From 12-16 September 2023, the 17th International Assitej Festival in Kristiansand will take place. In 2023, the festival will also host the extensive EU project ConnectUp. The organisers are now calling for performing arts productions for young audiences between the ages of 0-19 and contributions to the professional programme!
This year’s festival has been entitled ‘What Matters Most’ and seeks to explore what we consider truly important. In Norway it is said that things are ‘death-important’ but also ‘life-important’, which can both mean vitally important. In short, the festival is looking for performances about everything that is a matter of life and death - about what matters most.
- What is the difference between life-important and death-important?
- What is life- or death-important where, when, why and how?
- What is important to me but not to you? What can you live without but I can’t?
- What do I take for granted, but for which you fight for with your life at stake, and vice versa?
- What is most important on the edge of the cliff?
- What is life- or death-important for the very youngest children?
- Contrast between what is life- or death-important in one part of the world, one society, one culture versus another part of the world, another society, another culture?
Selected productions receive:
- An agreed upon performance fee.
- Travel and transportation.
- Accommodation.
- Access to the festival programme in general.
