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A chance to see Danish theatre in 2020

Aprilfestival 2020 and Danish+ had to cancel due to Covid-19. Now Horsens Teaterfestival (18-20 September 2020) opens the programme to…
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A greeting from the members of ASSITEJ in times of quarantine

When Covid-19 reached Denmark and quarantine became our daily reality artists in the membership of ASSITEJ started an initiative of…
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Minister for Hope for the Future

A letter to the Danish Minister for Culture By Pernille Nederland, author & part of the theatre for young audiences…
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VærelZe313 is looking to widen its international network

VærelZe313 was founded in 2009 as the first of its kind in Denmark. They are a youth stage and cultural…
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GrowOP! Festival 2019

🌍Aarhus, DNK 🗓 19 – 24 September 2019 Welcome to the GrowOP! Festival Welcome to the GrowOP! Festival, an international opera festival…
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Aprilfestival is diversity

🌍 Hjørring, DNK 🗓 1 April – 7 April 2019 Visit Denmark in the first week of April and explore…
ASSITEJ Denmark, ASSITEJ Germany

Denmark and Germany at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering in Beijing

The Beijing based Danish Cultural Institute and the Goethe-Institute cooperate with ASSITEJ Centres in Denmark and Germany in order to…
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Aprilfestival is diversity!

Join us in Denmark and explore the enormous diversity represented by more than 173 different TYA productions performing at Aprilfestival 2018. You will…
ASSITEJ Denmark

Aprilfestival is diversity

Join us in Denmark and explore the enormous diversity represented by more than 173 different TYA productions performing at Aprilfestival 2018. You will…
ASSITEJ Denmark

Drought And Abundance In Cape Town

Søren Kløft from the Danish Theatre Centre wrote an interesting article about his impressions at Cradle of Creativity. Is has…

A chance to see Danish theatre in 2020

24 June 2020 13 h 47 min

By: Louis Valente

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Aprilfestival 2020 and Danish+ had to cancel due to Covid-19. Now Horsens Teaterfestival (18-20 September 2020) opens the programme to... Read more →

Aprilfestival 2020 and Danish+ had to cancel due to Covid-19.

Now Horsens Teaterfestival (18-20 September 2020) opens the programme to international visitors.

The programme presents 152 performances

Contact ASSITEJ Denmark as soon as possible and no later than 15 July if you consider attending the festival: lv@assitej.dk

https://horsensteaterfestival.dk/en/

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A greeting from the members of ASSITEJ in times of quarantine

23 June 2020 9 h 59 min

By: Louis Valente

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When Covid-19 reached Denmark and quarantine became our daily reality artists in the membership of ASSITEJ started an initiative of... Read more →

When Covid-19 reached Denmark and quarantine became our daily reality artists in the membership of ASSITEJ started an initiative of sharing small scenes of our lives in our limited worlds.

Soon members from other countries also sent their contributions: Brazil, Germany, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Nepal.

Many of us were (and still are) in our kitchen with a cop of coffee, cooking a meal, talking on the phone, listening to the radio. We were watching what goes on outside and at the same time, our world became very limited. The frame for the contributions was our kitchen and our view from the kitchen – and ourselves: “A (point of) view”.

Enjoy visiting our homes!

Send us a video if you wish to share the view from your kitchen. Use wetransfer.com or similar. Address: lv@assitej.dk

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Minister for Hope for the Future

7 April 2020 22 h 12 min

By: Louis Valente

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A letter to the Danish Minister for Culture By Pernille Nederland, author & part of the theatre for young audiences... Read more →

A letter to the Danish Minister for Culture

By Pernille Nederland, author & part of the theatre for young audiences community.

Dear Joy Mogensen

Why did prehistoric humans make cave paintings? We can only speculate. They painted hunters and they painted animals. Our suggestion is that they were painting a future full of hope. Hope for plenty of food for everyone.

Did the cave painters fulfil a function in their wider culture? For one thing, they bear witness to the kinds of things that occupied the people most of their time. Moreover, they may have been the ones who gave hope to the rest of the community. Perhaps they had a connection to the god of hunting, to whom they communicated specific information through the cave paintings.

Joy Mogensen – you are Minister for Cave Paintings and for Hope for the Future. You are Minister for The Art of Creating Identity. You are Minister for The Art of Dreaming the Impossible.

You have said that culture cannot be put into a spreadsheet. And yet you seem to struggle a bit with definitions.

The RETURN ON INVESTMENT in culture cannot be put into a spreadsheet. What is the cost of hope for the future? Probably many millions, if you ask me. But what does it cost TO CREATE hope for the future? It costs money. It costs funding for theatres, for education of artists. It costs printed song sheets for community singing. And much more.

Recently, you said that investment in society had to go before investment in culture. Allow me to take another look back at our prehistory. There is probably a good reason why we talk about not the Ertebølle Society, but the Ertebølle Culture. Because it was a culture. Danish society IS culture.

The money we spend on culture is an investment in children and young people who know where they have come from. Who can one day remind a wavering Minister for Culture that during the Corona crisis of 2020, we had a strong community culture. Money for culture is money spent on the creation of identity. It is an investment in public mental health. Why do we want to listen to the same stories over and over again, told by new directors, new producers, new grandparents? Because it makes sense to reinterpret them in the light of our current culture – because we, in every age, are people who need to reflect ourselves both in the light of eternity, in the glow of now, and in the future’s laser beam.

We need a Minister for Culture who is as strong as the Prime Minister, the Minister for Industry and Business, and all the other ministers. We need people who create narratives that become the ships on which we sail into the future. Sturdy shipwrights for our dreams. With workshop drawings as old as the cave paintings. And visions strong enough to sail us safely through the crisis and into the future.

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VærelZe313 is looking to widen its international network

19 November 2019 15 h 13 min

By: Kaatje De Geest

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VærelZe313 was founded in 2009 as the first of its kind in Denmark. They are a youth stage and cultural... Read more →

VærelZe313 was founded in 2009 as the first of its kind in Denmark. They are a youth stage and cultural crew at the Danish regional theater, Syddjurs Egnsteater.

The crew consists of a group of young adults between the age of 14 and 25.
Their goal is to introduce and spread the general interest of culture among young people in Syddjurs municipality.
They arrange cultural events such as; plays, stand-up comedy, slam poetry, dance performances, cozy lounge evenings etc.
They are always on the lookout for new things to add to our program, one example could be the worlds largest children and youth theatre festival “Aprilfestival” which they attend every year.
They are not educated in event management and do not practice theatre themselves.
They would love to meet and establish networks with various groups around the world similar to their own.

They are looking forward to hearing from you, send them a mail at 313@syddjursegnsteater.dk
or send them a message on Facebook at VærelZe 313 (@Vaer313).

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