QPFA 2026 // The Glowing Pickle Bar
QPFA 2026 // The Glowing Pickle Bar
Genre: MiniatuurtheaterLineup: Time: 13:00 - 16:00 hrsTickets: €The Glowing Pickle Bar
The Glowing Pickle Bar is a fully automated miniature theater, that portrays a small pub. The regulars are full of engines and electronics and lead their own little lives in that automata pub.
The public is invited inside a cozy tent in groups of 10, to accompany these regulars.
There , up very close to the audience, a story unfolds.. A story about a stranger, shaking up the whole bar.
There are no screens or projections used, the real presence of the figures and the acoustically generated sounds creates an intimate sensation. Your are standing in the middle of a live cartoon, you are part of it; no stop-motion but a ‘live-motion'! It’s NON-Virtual Reality!
Duration of the performance is 6 minutes.
Around the Cafe the audience can get into the mood with typical Electric Circus automata and playful machines, so-called conversation pieces.
Electric Circus
Electric Circus is a visual street theater company consisting of puppeteer Mirjam Langemeijer and kinetic artist Fred Abels.
The duo combines puppetry with modern techniques such as 'animatronics' and self-designed software. With this she creates lifelike creatures and visual installations with which she performs all over the world. In recent years, Electric Circus has focused on automatic miniature performances, performed by robotic puppets and programmed machines.
Rolf Meesters has strengthened the team for programming and development since the project ‘Headspace’
Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam
From April 1st to 6th, the international Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam once again offers a platform for visual theater, puppetry, and performances that defy the norm. The theme of the 5th anniversary edition is "The Nature of Things" and offers a radical response to Western and colonial framing. Visual theater makers and performers from around the world will come together during this festival.
Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam is queer, feminist, activist and above all stands out in quirkiness. It is the only festival in the Netherlands that links puppetry and object theatre for adults to queer imagination. In the safe space created by puppetry, everyone can be who they, she, he, wants and can meet each other. Expect a challenging mix of bodies, stories that refuse to adapt to existing dominant structures, visual & erotic outbursts, edgy performances, stimulating lectures, queery food and clubby afters.
