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.
Next biennial takes place 13th to 16th of May 2020 in Helsingborg.
Swedish and international jury chosen performances Bibu 2020
Förhör
The jury's choice Sweden
Sara hasn’t been to school for over a month. She is tormented by anxiety, which grows so strong that she vomits if she is trying to get anywhere near the building
Listening Party
The jury's choice international
It's a teenage party and they cry if they want to.
a place
The jury's choice Sweden
In MELO Collective’s latest performance a place the space is shared by the audience, dancers, musicians, singers and students.
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.
More from Bibu...
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.
Making culture
Making culture – an anthology on the cultural habits of children and young people in the Nordic countries, The Nordic Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis. Monday the 16th September the anthology was presented at a seminar in Gothenburg. Bibu's board member Anna Berg was present at the seminar.
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”.
How can we create stories for a new time? How does texts formed in an international context look like?
21 actors from 7 countries. Reflexions from a seminar about reflections from an intercultural and artistic exchange in theatre for children and youth