An exhibition on the 50th anniversary of the World Association of Theatres for Children and Young People in different places in Berlin
from 21^st to 26^th April 2015 in Berlin
during the Augenblick mal! 2015 Festival

Exhibition venues
Umweltforum und GRIPS Hansaplatz

The ASSITEJ World Congress talks about…
DIALOGUES | GRIPS Theatre Hansaplatz
To combine the historical with the current discourse you can hear statements of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2015 during special periods at this venue:
Wednesday, 22.04., 10.30-11.00 am
Thursday, 23.04., 05.45-06.15 pm, 07.30-08.00 pm
Friday, 24.04., 01.45-02.15 pm, 05.30-06.00 pm
Saturday, 25.04., 08.30-09.15 pm

International Diversity – 75 Posters from 50 Countries
POINT OF VIEW | Umweltforum
To experience the entire presentation of the international posters you can climb the steps to the galleries and have a look down at the other pictures framed by the cords. For a closer look all posters are displayed in the foyer in a video loop.

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The team: Anna Döge, Laura Kallenbach, Isabel Schwenk, Simon Niemann, Prof. Dr. Geesche Wartemann (Universität Hildesheim); Luisa Birkenfeld, Dr. Jürgen Kirschner (KJTZ)

Context: Thomas Krüger, the president of the Federal Agency for Civic Education recently declared that »the past is always an interpretation of the present“, and in doing so spoke out in favour of a variety of ways in which to approach history. In 1990, when he was the Berlin Senator for Young People and Families, he opened the first National Festival of Theatre for Children and Young People along with other promoters.
During the festival Augenblick mal! we shall not only be looking back at two decades of the history of this festival: The Children‘s and Young People‘s Theatre Centre is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, ASSITEJ Germany will have existed for five decades in 2016 and ASSITEJ celebrates its 50th birthday this year.

Scarcely 50 years have gone by and these have produced a vast amount of documents, facts and experiences. Files, publications and media have been collected and, with a bit of luck, people who were present at the time still remember much of what they witnessed. Discussions, publications and archives help us to bring the past into the present, along with the discontinuities that also define our current activities. Between 2008 and 2014 Nat Eek completed a general picture of ASSITEJ, in which he outlined the steps in its development. For Augenblick mal! 2015, the Children‘s and Young people‘s Theatre Centre has joined forces with the University of Hildesheim to explore the archives, view the (hi)stories from different perspectives, and present them in various locations in Berlin.

The huge variety of theatre for children and young people will be displayed with illustrations and scenic photos from the
collection of the Children‘s and Young People‘s Theatre Centre. The themes discussed in the World Congresses will follow the course of ASSITEJ discussions. Also the current dialogues in Berlin will be included in the exhibition. A scenic reading entitled Let us leave history now and turn to the present is based on a look into the ASSITEJ international archives and promises to make a very special contribution to the birthday party.