We can’t meet? Let’s join!

This May many members would have met at the 20th ASSITEJ World Congress in Tokyo. Due to COVID-19, this will not happen. As a response to this, ASSITEJ will facilitate a number of online meetings for the sector. In a time where many colleagues around the world are isolated, it has a great value to meet online. These meetings are open to all members of ASSITEJ national centres, networks and individual members, as well as to interested TYA artists.

We want to start by hosting regional meetings where we can connect in smaller groupings in the period between 20 May – 2 June. Each region will meet twice. The first meeting will be to connect and find out how everyone is doing, what they are experiencing, and what challenges and concerns they have at this time. A week later, our second regional meeting will be curated around a question, direction, or potential project that is suggested coming out of the first meeting. Some translation will be provided for of both these meetings.

The EC will then collate these responses and start to see how we might connect regions or themes together. We intend to curate further meetings, open to anyone who is interested, which will take forward the themes and needs that have been brought up in the regional meetings. 

Given that ASSITEJ cannot meet physically in 2020, we intend to meet virtually on a regular basis, and to pursue our artistic practice and conversations together. We look forward to meeting you.

Here are the dates and times of the regional meetings :

Main Region(s)	Date	Time (click to see the time in your country)	Link to registration	Facilitator	Language	Translation
Europe 1st meeting	20 May	16:00 CET	Register	Stefan Fisher-Fels (D) Cecilie Lundsholt (No)	English	French
Europe 2nd meeting	27 May	16:00 CET	Register		English	French
Asia / Oceania 1st meeting	20 May	14:00 JST	Register	Sue Giles (Aus) Kenjiro Otani (Jap) Seok-Hong Kim (S. Kor)	English	Japanese Mandarin?
Asia / Oceania 2nd meeting	27 May	14:00 JST	Register	Sue Giles (Aus) Kenjiro Otani (Jap) Seok-Hong Kim (S. Kor)	English	Japanese Mandarin?
Africa 1st meeting	21 May	13:00 SAST	Register	Yvette Hardie Pamela Udoka	English	French, and Portuguese if possible
Africa 2nd meeting	28 May	13:00 SAST	Register	Yvette Hardie Pamela Udoka	English	French, and Portuguese if possible
Central Asia 1st meeting	22 May	11:00 MSK	Register	Tatiana Bobrova	Russian	English
Central Asia 2st meeting	29 May	11:00 MSK	Register	Tatiana Bobrova	Russian	English
North America 1st meeting	22 May	11:00 CDT	Register	Manon van der Water Ernie Nolan	English	Spanish
North America 2nd meeting	29 May	11:00 CDT	Register	Manon van der Water Ernie Nolan	English	Spanish
Middle East 1st meeting	26 May	15:00 TRT	Register	Yvette Hardie
Middle East 2nd meeting	31 May	15:00 TRT	Register	Yvette Hardie
Latin America 1st meeting	25 May	12:00 ART	Register	Daniel Fernandez	Spanish	English
Latin America 2nd meeting	1 June	12:00 ART	Register	Daniel Fernandez	Spanish	English
French-speaking 1st meeting	28 Mai	15:00 CET	Register	Émilie Robert François Fogel	French	English
French-speaking 2nd meeting	5 June	9:30 EDT	Register		French	English

Countries with restricted access to the Coffee Sessions

The platform for the meetings is Zoom. Unfortunately, Zoom does not allow access for persons in the US government’s list of sanctioned countries.

One way to access the coffee sessions from these countries is by using a VPN.

ASSITEJ apologize for this inconvenience. Please contact us for questions: sg@assitej-international.