Speaking with Rhona Matheson – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019
Rhona Matheson has been working in Children’s Theatre & Arts since 2002 when she joined Wee Stories. She began working with Starcatchers on its pilot project in 2006 and since then has...
Production Pitches and Questions of Quality
On Wednesday, 23rd May, 2017 I attended the Producer’s Bazaar as part of the Cradle of Creativity. A day of networking, performances and discussions, the Producer’s Bazaar was an exciting and thought-provoking experience. The...
Spirit Songs – Part 2
This is Part 2 of our materials on the production of Spirit Songs (click here for Part 1).
To hear more about the project, we sat down with Yonela Sithela, one of Magnet Theatre's Culture Gangs Facilitators who was...
Christine Hatton: Drama as a ‘pedagogy of connection’: crossing epistemological and relational boundaries through...
This paper will explore the use of Heathcote’s rolling role system in a series of drama teaching and research projects which aimed to connect different educational sites, participants and disciplines in shared drama processes....
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...
Lise Hovik’s Animalium Workshop
Check out the video above for some workshop highlights from the session delivered at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand.
Workshop Description:Through playing and improvisation exercises the workshop participants created...
Set Design Is Not Child’s Play
What has been incredible at the Cradle of Creativity Festival is the complexity of set designs and props on display, especially considering some Productions have travelled many thousands of miles to perform in Cape...
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,...
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...
Projects from Around the World
The video below captures an informal meeting at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019, where anyone in attendance in Kristiansand who had something to present was given the chance to do so.