Performing Arts Biennial for children, youth and for you
Bibu is the most important meeting place in Sweden for professional performing arts for a young audience - an arena where all of us who work with children, young people and performing arts and culture, get together to experience and discuss performing arts for children and youth.
Bibu 2020 is canceled!
Bibu’s board decided the 16th of March to cancel the biennial Bibu 2020.
Since the decision from the Swedish authorities the 11th of March to not allow public conferences, exhibitions and events with more than 500 persons, the team of Bibu has worked on different scenarios on how to follow through with the biennial in May 2020. Even if it as of today is difficult to know how the situation will develop, the board of Bibu has come to the conclusion that it most certainly won’t be possible to arrange Bibu 2020. There is a great risk of further recommendations and decision from the authorities, to what extent can theatres, organizations and delegates participate and the economic consequences of all this. As time goes by, the risks are also increasing for Bibu as an organization, especially economic risks and in the end the risk of bankruptcy.
It is with great grief that the Bibu’s board and CEO need to make this decision. We will work hard to be able to organize the Bibu of 2022 instead.
/ Ingrid Fransson, CEO Bibu AB och Måns Lagerlöf, chair person Bibu AB
Swedish and international jury chosen performances Bibu 2020
Vill ha hund
The jury's choice Sweden
Playful paws, kisses from a wet nose, soft cuddly fur.
The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother
The jury's choice international
This high-energy performance exposes the inherent narcissism that is at the centre of motherhood and how this becomes a burden to the child embarking on adulthood.
Riddare av tusen äventyr
The jury's choice Sweden
An unreal campsite, a girl hike and a collective dream. PotatoPotato creates a show based on the Swedish Girl Scout movement.
Future Beats
The jury's choice international
The earliest rhythm can be perceived as ritualized everyday occurrences: Calm and attention, satisfaction and protest, hunger and fulfillment.
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Art for an audience that rarely meets art
Experiencing different types of art is a human need. For children and young people with intellectual disabilities, this is far from their reality. Focusing on sensory methods, the cultural project Scen:se is therefore creating valuable productions exclusively for this particular target group.
Research on children’s culture strengthens children’s status
På Centrum för barnkulturforskning (CBK) vid Stockholms Universitet arbetas det dagligen med att främja ett kulturliv som får barn att växa och ta plats, både inom kulturen och i samhället.
FUNKTION
Happy! We have received extra funding and are very happy to announce that we will have a thematic program next Bibu with performances, seminars and workshops all within the field of creating inclusive performing arts.
World's Worst Children's Theater - seminar
During this spring Bibu has in collaboration with Månteatern and their actors workshopped with 75 students from the 5th and 7th grade. The theme for the workshops has been “what is good and poor theatre”.