By Theis Irgens, Member of the Executive Committee of ASSITEJ International Today is my first office day in a new place. My theatre company, Spektra, has just moved into a new space together with another small company here in Kristiansand. So far, our office has been our kitchen tables or a cafe. We’ve moved in and out of rehearsal studios and driven far out of the city centre to the storage space we’ve rented. It feels amazing to finally have a place of our own, with a small studio, a kitchen, and a storage space (it’s of course full already). Right now, it feels like anything is possible. The air is thick with potential (and dust, the place still needs a lot of work…). The space is called Lunta. It literally means The Fuse, but in Norwegian, the word sounds quite soft and warm when spoken. The contradiction fits the space perfectly. This is where I’ll be doing my Spektra-work, my ASSITEJ Norway work and beginning now, my EC-work. My first Executive Committee meeting is in a month's time, and I’m looking forward to really starting. Lunta is new, being on the EC is new, and 2024 seems to be a year full of changes for me. I love it, and I fear it at the same time. The energy and inspiration from the ASSITEJ World Congress in Havana made a lasting impression on me. ASSITEJ Cuba and so many others did a tremendous job creating and hosting the 21st ASSITEJ World Congress. It was an amazing experience in many ways. But, without the time, money, obstacle-tackling, and courage that so many delegates invested in their journey to Havana, there would be no Congress. I think one of the greatest strengths of the ASSITEJ network is that so many members give a lot of themselves - both from their professional capacity and their heart. Just as the gigantic, global network needs us to be active contributors, the tiny networks do too. They can be safety-net-works. A work partner, a friend, a life partner, or a colleague who knows you, and the work you do. One thing this last year has taught me is the value of a safety net. Both having one and being one. When you really need a safety net, the global network can’t give you a hug and tell you it’s going to be alright, without even saying the words. This newsletter opener is a reminder to myself, and maybe you too if you need it: remember to take care of the small safety-net-works. And then, dive into the ocean of possibilities that the ASSITEJ network can offer. See you there!
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 | | | | Share Your Views on ASSITEJ International | | | As part of the ‘Theatre & Performing Arts for Young Audiences: Building Collective Resilience’ Project, external evaluators Dr Richard Johnson Sallis and Dr Jennifer Andersen from The University of Melbourne in Australia are examining to what extent the development of ASSITEJ International’s network is building the collective resilience of the global Theatre & Performing Arts for Young Audiences sector. We kindly ask you to support the ongoing development of our Association by contributing your views, opinions, and experiences of ASSITEJ International in the following survey:
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The survey is available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Deadline: 31 August 2024
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 | | | | Call for ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2025 Professional Exchange Programme | | | ASSITEJ International and Scènes d'enfance - ASSITEJ France is calling for applications to take part in the Professional Exchange Programme at the event. This will include a diverse programme of symposia, conferences, talks, workshops, round tables, and social events. We invite professionals, networks, companies, and institutions - international and French - to apply to contribute to the programme of meetings, events, and exchanges. The Professional Exchange Programme at "Bright Generations - Générations Lumineuses" aims to promote international exchanges and cooperation, as well as highlight new advocacy for creativity for children and youth and their cultural rights. 🌎🌍🌏 Marseille, France 🗓 23 - 29 March 2025 Deadline: 25 September 2024 View open call> Lire en français> Leer en español> |
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 | | | | Memories from the Congress in Cuba | | | It has been two months since the end of the 21st ASSITEJ World Congress & Performing Arts Festival for Children & Young People in Havana, Cuba, and we would like to look back at all those wonderful moments we had and share with those who weren't able to join us. Thanks again to our wonderful photographers Keiu Virro and François Fogel for these beautiful images!
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 | | | | 29th Hamedan International Theater Festival for Children & Young Adults | | | ASSITEJ Iran The Dramatic Arts Center of Iran (DAC) is pleased to inform you that the 29th International Theater Festival for Children & Young Adults will take place in November in Hamedan. Applications for productions should be sent by September 10. In this festival edition, the festival director will award a 500 USD prize for the best creative director and a 500 USD prize for the best acting or creative puppeteer to honor the production of creative works for children and teenagers in the International Section. 🌎🌍🌏 Hamedan, Iran 🗓 1 - 7 November 2024 Deadline: 10 September 2024 More information & application form> |
 | | | | Open Call – Capacity Building Programme | | | ASSITEJ Jordan The Festival Academy, an initiative of the European Festivals Association (EFA), in partnership with Studio 8, IDEA – International Dance Encounter Amman, and in collaboration with The National Center for Culture and Arts (NCCA), calls for applications for the 24th edition of the Atelier for Young Festival Managers, to take place from 21 to 27 September 2025 in Amman, Jordan. 🌎🌍🌏 Amman, Jordan 🗓 21 -27 September 2025 Deadline: 30 September 2024 More information>
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 | | | | 31st Festival of Ecological Theatre for Children and Youth | | | ASSITEJ Serbia The Festival of Ecological Theatre for Children and Youth is open for applications for performances that will be part of our 31st Festival, which will take place from 20th to 24th August 2025 in Bačka Palanka, Serbia. We are inviting all professional theatres for children and youth to submit their applications and take part in the 31st Festival. If your performance aligns with the festival's theme of ecology, the mental health of children and youth, rights of children and youth, treatment of others and different ones, or if you are exploring the ecology of the process and working towards green transformation in the theatre, then this is the festival for you.
🌎🌍🌏 Bačka Palanka, Serbia
🗓 20 -24 August 2025 Deadline: 15 September 2024 More information> |
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 | | | | Call for French Theatre Writing for Young People | | | Write Local. Play Global Write Local. Play Global, and Scènes d’enfance-ASSITEJ France are launching a major call for original short texts, open to all French speakers, with the idea of bringing together the greatest possible diversity of French-speaking theater writings of today for young audiences and of sharing their richness on the occasion of “Bright Generations”, the 2025 ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering which will take place in Marseille, from March 23 to 29. 🌎🌍🌏 Marseille, France 🗓 23 - 29 March 2025 Deadline: 15 October 2024 Lire en français> |
 | | | | Call for MOCHILA: Festival Internacional de Teatro para Crianças e Jovens | | | LAMA Teatro LAMA Teatro is looking for new proposals for artistic programming, with the selection of street shows that are suitable for audiences of all ages and are unheard of in the Algarve region. We seek new creations or shows in circulation that could be part of the program of the 5th edition of MOCHILA – Festival Internacional de Teatro para Crianças e Jovens, taking place in May 2025, in Faro. 🌎🌍🌏 Faro, Portugal 🗓 May 2025 Deadline: 15 September 2024 More information> |
 | | | | Call for Playwrights: Patios del Recreo | | | ATINA/ASSITEJ Argentina ATINA calls Ibero-American Playwrights to participate in the "Patios del Recreo Teatro para Adolescentes" Project, a proposal in collaboration with the ASSITEJ Ibero-American Network. "Patios del Recreo" is an interdisciplinary project that addresses adolescence, based on previous field research work in middle schools, clubs, artistic groups, neighborhood groups, or others in which adolescents between 13 & 18 years old participate. The objective is to generate new theatrical proposals, in line with the social, political and technological changes that affect us, to interest and bring young people closer to the theater. Deadline: 30 October 2024 Leer en español> |
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| News from around the world |
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 | | | | Hang Out with Next Generation Residency Program Alumni | | | Next Generation Save the date: 19 August 2024 at 10 AM CET. Join us on Zoom to Hang Out with Next Generation Alumni. The hangout aims to create a space for ongoing communication and collaboration among Next Generation Residency alumni and friends. We invite all alumni participating in Next Generation Residencies organized by ASSITEJ centres and friends interested in the program to share their ideas, thoughts, feelings, opinions, information & collaboration possibilities with their colleagues. To get the zoom link for this online hangout, please register yourself by filling out this Google form. 🌎🌍🌏 ZOOM 🗓 19 August 2024 |
 | | | | Jacaranda International Children and Youth Arts Festival | | | ASSITEJ Zambia The 2024 Jacaranda International Children and Youth Arts Festival which has attracted children and youth groups from Botswana, Japan, Malawi, and Zimbabwe will take place October 16 – 19 in Lusaka, Zambia. The festival will coincide with the Diamond Celebration of Zambia’s independence and is themed “Zambia@60 : Young People Roll Back the Effects of Climate Through Arts and Culture”. 🌎🌍🌏 Lusaka, Zambia 🗓 16 - 19 October 2024 |
 | | | | Don’t throw it away. SHIFTIT! | | | Sustainability Section Don’t throw it away. SHIFTIT! This is the slogan of a fairly new project in Norway, trying to make it easier for the performing arts field to reuse more and throw away less. In march 2023, a Norwegian arts producer agency called SYV MIL launched SHIFTIT - a center for circular art production. The first step was a digital marketplace, where companies can sell or give away materials from finished productions, or just left over materials. You can visit the marketplace here. The next step is to establish a physical center in Bergen where you will be able to pick up and deliver used material for all types of art and cultural production. In addition to this, SHIFTIT will offer various services within consultancy and expertise in circular art production. The pilot center in Bergen happens in October 2024, and the first step is a focus on fabrics. In addition to the physical marketplace, SYV MIL is creating a seminar program and hands-on workshops. One of them being how to design and create merch from used materials. At the moment, SHIFTIT is focusing on the Norwegian arts sector, but the project has a great potential for expanding and collaborating outside of Norway. You can visit SYV MIL here.
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 | | | | ASSITEJ Italy Presents the 9th Edition of IN-FORMA | | | ASSITEJ Italy Every year, ASSITEJ Italy organizes three days of seminars, workshops, and round tables under the banner of IN-FORMA. This year's edition, titled "Opening Up to Others: Considerations on Accessibility and Inclusion in Theatre," will take place in Turin. The event is organized by Fondazione Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani and will be held from September 11th to 13th. 🌎🌍🌏 Turin, Italy 🗓 11 - 13 September 2024 View programme> |
 | | | | Attend Baboró International Arts Festival for Children this October | | | TYA Ireland Baboró International Arts Festival for Children looks forward to announcing its 2024 festival programme on Tuesday 3 September. The festival will take place from 11-20 October 2024 in Galway, Ireland. Artists and industry professionals are invited to purchase a Delegate Pass for access to delegate-only events, including works-in-progress, networking opportunities, and social evenings. 🌎🌍🌏 Galway, Ireland 🗓 11 - 20 October 2024 Read more> |
 | | | | Jornadas de Teatro Infancias y Juventudes THT | | | Red Miradas/ASSITEJ Mexico The 4th edition of the Jornadas de Teatro Infancias y Juventudes THT will take place in Tijuana. This event gathers artists, academics, and managers from various regions who work in theatre for children and youth. It's co-produced by Tijuana Hace Teatro theatre company and the Centro Cultural Tijuana in Mexico's border city. Read more> Leer en español>
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 | | | | NAKS 2024 Program is Out! | | | ASSITEJ Estonia ASSITEJ Estonia is excited to announce that the NAKS Festival 2024 program is out! Get a full experience festival pass now with a reduced price until the 1st of September. The International Theatre Festival for Young Audiences NAKS 2024 will showcase the versatility of theatre for children and youngsters, breaking down artistic and thematic boundaries and engaging audiences in an honest way. It presents theatre in all its diversity: visual theatre, puppet theatre, spoken word, dance, music, and contemporary circus. The programme is designed for audiences who generally have fewer theatrical experiences, such as infants or young people with special needs. 🌎🌍🌏 Tartu, Estonia 🗓 5 - 9 November 2024 Read more> |
 | | | | FETEN 2024 Critical Assessment | | | CBTIJ/ASSITEJ Brasil Brazilian theatre critics Michele Rolim and Renan Ji have written their critical assessment of the Feria Internacional de las Artes Escénicas para Niños y Niñas, in Gijón, Spain. In the picture are Renan and Michele in Gijón. Read in English> Ler em português>
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 | | | | Sensitive Provocations on Accessibility in Theatre | | | IIAN & CBTIJ/ASSITEJ Brasil Since last month, CBTIJ/ASSITEJ Brasil, in collaboration with the International Inclusive Arts Network, started a series of online meetings focusing on different tools for Inclusion and Accessibility. The first meeting was held on July 22, bringing out a discussion on audio description. This discussion was proposed by artist-researcher Viviane Juguero. Three specialists were invited to discuss the issue from distinct perspectives: Cintia Alvez, Edgar Jacques, and Letícia Schwartz. Cleiton Echeveste mediated the session. This meeting has been recorded and is available on CBTIJ/ASSITEJ Brasil YouTube channel. The project is partnered by Bando de Brincantes, Vozes Diversas and Mil Palavras Acessibilidade Cultural. |
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| Article Section | | | | Looking Back: AWC 2024 - Voices of A New World |
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| by Kerryn Palmer | | | | Viva La Cuba!! | | | A report on Aotearoa New Zealand's participation at the ASSITEJ World Congress 2024 ASSITEJ International is dedicated to the artistic, cultural, and educational rights of children and young people across the globe and advocates on behalf of all children regardless of nationality, cultural identity, ethnicity, or religion. It unites theatres, organisations, and individuals throughout the world who make Theatre & Performing Arts for Children & Young People. The World Congress and Performing Arts Festival is an opportunity to bring people together so that they can share knowledge and practice within the field of Theatre & Performing Arts for Children & Young People, to deepen understanding, develop practice, create new opportunities, and strengthen the global sector, on behalf of all children everywhere. It is one of the largest and most eclectic gatherings of members from all continents and, as such, opens doors to future cooperation between artists from different countries. Read full article> |
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