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ASSITEJ ARTISTIC ENCOUNTER
Seminar
How can we face the future as artists? What do we need to succeed as TYA artists in the future? Join these interactive sessions as we prepare to face the future together

ASSITEJ INTERNATIONAL - CREATIVE EUROPE SUPPORTS ASSITEJ
Seminar
ASSITEJ International is from 2022 supported by Creative Europe to build the collective resilience of theatre and the performing arts for young Audiences. This presentation and conversation is about what this suppor ...

BEYOND SENSATION
Performance
Beyond Sensation is based on the concept of “creating the new with tradition and building the old with future”. With cooperation and exchange between the two parties, the future image is portrayed with the present ...

Bibu The Party!
Other
Bibu invites you to a party on Saturday 21 May at The Tivoli between 20.30 pm-1am. Come and mingle, be inspired and talk to known and unknown. The party opens at 20.30 with award ceremony, dj, music and surprises!

BOOK PRESENTATION: CULTURAL POLICY FOR ARTS EDUCATION
Seminar
The Research Program of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development at the University of Hildesheim in Germany brought together experts from the Universities in Dar Es Salam, Kampala, Nairobi, Pr ...

BUSTER KEATON PÅ MÅNEN
Performance
Suzanne Osten returns to Unga Klara with a play by Gunilla Linn Persson.

c/o UNG TEATER - AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON ACTING TRAINING
Seminar
Four persons from four countries meet in a conversation to elucidate and discuss views on theatre for youth and what place it could be given in acting education from an international perspective.

Čázevulošnieida – THE UNDERWATER GIRL
Performance
Čázevulošnieida, directly translated to The underwater girl, is an interdisciplinary work of art. The work is both an art installation and a dance art performance based on the Sea Sámi story ‘Undervannsjenta’ and ab ...

CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS VOICES - PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
Seminar
A unique opportunity to experience indigenous artists speaking about their artistic work, including artistic languages and narratives. Celebrating Indigenous Voices - what stories are we telling, and what storie ...

CHAIN REACTION - HOW TO USE NETWORKING TO BUILD NEW SUSTAINABILITY PATTERNS
Workshop
The workshop aims to sharing and raise networking practices considering the networking as a tool to support the cooperation versus competition and to develop sustainability long-term patterns.

CREATING PERFORMANCES FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES WHO HAVE THE MOST BARRIERS TO ACCESS
Workshop
Workshops for actors and dancers with Ellie Griffiths (UK) and Natasha Gilmore (SCT-UK)

CUBAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Seminar
Conference on Theater and sustainable development in Cuba. Voices and strategies for a new world at the XXI ASSITEJ World Congress, 2024.

CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC AWAKENING FOR A NEW ECONOMICS OF WELL-BEING
Seminar
How is the the alliance of culture and health in the Child’s Cultural and Artistic Awakening an answer for a better tomorrow?

DANCE PERCEPTION AND EXPRESSION OF THE VERY YOUNG AUDIENCES
Seminar
Seminar for performing arts professionals on dance perception and expression of very young audience including methodology presentation, observation of baby dance class and discussions.

DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT AND DISABILITY; REACHING FURTHER - A PRESENTATION
Seminar
Rosie Heafford, Artistic Director of Second Hand Dance, presents a talk on digital engagement and developing access tools for young audiences. The activity will be presented with the use of audio visual and sl ...

DIGITAL LEAP - CREATING AND SHARING DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE IN ARTISTIC PRODUCTION
Seminar
Creating and sharing digital knowledge in artistic production. Digital Leap offers a training programme and free learning resources – Cookbooks – for circus and dance professionals who are interested in deepening th ...

DO AS I SAY
Performance
The performance is interactive and both the audience and dancers receive verbal instructions from a recorded voice, but who is actually in charge? Through abstract choreography and concrete stories, the audience is ...

ETT FRÖ I RYMDEN
Performance
Marionetteatern upsizes and fills the stage with giant jellyfish, a bicycle fish on wheels, a squirrel that’s fast as lightning and an unstoppable machine. With newly-written music, puppets and colourful stage sets, ...

FANFICTION
Performance
From her old letters, diaries and family albums, Johanna Karlsson creates a scenic fanzine. In the performance, she cuts apart memories and books in an attempt to create a new story; with a happy ending. Fanfiction ...

FÅNGAD I ETT NÄTVERK
Performance
Fångad i ett nätverk is a play to be played in classrooms about exposure online that aim to build safety and confidence between actors and audience. It focuses on the vulnerability for young girls, and boys, in cons ...

FREE ROOM TO PLAY
Performance
Free Room to Play want to create new possibilities for children and young people with disabilities to create and perform music. To widen the understanding of the ability of these young people as creators and allow t ...

FROM CASTING TO PERFORMANCE - ACTORS WITH DISABILITIES FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
Workshop
Gain practical tools for the casting, rehearsal, and performance process of actors with disabilities. Engage with best practices for this work across a range of TYA content and actor disability.

GAGA - TRAINING WITH DANSALLIANSEN
Other
Dansalliansen offer GAGA Dancers training for dancers and physical actors during Bibu. Coach: Emma Rozgoni, certified Gaga instructor

GETTING UNCOMFORTABLE WITH PARTICIPATION
Workshop
A guided conversational workshop on the ways in which discomfort in facilitators can function as a warning signal for the pitfalls of participation.

GUIDED TOUR ON THE BORDER – LOCAL HISTORY EXHIBITION
Other
Take the opportunity to learn a bit about the history of Helsingborg and take part of this guided tour by Jenny Fridh from Dunkers kulturhus.

HÄXOR
Performance
Häxor are in our midst and have been around for hundreds of years, but how do you recognize a witch? How do you know it's not a witch sitting opposite you on the bus, who's your teacher, or who's your married aunt? ...

HÖR SÅ TYST DET ÄR
Performance
Hör så tyst det är as it is, is an interactive experience, for the middle school, created by the performing arts collective Nyxxx, where the audience and actors together create a narrative concert based on sound sce ...
I AM TIME, I AM SPACE – A SENSORY JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY
Performance
Light, shadows, reflections, soft, hard, rough, cold, hot, heavy and airy in the sounds of the body. An experiential walk in a landscape where body and space can find their own rhythm to breathe. Rooms to explore, t ...
Inaugeration Bibu 2020!
Other
Inauguration talks and prize ceremony.

INFINITE FUTURES, INFINITE SOULS - THEATRE PEDAGOGY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Workshop
For Theatre Lab (Youth) students, their only 'embodied' time during the pandemic was when they came to our farm, in Covid bubbles, to live and work. They harvested fruit and made a blended work called “What’s Inside ...

INTER-GENERATIONAL: A DIALOGUE ON FAIRNESS FOR FUTURE
Workshop
TYA can be a utopian place for all generations. We play with ways of making it available to people of different background.

INTO THE ROOTS
Performance
With a strong presence, Fanny Kivimäki gives a performance about life, dreams and remorse. Depicted through a combination of expressive music, dreamy video art and with expressive dance in focus.

ITYARN - BOOKRELEASE
Seminar
ITYARN Book Launch: Diversity, Representation and Culture in TYA

KEYNOTE SEMINAR - CREATING POSSIBILITIES AND CO-CREATING ARTISTIC WORK
Seminar
For children and youth with complex needs. Key note by Ellie Griffiths, Oily Cart theatre with special guest speaker Fiona Ferguson, Imaginate.

KOREOGRAFIN
Performance
The Choreography is based on audience participation. Everyone in the audience gets a pair of headphones through which they will hear a voice telling them how to move, how to relate to one’s body and how to relate to ...

LET'S TALK ABOUT MONEY
Seminar
Or is that something we shouldn't talk about? How does a performing artist make a living? We put a couple of questions on the round table about markets, attitudes towards money and maybe touch some taboos.....

LILLA SVANSJÖN
Performance
Claire Parsons' performance Lilla Svansjön was created in collaboration with Unga Dramaten in Stockholm. Instead of the graceful swans that the visitor expects, three figures appear on stage trying out flights, t ...

MAKE ROOM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION (GIVING YOU PLACEMAKING)
Seminar
The Next Generation is a residency program aiming to support artistic and cultural exchange and collaboration between international artists under 36 with an interest for working with performing arts for children and ...
MANTIS AND THE BEE
Performance
Mantis and the Bee is based on a story of the first people. It is a visual, musical, and humorous exploration of /Xam mythology and the origin of life. The performance uses dance, masks, puppetry, Khoikhoi, and Eng ...

MEANINGFUL CO-DESIGN ACROSS AUDIENCE AND COMMUNITY
Seminar
A case study in empowering young audiences with the skills to be future change makers.

MISTATIM
Performance
An unforgettable story of reconciliation, Mistatim is about the taming of a wild horse and the truest of friendships. Under a prairie sky, a simple wooden fence is all that separates Calvin on his ranch and Speck on ...

MITT JAG
Performance
The performance Mitt jag encourages a positive self-image and seeing the beauty of our differences. Through movement and textiles, we together create an illuminated sculptural world where the starting point is that ...

MIZERIA
Performance
The twins Aicha and Ali were born on the same day, in the same family and both carry their postcode as a flag. On each side, they struggle to find their way between pile of pipes, washing times, telemarketing jobs, ...

MOLN
Performance
Moln is a circus performance imbued with music and inspired by the life and work of legendary Swedish poet Karin Boye. Its framework is the tale of a collection of individuals living at each other’s mercy in a sort ...

MYSTERIET PÅ GÅRDEN
Performance
This is an exciting performance that is played outdoors on the preschool / school yard. Three fairy tale archaeologists come to the preschool yard because they heard that a fairy tale had taken place at this very pl ...

NADAM - A SONIC EXPERIENCE FOR BABIES
Seminar
In this lecture, Dr.

NÄTET
Performance
Agnes is an up-and-coming writer whose debut was a big hit. Felix is an artist who has been assigned to illustrate Agnes’ new book - a horror story for teenagers. They have never met before but now they are travelli ...

NEXT GENERATION - A WAY TO MOVE FORWARD
Seminar
Session is focused on motivating national centers by sharing three NG success stories along with NG alumni to look at how they can build on their experience of the residency.

NORWAY NOW - PITCH SESSION/GET TO KNOW NORWAY
Other
Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN), Scenekunstbruket and Assitej Norway invite you to participate at Norway Now: Young Audiences/ Get to know Norway on Saturday May 21st. Norway Now is a concept for promoting Norwegi ...

ÖGONVITTNEN - LEA & STEFAN
Performance
What do you think it was like as a child to end up in a concentration camp during World War II? What places, scents, faces do you think one remember from such an experience? Stefan Zablocki and Lea Gleitman survived ...

OPEN STAGES: PERFORMING ARTS AND SOCIAL INCLUSION
Seminar
At the occasion of ASSITEJ's Artistic Gathering in 2019, ASSITEJ France, Italy and Spain united and launched Open Stages.

OPENING CEREMONY BIBU 2022!
Other
Welcome to the opening ceremony of Bibu 2022! The opening starts at 16.00 the 17 May at Helsingborgs Konserthus in the Great Hall under the direction of our conferences Kajsa Giertz, VD at Helsingborgs Stadsteater ...

ORFEUS & EURYDIKE
Performance
Orfeus & Eurydike is based on the story of Orfeus who in his despair after losing his beloved steps into the underworld to bring her back. The story poses questions about what it is to love and mourn. There is an ad ...

PÅ REN SVENSKA
Performance
På ren svenska (In Pure Swedish) is a performance that examines what it is to be Swedish. How is a national affiliation created? How does one become Swedish? And who can join the community?

PERFORMING GREEN - TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE PERFORMING ARTS SECTOR
Seminar
During the winter and spring 2021/2022 ASSITEJ Sweden arranged a workshop series in collaboration with with the Danish organization Bæredygtig Scenekunst NU about sustainability in the performing arts field.

PLAYFUL ACTIVISM - EXPLORING HOW PLAY CAN BE USED TO SPARK CHANGE
Workshop
Toby Peach, Associate Director of innovative UK theatre makers, Coney, will introduce their Playful Activism practice that has been used to inspire social change with young people over the past 5 years.

PLAYFUL TIGER
Performance
Playful Tiger is for children and young people with complex needs such as autism. It tells the story of a tiger’s visit to a rigid family home where he turns their world upside down. It’s chaotic but brilliantly fun ...

REMAPPING INDIGENOUS PRESENCE ON STAGE
Seminar
Get an international perspective on the indigenous presence on stage with this indigenous-led discussion where artists from Sweden, Canada, Australia and New Zealand share their ideas and experiences.

REPRESENTATION, CREATION AND INSPIRATION
Seminar
Glad Theatre has taken the initiative to create a series of international artist residencies in which they invite artists who inspires them into spaces of creation and exploration. Their first artist residency was c ...

RESEARCHING TYA: THE WORK OF ITYARN - HEAR WHAT RESEARCH CAN DO FOR YOU
Seminar
Presented by: ITYARN (International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network)

REVIVAL OF ANCIENT NATURE RITUALS
Seminar
How we can creatively work with children on sustainable development. My experiences in using Iranian mythical narratives and ancient rain rituals in a children drama class to remind the value of water resources in p ...

SAAJVA, THE OTHER WORLD
Performance
A dance piece where the choreographer Ola Stinnerbom has developed an acrobatic dance technique on constantly staying and dancing upside down. In the older Saami Culture, the Kingdome of death was a mirror world dir ...

SALTBUSH
Performance
Saltbush is a plant that can be found throughout Australia in almost all Aboriginal lands, and so it represents a common thread between all the different nations of Australian Indigenous peoples. The narrative centr ...

SHEL WE
Performance
Shel We is an enchanting, playfully intriguing and visually stunning dance show created by Tupua Tigafua. A highly accomplished dancer and choreographer who has had an illustrious career dancing for some of Aotearo ...

SNÖ
Performance
The snow creaks and squeaks. The ice is cracking. The animals move across the landscape. Nature is self-evident, eternal and unadulterated. A source of energy and reflection. The Sami language has 200 words for snow ...

STORA DRÖMSPELET
Performance
Stora drömspelet is a show for everyone who still got a childish mind left. Erik Holmström has together with the ensemble created a spectacle for the youngest audience. I Stora drömspelet, the audience gets to step ...

STORM
Performance
Designed for children and young people who are on the autistic spectrum, this enchanting, intimate production has been carefully designed to put audience members at ease throughout, giving them space and time to mov ...

STRANDEN
Performance
The set design is adapted with custom-made seating for the audience, and newly composed music is performed live on stage by the actors. The show is built up in several layers to be able to communicate with children ...

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - ESTONIA
Seminar
Talk on minority culture groups in Estonia.

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - FINLAND
Seminar
Seminar on collaboration between festivals and artists in the Nordic Baltic Region to ensure good sustainable practices.

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - LATVIA
Seminar
LATVIA Workshop: What is a contemporary theatre show for children and young people today?

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - LITHUANIA
Seminar
Workshop/discussion: Kitchen of traditional creative theater games with contemporary spices.

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - NORWAY
Seminar
Seminar on National Identity in Performing Arts in relations to a Nordic-Baltic regional identity.

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - SWEDEN
Seminar
Seminar on Perspectives on distribution – how do we organize to secure children’s rights to performing arts in school?

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - VOICES OF YOUNG: SUSTAINABILITY AND PARTICIPATION
Seminar
Round Table: Voices of young - Sustainability & Participation

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - YOUTH RESIDENCY: REFLECTIONS OF YOUNG
Seminar
Reflections of young: “This is What I Saw”. Feedback and reflections from the youth participants about selected performances being part of the festival. Hosted by Nordic-Baltic Youth Residency participants.

THE NORDIC BALTIC NETWORK
Seminar
A tasting menu from current Nordic-Baltic Performing Arts for Young Audiences. Presentation of selected artists/performing arts companies from each country in the network.

THE ROLE OF THE ONLINE FORMAT IN THE THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES (TYA)
Seminar
The round table "The role of the online format in the TYA". We will think how online projects can help our live international events become better prepared, lower in cost and more eco-friendly.

THEATRE AND LIVELIHOOD - A CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Seminar
This Roundtable Discussion, will see participants share their thoughts on the relation between theatre and livelihood. They would answer the question, 'is theatre alone to earn a livelihood?'

THEATRE FOR EMERGING TRUTH AND LIBERATORY ACTIONS
Seminar
The session highlights the Applied Theatre processes being worked with the children, of urban slums and schools, focusing on education system, climate sustainability practices, Peace & Justice.

THINKING ABOUT ARTISTIC CREATION FOR EARLY YEARS - MASTERCLASS with Barbara Kölling
Workshop
Small Size Network invites you to a collective reflection and dialogue about artistic creation for early years facilitated by Barbara Kölling, artistic director of Helios theater from Hamm, Germany. The convers ...

TIGERN I MAGEN
Performance
Tigern i magen is written by the comic book author Sara Hansson and is presented in collaboration with Banditsagor. With the help of a picturesque world of sound and a dollhouse-like scenography, we are moved into a ...

TIME LOOPS
Performance
Time Loops wants to find the extraordinary and remarkable in the everyday. Investigate community, location and time in relation to people, routines and landmarks in some residential areas in Skåne. Praise the power ...

UMBRELLA SESSIONS - DEVELOP YOUR ASSITEJ NATIONAL CENTRE OR NETWORK
Seminar
UMBRELLA networking is for anyone engaged in an ASSITEJ National Centre or ASSITEJ Network as a board member, staff, volunteer, or active member. It is also for members who wish to create a new Centre or Network.

UNDERSTANDING DESIGN THINKING IN CLASSROOM DRAMA
Workshop
Look at “ Gender Equality” in the context of design thinking tools and case studies from rural parts of India.

VARA
Performance
Vara is a performance with humor and imagination where the audience gets to follow Hamlet's grief and frustration for the first time in her parents' divorce. The audience gets to see her try to take power over a sit ...

VÅRA VIKTIGASTE VUXNA
Performance
In the adult world, it is common to like and think about children, but the year when the children's convention became Swedish law, Angereds Teater became the perspective and let the children like the adults. What ar ...

WHY DO WE MAKE THEATRE?
Seminar
Why is art important, and what is its job to do? If the goal with creating theatre is to change the structures of the society, how does it then affect the creative process?

WOW, WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?
Seminar
Performance dramaturgy in contemporary circus The “wow-effect” is great in the genre of circus.The artists are risking their lives before us, the comic of the scene surprises and the human potential is strained m ...

YOUNG DANCE NETWORK OPEN UP
Seminar
YDN is opening up. The Young Dance Network is conceived as a network for exchange and aims to give space for different voices of professionals in the field of dance for young audience. From 2022 we will be open ...

YOUNG SWEDSTAGE: WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Seminar
For Young Swedstage we have selected eight productions from different genres, able to tour and accessible for a non-Swedish speaking audience. What are our fellow programmers and festival directors looking for when ...