BABEL or The Art of Listening in Theatre for Young Audiences

BABEL or the Art of Listening in Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) comes out of a long and ripe reflection over languages within the network of ASSITEJ International (Association of Theatre for Children and Young People) focused on the communications processes, intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding in TYA and more extensively the Performing Arts for Young Audiences. All partners intend to pursue the rights of children and youth to full cultural citizenship. In Babel, they will investigate together with performers, artistic facilitators and researchers the opportunities given by artistic languages to create high-quality shows for children, overcoming the barrier of languages and potential misunderstanding, fostering intercultural and intergenerational dialogue in the Performing Arts for Young Audiences. Through Babel they will go deeper in developing and promoting this specific sector, in terms of creative processes circulation of artworks, and dissemination of results. In order to do so, Babel is structured as a long, shared and widespread training pathway. It will be continuously articulated in that wide international dimension (in Europe and beyond) which is guaranteed by a partnership composed of 14 solid and high-profile partners, from 11 European countries: 13 organisers of recognised international TYA Festivals and Assitej International. The project foresees a diverse set of activities all intertwined in terms of timing and implementation: the Festivals/Babel Squares, the Multi-lingual creation groups, the Island of reflections, the Mosaic pieces, the Catalogue of Inspiration, the Intertwined pathways (dedicated to young artists, and to bring an extra-European dimension through sharing of the experience). This close connection between these activities will allow a synergic development, thus helping Babel to coherently pursue the targeted objective and priority, while setting out its specific aims to reach the goals partners have established.

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Teatercentrum I Danmark (leader)

Denmark (EU)
Scènes d'enfance - ASSITEJ France (partner)

France (EU)
AGORA Theater (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Théâtre la Montagne Magique (partner)

Belgium (EU)
ASSITEJ Srbija (partner)

Republic of Serbia
La Baracca Onlus (partner)

Italy (EU)
Stichting de Stilte (partner)

Netherlands (EU)
Baboro Festival (partner)

Ireland (EU)
Arts Printing House (partner)

Lithuania (EU)
El Mes Petit de Tots (EMPT) (partner)

Spain (EU)
ASSITEJ Sweden (partner)

Sweden (EU)
Bronks Jeugdtheater (partner)

Belgium (EU)
ASSITEJ International (partner)

Italy (EU)

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Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

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Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

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Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

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Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

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SEMA

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Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

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