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Young Theater Festival

The Young Theater Festival will be held from 12 to 20 September 2020 in Bale (Istria, Republic of Croatia). The aim of the festival is to strengthen international cultural cooperation and exchange of experiences of young people and professional leaders, and to promote theater as a meeting place and dialogue of different professions: actors, directors, musicians, dancers, set designers, architects, journalists, media workers, photographers, cameramen, nutritionists. lawyers, pedagogues and methodologists. The festival is realized in a stimulating environment, ideal for ambient theater, in an area where natural beauties, cultural heritage, tourism and top gastro-oenological offer are intertwined.

Locations where it will be held

workshops, presentations and gatherings Workshops: Bale Sports Hall, Kaštel Bembo, Fort Forno Fortress, cinema hall, ambience of energy circles Presentations: Tomaso Bembo Square and Fort Forno Fortress

Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek

The Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek (AUKOS) conducts study programs and awards diplomas in the arts, social sciences, humanities and interdisciplinary fields of science and art, which makes it an institution of broad worldviews, open to various profiles of students who can recognize a place to acquire art. and the scientific competencies needed to live and work in modern society. Through various art projects, AUKOS operates in the community, realizing art programs of various profiles, national and international character.

Theatrical Epicenter

Theatrical Epicenter is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profit organization that brings together Croatian professional associations dedicated to theater for children and youth. The Theater Epicenter employs people who think, imagine and work in a different and contemporary theater for children and young people. This organization is a kind of exit polygon for the promotion and distribution of the highest quality achievements of Croatian stage and performance forms to Europe and the world. The vision of the Theater Epicenter is to bring together individuals, collectives and organizations whose activities systematically and persistently promote art and non-formal education for children and youth and emphasize their importance for the development of individuals and society as a whole.

Croatian Center UNIMA

The Croatian UNIMA Center was founded in 1992 as a member of the international organization UNIMA (UNion Internationale de la MArionnette), which brings together people from all over the world. The organization carries out a number of activities that contribute to the development of puppetry: in addition to the biennial puppet festival SLUK, which awards professional prizes, UNIMA organizes international exchange programs, publishing publications dedicated to puppetry, each year marks International Puppetry Day and awards several major festivals such as Actor's Festival.

Croatian Center Assitej

The Croatian ASSITEJ Center was founded in 1996 as an equal member of the prestigious theater organization ASSITEJ, which brings together national centers from around the world. ASSITEJ in Croatia unites 22 professional theaters for children and youth, 16 professionally run drama studios and 6 individual members, drama artists working in theaters for children and youth. The goal of the Croatian Center ASSITEJ is to be the leading umbrella association of theater for children and youth in Croatia. In cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education, efforts are being made to establish quality criteria in the theater market for children and youth. Every year, the Croatian Center ASSITEJ organizes the Meeting of its members in Čakovec. The goal of organizing this Meeting is to create a professional center that will change the attitude towards theater for children and youth. The purpose is to educate young theater audiences on artistically valuable performances adapted to the age and reception abilities of children, creating from them in the future a theatrically educated spectator who, with his thus built aesthetic criteria, will direct, as an audience, the further paths of Croatian theater. With Encounters professional theaters, Croatian Center ASSITEJ organizes Meetings of professionally run theaters for children and youth.

Bale

The town of Bale is located on the western coast of Istria. This historic stone town was built on a hill surrounded by olive groves and vineyards, not far from the coast. The narrow and stone-paved streets, which surround the medieval castle of the Bembo family from the 15th century, hide many stories. Even before Roman times, there was an old fort, and numerous historical documents and remains of buildings testify to the dynamic past of that city.

For: art lovers

What to do: theater, art