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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 ...

Performance image Beyond Sensation

BEYOND SENSATION

Jury selection

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 ...

Theatre

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!

Mingle

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 ...

Discuss

English

Research

Perfoming image Buster Keaton på månen

BUSTER KEATON PÅ MÅNEN

Jury selection

Performance

Suzanne Osten returns to Unga Klara with a play by Gunilla Linn Persson.

Theatre

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.

English

Theatre

Performance image Čázevulošnieida - The Underwater girl

Čázevulošnieida – THE UNDERWATER GIRL

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Preschool

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 ...

English

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)

Circus

English

Funktion

Theatre

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 ...

Funktion

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 ...

Circus

Dance

English

Performance image Do as I say

DO AS I SAY

Jury selection

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 ...

Lower secondary school

Young Swedstage

Performance image Ett frö i rymden

ETT FRÖ I RYMDEN

Jury selection

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, ...

Preschool

Puppetry

Performance image Fanfiction

FANFICTION

Jury selection

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 ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Performance image Fångad i ett nätverk

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 ...

Lower secondary school

The school as venue

Theatre

Young adults

Performance image Free room to play

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 ...

Funktion

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.

Funktion

GAGA - TRAINING WITH DANSALLIANSEN

Other

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

Dance

English

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.

Perfomance image Häxor

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? ...

Lower primary school

Young Swedstage

Performance image Hear how quiet it is

HÖR SÅ TYST DET ÄR

Jury selection

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 ...

Listen

Lower primary school

Middle school

Theatre

Performance image I am time, I am space - A sensory journey of discovery

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 ...

Dance

Funktion

Invigning

Inaugeration Bibu 2020!

Other

Inauguration talks and prize ceremony.

Inauguration

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.

Performance image Into the roots

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.

Lower secondary school

Young Swedstage

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.

English

Funktion

Performance image The Choreography

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 ...

Young Swedstage

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.....

English

Performance image Lilla Svansjön

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 ...

Dance

Young Swedstage

Illustration Next Generation

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 ...

Performance image Mantis and the Bee

MANTIS AND THE BEE

Jury selection

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 ...

Middle school

Puppetry

Theatre

MEANINGFUL CO-DESIGN ACROSS AUDIENCE AND COMMUNITY

Seminar

A case study in empowering young audiences with the skills to be future change makers.

Performance image Mitatim

MISTATIM

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Theatre

Performance image Mitt jag

MITT JAG

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Middle school

Perfomance image Mizeria

MIZERIA

Jury selection

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, ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Young adults

Performance image Mizeria

MOLN

Jury selection

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 ...

Circus

Young Swedstage

Performance image Mysteriet på Gården

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 ...

Preschool

The school as venue

Theatre

NADAM - A SONIC EXPERIENCE FOR BABIES

Seminar

In this lecture, Dr.

Performance image Nätet

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 ...

Middle school

The school as venue

Theatre

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.

Performance image Katma Teater

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 ...

Performance image Ögonvittnen - Lea & Stefan

ÖGONVITTNEN - LEA & STEFAN

Jury selection

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 ...

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Theatre

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

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 ...

Inauguration

Performance image Orfeus & Eurydike

ORFEUS & EURYDIKE

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Performance image På ren svenska

PÅ REN SVENSKA

Jury selection

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?

Lower secondary school

Theatre

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.

Sustainability

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.

Performance image Playful Tiger

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 ...

Circus

Dance

Funktion

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 ...

English

Funktion

Theatre

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 ...

Perfomance image SAJJVA - The other world

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 ...

Dance

Young Swedstage

SALTBUSH

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Preschool

Performance image Shel We

SHEL WE

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

English

Middle school

Performance image Snö

SNÖ

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Preschool

Puppetry

Young Swedstage

Performance image Stora drömspelet

STORA DRÖMSPELET

Jury selection

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 ...

Family

Preschool

Puppetry

Theatre

Performance image Storm

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 ...

Funktion

Performance image Stranden

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 ...

Funktion

Theatre

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?

English

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.

English

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.

English

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 ...

English

Performance image Tigern i magen

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 ...

Family

Preschool

Theatre

Performance image Time Loops

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 ...

Dance

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. 

Performance image Vara

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 ...

Lower primary school

The school as venue

Theatre

Performance image Våra viktigaste vuxna

VÅRA VIKTIGASTE VUXNA

Jury selection

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 ...

Lower primary school

Theatre

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? 

Performance image Drömlek

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 ...

Circus

English

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 ...

Illustration Young Swedstage

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 ...