, and a panel discussion afterwards, come along.
🌙 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
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
February 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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.
Some brilliant films programmed for this, and a panel discussion afterwards, come along.
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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
Full details at shorturl.at/l8ze0
@manipulatearts.bsky.social #gff25
February 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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
Full details at shorturl.at/l8ze0
@manipulatearts.bsky.social #gff25
Details of Hopeful Monster's Open Studio have been announced!
Find out more and reserve a free spot: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/open-...
Find out more and reserve a free spot: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/open-...
January 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Details of Hopeful Monster's Open Studio have been announced!
Find out more and reserve a free spot: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/open-...
Find out more and reserve a free spot: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/open-...
Announcing our speakers for ChaosPlay!
Join us on 15 February at 1pm at @traversetheatre.bsky.social Cafe Bar: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/event...
Join us on 15 February at 1pm at @traversetheatre.bsky.social Cafe Bar: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/event...
January 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Announcing our speakers for ChaosPlay!
Join us on 15 February at 1pm at @traversetheatre.bsky.social Cafe Bar: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/event...
Join us on 15 February at 1pm at @traversetheatre.bsky.social Cafe Bar: www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/event...