FITMO: theater and puppets in Burkina, Mali, Niger and Togo

Four countries of the sub-region will successively welcome the 14^th edition of Theater and Puppets International Festival of Ouagadougou (FITMO) around the « problem of artistic training and socio-professional insertion of artists in Africa« .

According to sources close to the organization, the event will be held from 10^th October to 5^th November 2014 in four countries of the sub-region namely Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Togo.

It is Burkina that will start the shows from 10^th till 16^th October.

FITMO will then continue in Mali from 18^th to 22^nd October before taking place in Niger from 25^th to 29^th October and end in Togo from 1^st to 5^th November.

On the agenda of the activities, traditional and modern shows of living arts, training and movie broadcasting workshops, forums on the shows and a colloquium on the theme.

The FITMO art director, Dr Hamadou Mandé, underlined that for caution against the Ebola virus, Guinea that was initially invited was finally cancelled because this country registers cases of the disease.

Original text by: Blaise AKAME

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