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International Exposure of Israeli Theater for Young People

Dear Assitej members, We hope you are all well and have enjoyed the holiday season. We are very excited to…
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ASSITEJ KOREA calls for applications for their online Next Generation Program

ASSITEJ KOREA calls for applications for their online Next Generation Program which is one of K-PAP programs in the 17th…
ASSITEJ Korea

K-PAP 2021- Application for Participation of Programs

ASSITEJ KOREA is inviting all for K-PAP 2021 Programs held during the 17th ASSITEJ Korea Winter Festival in Seoul! K-PAP…
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Call for international performances for Bibu and the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2022!

We are happy to announce the call for international performances for Bibu and the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2022! Bibu and…
ASSITEJ Italy

Belluno Kids Festival: Advent Calendar

BELLUNO KIDS FESTIVAL : ADVENT CALENDAR A virtual advent calendar. This is the Belluno Kids project and our new program…
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New national center in Luxembourg

Since 2020 ASSITEJ has a new national center in Luxembourg. After having been a corresponding membre for several years, some…
ASSITEJ Australia

Preparing as we look forward – ASSITEJ Australia

PREPARING AS WE LOOK FORWARD It has been a year of innovation and possibility along with devastating impact for Theatre…
ASSITEJ Korea

ASSITEJ KOREA Winter Festival – Seoul 2021

🌏 Seoul, KOR 🗓 6 – 24 January 2021 We would like to invite you to our 17th ASSITEJ KOREA…
ASSITEJ Switzeland

News from ASSITEJ Switzerland

At the general meeting assembly of ASSITEJ Switzerland/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra, which was held in November 2020 and online for the first time,…
ASSITEJ Spain

ASSITEJ Spain Award for Jordi Palet i Puig

Jordi Palet i Puig, 21st ASSITEJ Spain Award for Theatre for Children and Young People On Monday 23rd November, the…

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A divided Australia

15 July 2020 15 h 48 min

By: Louis Valente

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News from ASSITEJ Australia What an extraordinary time for us all. In Australia, we find ourselves divided in many ways:... Read more →

News from ASSITEJ Australia

What an extraordinary time for us all. In Australia, we find ourselves divided in many ways: some obvious and new with the pandemic – others like racism too familiar and very deeply ingrained across the whole of our society.

In the midst of this pandemic we find lines drawn harshly between states and territories as different jurisdictions respond. Many new cases have presented across Melbourne in Victoria and we are now re-entering six weeks of restricted movements when we’re only permitted to leave the house for essential reasons. However, across the rest of Australia, many have begun to go back out into suburbs, towns and cities. Some of us are occupied with how to stay safe at home, and simultaneously there are many who are considering safety of re-opening theatres and re-starting activities.

There is upheaval and change everywhere we look. We hold hope, along with many that we can learn and act in a difficult time to ensure a fairer future for all generations of people across Australia.

We are working through this moment in time to make a case to increase investment and commitment to the vital sector of performance for young audiences and youth arts – necessary for the recovery, resilience and imaginative future for young people in Australia.

International panels and interconnectedness across the seas

Over the past few months Sue Giles, Australian member of the Executive Committee of ASSITEJ International, has sat on multiple virtual panels, discussing the impacts of the pandemic, virtual presentation and online engagement. I-Entertainment (India) and The Little Art (Pakistan) ran a three-day forum, including speakers from around the world. Catch up here. https://www.facebook.com/assitej.pakistan/videos/387047148901045/

TYA USA ran a webinar on virtual presentation and engagement with Australian artists Gemma Pepper, Luke Kerridge, Sue Giles and Andy Packer, which you can watch here. https://www.gotostage.com/channel/d7e5d8df02ac46eda7cd96a2466e9d8b/recording/6af4bf062ed24e6c88862e1090570c11/watch?source=CHANNEL

Sue attended a forum created by Kirtana Kumar titled Because the World is YOU with speakers as follows:
- Lakshmi K (Hasiru Dala, Bangalore) – Creating online theatre pedagogies to serve the under-served
- Shaili Sathyu (Gillo repertory, Mumbai) – 4 silos of children’s theatre in India
- Julia Dina Hesse (Uni of Weisbaden) – Sustainability and children’s theatre
- Kenjiro Otani (ASSITEJ, International) – Space, Time and Ideas
- Ramanjit Kaur (Creative Arts, Kolkata) – Rethinking Theatre Exercises for the digital space
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/xO9uNbLt3DxIR9bO5GDnfKFmLpnvX6a8hnUY-PUJnk0v9X8yi8pSJv-gT7g9C8et
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And finally, Sue spoke to Ellie Griffiths during the on-line version of Edinburgh International Children’s Festival. Watch it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meqUSAN-U40
First ASSITEJ Advisory Pool Announced

We are delighted that we have assembled a fabulous group of people from across Australia for the first ASSITEJ Advisory Group. This group will assist our National Centre (Theatre Network Australia), and Sue Giles, to understand better what’s happening across the vast country in Theatre for Young Audiences and Youth Arts.

There are representatives from seven states and territories, companies, festivals and independents from both Theatre for Young Audiences and Youth Arts. We look forward to the intelligence, advocacy and connectivity that will come from establishing this Advisory Group. We have no doubt their input will strengthen the sector for us all within Australia and represent us better internationally.

ASSITEJ International “Regional Coffee Sessions”

Our regional coffee sessions were an incredible chance to listen to our members, to meet people for the first time and to engage with artists’ real needs and concerns. We look to this regional conversation as a way to build the possibility for stronger collaborative projects within Australia and across our region.

Categories: ASSITEJ Australia, National Centers
Success for 1 day, 1 play #2

14 April 2015 17 h 43 min

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The professionals gathered in Nantes, for the 2015 festival Petits et Grands, in the first days of April, had the... Read more →

The professionals gathered in Nantes, for the 2015 festival Petits et Grands, in the first days of April, had the pleasure to meet and exchange with the international guests who attended the different events. Among them were, notably, Vigdis Jakobsdottir, vice-president of ASSITEJ, delegates from Québec, a strong delegation of future Belgian ASSITEJ’s representatives, and Dr Gerd Taube, Artistic director of Augenblick mal !. This year, Petits et Grands proposed the german production « Trashedy », from the Performing Group, in the frame of a « Carte blanche », an artistic exchange with Augenblick mal !, in which the French production « Swift », from company Skappa is programmed in Berlin on 24th and 25th April.
Success for 1 day, 1 play #2
The instant playwriting game, proposed by ASSITEJ France with WLPG and the European network LaboO7, was a great success : about 45 plays, written between March 1st and 15th, where published at the occasion of the World Day of Theatre. Professional playwrights and translators from 22 countries took part in this event, just for the fun of it. The imposed theme of this jubilee year for ASSITEJ was « Anniversary ».

A selection of 12 of these short plays was read by students of the theatre course of Nantes, for the public of the festival Petits et Grands .

All the texts are avaliable on http://1jour1piece.assitejfrance.fr

Categories: ASSITEJ France, National Centers, WLPG

Tags: 1 day 1 play, World day of theatre
Petits et Grands welcomes the international delegates

14 April 2015 17 h 38 min

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This publication is the outcome of the third International Theatre for Young Audiences Research (ITYARN) conference in conjunction with an... Read more →

This publication is the outcome of the third International Theatre for Young Audiences Research (ITYARN) conference in conjunction with an ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival held in Warsaw, Poland in 2014. The ITYARN conferences’ themes always give a very broad frame to invite researchers from different countries and with diverse Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) traditions as well as diverse academic cultures to contribute to an international exchange about TYA. While exiting, this exchange is always a challenge. How to talk about aesthetic experiences and concepts of childhood in an intercultural dialogue? This is not just a question of translation but also of culturally determined concepts of TYA. Last but not least are the academic attitudes and modes of (critical) discussion themselves, which are culturally informed and shaped by individual experiences. With this publication, ITYARN once again takes up this most interesting task of developing intercultural exchange about TYA. It offers space for a diversity of author contributions, and it invites readers with academic and/ or artistic backgrounds to look for new inspirations for his or her reflections on TYA.

Geesche Wartemann (Hrsg.) ; Tülin Saglam (Hrsg.) ; Mary Mc Avoy (Hrsg.)

Youth and Performance: Perceptions of the Contemporary Child

2015, 208 S., mit 15 Abb., Paperback
Reihe: Medien und Theater, 13
ISBN: 978-3-487-15241-7

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This publication is the outcome of the third International Theatre for Young Audiences Research (ITYARN) conference in conjunction with an ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival held in Warsaw, Poland in 2014. The ITYARN conferences’ themes always give a very broad frame to invite researchers from different countries and with diverse Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) traditions as well as diverse academic cultures to contribute to an international exchange about TYA. While exiting, this exchange is always a challenge. How to talk about aesthetic experiences and concepts of childhood in an intercultural dialogue? This is not just a question of translation but also of culturally determined concepts of TYA. Last but not least are the academic attitudes and modes of (critical) discussion themselves, which are culturally informed and shaped by individual experiences. With this publication, ITYARN once again takes up this most interesting task of developing intercultural exchange about TYA. It offers space for a diversity of author contributions, and it invites readers with academic and/ or artistic backgrounds to look for new inspirations for his or her reflections on TYA.

Geesche Wartemann (Hrsg.) ; Tülin Saglam (Hrsg.) ; Mary Mc Avoy (Hrsg.)

Youth and Performance: Perceptions of the Contemporary Child

2015, 208 S., mit 15 Abb., Paperback
Reihe: Medien und Theater, 13
ISBN: 978-3-487-15241-7

The Worldwide Festival of Puppet Theaters of Charleville – Mézières takes part in « la Belle saison avec l’enfance et la jeunesse », the national program for TYA launched by the French Ministry of Culture to enlight contemporary creationship for children and young people in the field of performing arts.

In this frame, it proposes a two-years program, and invites international actors from the artistic, educational, cultural, research, and socio-cultural fields to question the mutual influence between young audiences and puppet productions at the occasion of its 2015 edition (18 – 25. September 2015). The first encounter will take place during the WWFPT, and will offer a 2 days artistic journey and meetings. “The meetings of the Festival should enable us to share our thoughts, our conceptions and our stories, different or shared, on the interpenetration and interaction between young people and performing arts, to envisage the condition of their European harmonization and to question the mutual influence which exists between culture and construction of the European identity. This topic has so far been little explored.”

In September 2016, a second meeting will be organized, this time inviting the professionals to share and discuss with young European spectators.

This project has been developed from March 2014 by a survey through an international network of 26 organizations, festivals, theatres and companies, together with a group of reseachers and practitioners. It is supported by the Champagne-Ardennes Region. Applications have been made to the European progamm Erasmus + to cover traveling and accomodation expenses.

This call out is open to professionals of arts / education / childhood around the world. Persons linked with a group of young people, which could therefore take part in the 2016 encounter, are warmly welcome.

Please, read the attached documents, and apply to relpubliques.festival@marionnette.com

Download the introduction to the project : Introduction – Charleville Worldwide Festival of Puppet Theatres – Eng
Download the planning of 2015’s encounters : Encounter planning – Worldwide Festival of Puppet Theatres – Eng
This publication is the outcome of the third International Theatre for Young Audiences Research (ITYARN) conference in conjunction with an ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival held in Warsaw, Poland in 2014. The ITYARN conferences’ themes always give a very broad frame to invite researchers from different countries and with diverse Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) traditions as well as diverse academic cultures to contribute to an international exchange about TYA. While exiting, this exchange is always a challenge. How to talk about aesthetic experiences and concepts of childhood in an intercultural dialogue? This is not just a question of translation but also of culturally determined concepts of TYA. Last but not least are the academic attitudes and modes of (critical) discussion themselves, which are culturally informed and shaped by individual experiences. With this publication, ITYARN once again takes up this most interesting task of developing intercultural exchange about TYA. It offers space for a diversity of author contributions, and it invites readers with academic and/ or artistic backgrounds to look for new inspirations for his or her reflections on TYA.

Geesche Wartemann (Hrsg.) ; Tülin Saglam (Hrsg.) ; Mary Mc Avoy (Hrsg.)

Youth and Performance: Perceptions of the Contemporary Child

2015, 208 S., mit 15 Abb., Paperback
Reihe: Medien und Theater, 13
ISBN: 978-3-487-15241-7

More information

This publication is the outcome of the third International Theatre for Young Audiences Research (ITYARN) conference in conjunction with an ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival held in Warsaw, Poland in 2014. The ITYARN conferences’ themes always give a very broad frame to invite researchers from different countries and with diverse Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) traditions as well as diverse academic cultures to contribute to an international exchange about TYA. While exiting, this exchange is always a challenge. How to talk about aesthetic experiences and concepts of childhood in an intercultural dialogue? This is not just a question of translation but also of culturally determined concepts of TYA. Last but not least are the academic attitudes and modes of (critical) discussion themselves, which are culturally informed and shaped by individual experiences. With this publication, ITYARN once again takes up this most interesting task of developing intercultural exchange about TYA. It offers space for a diversity of author contributions, and it invites readers with academic and/ or artistic backgrounds to look for new inspirations for his or her reflections on TYA.

Geesche Wartemann (Hrsg.) ; Tülin Saglam (Hrsg.) ; Mary Mc Avoy (Hrsg.)

Youth and Performance: Perceptions of the Contemporary Child

2015, 208 S., mit 15 Abb., Paperback
Reihe: Medien und Theater, 13
ISBN: 978-3-487-15241-7

More information

The professionals gathered in Nantes, for the 2015 festival Petits et Grands, in the first days of April, had the pleasure to meet and exchange with the international guests who attended the different events. Among them were, notably, Vigdis Jakobsdottir, vice-president of ASSITEJ, delegates from Québec, a strong delegation of future Belgian ASSITEJ’s representatives, and Dr Gerd Taube, Artistic director of Augenblick mal !. This year, Petits et Grands proposed the german production « Trashedy », from the Performing Group, in the frame of a « Carte blanche », an artistic exchange with Augenblick mal !, in which the French production « Swift », from company Skappa is programmed in Berlin on 24th and 25th April.

Categories: ASSITEJ France, National Centers
3rd International TYA Researchers and Critics Forum Publication

8 April 2015 17 h 30 min

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Honorary Worker of Culture On March 10, The National Theatre Day, the presentation of “Honorary Worker of Culture” badge and... Read more →

Honorary Worker of Culture

On March 10, The National Theatre Day, the presentation of “Honorary Worker of Culture” badge and “Summit” awards was held in the State Musical Theatre organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Board member of the Centre, a theatre actor, Honoured Artist Shovgi Huseynov got “Summit” award and theatre actor Muharram Musayev got the badge of “Honorary Worker of Culture”.

Starting from March 19 the Novruz holiday was held in our theatre.

“Novruz Holiday” is enlisted to the “intangible cultural heritage list” of UNESCO as a world heritage masterpiece with the supreme and universal values on September 30, 2009.

At the festival, representatives of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, as well as Iran and Turkey demonstrated their folk art and their national cuisine.

It is gratifying to note that, Novruz festivities are celebrating in many countries around the world, even in the European Parliament, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, India, Belgium embassies and co-organized by UNESCO and the European Delegation of the European Union Parliament.

Within the frame of the AAG15 that will take place next April in Berlin, Germany, during the Augenblick Mal Festival, the Ibero American Network will present the book “3rd International TYA Researchers and Critics Forum- Aesthetics in TYA”. The publication is the result of one of the collaborative projects developed by the Ibero American Network Members, in this case ASSITEJ Spain and ATINA (ASSITEJ Argentina). The publication includes papers, conferences and debates about Aesthetics in TYA presented during the last Forum that was held in Buenos Aires. The book is included in the “Boletín Iberoamericano de Teatro para la Infancia y la Juventud” published by ASSITEJ Spain. It´s published in Spanish and it will include an English/Spanish version in cd. The book is edited by (English).

The 3^rd International TYA Researchers and Critics Forum, was organized by The Theatre for Children and Young People Independent Practitioners Association (ATINA- Argentina), in collaboration with the Theatre Researchers and Critics Association (AINCRIT- Argentina) and the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN). It took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 21^st to 25^th of August 2014. The topic of this Forum was Aesthetics in TYA. The two previous editions (2010-2012) discussed about Taboos in TYA and Humor in TYA. All the contents are published in English/Spanish and can be found in ASSITEJ Spain website.

To receive this new edition please contact:

info@atina.org.ar

assitejespana@assitej.net

Categories: National Centers

Tags: Aesthetics, Andy Wiginton, Ibero American Network, International TYA Researchers and Critics Forum, Juan López Berzal, Manon van de Water, María Inés Falconi