Dear friends of ASSITEJ

The November issue of  the ASSITEJ International Newsletter brings you a lot of interesting information from all over the world. This illustrates the growing activity of its members, as well as their interest to publish this information in our courier and our web site. We are strongly supporting you in this and are looking forward to receiving even more such news for the issue in December.

New Office for ASSITEJ International

The Secretariat has moved to a new office located at Preradovićeva 44, Zagreb, Croatia. The office offers the possibility to create and implement various programs that should contribute to the popularization of theater for young audiences. The office of ASSITEJ International will open its doors for public use, as well as found a library, offer a place for different meetings, seminars and small workshops, organize public readings of new plays, and will be opened for any kind of communication with the artists and everybody interested in theatre for young audiences.

I invite you to take advantage of this opportunity. Send us your publications, journals on children's theatre that you are regularly publishing, new editions of books, your promotional materials or anything else that can make our library more interesting. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.

International Theatre for Children and Young People World Day

We invite you to start preparations for the celebration of the International Theatre for Children and Young People World Day, on March 20th 2010. Please do inform us about your plans and your ideas.

The message for 2010 will be written by Orna Porat, a doyenne of Israeli theater for children and young people, director and founder of National Theater for Children and Youth. She ran this theater for many years and today it bears her name.

Ivica Šimić

Orna Porat

International cooperation projects

Nordic-Ibero American Workshops–ASSITEJ Project Taboo topics in theater for children and young audiences is a project organized by the Ibero American ASSITEJ Centers and the Nordic ASSITEJ Centers that gets together theater professionals of both regions.  more...

“Patios del Recreo en Iberoamérica” (“Playgrounds in Ibero America”) is an interdisciplinary project of play writing, direction, staging, photography and multimedia about playgrounds in secondary schools, dealing with adolescent topics from previous researches in middle level schools in different Ibero American countries. more...

Se Trata de Sentimientos (It’s About Feelings) is a workshop for child sexual abuse prevention. more...

International Theater for Children and Young Audiences Researchers Network (ITYARN)

ITYARN is a collaboration Project between different universities around the World and ASSITEJ International that aims to promote academic researches about theater for children and young audiences. more...

Ibero American Network of Theater for Children and Young Audiences

Within the framework of ASSITEJ International, ATINA is part of the Ibero American Network of Theater for Children and Young Audiences integrated by the Spanish speaking ASSITEJ Centers (Spain, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Paraguay). more...

Ibero American Theater for Children and Young People’s Digital Library

The library is a digital catalogue integrated by the theater for children and young audiences digital libraries in each of the participating countries. This library permits not only the consult of the catalogues but the sending of the requested material, allowing the spreading of Ibero American and international playwriting in Spanish.

The awards of the 12th Meeting and Festival of ASSITEJ Croatia

On October 17th 2009 in Cakovec, an award ceremony closed  the 12th Meeting of Professional Theatres for Children and Young People of the Croatian Centre ASSITEJ. The award for the best play went to The Question of Honor by Lutz Hübner, produced by the City Theatre of Sisak. Go to ASSITEJ Croatia web site and take a look at the rest of the awards! more ...

Theatre Epicentre Meeting

At the third meeting of the Theatre Epicentre, held in Cakovec, in the framework of ASSITEJ Croatia festival and meeting and the 3rd EPIFEST, an agreement of mutual cooperation of theatres for young audiences in the region was reached, a theatre network was founded and the Working Program for 2010 was conciliated. more...

The 7th Razavi Theater International Festival in Iran

The 7th Razavi Theater International Festival was carried out by Central Theatrical Arts of the Ministry of Culture & Islamic Guidance to honor and expand Razavi culture (the character and nature of Imam Reza one of Shiat Imams) in October 2009.  more...

The 16th International Youth & Children Theater Festival was carried out in September 2009, by Theatrical arts Center of the Ministry of Culture & Islamic Guidance and its branch in Isfahan to promote Children & Youth Theater with the aim of making suitable preparation for growth, expansion and organization of children’s theater and presenting life skills by using the country's ancient and folk literature and adaptation of children and youth literature.

Teatro para Ninos y Jovenes, Mexico

Theatre Book Fair was held from 1st till 10th of October 2009 with the colaboration of all theatre publishing houses in Mexico. Teatro para Ninos y Jovenes was in charge of the children's stand.  more...

The third season of the year includes three plays: "El vestido" by Amaranta Leyva, directed by Lourdes Perez Gay, "Papa esta en Atlantida", by Javier Malpica, directed by Sandra Felix and "Callate Josefa" by Monica Hoth, directed by Monica Hoth and Emmanuel Marquez. more...

Breaking the ice’... making new Pak - American cultural moves by ASSITEJ Pakistan

ASSITEJ Pakistan invited Dr. Kanta Kochhar Lindgren, to visit Pakistan to reinforce the idea of cultural exchanges and to enrich the ASSITEJ Pakistan organization. Dr.Kochhar is a writer, director and associate professor of performance studies at the University of Washington.  more...

“BACOVIA” CITY THEATRE, BACĂU Gala STAR in Romania

Bacovia CITY Theatre, Bacău, with the support of the Minister of Culture and Religious Affairs, is setting up the fifth edition of STAR Gala, the International Acting Recital Gala, which will take place between the 15th – 21st of April, 2010.  more...

The WAAE Regional/African Summit on Arts Education

The WAAE Regional/African Summit on Arts Education that will be hold on 15 November, at Wits University, Johannesburg, will create a forum to gather information on existing arts education policies and practices on the African continent, to explore ways to narrow the gaps between policy and implementation. The findings of this summit will be taken forward to the WAAE World Summit on Arts Education in Korea, March 2010.

INSPIRING A GENERATION

Assitej South Africa announces the launch of a new programme, in association with Theatre Arts Admin Collective, to inspire theatre practitioners to make high quality children’s theatre in South Africa. This programme will work to build a new generation of theatre makers working in the area of theatre for children and young people, and through their work develop a generation of children and young people who love and are inspired by theatre performance.   more...

Ugabrain Film Centre

ASSITEJ Uganda on 8th October 2009 launched a new project known as "Ugabrain Film Centre" at the Uganda National Cultural Centre. The function was presided over by the Minister of Labour and Culture in the Uganda Government.  more...

TYA/USA News

Tony Mack will be visiting Chicago to lead a discussion on Theatre for the Very Young and TYA in Australia. His visit will be from November 18th through 20th.

The Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices Festival announces the projects for May 2010!  more...