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International Online Theater Festival for Young People "BETTER THAN US"

By Olga Zaets, Rostov-on-Don Due to the spread of coronavirus infection, many international theater festivals were canceled. Olga Zaets, artistic…
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Call for Performances: Minifest

⏰ Deadline: 1 April 2020 🌍 Rostov-on-Don, RUS 🗓 16 – 22 October 2020 The MINIFEST is one of the…
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ASSITEJ Russia meets in Sochi

ASSITEJ Russia Informal Meeting in Sochi In the middle of December (from 16th to 17th) 2018, an enlarged meeting of…
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Call for Performances: Tchir Tchayaan

🌏 Abakan, Khakassia, RUS 🗓 3 – 10 July 2019 The Tchir Tchayaan International Ethnoecological Theatre Festival will take place in the…
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Impressions on the Minifest by Vicky Ireland

Honorary ASSITEJ Member Vicky Ireland shares some memories of the Minifest in Rostov-on-Don, Southern Russia. It was so exciting to…
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Call for Performances: International Theatre Festival Rainbow

🌏 St.Petersburg, RUS 🗓 23 – 29 May 2019 St. Petersburg Bryantsev Theatre for Young Spectators would like to announce a call…
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Saratov TYA Celebrates 100 Years

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Harlequin 2018 – Russian National Award and Festival of Theatre Art for Children

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Open call for performances

MINIFEST 2018 in Rostov-on-Don 13th International theatre festival for children and young people MINIFEST will be held in October 13…
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Open call for performances: 19th International Theatre Festival Rainbow

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International Online Theater Festival for Young People "BETTER THAN US"

9 May 2020 11 h 44 min

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By Olga Zaets, Rostov-on-Don Due to the spread of coronavirus infection, many international theater festivals were canceled. Olga Zaets, artistic... Read more →

By Olga Zaets, Rostov-on-Don

Due to the spread of coronavirus infection, many international theater festivals were canceled. Olga Zaets, artistic director of new online festival “Better than us” would like to give young people who love and miss theater an opportunity to participate in an international online event, watch theater performances from other countries, think, discuss, hear the voices of peers from different parts of the world and theater professionals involved in the creation of performances, and feel that the world is still there.

The festival will be held from May 1 to May 5, 2020 and introduce the performances from China, Germany, Romania, Italy and Russia.

The festival audience will consist of an active and a passive group. The active group is 15 young people from different countries, aged 17-25, who will watch performances online and then discuss them with a moderator from the particular theatre in the format of a video conference.

The passive group – theater professionals, teachers and all interested audience invited by participating theaters. The participants of the passive group will also be able to connect to the video conference, ask questions or leave comments in writing. Invitations to participate in the passive group, links for viewing the performances and IDs for connecting to the conferences will be posted on https://www.facebook.com/Better-than-Us-101304204894983/ and on the websites of the theaters that participate in or invited to join the project.

Schedule of the International online festival “Better than us»:

1.05.2020 “King of Basements”, Children’s and Youth Theater of Dortmund, Germany
2.05.2020 “24 Grandmothers” XI’an Children’s Art Theater, China
3.05.2020 “Golden Dragon”, Andrey Muresau Theater, Romania
4.05.2020 “The Diary of the Ugly duckling”, Theater “Company Factory”, Italy
5.05.2020 “I am Basho”, “Upsala Circus”, Russia

Comments from participants of the festival:

Artistic Director of the Children and Youth Theatre of Dortmund, Andreas Gruhn: “The KJT Dortmund is pleased to be part of this online festival. We work in several national and international networks and are always interested in making new contacts. It is an important part of our artistic development to get to know other forms of theatre and visual languages. Every encounter is an enrichment. The world as we know it will be completely changed in a few years. We must now look for new ways of exchange and communication. BETTER THAN US is a step in this direction. We hope to get to know new interesting partners and experience a new way of exchanging. And last but not least we want to have some fun in this time of fear and isolation”.
Xi’an Children’s Art Theatre, China: “Thank you a lot for organizing this project. I work at Xi’an Children’s Art Theatre in Shaanxi Province. There are few people heared of Shaanxi Province, but most of the people have heared of the Terracotta Army which is in Shaanxi Province. The 24 Grandmothers represents the local culture of the Shaanxi culture. Thanks for the International Online Theatre Festival for Young People “Better than us” that gives the chance to show our local culture to the audience all over the world at this special time. In the important period of anti-COVID-19, pure human sensation can help and support each other! The 24 grandmothers is informed with sincerity. I really hope it can put out good energy and knits people close together!”
Jeremy Turner, artistic director of Cwmni Theatr Arad Goch helped to find young audience for future discussion of shows: “Cwmni Theatr Arad Goch www.aradgoch.wales works in the far west of Europe and in a minority languages, Welsh. However, we believe that our work and culture should be part of a wider scene and so, for twenty-five years, we’ve undertaken many international tours and co-productions and have invited over 70 productions from other countries to perform at our festival www.agordrysau.wales . We are supporting this festival because it’s unique, exciting – and important!”
Diana Krzanic-Tepava, ASSITEJ Serbia, also helped to organize audience for the festival:
“I am very much looking forward to starting a different take on this virtual theatrical world, which is the only possible place for us to meet and act. From the outset of this pandemic, theaters around the world generously offer audiences viewing footage of their performances mostly from their repertoire or archives, or otherwise playing in front of empty theaters and streaming productions, and that is approving how strong and important culture is for humanity, But I expect from the artists and cultural creators, especially in theater, to begin exploring as well this virtual space and discovering the thousands of creative opportunities that new technologies offer as a positive stimulus for new generations of theater and artists and viewers alike. I am personally very optimistic about this and cannot wait to see the first steps in that direction and the results… In that sense “Better Than Us ” is a good shift as giving the voice to young people”.

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Call for Performances: Minifest

21 November 2019 15 h 59 min

By: Kaatje De Geest

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⏰ Deadline: 1 April 2020 🌍 Rostov-on-Don, RUS 🗓 16 – 22 October 2020 The MINIFEST is one of the... Read more →

⏰ Deadline: 1 April 2020
🌍 Rostov-on-Don, RUS
🗓 16 – 22 October 2020

The MINIFEST is one of the oldest international theatre festivals for young audience in Russia. The 14th edition of this international theatre festival for children and young people is now calling for productions.

It was first held in 1989 at the initiative and thanks to the active involvement of Vladimir Chigishev, Chief Director of the Rostov-on-Don TYA from 1989 to 2005. In 1996 theatre and festival hosted the 12^th ASSITEJ World Congress and General Assembly. For more than 20 years of MINIFEST’s history, it has been visited by theatre companies from Russia, Finland, Czech Republic, Austria, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil, USA, China and many other countries.

MINIFEST is not a competitive festival. Its main idea is to present to the audience and theatre community various genres and shapes of theatre for children and youth (with the exception of puppetry).

Contact person:

Olga Zaets (o.zaets.roamt@gmail.com)
International Relations Manager
Rostov-on-Don Academic Youth Theatre

How to apply

Find out how to apply for MINIFEST on their website:

Apply here

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ASSITEJ Russia meets in Sochi

18 January 2019 13 h 21 min

By: Kaatje De Geest

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ASSITEJ Russia Informal Meeting in Sochi In the middle of December (from 16th to 17th) 2018, an enlarged meeting of... Read more →

ASSITEJ Russia Informal Meeting in Sochi

In the middle of December (from 16^th to 17^th) 2018, an enlarged meeting of ASSITEJ Russia’s board was held in Sochi on the Black Sea coast in the “Actor” House of Recreation belonged to the Russian Theatre Union. The meeting had an informal mode with invitations to more than 30 professionals in the field of TYA and representatives of theatre companies from various Russian places.

Among them were: Adolf Shapiro (ASSITEJ Russia president), Tatiana Bobrova (ASSITEJ Russia vice-president, member of ASSITEJ International EC, ), Marina Medkova (ASSITEJ Russia general secretary), Galina Kolosova (ASSITEJ International Honorary Member), Boris Granatov (art director of the Vologda TYA), Mikhail Bartenev (dramatist, art director of the Golden Turnip festival), Marina Kornakova (managing director of the “Harlequin”, Russian National award and Festival of theatre art for children), Roman Feodory (art director of the Krasnoyarsk TYA), Konstantin Kuchikin (art director of the Khabarovsk TYA), Aleksey Logachev (chief director of the Saratov TYA), Aleksey Kriklivy (chief director of the theatre Globus, Novosibirsk), Varvara Korovina (programmer of the MARSHAK festival, Voronezh), Olga Zaets (programmer of the MINIFEST festival, Rostov-on-Don), and others.

The meeting was also attended by general secretaries of the Russian centres of international theatre organizations: Alla Zorina (AITA/IATA), Inna Mirzoyan (OISTAT), and Anastasia Mashtakova (UNIMA).

Participants shared their experiences in the practice of international cooperation, told about their plans and problems, and became acquainted with ASSITEJ activities and projects. Particular attention was paid to events dedicated to the World Day of Theatre for Children and the campaign “Take a Child to the Theatre, Today” with promising proposals.

The informal meeting in Sochi turned out to be friendly and warm. The weather on its part helped that – when snowy Moscow was under minus 14C degrees, in Sochi it was sunny 14 plus.

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Call for Performances: Tchir Tchayaan

12 December 2018 10 h 33 min

By: Kaatje De Geest

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🌏 Abakan, Khakassia, RUS 🗓 3 – 10 July 2019 The Tchir Tchayaan International Ethnoecological Theatre Festival will take place in the... Read more →

🌏 Abakan, Khakassia, RUS
🗓 3 – 10 July 2019

The Tchir Tchayaan International Ethnoecological Theatre Festival will take place in the city of Abakan, Republic of Khakassia (Siberia region), Russia from July 3 to July 10, 2019.

In 2003 Khakass National Puppet Theatre «Skazka» carried out the great project on ecological and cultural education International Ecological and Ethnic Puppet Theatre Festival «Tchir Tchayaan» (translated from Khakass as «Spirit of the Earth»). Since then nine festivals have already been held from 2003 to 2017. During the festival participants from around the world present their performances, take part in workshops and round tables, travel around unique places of the Khakass Republic.

The main idea of the festival is to present drama theatre, puppet theatre, street theatre, music or dance art in the context of cultural tradition, history and ecology of a certain region.

The festival covers expenses for travel, meals, accommodation and offers an exciting sightseeing tour in the region (for not more than 7 people). No fees are paid.

How to apply

Please, send your full-scale videos before April 1st, 2019 to:

Olga Zaets

E-mail: o.zaets.roamt@gmail.com

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