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| maintainer   = Admin
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{{Infobox
| name                = Summer Puppet Pier Festival
| localname           = Poletni lutkovni pristan - mednarodni lutkovni festival, Maribor
| logo                = Summer Puppet Pier Festival (logo).jpg
| street              = Vojašniški trg 2
| town                = SI-2000 Maribor
| telephone           = 386 (0) 2 228 1970
| fax                 = 386 (0) 2 228 1978
| email               = info@lg-mb.si
| website             = http://www.lg-mb.si/poletni-lutkovni-pristan/
| organised by        = Maribor Puppet Theatre
| frequency           = annual
| dates and durationn = August, entire month
| duration weeks      = 31,32,33,34,35 (2012) 31,32,33,34,35,36 (2013) 31,32,33,34,35,36 (2014)
| festival dates      = 8.8.2015 - 31.8.2015, 6.8.2016 - 31.8.2016, 5.8.2017 - 28.8.2017, 3.8.2018 - 26.8.2018, 3.8.2019 - 31.8.2019, 1.8.2020 - 30.8.2020
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Tanja Lužar
 role                 = Dramaturge
| telephone           = 386 (0) 2 22 81 964
| email               = tanja.luzar@lg-mb.si
}}
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Launched in [[established::1990]], the annual [[Summer Puppet Pier Festival|Summer Puppet Pier - International Puppetry Festival, Maribor]] offers a review of recent Slovene puppet creativity activity alongside many foreign performances for both children and adults. The Summer Pier Festival collaborates with several other Slovene puppetry producers and promoters. 

The festival has invited performers from Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Bulgaria and Israel, and even as far away as Iran, Taiwan, China, Brazil, and Japan.

Since 2019 the best performance selected by the children's jury receives the Golden Giraffe Award.
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==Venues==

The festival used to take place first at Lent, in the Atrium of Maribor Castle or Astoria garden and at the Rotovški Square, however in 2010 it has moved with the [[Maribor Puppet Theatre]] into a renovated Minorite building at Lent. 

Performances had often toured also to Ptuj, Lenart, Celje, Medvode, Nova Gorica, Ljubljana, Lendava and to the Coast; Slovene productions have also toured to Austria (Carinthia and Styria).

==See also==
* [[Maribor Puppet Theatre]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.lg-mb.si/en/summer-puppet-pier/ Summer Puppet Pier Festival web page]   

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