Every three years ASSITEJ holds a World Festival, which presents the world’s most outstanding works in theatre for children and young people and a Congress attended by more than 80 member countries, which establishes the working plan for the next three years.
Chronology of the ASSITEJ Congresses
1964 Formative Meeting ASSITEJ – Londres, Great Britain
1965 Formative Meeting ASSITEJ – Paris, France
1966 I International Congress – Prague, Czechoslovakia
1968 II Internatinal Congress – The Hague, The Netherlands
1970 III International Congress – Venice, Italy
1972 IV International Congress – Montreal, Canada & Albany, USA
1975 V International Congress – East Berlin, East Germany
1978 VI International Congress – Madrid, Spain
1981 VII International Congress – Lyons, France
1984 VIII International Congress – Moscow, USSR
1987 IX International Congress – Adelaide, Australia
1990 X World Congress – Stockholm, Sweden
1993 XI World Congress – Havana, Cuba
1996 XII World Congress – Rostov-on-Don, Russia
1999 XIII World Congress – Tromsø, Norway
2002 XIV World Congress – Seoul, South Korea
2005 XV World Congress – Montreal, Canada
2008 XVI World Congress – Adelaide, Australia
2011 XVII World Congress – Copenhagen, Denmark & Malmö, Sweden
2014 XVIII World Congress – Warsaw, Poland
2017 XIX World Congress – Cape Town, South Africa – Minutes General Assembly