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  • Paulo Merisio, Counselor of the Executive Committee
    Paulo Merisio, Counselor of the Executive Committee

    “Voices of a New World” and the Pedagogy of Listening

    Starting to prepare for the event of ITYARN, the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network, at the ASSITEJ Congress in Cuba 2024, which has the theme "Voices of a New World: Legacy and Innovation in TYA", I started to reflect on how we are opening ourselves - especially in the context of Brazil - to these voices. Who is being listened to? Unfortunately, in our country, there is still a lot to be developed so that all children and young people can have equal space for expression and can effectively be heard.

    “Listening means the permanent availability on the part of the listening subject to be open to the speech of the…

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    3Place – Performing Arts as the Third Place for the Young Audience

    3Place is a new 3-year cooperation project led by Scenekunstbruket (NO) with affiliated entity Kloden theatre (N), alongside Junges Ensemble…

  • Shoaib Iqbal, Executive Committee
    Shoaib Iqbal, Executive Committee

    Building Collective Cultural Capital

    The support network we are able to build over a period of time, in the community, country or at the global level, becomes one of the greatest resources for personal and professional development. There is a great amount of trust that gets invested in such relationships, which translates into collaborations, exchange and exposure; three essential ingredients for successful arts and cultural practices in general, but especially for theatre for children and young people.

    Earlier this week, I was sitting with a group of young theatre makers from seven countries who were in Lahore,…

  • Seok-hong Kim, Executive Committee
    Seok-hong Kim, Executive Committee

    A New Year Resolution

    There may be a lot of artists and practitioners all over the world who are full of eagerness for TYA, but are invisible on an international level.

    In the middle of November 2022, we (the ASSITEJ EC) traveled to Jordan to have an Executive Committee Meeting and…

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    Valeria Frabetti Award: Festival Visioni di futuro, visioni di teatro 2023

    La Baracca wants to award people (artists, pedagogues, researchers, politicians, cultural operators…) or institutions that have deservingly promoted the development…

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    Radical Dramaturgies: a path to democratic performing arts for early childhoods

    Abstract This investigation focuses on the criteria to create democratic performing arts projects for early childhoods, considering the aesthetic representation…

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    Coffee Session: Diversity and Inclusion in TYA

    7 & 8 November 2022 Join us for this stimulating session, as our guests discuss and share ways to think…

  • Bebê de Soares, Executive Committee
    Bebê de Soares, Executive Committee

    The Future of International Collaborations is Here

    The greater good in international networking is literally to create platforms in order to share information.

    After what seemed like a lifetime away, 2022 came strong with all of us meeting in presence, in numbers that…

  • ASSITEJ Argentina, ITYARN, Uncategorised

    Call for Papers: 6th International Theatre for Young Audiences Researchers and Critics Forum

    This is an open call for papers to participate in the 6th International Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA)[1] Critics and…

  • ASSITEJ International, Uncategorised

    Umbrella Networking: Next Generation Network

    The Executive Committee of ASSITEJ International is happy to invite you to an informal online meeting for people actively engaged…

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ITI - International Theater Institute
IATC - International Association of Theatre Critics
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