**Note: Participation in this programme is by invitation only and is available only to those children who have been pre-registered.**

In 2022, ASSITEJ International launched two new projects, ‘Voices of Children’ and ‘Voices of Teenagers’, to bring children’s and young people’s voices into artistic conversations and other sectoral discussions.

In recognition of the importance of including children and young people’s own voices in the learning and development of ASSITEJ International and its members, these programmes will seek the voices of children and teenagers to be integrated into professional learning around what our young audiences demand in terms of sustainability, participation, and creative feedback.

These two parallel projects have been designed to:

• Set an example and inspire the sector to include children and young people as valued contributors and vital agents in the sector’s cultural ecology;
• Let the voices of young generations be part of forming the conversations in professional discussions around the project activities, and;
• Enhance the capacity and skills of artists, producers, festivals, venues, and others to include children and young people in their work.

Voices of Children: “This Is What I Saw”

Children aged between 9 and 13 are invited to take part in a reflection project called ‘This Is What I Saw’ during the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering in 2023 (Serbia). A local project coordinator will work with the children, facilitate their event participation, and coordinate and frame their reflection process. The children have been recruited locally from a school in Novi Sad. They will see performances across the festival and engage in a facilitated workshop process where they create visual, dramatic, sensory, audio, or video responses to the works they have seen.

The project results in an exhibition of the children’s creative feedback (artwork, wall of thoughts, audio interviews etc.) on the art they have witnessed together, in whatever form this takes. The focus is on encouraging adults to absorb and accept different forms of articulation and communication when faced with children’s responses to art.

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