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Sound Symphony

Sound Symphony

Performance
Sound Symphony  is a new, highly interactive, sensory performance by Ellie Griffiths, made especially for young audiences on the autistic spectrum and with profound and multiple learning difficulties. The performance is a playful journey through music, …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Independent Arts Projects, Skottland (GBR)

Stranden

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

Seminar
Meet the actors and other participants in the Scen:se Project, who share their experiences and reflections. Scen:se is a three-year project where inclusive art experiences are created for children and young people with profound and multiple learning …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arrangeras av: Scen:se

MELO Collective

MELO Collective’s creative processes with playful tools

Workshop
MELO is a collective of artists who makes stage works, installations, walks, music and more. In the workshop, MELO Collective will try out exercises and methods that they use themselves within the group and in meeting with others; playful dance and …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arrangeras av: MELO Collective

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

Seminar
This seminar will explore the theory and practice behind various modes of access to performance for audiences whose complex needs mean they may not have experienced ‘theatre’ or ‘pretending’. It will look at the multi-faceted role of dramapedagogue within …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arrangeras av: Scen:se

Bibu-festen!

Bibu-party!

Other
Bibu invites you to the party on Friday the 15th of May at Tivoli! Mingel, dance and vegetarian buffet. Welcome from 8pm to 2 am. (food is served until 10pm)  Only with a valid party ticket, Age limit 18 years. You buy your ticket, 250SEK, when you buy …

Biennial programme 2020

Invigning

Inaugeration Bibu 2020!

Other
Welcome to the inauguration of Bibu 2020! During the inaugeration there will also be the prize ceremony of the Prix d'ASSITEJ and Sveriges regionala danskonsulenters Dance prize. Afterwards the evening continues with both performances and the Bibu bar at …

Biennial programme 2020

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. In the podcast Danspodden Isadora you'll meet dancers and …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arrangeras av: Danspodden Isadora

Bibu-baren

The Bibu-bar

Other
The Tivoli opens the door for all Bibu delegates. Mingel, eat, drink and meet new friends. Enjoy the May sunshine outdoors at the porch. Bibu-prices in the bar! Opening hours at The Tivoli: Wednesday 13th of May 18.00-01.00 Thursday 14th of …

Biennial programme 2020

koreografin performance image, Photo: Johan Sundén

Koreografin

Jury selection
Performance
"Koreografin" explores the world through movement and investigates how the way we move affects how we perceive the world. What we think, see and feel. There are no dancers/actors on stage, instead the audience/participants, in small groups of 16 per show, …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: Johanssons pelargoner och dans

Communitas -Rachel Tess

Communitas -Rachel Tess

Seminar
"IS THIS IT?" How do babies perceive performance?  How do their parents respond to the way they perceive? How does performance shape a community?  How is it shaped by community?  Rachel Tess is an American dancer and choreographer based in Knislinge, …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arranged by: Stockholms konstnärliga högskola

Communitas -CAMP and Trampoline House

Communitas -CAMP and Trampoline House

Seminar
"Artistic and Curatorial Responses to the Refugee Crisis" Our globe is currently facing a series of catastrophic crises that the international community has been unable to tackle: climate change, unequal wealth distribution, extremism, terrorism, and mass …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arranged by: Stockholms konstnärliga högskola

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.   "Our discussions when selecting the foreign productions meandered through individual …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arrangeras av: Svenska ASSITEJ

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. If we all agree that it is still important to present work that has come "from away," or at …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arrangeras av: Svenska ASSITEJ

Why international co-operation?

Why international co-operation?

Seminar
Many Swedish companies in our field of work have a good market and good opportunities to make a living on our art in our own country. Yet a lot of companies are aiming not just for international touring but even to do co-productions together with …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arranged by: Svenska Assitej

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. We want to deepen relations, explore and learn from each other. In three workshops in Stockholm, Tallinn and Vilnius, …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arranged by: Svenska Assitej

Finding other methods

Finding other methods - workshop

Workshop
In 2019 Claire Parsons did a residency in Havanna, Cuba, working with Cuban dancers.  This workshop invites dancers from Sweden and Cuba to a shared practice.  Artistic methods from various viewpoints are researched and evaluated, exploring cultural …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arrangeras av: Svenska Assitej

Finding other methods - talk

Finding other methods - talk

Seminar
In 2019 Claire Parsons did a residency in Havanna, Cuba, working with Cuban dancers.The workshop held during Bibu invites dancers from Sweden and Cuba to a shared practice.  Artistic methods from various viewpoints are researched and evaluated, exploring …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arrangera av: Svenska Assitej

Stora drömspelet

Performance
Kliv in i drömmens egendomliga, fantasifulla och roliga värld! Inspirerad av författaren August Strindbergs kända teaterpjäs Ett drömspel.  …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Helsingborgs stadsteater

The Boat

The Boat

Performance
A young woman appears in your neighborhood. With great difficulty she drags a wooden boat through the streets. A dreamlike scene. She seems lost, tired and perhaps hungry as well? She doesn’t speak the local language. Where does she come from? Where is …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Third Hand Group

Kabaret de Poche Puppetery

Kabaret de Poche

Performance
Paris, Montmartre, the Moulin Rouge ... Kabaret de Poche Company invites you to come like giants to land on the roofs of Paris to discover one of its smaller cabarets, one of the most magical too. A daring puppet show, clever, magical and funny. "Kabaret …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: Kabaret de Poche

tyst performance image bibu 2018, Photo: Lyad Kamel

Tyst

Performance
This performance is not selected by the jury but included in Tema Friktionskraft: Teatercentrum presents a tool for analysing performances to encourage a norm-creative approach to artistic work and audience development within the performing arts. The tool …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: Teater Jalada

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. ASSITEJ Pakistan and Sweden have during the past years co-operated with the purpose of increasing exchange and to discuss …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arrangeras av: Svenska ASSITEJ

Playful Tiger – to make a performance accessible

Playful Tiger – to make a performance accessible

Seminar
Natasha Gilmore is the artistic director and choreographer at Barrowland Ballet in Scotland and Ellie Griffiths is the artistic leader at Oily Cart Theatre in London. In 2018, they worked together at Barrowland Ballet with the performance Playful Tiger …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Arrangeras av: Scen:se och Bibu

KEYNOTE SEMINAR - CREATING POSSIBILITIES AND CO-CREATING ARTISTIC WORK

Seminar
Ellie Griffiths is artistic director of Oily Cart Theatre and has been a performer and director in several performances for children and young people with complex special needs. Oily Cart Theatre, who in 2022 is celebrating 40 years of artistic work, …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Arranged by Folkteatern Gävleborg, Scen:se och Bibu

NE NE NE (NÄ NÄ NÄ)

NE NE NE (NÄ NÄ NÄ)

Performance
Ne Ne Ne is a playful dance theatre exploration of a meadow in a forest. There is a tea cup and a fish and an umbrella hanging from the trees, and underneath the trees there might be caterpillars and perhaps also even a bear. Everything can be transformed …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: ZebraDans & SangSang Maru

performance image myriader av världar, bibu 2018, Photo: Markus Gårdner

Myriader av världar

Jury selection
Performance
Get up CLOSE and personal with art – for babies and toddlers aged 3-18 months. Allow your little one to experience art and explore every corner of the stage! In Unga på Operan’s comprehensive, multi-form artwork "Myriads of Worlds", your child is both a …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: Unga på Operan / Kungliga Operan

performance image LÅR, bibu 2018, Photo: Graham Adey

LÅR

Jury selection
Performance
"LÅR" is a playful show, a tribute to the thighs where they get to glitter, giggle, be recognised, questioned and appear self-evident! The thighs are tired of being in the shadow, tired of being ignored and associated with feelings of embarrassment and …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: wecollective

Scen:se - Art for an audience that rarely encounters art

Experiencing different types of art is a human necessity. For children and young people with complex needs, this is far from their reality. Focusing on sensory methods, the art project Scen:se is therefore creating productions exclusively for this …

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Bibu the most important meeting place in the world 2022 – Leave no one behind

Bibu - the Swedish Performing Arts Biennial for Children and Youth - has been selected to host the international meeting Assitej Artistic Gathering in May 17 - 22 2022! Assitej Artistic Gathering is arranged every year and is the world´s biggest …

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Bibu presenting the International Committee 2022!

For the international part, the Board of Directors will welcome innovative international applications that are visioned, produced and creatively led by Indigenous Performing Artists of all abilities. The international performances will be selected by an …

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Announcing the call for international performances for Bibu and the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2022!

Bibu and ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2022 acknowledges Indigenous peoples of the past, present and future worldwide as the custodians, inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures, worldviews and relations to land and environments. The Indigenous …

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Swedstage adds Young Swedstage

The event Swedstage, which makes the best of Swedish performing arts available to international organizers, now has a little sibling. Young Swedstage focuses on marketing well-chosen Swedish performing arts for children and young people to an …

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We start the new year working with our program for the biennial in May

Now this year's productions are chosen by our juries just like the content of our seminar and workshop program. We are working intensively to put everything together for an inspiring week. So be patient and keep an eye out here and you will soon be able …

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Bibu and Assitej Artistic Gathering 17-22th of May 2022

The 17-22th of May this year, Bibu together with ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering invites you to a six-day festival with Swedish and international theater, dance and circus performances for children and young people together with a wide range of seminars, …

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International Selection Committee 2022

The performances selected for Bibu - the Swedish Performing Arts Biennial for Children and Youth - and the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2022 - consists of two parts: one part with Swedish performances and one part with international performances. For the …

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The seminar committee for Bibu 2022

For the seminar committee for Bibu 2022 we have these six different people with different experiences, backgrounds and fields of work. Together with us at Bibu, the seminar committee are making the selection from the suggested seminars and workshops. They …

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Sustainability

As host for ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2022, Bibu has chosen the watchword ”Leave no on behind”, working with the UN 17 sustainable goals for social, environmental and economical sustainability.  Do you have any questions or feedback regarding the …

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Next Generation 2022

The Next Generation residency program is an ASSITEJ initiative, designed to support artistic and cultural exchange and collaboration between international artists aged 36 years or below, interested in performing arts for young audiences.   ASSITEJ Sweden …

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covid-19

UPDATE! As of February 9th 2022 all local restrictions due to the pandemic have been lifted. Travel restrictions from EU/EES countries have also been lifted. Travel ban from third countries/outside the EU/EES remain in place for the time being. Stay …

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Festival Bike

You now have the opportunity to book your own festival bike for Bibu 2022.  Below you will find a list of the different bikes to choose from. Choose the the bike that suits you the best and book via the links below. Citybike 7-shifted with basket - Book …

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Themetrack Funktion 2022

Theme track Funktion 2022 – performing arts for children and young people with complex needs. Photo from the performance Playful Tiger/Barrowland Ballet. Photographer: Jassy Earl During Bibu 2022, there will be a number of theme tracks presented and …

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Biennial program 2022

At Bibu 2022, themes such as Sustainability and Restart run as a common thread throughout our whole program. In addition to the solid program, there is specially curated content in the theme tracks Function, Research, Young Swedstage and the School as a …

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Themetrack Research 2022

Research on children's culture strengthens children's status Bibu and the Center for Child Culture Research began a collaboration already before the 2020 biennial with the aim of strengthening the research's place in bibu. At Bibu 2022, we finally get to …

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Young Swedstage 2022

The event Swedstage, which makes the best of Swedish performing arts available to international organizers, now has a little sibling. Young Swedstage focuses on marketing well-chosen Swedish performing arts for children and young people to an …

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