Jump First, Ask Later – A Reflection
Innovative. Inspiring. Groundbreaking.
While watching a screening of Jump First, Ask Later on Wednesday night, I was captured by the creative use of real-life stories from Young Immigrants in Fairfield, Australia. Devised by Powerhouse Youth Theatre,...
Nicola Pauling: When Distance Lives next door; using applied theatre to strengthen complex social...
Wellington City’s 5000 social housing tenants live in medium and high-density housing communities. Cultural diversity amongst this population is high, including significant numbers of migrants and former refugees, while English as a first language,...
Elinor Vettraino: Navigating the self: a journey through the process of researching embodied reflexivity...
In moments of transition, stories are often told and enacted in order to enable smooth passage between experiences (Gersie, 1997). Metaphorical or analogical bootstrapping occurs as we seek to link one unknown or unfamiliar...
Snippets from the ASSITEJ Cradle of Creativity
My third day at Cradle of Creativity was spent focusing on the sharing of stories.
Firstly, during the morning plenary at City Hall, I listened to Dr Vicensia Shule (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)...
Children’s Memory of Performance: Discovery, Rediscovery, and Re-creation
“You don’t need quantitative data to show that Theatre changes people”, says Elaine Faull, to the workshop attendees on Monday afternoon of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019. And yet nevertheless, her data...
Little Sparrows Flying at Baxter
Sparrow is a wonderful, sweet performance for the Early Years by Teater Fot (Norway), directed by Lise Hovik. It follows a little sparrow on its journey from the moment it hatches out of the egg.
The piece encourages children to...
Ha Young Hwang: Artist-Adolescent Collaboration as a Reciprocal Process – through Artists’ Perspectives
A Paper by Ha Young Hwang, Korea National University of Arts (South Korea)Presented at the Conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN), part of the ASSITEJ Artistic...
Interview with Cedric Wembe
I attended Acting Out - The Challenges of Childhood Collaboration in Creation of Drama for Life today at the Cradle of Creativity. The panel was facilitated by Cedric Wembe, a member of Drama for Life, which is...
Norifumi Hida: Creating next-generation international artists for theatre for young audiences
The International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) comprises theatre artists from all over the world who, despite the diversity of their backgrounds, experiences and artistic investments, share a belief that...
Interviewing Kristian Glomnes – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019
Kristian Glomnes is Head of Communication and Media at Seanse Centre for Art Production in Norway. He has a BA Degree in Drama & Theatre, as well as in Pedagogy, from Volda...