BABEL – or The Art of Listening in Theatre for young audiences (TYA) is seeking young emerging arts practitioners (under 36 years old) for participation in festival residencies within the theme ‘The Art of Listening, the sensitive relationship between performer and child/adolescent spectator’ during several BABEL festivals in different countries in Europe over the period of 2023-2024.
BABEL is seeking proposals for participation and residency bursaries up to 500 EUR for 16 young artists and other young professionals within the framework of the Next Generation programme from ASSITEJ International. The artists and professionals selected will have the chance to interact with festival organising at different levels, to observe and participate in festival activities.
16 residency grants will be awarded in 2023 and 2024. Two for each of the 8 scheduled festivals:
2023:
- Kitoks Festival, from 13th to 22nd January, in Vilnius, Lithuania.
- Brik Festival, from 24th to 26th June, in Breda, Netherlands.
- International Theaterfest, from 23rd to 29th October, in St. Vith, Belgium.
- elPetit Festival, from 11th to 26th November, in Sabadell, Spain.
2024 (not all dates are final):
- Festival Visioni di Futuro, second half of March, in Bologna (Italy).
- Aprilfestival, from 16th to 20th of April in Denmark.
- Brik Festival, June, In Breda (Netherlands).
- Lutke Festival, Last week of September in Ljubljana (Slovenia).
The residency programme will take place at the ‘BABEL Squares’ (international TYA festivals) at the festival locations. The festival activities include:
- International performances.
- ‘Babel Creation Work Groups’: Residencies and training for Next Generation art practitioners.
- ‘Islands of Reflection’: Research activities.
- Educational activities on childhood/adolescence and artistic languages.
- Conferences, seminars, webinars – with key-note speakers and round table discussions on the project topics.
The call is open to Next Generation practitioners, who are performing arts practitioners, administrators, and researchers from all countries; performers of all genres and techniques, theatre directors, musicians, theatre designers, playwrights, performing arts academics, arts educators and teachers, theatre critics, arts journalists etc. The Next Generation (NG) residency programme is an ASSITEJ initiative, designed to support artistic and cultural exchange and collaboration between international artists aged 36 years or below, interested in theatre for young audiences.
