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Sîlan Diljen

#minflykt

Seminar

Last autumn, Swedish public radio aired the documentary #minflykt (#myflight) in which Siljan Diljen described her flight to Sweden. She now meets audiences with her personal tale of escape, inheritance and sorrow b ...

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Sign language

Gul ruta med rosa prickar

Access, choice and collaboration

Seminar

Folkteatern Gävleborg/Scen:se, Estrad Norr and Oily Cart Theatre are in the beginning of a unique artistic collaboration that will run over the coming three years, with the aim to create the most accessible show pos ...

English

Funktion

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Artistic discussion

Seminar

Meet the artists behind the productions you just have seen or will see. Hear about the processes, choices and conditions around what they produce.

Discuss

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Sign language

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, Barnteater som gränsvakt mellan "barn" och "vuxna", bibu, 2016

Barnteater som gränsvakt mellan ”barn” och ”vuxna”

Seminar

Does children’s theatre exist if there are no “children”? Do we need to start by defining what separates children from adults in order to do culture for children? And how is the category of “children” portrayed on s ...

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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

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

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

Performance image, Collaborative Theatre, bibu, 2018

Collaborative Theatre & Participation as Citizen Voice Amplifiers for Social Transformation

Seminar

Nabeel’s presentation will focus on his journey to explore theatre and other  performance methods that are more sensitive and relevant to local communities, in direct collaboration and partnership with community mem ...

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English

Hospital clown in colourful clothes leaning against a hospital wall with one foot in the air.

Comedy in sickness and crisis – does it really work?

Seminar

What happens when there is no planned performance, when the artist shows up totally unexpected and when someone in the audience is seriously ill? Those are the everyday conditions for one of the performing arts’ mos ...

English

Communitas -CAMP and Trampoline House

Communitas -CAMP and Trampoline House

Seminar

Wich potential public art institutions – educational and museological – hold to contribute to unpacking and producing resolutions to the global urgencies.

English

Communitas -Rachel Tess

Communitas -Rachel Tess

Seminar

Through the lecture IS THIS IT? Tess shares her perspective on community and social/interactive artistic practices for young audiences through the works Reflective Nebula and Den Kosmiska Havsträdgårdspassagen. ...

English

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?

Cx4: Clowns, Common misunderstandings, Colonialism and Children, bibu 2018

Cx4: Clowns, Common misunderstandings, Colonialism and Children

Seminar

Who can kick who? What’s the role of gender and skin colour? Who finds clowns scary? What are some traps for the aspiring clown?

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English

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. 

Danspodden Isadora talks to Ásrún Magnúsdóttir

Danspodden Isadora talks to Ásrún Magnúsdóttir

Seminar

Danspodden Isadora talks to Ásrún Magnúsdóttir, choreographer for Listening Party, about her artistic work, community dance and about working with participating youths in different countries.

English

DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT AND DISABILITY; REACHING FURTHER - A PRESENTATION

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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

Discussion with the International Selection Committee

Seminar

Meet the International Selection Committee that has made the international selection for bibu 2024. Listen to their reasoning regarding artistic quality and the vibrant tendencies that have been relevant during &nbs ...

Discuss

English

Diversity and Inclusion in performing arts for children and young people within a Nordic context

Seminar

In recent years there have been a number of reports released throughout the Nordic countries about diversity within the arts and culture sector.

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Feministic theatre for children

Seminar

Since 2014, Gustav Deinoff and Farnaz Arbabi are the new artistic directors of Unga Klara. They have pursued a clearly anti-racist and feminist profile for the theater.

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Sign language

Fika with Bibu - Climate Crisis and Impact of International Touring

Fika med Bibu - Climate Crisis and Impact of International Touring

Seminar

Carbon footprint and environmental impact is becoming a primary concern in creating, producing, presenting and touring international performing arts productions.

English

Fika med Bibu - Performing arts for youth in Pakistan

Fika med Bibu - Performing arts for youth in Pakistan

Seminar

Performing arts for youth in Pakistan - presentation and discussion with aspects on gender issues and women´s place within the field.

English

Bibu

Fika with bibu

Seminar

"Fika with bibu" is a meeting place for exchange, reflection and conversation between invited foreign guests and Swedish practitioners.

Mingle

English

Fika with Bibu and the international council

Fika with Bibu and the international council

Seminar

Fika with Bibu and the international council for Bibu 2020 - about their selection process and discussions on international performing arts for children and youth.

English

Finding other methods - talk

Finding other methods - talk

Seminar

A discussion about cultural identity and if dance contains common denominators. If we are characterized by places and methods. If there is an artistic essence.

English

Seminar, bibu 2018

Go International! Why and How?

Seminar

”How do you keep your international network alive and kicking? What does it mean to continuously be active on the international stage? What does it take? What is its value?

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I choose for you

Seminar

A panel discussion about the way of choosing performing art for young people in schools.

Discuss

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Stranden

Ibland känns det som våra själar möts, jag och min publik 

Seminar

The project Scen:se – about creating arts experiences for children and youth with complex needs

Funktion

English

Gul ruta med rosa prickar

Is the space for LGBT+ perspectives for a young audience shrinking?

Seminar

In Sweden we are used to being very free in the topics and perspectives for young audiences. We are now facing a societal backlash due to the increasing influences of neo-conservative ideas, where LGBT+ art and indi ...

English

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

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

Ljuset i samtiden och i framtiden

Seminar

The audience visiting a contemporary performing arts production expects that the stage lighting is very expressive and done with the latest typ of high end equipment as for example moving head and projections. In a ...

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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 ...

MEANINGFUL CO-DESIGN ACROSS AUDIENCE AND COMMUNITY

Seminar

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

Moving from ”Play” to ”The Play” and back again: teachers and theatre-makers in collaboration

Seminar

The theory and practice behind various modes of access to performance for audiences with complex needs

Funktion

English

NADAM - A SONIC EXPERIENCE FOR BABIES

Seminar

In this lecture, Dr.

Neighbours around the Baltic Sea

Neighbours around the Baltic Sea - playwrights as important carriers of messages reflecting society

Seminar

"Neighbours" is a playwright´s project to investigate an experienced lack of knowledge between neighbours across the Baltic Sea. In this presentation and reading we will share our work with you!

English

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.

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.

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 Tiger – to make a performance accessible

Playful Tiger – to make a performance accessible

Seminar

About artistic decisions behind making a version of an existing production for a new audience group - children and young people who where profoundly autistic and mainly non-verbal.

Funktion

English

People on plinth, bibu 2016

Plint - tales from a school gymnasium

Seminar

How can a story wander between different mediums? A three part collaboration set on a vaulting horse; live audio drama, radio theatre and children’s own stories.

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Portraying racism and structural racism for the young audience

Seminar

Are stories about xenophobia and structural racism part of today’s performance art for children and the young?

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English

Dots, bibu 2016

Presentation, workshop and reading of GRIPS Theatres show ”Kriegerin”

Seminar

Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks and fights. The only place she feels home is the Neo-Nazi gang she ...

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English

Group photo, bibu 2016

Prospero workshops –Developing performing arts for children world wide

Seminar

Welcome to a seminar where we are developing new scripts for children and youths in an intercultural context. We will read new scripts from Uganda, Burkina Faso and Nepal.  The seminar is partly held in english ...

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English

Puppetry is everywhere in the Nordics and the Baltics

Seminar

Puppet theater is more and more visible within the field of performing arts. Sometimes it plays the main role, sometimes it is an element alongside other expressions. A similar development is taking place throughout ...

English

Puppetry

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 ...

People running, bibu 2016

Run for your life

Seminar

The climate crisis is one of our time critical issue and if it is great for us as it is crucial for the next generation.

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Performance image, Sisters Academy, bibu, 2016

Sisters Academy – Where art radically meet education and vice versa

Seminar

Gry  Worre Hallberg will present the radical art-educational project Sisters Academy.

English

Listen

Social Circus – Art, laughter, change

Seminar

Come to a seminar with Cirkus Cirkör, Clowner utan Gränser (Clowns without Borders) and Sorin Sirkus!

Circus

English

Show image, bibu 2016

Sörmlandsmodellen–tillgång till scenkonst för barn och unga

Seminar

All children should have – but what? That question asked Scenkonst Sörmland after 30 years with Sörmlandsmodellen - the comprehensive county theater mission that guarantees all children in the age between 5-15 years ...

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Sustainable touring opportunities in the Nordic - Baltic region

Seminar

The Nordic-Baltic ASSITEJ Network is a regional network and co-operation format that includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden.  

English

Sustainability

Dots, bibu 2016

Talking about theatre

Seminar

Theatre meets education when teachers and their students come to see a performance. What does this encounter entail? To what extent is the young audience offered to participate in the process of performance art?

Dots, bibu 2016

Tea with Teater Tre and Small size

Seminar

Vad är Small size och varför gör vi scenkonst för den yngsta publiken? Med Te-stunden som inramning vill Teater Tre och Sara Myrberg bjuda in till ett samtal om konst för de yngsta och om hur mötet med konstnärer fr ...

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Teachers as careful actors and actors as careful teachers

Seminar

This seminar relates to the current touring pedagogic program, Under Stjärnorna (Below the Stars), initiated by Folkteatern Gävleborg/Scen:se in collaboration with Estrad Norr.

English

Teater Tre och Moomsteatern om europeiskt samarbete

Seminar

Why is it relevant to take part in international cooperation? How does it work and what do you get out of it? Two theaters with focus on production for children and young people share their experiences of being part ...

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Teatercentrums breakfast meeting - get to know the artist behind the performance

Seminar

The artists behind three performances chosen by the jury for bibu.se 2016 have agreed to sit down over breakfast with a small audience to talk about who they are and what they create.

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English

Green coloured image with lounge chairs in several rows with a green triangle made up of three arrows above.

The Climate, our most important story - The role of performing arts in the climate transition

Seminar

Discussion and presentation on the role of performing arts in the climate transition in two parts.

English

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

Children playing, bibu 2016

The theatre and the school

Seminar

A seminar about Unga Teaterns experiences building a new organisation where theatre and school meets. Exploring the borders and the possibilities.

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The white stage

Seminar

Which bodies take place on the stage today? Which stories are told and from which perspectives? Can anyone represent anything, and how do we break the white dominance?

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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

Image of woman, bibu 2016

Transmedial narrative on stage and beyond – two examples from Helsingborg

Seminar

Performing Arts Creator/Director Sara Cronberg elaborates on her experiences from two projects: The Invisible City – a game in development, and Väsen – digitalisation and creative participation in the transmedial pe ...

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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.

Upprop för den fria scenkonsten

Upprop för den fria scenkonsten

Seminar

A discussion about the free cultural life in Sweden.

Discuss

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Weren´t You Expecting Me? Keynote Lecture with Caroline Bowditch

Seminar

KEYNOTE in ENGLISH

What do we need next?

Seminar

An international delegation of disabled artists from Sweden and Scotland in conversation with Caroline Bowditch about the future of performing arts for children and youth. 

English

Funktion

dots bibu

Which kinds of norm violations do child audiences accept?

Seminar

A discussion about children's attitudes toward norms, codes of behavior and traditions as they exist in the theater and within story-telling.

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Man in skirt, bibu 2016

Who may portray what?

Seminar

What is it accepted that an actor portrays on stage? Can an actor portray something without that specific experience?

Why are you afraid of the public space?

Seminar

If you start thinking about public space, like really really think about it, as a place for art, you suddenly realize the potential.

English

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? 

Why international co-operation?

Why international co-operation?

Seminar

Why do we need to reach out for more and what can we gain from working abroad?

English

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 ...

Image of people, bibu 2016

”You get used to the beauty” / “We don’t hang out – we walk around”

Seminar

The seminar’s title consists of quotes from youth in Norrbotten (the far north of Sweden) and Botkyrka (a suburb of Stockholm). It is also the titles of two productions based on young people’s own stories from what ...

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