Dear colleagues and friends,

Please find attached 2013 Call for Applications and Application Form for our 20th International Festival of Children's Theatres which is going to be held in Subotica, Serbia, 19-25 May 2013.

Call for Applications Application Form

Also, we are pleased to inform you that Subotica International Festival of Children's Theatres is preparing the fifth session of the International Research College of Theatre Arts. International Research College of Theatre Arts is a multiannual project conceived by Professor Henryk Jurkowski (Poland). The fifth session will be held within the framework of the 20th International Festival of Children's Theatres in Subotica, Serbia between 19-25 May 2013. Please find attached Call for Papers and please forward this notification to anyone you think might be interested in participating.

Call for Papers

Application deadline for both the festival and the conference is 31 January 2013. We look forward to receiving your applications!

Best regards,

Slobodan Markovic,
Director of the Festival

Olivera Mudrinić,
Organizational Secretary

D i r e k c i j a   F e s t i v a l a  /  F e s t i v a l   H e a d   O f f i c e:

Otvoreni univerzitet Subotica / Open University Subotica
International Festival of Children's Theatres
Trg cara Jovana Nenada 15
24000 Subotica
Srbija / Serbia

Tel: +381 24 554 600. Fax: +381 24 553 116. Tel/Fax: +381 24 554 655.
Skype: lutfestsubotica

Official Site: www.lutfestsubotica.net
Executive Producer: www.openunsubotica.rs

under the direction of Sergei Ostrenko

RUSSIA

Group I: April 8 - 15, 2012

The Taganrog Drama Theater named after Anton Chekhov

Group II: April 27 - May 4, 2012

Rostov-on-Don Regional Academic Young People's Theatre

PARTICIPANTS

The program is designed for experienced actors, dancers, choreographers, actors of physical theatre and contemporary circus performers -

performing arts practitioners with professional stage experience working in various genres, techniques and styles, interested to find new international network opportunities and collaborators.

PROGRAMME

Intensive practical training guided by the Russian theatre director and teacher Sergei Ostrenko. The programme is focused on  Ostrenko's method of actor's training, which is formed and inspired by the Russian Theatre Tradition. Participants will practically explore physicality as the principal creative instrument, the key to form, style, atmosphere and emotional palette in contemporary performance, stepping beyond the limits of habitual text-based acting. Performer's physicality in the methods of Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and M.Chekhov, Meyerhold's Biomechanics Etudes, Tai-chi for actors, Training by method of improvisation, scene composition from exercises to performance: these are some of the elements uniquely transformed and combined in Ostrenko's teaching system.

The Lab is a great opportunity to approach a unique methodological and practical material that will enrich your professional skills and will offer you the possibility to share an intense creative experience at a global level.

Moreover, the Lab opens the door towards the new collaboration project in Russia in autumn 2012 - the six-week period of performance creation in a Russian repertory theatre together with Russian actors and performers from different countries!

REGISTRATION

Candidates should send the following documents to iugte.projects@gmail.com

• Letter of motivation stating their interest in joining the Lab and the prefered Lab dates (Group I or Group II).
• Detailed CV describing all specific skills and abilities.
• Scanned copy of the passport.
• Latest head shot and 2-3 additional photos.
• Any additional material describing professional experience: web links to past projects and performances, photo, video, reviews, articles, interviews, etc.

Participation fee:

500 EUR if payment is made before March 9th - early reduced registration fee.

(650 EUR if payment is made after March 9th).

The fee covers participation in the intensive practical training, lectures and discussions.

Organized by IUGTE in collaboration with "ArtUniverse"

Program

Performances

JUBILEE SHOWCASE
- the essence of Kolibri / a taste of Kolibri -
9-14 January 2012

Kolibri Theater for Children and Youth celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The anniversary prompts us, beside the celebration, to look back: how the alternative puppet theater that started its career in 1992 has developed to the only professional repertoire theatre for children and youth in Hungary which performs for every age-group in many genres.

Our story also reflects the paradigm shift as the companies performing for children and youth have renewed in the latter decades after the political transition.

We offer to survey Kolibri on this jubilee occasion between 9-14 January 2012 when 16 performances of the repertoire will represent our work. The program is selected so that it should present everything that has determined our first 20 years. It contains of:

- Plays of Hungarian authors

Our mission is from the beginning to introduce classical and contemporary Hungarian authors. The latest international tendencies, adaptations of tales and novels are staged using rich literary language translated by prestigious Hungarian translators. (Cult performances: Aunt Pepper, Mellow Submarine, Wormhenry)

- Performances for early years

In the frame of the Glitterbird European Union project we have presented a show for the age group 0-3 as the first theatre doing so in Hungary in 2005. By now we are followed throughout the country so much that in 2010 at the ASSITEJ Biennale of Theatres for Children and Young People in Kaposvár we organised a separate festival for the Hungarian performances for early years with the help of Small Size, Big Citizens European Union project.

- Next Generation performances

We consider it important that our young audiences meet their own age group on our stages in the performances addressed to them (Cyber Cyrano, The Web Emporium, Help!).

- Platform 11+ performances

With the help of the Platform 11+ European Union programme we could call the already well- known, successful contemporary Hungarian playwrights' attention to the age-group 11-15. Their plays are already on our repertoire presented with a big success.

- Small Size, Big Citizens performances

In the frame an other European Union cooperations we produced our latest performances for early years. (Wiggler, Children of Kippkopp)

- Classical music performances, operas

This series has built up in co-operation with the Palace of Arts. The productions accompanied by an orchestra presented there were staged in the Kolibri in a slightly different shape. (Háry János, A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Come to our showcase and celebrate with us! Help us with your critics and comments in the following 20 years. Welcome!

János Novák
Executive General

Dear,

we would like to present to you the new web site Europerformanceguide.eu , the First Giude to European Performance Mobility.
This site is born 20 days ago and so we need to fil it yet, but especially with your help!

We have a "Young Audience" category that might be of interest to you.

Tomaso Thellung de Courtelary
Director - Europerformanceguide.eu
www.europerformanceguide.eu
The International Theatre, Rome - Italy

The 23rd of April is a unique and a very special international celebration. The founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, dedicated this day to the children of the country to emphasize that they are the future of the new nation.

It was on April 23rd, 1920, during the War of Independence, that the Grand National Assembly met in Ankara and laid down the foundations of a new, independent, secular and modern republic from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. He dedicated the day to the children and entrusted in the hands of the youth the protection of this sovereignty and independence.

Since 1979, the children of Turkey have shared this national holiday with the children of the world. Hundreds of children from different countries and cultures, hosted by families, meet in festivities to discuss, interact, learn about each other and share the joy of togetherness and the hope for peace. The importance of this day is also recognized by UNICEF. Some countries also celebrate this day.

Since its foundation in 1949, Turkish State Theatre pays special attention to plays for children and includes them in its repertoire, since children are not only our future, but also our future actors, actresses, directors, designers and audience... So they are the future of theatre.

For this reason, Turkish State Theatre wishes to contribute the children's day with a special festival, named "Little Ladies Little Gentlemen", after a speech addressed to children by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk:

"Little ladies, little gentlemen,
You are all the roses, the stars and the sparkling joys of our future, the ones who will elevate the nation.
Always be aware of your value and significance!
And work hard...
We have great expectations from you."

The Festival:

• The festival will be held in Ankara (the capital city of Turkey) between 24th - 29th April, 2011.
• The host of the festival is Ankara State Theatre.
• The 23rd of April is considered as the check-in day. No performance will be on this day.
• The 24th of April will be the opening day.
• The performance days are between 25th and 29th of April 2011.
• The groups will depart on the 30th of April 2011.
• Each play will be performed twice in a day.
• All groups are invited to stay for a whole week.
• The festival is non-competitive.

Festival Contacts:
E-mail: turkiye.23april@gmail.com
Phones:
+90 312 324 40 94
+90 312 310 42 30/1334
Postal address:
Devlet Tiyatrolari Genel Müdürlügü
Dis Iliskiler ve Festivaller Birimi
06050 Ulus-Ankara
Turkiye/Turkey

Web Site:
www.devtiyatro.gov.tr/23nisan

Program of Little Ladies, Little Gentlemen

We are pleased to announce that ASSITEJ Serbia, organizes in cooperation with the Children's Theatre Festival "Pozorište Zvezdarište" regional conference for cultural managers and theater producers "The current theatre culture for children and young people and projects for a better perspective in the region" in Beograd, Serbia, 15th 16th and 17th April 2011.

ASSITEJ Serbia pays special attention to the issue of young authors and artists, examines the degree of their involvement and the way in which they think about the need and effect of Theatre for Children and Youth now and in future. By organizing educational programs, ASSITEJ Serbia offers knowledge that is not covered or is not present in regular programs in formal education.

Three-day conference program refers to the specific features and trends in theatrical practice for children and young people, place of this field in cultural policies and provides operational knowledge of the project framework (LFA). Lecturers, panelists and workshop organizers are reputable professionals: Svetlаnа Jovičić, Anjа Sušа, Lolа Joksimović and Predrаg Cvetičаnin. The venue is the Cultural Centre "Vuk Kаrаdžić" in Belgrade and the conference will be held within the framework of 9th Festival "Pozorište Zvezdarište".

Conference is to bring together 20 participants, students of final year of cultural management and theatrical productions and/or young professionals who are at the beginning of professional engagement, (5 from Belgrade, 5 from other parts of Serbia and 10 from countries in the region), in order to facilitate networking among young creative forces from the region and create a better climate for future partnerships in common projects of cultural and education programs for children and youth with theatre arts in its centre.

To participate in the conference it is necessary to fill the application form which is attached, and send it by 20 March 2011, to the address assitejsrbija@gmail.com

More information about regional conference for cultural managers and theater producers "The current theatre culture for children and young people and projects for a better perspective in the region"

Registration form

International Theatre conference PLAYgrounds between facts and fiction: New plays and theatre forms, will take place from 16th - 19th of June 2011 in Pristina, Kosovo.

Theatre currently plays an import role in finding new ways of aesthetical presentation and new possibilities of perception for the audience. Especially the documentary theatre has been rediscovered and developed further by different theatre makers, working at the border between theater and reality.

The recent events on the Balkans is full of history, memories, broken biographies, that has a wide impact on the theatrical work of contemporary directors and playwrights. Since 1990 they are not only confronted with new languages, new social realities, new nations, but also with mechanism of forgetting or eliminating history on one hand and with the re-writing of historical narratives and national myths on the other hand. The stage becomes a medium to find new artistic ways of expressing and dealing with these challenges.

The first day of the conference is focused on the Balkan region, presenting different plays and projects dealing with the changes, transformations and sometimes traumatic experiences of the breaking apart of Yugoslavia and its social, economical and cultural aftereffects. The second day concentrates on different forms of documentary theatre from all over the world, on the role of historical and social reality in drama, but also in literature and visual arts. Besides the panel discussion and presentation of specific projects the conference will be accompanied by stage readings.

The main focus of the conference is to present new plays from the Balkan, to discuss about them, but also to bring together theatre makers and experts from different countries to reflect on the function of theatre, on new ways of artistic expression and possible playgrounds for them.

Please do not hesitate to contact them if you have any questions.

www.qendra.org

The Children's and Young People's Theatre Centre is pleased to announce a Grant Programme called "Young Europe" as part of "Augenblick mal!" - the 11th German Festival of Theatre for Young Audiences from May 14th to 19th, 2011 in Berlin.

The organisers wish to invite emerging artists from different European countries. "Young Europe" offers young artists in the field of theatre for young audiences an opportunity for
advanced training and artistic exchange.

The grant includes free entrance to theatre performances at the festival "Augenblick mal!" and a specially arranged programme of associated activities. The grant also covers board and lodging (in shared rooms in a hostel in Berlin). Travel costs must be met by the person invited or by the country which selects them.

The grant program "Young Europe" will invite a total of 18 people, 3 from Germany and
15 from other European countries. Applicants must not be older than 26 years and working knowledge of English is essential.

Deadline for application is 15th March 2011.

In cooperation with ASSITEJ International and with the support of International Youth
Exchange Program of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Do you need further assistance or information?

For details please contact:

Henning Fangauf, Children's and Young People's Theatre Centre in the Federal Republic of Germany, tel. +49-69-296661, e-mail: h.fangauf@kjtz.de

www.augenblickmal.de

Call for Applications