The representatives of the ASSITEJ Centres established and in formation in Ibero-America and the Caribbean will give an overview of the situation of the Performing Arts for Children and Youth in our region. We will present objectives and projects for the future and will open a dialogue with those present with the aim of deepening links with artists from other regions.

Before the session (14:00) there will be a welcome and tour of Casa de las Américas by the critic and researcher Vivian Martinez Tabares. Director of the specialised magazine Teatro Latinoamericano Conjunto and of the Directorate of Theatre at Casa de las Américas, from where she organises the Temporada Mayo Teatral. 

At the end of the session, the documentary "TEATRO: UMA JANELA PARA A VIDA" (Brazil) will be shown, which shows theatre as a transformative element in the lives of young people in the communities. Through the history of Paideia, founded in 1988 by Aglaia Pusch and Amauri Falseti, the film shows how culture and art became essential in the lives of hundreds of young people who had the opportunity to participate in the production of plays always looking for new ways of language and artistic content of theatrical language. Since 2005 occupying a warehouse in Santo Amaro, Paideia holds the International Theatre Festival for Children and Youth, and the film shows this meeting of exchange experiences between young artists from all over the world and documents the work that became a reference in Theatre for Young People.

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