We are delighted to welcome ASSITEJ Montenegro as the newest ASSITEJ National Centre. With their addition, the ASSITEJ family continues to grow! We look forward to their contributions and collaboration and we wish them every success in their journey ahead.

As part of the ‘Creating Cultural Equity’ project, external evaluators Dr Richard Johnson Sallis and Dr Jennifer Andersen from The University of Melbourne in Australia are examining to what extent ASSITEJ International’s work is supporting the cultural rights of children and young people within the global Theatre & Performing Arts for Young Audiences sector.

We kindly ask you to support the ongoing development of our Association by contributing your views, opinions, and experiences of ASSITEJ International in this survey. If you have already completed previous evaluation surveys, we still welcome your thoughts on this survey which asks some different questions. Some questions are the same as in previous surveys for comparison. The survey will take 15-20 minutes to complete.

Deadline: 22 May

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La Baracca - Testoni Ragazzi

La Baracca - Testoni Ragazzi invites you to present your productions for the next edition of the Festival "Visioni di futuro, visioni di teatro…”, happening from the 8th to the 15th of March 2026 in Bologna, Italy. Those who have already sent their application in 2025 won't have to apply again, as their proposal is still valid.

🌎🌍🌏 Bologna, Italy

🗓 8 - 15 March 2026 

Deadline: 4 June 2025

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UNESCO

Through an open and competitive process, we fund innovative projects with up to USD $100,000, implemented over a 12–24-month period. The projects are evaluated based on their relevance, feasibility, financial management capacity and expected results. 

The sixteenth call for applications of the IFCD will remain open from 19 March to 21 May 2025.

Deadline: 21 May 2025

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ASSITEJ Italy 

 Teatro al Quadrato presents an international call for the 15th edition of Trallallero International Festival of theatre and culture for young audiences that will take place from 11 to 19 October 2025 in Italy.

Trallallero Festival represents an opportunity for sharing ideas and having debates about theatre and cultural activities for kids and youth.

We would like to create an opportunity to exchange different points of view and knowledge among the companies, preferring young and small productions, to create a space for mutual exchange of competencies and planning.

🌎🌍🌏 Artegna, Gemona del Friuli & Tarcento, Italy

🗓 11 - 19 October 2025

Deadline: 15 June 2025

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ACYTA

I, Mogoun Jeannette, a committed and passionate artist, would like to share with you the extraordinary journey that led me to present my work at the 'Bright Generations' event organised by ASSITEJ International, Théâtre Massalia and Scène d'enfance-ASSITEJ France. This enriching and moving experience, the fruit of a committed professional journey, marks an essential turning point in my artistic career.

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Small Countries Network 

The ASSITEJ Luxembourg will host its Small Countries Network - 3^rd Professional Meeting in Luxembourg from June 5-9, 2025, featuring the SparksLab program. This workshop aims to unite emerging artists to explore puppetry and object theatre, promoting innovative creations for young audiences and enhancing collaboration among member countries.

🌎🌍🌏 Luxembourg

🗓 5 - 9 June 2025 

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Sustainability Section

So that less waste remains, SCHÄXPIR is a climate and environmentally friendly festival.

The motto of the 13th SCHÄXPIR Festival for Young Audiences is WHAT REMAINS. From 3 to 14 June 2025, the programme will tackle the really big issues - cross-cultural, diverse, multidimensional - and negotiate them in a variety of narrative forms with plenty of theatrical magic. But we are also asking ourselves the off-stage question ‘What remains’? And that leads us directly to the topic of sustainability!

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 ASSITEJ Uruguay

ASSITEJ Uruguay holds the tenth edition of its National Festival in May—which has been running since 2014—bringing nearly 5,000 children to the theatre in each of the first eight editions. 

In 2025, the ASSITEJ Uruguay Festival will be held from 13 - 15 May. The performances will run in double shifts, at 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., so that both morning and afternoon schools can attend. Six plays are presented from all over Uruguay. This year, the Festival was declared of Interest by the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP).

See you at the Florencio Sánchez Cultural Complex in the Cerro neighbourhood of Montevideo.

🌎🌍🌏 Montevideo, Uruguay

🗓 13 - 15 May 2025

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Association Quantara 

Association Quantara in collaboration with Espace Ruspina represented Tunisia at the Festival: Frankoscény in Pardubice - Republic. 

Frankoscény is an international festival of French-language high school theatre that has welcomed troupes from the Czech Republic, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.

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ASSITEJ Cuba

Calling on ASSITEJ Members to contribute! 

Time has woven a year since Havana's streets, theatres and nights were filled with shared voices, gestures and dreams. The 21st ASSITEJ World Congress was for us more than a meeting: it was an act of love and faith in the art that unites us, in the stories that build new worlds.

We want to relive the happiness of having you all in Cuba, bringing together in the pages of our newsletter MATINÉ, the essence of what you lived, your photographs that caught moments of magic, your words that keep the echo of laughter, your reflections that sprouted after the trip, that idea that today grows in your works, the dialogue that transformed your look, the teachings of those days that now live in your art.

You can send us articles, pictures, testimonies and impressions of what it was like to be in Havana during the days of the congress to assitejcubaoficial@gmail.com 

Deadline: 24 May 2025

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ASSITEJ Cyprus

On the weekend of 26–27 April 2025, ASSITEJ Cyprus hosted a series of events focused on theatre for early years, presented by the Art Fraction Foundation from Poland. The programme took place at the DanceHouse Lefkosia and included a performance for children aged 2 to 5 called We Live Here, a workshop for children and their families called Connections, and a masterclass for artists and educators focused on theatre for early years. The masterclass was led by Barbara Małecka and Alicja Morawska-Rubczak.

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On Saturday, 26 April 2025, a staged reading of Alexia Papalazarou’s theatrical adaptation of the traditional Cypriot folk tale O Spanos and the Forty Dragons (a production by Antilogos Theatre) was presented at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair. The event also featured a projection of woodcut prints by the renowned Cypriot artist Hambis Tsangaris.

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ASSITEJ Ukraine

In May 2025, a new performance for kids “My Dad's a Birdman” (based on the story by David Almond) premiered in Odesa Theatre for Children and Youth. 

The play touches upon important problems of our time: communication between children and parents, understanding and support, and belief in miracles.

ASSITEJ India

Vijay Padaki, a member of ASSITEJ India, and one of the ASSITEJ Lifetime Achievement Award winners, was invited to be the Series Editor of a monumental publications project, bringing out ten volumes of plays. The project was begun when the worldwide Covid pandemic struck. It is now completed. At least three volumes are particularly relevant for TYA.

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ASSITEJ Hungary

At the end of February 2025, a new board was elected for the ASSITEJ Hungarian Centre. János Novák – ASSITEJ Lifetime Achievement Award winner – handed over his position as president to György Vidovszky (Vido), who has been representing Hungary in most of the Congresses and Artistic Gatherings since 2011. The renewed board would like to support the Hungarian TYA practitioners abroad with greater activity than before and to help Hungarian companies access the broadest possible range of information about international festivals and congresses.

Due to the politically motivated change of leadership at the well-known Kolibri Theatre in Budapest, the headquarters of the ASSITEJ Hungarian Centre was moved to the Kabóca Puppet Theatre in Veszprém. The new board of the Hungarian Centre has already begun preparations for the 2026 Kaposvár Biennial, which has been hosting the best Hungarian and foreign performances for 25 years. There will be more news about applying to the festival soon.