Happy new year!
As the new year starts, we wish for you, your family, and
your companies happiness and growth. And we hope to see a lot of
brilliant productions and activities of theatre for children and
young people during our special edition of the festival: Kijimuna
Festa 2012 / ASSITEJ International Meeting!
Next Generation Network
We are happy to announce that Kijimuna Festa 2012 /
ASSITEJ International Meeting will be the venue to launch ASSITEJ's
exciting project: Next Generation Network. We have sent out the
brief information about the application in our last newsletter, but
here is the message from the Next Generation members:
The Kijimuna: Next Generation Network
During the 3 years between 2008 and 2011, ASSITEJ organised the
Next Generation project and trained 23 young artists from 17
countries to become next-generation international artists. While
participating in festivals, forums and conferences held all over
the world, and developing our professional skills and knowledge of
theatre for young audiences we, the Next Generation artists,
produced four international productions such as "My Mother Told Me
Not To Stare" (A UK/Australia collaboration) and "Boon Wurrung
Ngargee" (A Finland/Australia collaboration). In addition, we
also presented 5 research papers including "The Taboo of Sadness:
Why Are We Scared to Let Our Children Be Scared?" and "The
Manipulation of Innocence in Australian Stages". Furthermore, we
have nine work-in-progress projects.
So, what do we mean by "next-generation international artist"?
After 3 years of work, we have become passionate about the key
issues of theatre for young audiences in our time. These are issues
such as "baby dramas", "taboos", "new technologies" and "theatre
by, for and/or with young people". We are fully aware of the way
that theatre for young audiences has changed over the past few
decades and understand the values of international collaborations,
as well as the potential positive and negative effects of theatre
on young audiences.
In order to share these essences, along with many others, and to
discuss the future of theatre for young audiences with young
artists all around the world, we have decided to launch our new
project - Next Generation Network - at the Kijimura Festa 2012. We
hope to invite younger artists to this event and help them meet
like-minded people.
This will be a great opportunity to develop yourself as a
next-generation international artist, so why not join us? If you
desire to work internationally, want to know more about theatre for
young audiences in other countries or feel dissatisfied by works of
theatre for young audiences in your own countries, we would love to
hear from you!
Please email applications by
January 30th 2012 to ng.network@mail.com
We look forward to seeing you.
From all members of the Next Generation
Download the 'call out'
document and the
application form.
Visit www.kijimunafesta.com