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  • François Fogel
    Vice-president of ASSITEJ
    François Fogel

    Kintsugi

    Kintsugi is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery by filling the breaks with a blend of laquer and gold. Silver and platinum can also be used. Beyond the gesture, which requires great mastery, this technique engages the imagination of the craftsman, his sense of life. Thanks to it, the history of the object acquires a new meaning, it becomes more unique, more precious. For this reason, Kinstugi is often used as a metaphor of resilience.

    Kintsugi is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery by filling the breaks with a blend of laquer and gold….

  • ASSITEJ International, ASSITEJ Japan

    The virtual ASSITEJ World Congress: visit the new website!

    The 20th ASSITEJ World Congress & International Performing Arts Festival for Children and Young People / MIRAI 2020 will take…

  • ASSITEJ International

    ASSITEJ World Congress & MIRAI 2020: a blended physical & virtual event

    🌏 Online + Tokyo, JPN 🗓 22 -31 March 2021 20th ASSITEJ CONGRESS to be a blended event The 20th…

  • ASSITEJ International

    ASSITEJ Coffee Session in March: Children’s Perspectives in Times of Pandemic

    🌍 Online Language: English COFFEE SESSION – PLUS ONE! CHILDRENS VOICES – CHILDRENS PERSPECTIVES IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC We invite you to the…

  • Stefan Fischer-Fels
    ASSITEJ Executive Committee
    Stefan Fischer-Fels

    To a year full of hope

    The craziest year of my life ends, this year of the pandemic which infected the social and cultural life everywhere. Children were much too often forgotten or seen as “learning machines”. The rights of children to participate in cultural life of a society was cut down. Artists were also forgotten and cannot do their work. The life of ASSITEJ suddenly changed. Instead of an unforgettable World Congress which should have happened in May 2020 in Tokyo – we emigrated into the Digital World. We created some remarkable Coffee Sessions in order to stay in contact with you.

    The craziest year of my life ends, this year of the pandemic which infected the social and cultural life everywhere….

  • ITYARN, Knowledge-Experiences-Reflections.

    Diversity, Representation and Culture in TYA: 4th ITYARN Book

    ITYARN, the International Theatre for Young Audiences Network is the official research network of ASSITEJ. Every three years, at ASSITEJ’s…

  • Knowledge-Experiences-Reflections.

    Everything I Learned from My Engagement in the Shanghai Teenagers Theatre Festival

    By Scott Yanshun Cai Towards the end of 2020, I participated in the 2nd Shanghai Teenagers Theatre Festival – as…

  • ASSITEJ International

    Watch the Manifesto in Italian

    Theatre Bradipoteatar, a new member of ASSITEJ International from the Republic of San Marino, had the Manifesto recorded by kids…

  • Manon van de Water
    member of the Executive Committee of ASSITEJ
    Manon van de Water

    Covid-19, the CRC, and the Right to Participate

    Covid-19 has upended our lives but more importantly, perhaps, that of children and youth who are affected educationally, socially, economically, politically, and culturally, mostly through decisions and policies not of their making and not necessarily with them in mind. 

    Covid-19 has upended our lives but more importantly, perhaps, that of children and youth who are affected educationally, socially, economically,…

  • Knowledge-Experiences-Reflections.

    “The Curious Theatre” – an inspiring allegory by Goran Tomka

    “Curious theatre is filled with talking trees,self-doubting critics,permeable borders,welcoming smiles,migrating plants,inexplicable hopes,never-ending deadlines (…)” Video: Hear Goran Tomka read the…

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IDEA International
ITI - International Theater Institute
IATC - International Association of Theatre Critics
IUTA - International University Theatre Association
Theatre Without Borders
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