Emma Burke Newman (in memoriam)

  Association EBN is delighted to announce that U.K. artist Pax Alberto is the winner of the 2025 Art and Architecture Grant, established in memory of Emma Burke Newman. Pax’s project will fund free and inclusive puppet theatre workshops for underserved communities in and around Bristol, England, where Pax resides. (VF en-dessus) What’s more, the workshops will feed into a spring 2026 People's Puppet Opera at the Cube Microplex in the city. Assisting Pax with the performance will be members of Beanpig Puppets , which they cofounded in 2019. This collective of queer puppeteers and performers “believe in the life of all things,” Pax wrote in their application for the grant. “We like to use expanding the imagination as a revolutionary tool, to practice dreaming of other worlds, and realise that they are possible. These ideas are conveyed in abstract and surreal puppet shows, which we see as rituals of facilitation in the lives of our puppets,” Pax explains, “Ultimately, they c...