Thursday, March 08, 2012
World
Day of Theatre for Children is to be celebrated and
promoted through the campaign Take
a Child to the Theatre Today. This focus should enable
National Centres and others to connect with the idea around World
Day without the need to deliver major activities. The message is
simple - take a child to the theatre - today! If
many people get behind this message, a great deal of impact can be
achieved.
Here are some possibilities for promotion of the message around
World Day - Take A Child To The Theatre
Promotion of World Day - 20th March
TAKE A
CHILD TO THE THEATRE TODAY
World Day for Theatre for Children is to be celebrated and
promoted through the campaign 'Take a Child to the Theatre
Today'.This focus should enable National Centres and others to
connect with the idea around World Day without the need to deliver
major activities. The message is simple 'takeachild to the theatre
- today. If many people get behind this message, a great deal of
impact can be achieved.
Here are some possibilities for promotion of the message around
World Day - Take A Child To The Theatre
LINK TO THE
WORLD DAY MESSAGES
Any information sent out should have a link to the World Day
message for 2012, written by Suzanne Lebeau. There is also a
message from the President of ASSITEJ Yvette Hardie.
There will be a short 2 minute video made available soon (an
edit of the film made for the 17th ASSITEJ World
Congress) which can also be shared.
NET PROMOTION AND SOCIAL MEDIA
By using social media (twitter, facebook and others) and also
websites we can promote the idea of 'Take A Child to the Theatre
Today' and link this to the ASSITEJ site.
You could also use SMS (texts) to promote the message.
Anyone can put content on the ASSITEJ facebook page, which
admins can then repost/ share through the ASSITEJ newsfeed
MEDIA
Where possible connect to local and national media: newspapers,
TV, radio. If you can interview someone of importance, an artist,
politician, cultural decision maker, child specialists, this could
be a good way to promote the message and establish WHY it is
important to take children to the theatre.
EVENTS AND ACTIVITES
Some possibilities -
- Create special events with members of your national ASSITEJ
centre; give out awards or special thanks on that day
- Prepare a special programme, conference, forum, round table,
seminar, or workshop
- Produce performances - street theatre, animations, extracts of
plays, dance, monologues.
- Print flayers with the message Take a Child to the Theatre
Todayand hand out it on streets, schools, and theatres. Use
advertising panels with the message supported by sponsors
- Give the task to film students to make a short film promoting
the World Day campaign - working with children, actors, ordinary
people. Upload it on to You Tube
- Work with school teachers to dedicate 20 minute of drama
activity with children
Read
Suzanne Lebeau's messages in English, Spanish and
French:
Suzanne Lebeau is the author of some 20 plays (translated
into 13 languages) and co-founder of Montreal's Le Carrousel
theatre company. Supported by creative research that breaks through
limits and boundaries, artistic directors Suzanne Lebeau and
Gervais Gaudreault have used their passion to form a repertoire of
originalworks that are considered, in Quebec and abroad, to be
milestones in the history of theatre for young audiences. Her
significant contribution to children's theatre has earned her
numerous awards and honours in Canada and abroad, including being
named a Knight of the Ordre de la Pléiade. Her most recent play, Le
bruit des os qui craquent (The Cracking of the Bones) has been
awarded the Distinction de la Comédie-Française.
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