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If you can't read the email, please click here to read it in your browser By Émilie Robert, Member of the Executive Committee of ASSITEJ International The Executive Committee of ASSITEJ has been working on many new topics and projects since we got our first grant from the European Union. Some are already very visible: the mobility of our members, the Umbrella Sessions, the research streams, the new Regional Cooperation Programme... Some are less visible but are meaningful as well. One of them is our commitment to environmental sustainability and the work of our Green Team. In January, thanks to the Green Team and especially to the involvement of Julia Dina Hesse and Chris Blois Brooke, ASSITEJ was awarded the SHIFT Culture Eco Certificate for the second year. The SHIFT Culture process is currently in a pilot phase, and we are proud to be part of it. It is an opportunity to rethink our practices as an international cultural network and change our mindsets and behaviour. But it is also an opportunity for the SHIFT partners to think out of the (European) box, as ASSITEJ is a truly worldwide network. For the ASSITEJ community, the SHIFT certification and the Green Team work mean different resources. On our website, you can find our Sustainability Policy (I Am Because You Are) and our Sustainability working plan. These are guidelines to improve our activities regarding travel, communication, and events on the environmental level. They are also a credible track record of concrete actions to fund our commitment to become a more environmentally sustainable organisation and a more sustainable community. To go further, we need to learn from you. Many artists and practitioners have sustainable practices, and we need to broaden our perspective on these matters. So, join the Green Team or let us know your thoughts about these. We need you! We need to know your commitment!
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| News from ASSITEJ International |
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| AWC 2027: Brave Futures | | | | Open Call: Performances for ASSITEJ World Congress 2027 | | | ASSITEJ Korea and ASSITEJ International are delighted and excited to announce the Call for Performances for the ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival 2027 in Suwon, Korea. 🌎🌍🌏 Suwon, Korea 🗓 22 July - 1 August 2027
Deadline: 1 May 2026 View open call
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| | | | Open Call: Young Voices | | | NBAN ASSITEJ Iceland and the Nordic-Baltic ASSITEJ Network (NBAN) are happy to invite two young people from each Nordic-Baltic country to be part of the UNGI Performing Arts Festival for Children in Reykjavik, Iceland April 23-25, 2026. The youth participants should be between the ages of 16 and 19. 🌎🌍🌏 Reykjavik, Iceland 🗓 23 - 25 April 2026
Deadline: 15 February 2026
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| | | | Open Call: BITOLINO | | | ASSITEJ North Macedonia (MDK) The international children's theatre festival "BITOLINO" is announcing an open call for participation in the competitive programme of its 15th jubilee festival edition. The host of the festival is “Babec Theater” - Bitola. The festival aims to cover a wide range of theatre forms, such as puppet, shadow, dance, backlight, physical, musical, and dance theatre, created by professional theatre productions for children and youth. 🌎🌍🌏 Bitola, North Macedonia 🗓 3 - 7 August 2026
Deadline: 1 March 2026
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| | | | Open Call: A Moonless Night | | | ASSITEJ Cuba The Night Calls to Storytellers, Tale-Weavers, Griots, and Narrators of all Oral Traditions! You are invited to the International Digital Oral Storytelling Day "A MOONLESS NIGHT", celebrating World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People and Oral Storytelling Day (March 20th). Dust off your stories, turn on the camera, and let your voice illuminate this Moonless Night! 🌎🌍🌏 Social Media 🗓 March 2026 Deadline: 5 March 2026
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| | | | Open Call: Spaces of Care Residency | | | ASSITEJ Norway TYAOslo26: Spaces of Care is an international residency hosted by ASSITEJ Norway exploring care as an artistic, ethical and spatial practice in performing arts for young audiences. The residency invites Nordic-Baltic artists to engage in dialogue, experimentation and cross-border exchange around responsibility, risk and artistic freedom. 🌎🌍🌏 Oslo, Norway 🗓 August 2026
Deadline: 12 March 2026
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| | | | UNESCO-Aschberg Programme for Artists and Cultural Professionals | | | UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launches a call open to governments and public institutions, as well as civil society organizations, to support initiatives aimed at protecting and promoting the status of the artist and artistic freedom. Deadline: 23 February 2026
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| | | | SHIFT Seeks A New Coordinator | | | SHIFT CULTURE SHIFT CULTURE is a collaboration of European cultural networks and platforms. Together, these organisations run an eco-certification scheme and offer training and peer-to-peer learning for their community of partner organisations. They are committed to eco-responsible behaviour and seek to raise awareness on green issues through arts in society at large. Applicants should be a legal entity with a central structure able to coordinate SHIFT CULTURE legally and financially. 🗓 1 January 2027 Deadline: 6 March 2026, 18:00 CET
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 | | | | Opportunities from the ForesTEEN Ecosystem | | | ForesTEEN February opportunities from the ForesTEEN ecosystem. Two open calls for mobility not only for teenagers, and the recurring ForesTEEN online meetings for professionals and young people. 🌎🌍🌏 Giglio Island, Italy 🗓 22 - 26 April 2026 Deadline: 20 February 2026
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 | | | | Open Call: 3rd Maas International Theatre Festival | | | ASSITEJ Pakistan Maas Foundation is delighted to announce the open call this time for the international applications for the most colorful and vibrant 3rd Maas International Theatre Festival 2026, which will be organized in mid-October 2026 at Lahore, Pakistan. 🌎🌍🌏 Lahore, Pakistan 🗓 October 2026 Deadline: 31 March 2026
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| News from Around the World |
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| | | | Small Size Days | | | Small Size Network From Jan. 30 - Feb. 1, we celebrated the Small size days, our annual common event since 2015. For the twelfth time artists and audiences around the world came together for performances and activities dedicated to the very youngest children. This year, 27 Smallsizers in 19 countries and 23 cities organised some 66 activities for the smallest ones. Imagine how many children were enjoying a show at the same time! In addition to the members' own activities, for this years' Small size days we proposed two common activities with the aim of making children and their work visible: 1. A Manifesto- voices of children around the world, and 2. A common story written, drawn and told by children and presented by four members. More info |
| | | | Growing Dance for Young Audiences | | | ASSITEJ Switzerland As part of the 2026 edition of the Swiss dance days in Bern, a discussion entitled "Growing Dance for Young Audiences" will take place in cooperation with ASSITEJ Switzerland. The event on 14.2.2026 at Tanzhaus Bern invites reflection, dialogue and partnership between the Swiss dance community and ASSITEJ, with the aim of stimulating new connections and initiatives. 🌎🌍🌏 Bern, Switzerland 🗓 14 February 2026
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| | | | Toolkit "Sustainable Production" | | | Sustainability Section Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e. V. (Federal Association for the Independent Performing Arts) offers a practical contribution to the environmentally and socially sustainable development of the independent performing arts and independent music ensembles. Rather than being just another checklist, this toolkit is an instrument that invites you to take concrete steps at your own pace thanks to its clarity, accessibility and practical relevance. After all, sustainability is a shared responsibility – and every action counts. Copyright: Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e. V. (shared by ASSITEJ Germany) Learn more View Toolkit |
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| | | | Visioni Festival 2026 | | | La Baracca Visioni Festival 2026 is about to happen: take your seat! Registration is now open for cultural operators for the 23rd edition of ‘Visioni di futuro, visioni di teatro...’, Teatro Testoni. Seven days of international performances, meetings, debates, research, and experimentation. 🌎🌍🌏 Bologna, Italy 🗓 8 - 15 March 2026
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| | | | Bravo! Performing Arts Festival for Young Audiences | | | ASSITEJ Finland The Bravo! Performing Arts Festival for Young Audiences takes over the Helsinki metropolitan area! The 2026 festival features a Nordic-Baltic focus, and all performances, workshops, and other events will celebrate performing arts for children and young audiences from across the Nordic and Baltic countries. 🌎🌍🌏 Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa & Kerava, Finland 🗓 14 - 22 March 2026
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| | | | DGS (German Sign Language) On Stage?! | | | ASSITEJ Germany Deaf artists Anna Pauline Deul and Jan Kress explain the importance of sign language within the cultural sector. Their contribution was published in the magazine ixypsilonzett. darstellende künste & junges publikum | das winterheft 2025/2026, and is now available with an International Sign Language Translation. Read more |
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 | | | | News from Italy | | | ASSITEJ Italy ASSITEJ Italia, in collaboration with the Italian theatre companies La Luna nel Letto and Teatro Prova, is supporting a fundraising campaign for the EMERGENCY pediatric centres in war zones. Share the campaign and invite your audience to donate: let's build a culture of peace together. The fundraising campaign will end on 20 March, for the World Theatre Day for Children and Young People. More info APPARIZIONI. Ricerca nel teatro di figura The workshop is a research-based process that aims to make "emerge," through an object, a garment, or a fragment of a puppet, an "other" beyond oneself. Through manipulation techniques and bodily exploration, participants will investigate and seek to understand this "other," embracing and integrating its presence. 🌎🌍🌏 Scandicci, Italy 🗓 24 - 28 March 2026
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 | | | | Mommy, I Have Finally Found Something I’m Good At | | | ACYTA Those were the words a mother shared with me after her daughter stepped off the stage following a recital. The child was glowing with pride and confidence. For her parents, the moment was deeply emotional. This was a child who had long been labelled as “not academically inclined.” Teachers were concerned, her parents were worried, and over time, the child herself began to believe she simply wasn’t good enough. But through the creative arts, through dance, discipline, movement, and expression, she discovered something life-changing. She was capable. She was skilled. She was good at something. That realisation changed everything. Learning choreography, memorising sequences, holding steady steps, and performing before an audience built her confidence in ways no traditional assessment ever had. Her self-esteem grew, and that confidence soon began to reflect in her academic life. She understood that if she could master dance, she could apply the same focus and determination to her studies. Her teachers noticed the shift. Her parents did too. Read more |
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| Article/Podcast Section | | | | Knowledge - Experiences - Reflections |
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| A small size days story 2026 by children from Croatia, Cuba, Finland, and Uruguay through collaboration between Annantalo, Teatar Puna Kuća, Isabel Cristina López-Hamza, and Gabriel Maccio Pastorini. | | | | Adventure in Space | | | This is the story of four friends who had an amazing adventure. Mr. Cotton, who has open arms for hugs and hair made of cotton candy. His friend is a 100 years old man named Wuf whose favorite foods are minced meat pasta and fruit salad. The third friend is a flying animal called Nimetön whose delicacy is pinecones. The fourth friend is another flying creature named Tipsu. His favorite food is strawberry cake, and his favorite pastime is playing hide and seek. Read story in English Leer cuento en español Lire histoire en français |
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