BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4685@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250821T144726 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250913T210000 SUMMARY:Theater: "Letters from My Father" DESCRIPTION:The BAFF! Festival\, which has been shaping the puppet theater spectacle in Basel for 30 years\, offers a platform for international arti sts to present the facets of modern puppet theater every two years.\\r\\nT he play starts in 1959\, when the Limbos family lived in the Congo\, which was still a Belgian colony at the time. A year later\, in the year of ind ependence\, the children were sent back to Belgium to live with their uncl e\, a pastor. For Agnès Limbos\, who was eight years old at the time\, th is episode was traumatic.\\r\\nDuring the period of separation\, the fathe r wrote 46 letters to his children. Little Agnès eagerly awaited each one . "Every time a letter arrived\, our uncle would sit down with us in the t wo large leather armchairs and solemnly read it to us. The 70-year-old wom an I have become now wishes to have a conversation with that young girl." The master of object theater opens up a narrative space in which biographi cal and historical pasts resonate with each other—as intimate as they ar e universal.\\r\\nEnglish with German surtitles X-ALT-DESC:

The BAFF! Festival\, which has been shaping the puppet theate r spectacle in Basel for 30 years\, offers a platform for international ar tists to present the facets of modern puppet theater every two years.

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The play starts in 1959\, when the Limbos family lived in the Congo\, which was still a Belgian colony at the time. A year later\, in the year o f independence\, the children were sent back to Belgium to live with their uncle\, a pastor. For Agnès Limbos\, who was eight years old at the time \, this episode was traumatic.

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During the period of separation\, t he father wrote 46 letters to his children. Little Agnès eagerly awaited each one. "Every time a letter arrived\, our uncle would sit down with us in the two large leather armchairs and solemnly read it to us. The 70-year -old woman I have become now wishes to have a conversation with that young girl." The master of object theater opens up a narrative space in which b iographical and historical pasts resonate with each other—as intimate as they are universal.

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English with German surtitles

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