In Sweden, depending on where you live or in which school you study some children see performing art every year. But there are also children that very seldom or even never see performing art. We have met high school students who've never experienced a theatre or dance performance ever. ASSITEJ Sweden has been working for the last four years on how to engage the government to better support arts access for all children.
In South Africa, ASSITEJ SA has been able to get the Department of Basic Education to buy into a concept called “arts-rich schools”. While this is still in the early stages, it provides a potential mechanism for direct engagement with schools as a centre for artistic education, access, community outreach and intergenerational dialogue. It may be a model for international collaboration.
The purpose of this seminar is to share and discuss perspectives on distribution – how can we organize to secure children’s rights to performing arts?
We want to:
● Get some insight into how the systems in our different countries work;
● Get inspired by what is good/efficient within the systems in different countries;
● Find tools, spirit and inspiration on how to work and organize to improve.
About the Artists
Yvette Hardie is a theatre director, producer, educator and advocate. She is the national director of ASSITEJ SA and served as President of ASSITEJ from 2011-2021, networking across 100 countries. She was responsible for hosting the 19th ASSITEJWorld Congress & Performing Arts Festival, Cradle of Creativity for the first time in Africa, in 2017. She serves as Chairperson of STAND (Sustaining Theatre and Dance) Foundation. She was awarded the MickeyMiner Award from IPAY (International Performing Arts for Youth) for her contribution to theatre for young audiences locally and globally. She received the title of Honorary President of ASSITEJ in 2021.
Niclas Malmcrona is the Director of ASSITEJSweden with more than 30 years of experience as a performing arts producer and in organising meetings, workshops and in all parts of the world. Niclas was responsible for ASSITEJ's World Congress in Malmö and Copenhagen in 2011, has been a member of IPAY's Board of Directors in Philadelphia, USA, and has organised festivals in countries as diverse as Russia and Jordan. From 1999-2008 Niclas was Secretary General of ASSITEJ International. He is one of the founders of Bibu and the showcase, Swedstage.
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