After the circle of festivals and symposiums in July and August in Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka and Okinawa, where lot of ASSITEJ members participated with their performances or as the speakers in symposiums, and after the short break in August, theatre world for young audiences is coming back to it’s regular life. September is a month of the openings of new performances, the month of festivals, but also the month when the ASSITEJ office starts working again.

I am happy to inform you that ASSITEJ International has a new office, given to our association by the municipality of Zagreb. Please do note the new address:

ASSITEJ International
Petra Preradovica 44/II
10000 Zagreb, Croatia

The telephone, fax and email addresses are the same, and we are looking forward to receive your messages and your contributions to this Newsletter that we are publishing every first week in each month. Do not hesitate to send us information on your activity and we shall be happy to publish it here as well as on our web site www.assitej-international.org

I wish you very happy and prosperous new theater season.

Ivica Simic, Secretary General, sec.gen@assitej-international.org

Queensland Youth Arts Market: Young People and the Arts Australia presents the QLD Youth Arts Market

QLD’s youth arts companies and practitioners will gather under the one roof in October for this four day event to showcase their latest work,to share ideas through forums and workshops and to broaden networks cross industries and regions.

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Planning Safer Projects, professional development forum

Young People and the Arts Australia have developed a professional development forum which is extremely important to the industry: Planning Safer Projects.

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The 12th Meeting and Festival of the Croatian centre of ASSITEJ

and The 3rd Epifest, festival of theatres from Central and South-eastern Europe will be held in Cakovec, Croatia from the 12th to the 17th of October.

The meeting is organized by the Centre of culture in Cakovec and Croatian centre of ASSITEJ. For the selector of the shows is elected Magdalena Lupi. It will be presented 10 shows from Croatia.

The 3rd EPIFEST

In the same period, the 3rd Epifest, festival of theatres from Central and South-eastern Europe will be held. The program is made of the performances from Austria, Montenegro, Italy and Greece.

Within the Festival the Conference on regional cooperation in Central and Southeastern Europe will be held.

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ASSITEJ Finland is working on the choices for the Bravo! festival 2010. and is also planning how to celebrate ASSITEJ Finlands 35th anniversary in 2010.

The Nordic Latin American project - ASSITEJ International project

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Theatre for Early Years. Research in Performing Arts for Children from Birth to Three

The publication edited by Wolfgang Schneider and published by Peter Lang Publishers with support from the European Network Small Size and the Austrian Festival Schäxpir in the city of Linz has stimulated the ongoing discussion of this topic.   read more

Wolfgang Schneider at WAAE World Summit in Newcastle

From 31 October - 2 November Wolfgang Schneider will join the WAAE 2009 World Summit which will work towards a paradigm of Creative Education for the 21st Century and prepare for the UNESCO conference which is going to take place in May 2010. read more...

Frankfurt Author’s Forum

for Children’s and Young People’s Theatre is taking place from 3-5 December 2009 in Frankfurt (Main) read more...

ASSITEJ Pakistan presents success with the shows, Play Production Workshops and seminars

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Irish TEAM’s production of Devotion Coming to South Africa: 1-19 September 2009

Assitej SA is working with Irish theatre in education company, TEAM to ensure a successful presentation of their play Devotion intargeted schools in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

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Public Forums: Interactivity of Theatre and Education: 10 and 19 September 2009

Linked to the Devotion tour, there will be two Public Forums to discuss the "Interactivity between Theatre and Education" - with invited education and art and culture department officials in attendance, educators, and theatre
practitioners interested in working in schools.
At this forum we will explore how to revitalise and strengthen theatre in education in South Africa.

ACYTA MEETING

will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa: 17-19 September 2009 Assitej South Africa will host an ACYTA (African Children and Youth Theatre Arena) Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 17 -19 September 2009.

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Call for participation: Out the Box Family Festival, Cape Town, SA: 20-28 March 2010

Assitej SA is working with UNIMA SA to curate the Family Festival component of the Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance, the innovative Cape Town-based festival which takes place at the Baxter theatre from 20-28 March 2010.

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Call for participation: National Arts Festival 2010, Grahamstown, SA

The 2010 National Arts Festival is going to be a massive global celebration of the arts; it will run in Grahamstown from 20 June to 4 July.

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