YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. International Puppet Festival under the title Tale Day will be held on September 6-10 in the village of Dsegh, Lori region, on the initiative of the Armenian Center of the Union Internationale de la Marionette (UNIMA). Armen Safarian, the Chairman of the Center, said this in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent. According to him, this year puppet theaters' creative groups from Armenia, Javakhk, the Ukraine, Lithuania, and Russia will take part in the festival being held for already the second year. 18 performances created on the basis of tales created by various peoples will be shown in the native village of great Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanian within the framework of the festival. A. Safarian said that the festival also gives newly created puppet theaters the possibility to take part in it and to present their performances. "One of festival's goals is to help newly created and young puppet theaters' creative groups to get acquainted with the rich experience of professional theaters and to establish immediate contacts with them," he said. Among Armenian regions, theater groups of Ijevan, Metsamor, Gyumri, and Charentsavan, as well as the theater group of Khnko Aper National Children's Library will take part in the festival. As the Chairman of the UNIMA Armenian Center said, the Armenian delegation represented by the UNIMA Armenian Center's Karapet puppet theater will also take part in the Puppet Theaters' International Congress to be held next year in Australia.

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