Augenblick mal! 2015 invites all national and international guests of the Festival to celebrate together and meet up to talk in a stimulating atmosphere: not only at the opening ceremony but also at the award giving ceremony for the berlin children’s theatre prize 2015, at the ASSITEJ-Gala, the BONUSTRACK at Augenblick mal! Open Stage & Party, and the celebration on the closing day of the festival.

Our Festival Centre is the THEATER AN DER PARKAUE - Junges Staatstheater Berlin. It has been exclusively designed by artists for the Festival, and visitors are warmly invited to gather here on all six days. The Festival Café will be catering for guests with meals, snacks and drinks; and on the terrace you will be able to enjoy the first rays of the sun in the Berlin spring.

The Festival will open on Tuesday 21^st April at 3.00 pm, when visitors will be greeted in front of the THEATER AN DER PARKAUE with music and theatrical actions. The opening ceremony with greetings and presentations of the 10 selected national productions by the five curators, and of the international guest shows will take place on the big stage. After the opening performances we shall close the day with a come together around 9.00 pm.

Every two years young children’s theatre authors are honoured with the berlin children’s theatre prize 2015, sponsored by GRIPS Theater and the Berlin energy supplier GASAG. On Thursday 23^rd April at 8.00 pm guests are invited to get more closely acquainted with the authors, national and international funding models for authors, and last not least GRIPS Theater itself. The authors will be reading from their plays and the evening will close with a buffet.

The ASSITEJ Gala on Friday 24^th April at 8.30 pm is presented by ASSITEJ Germany. Here renowned personalities in national and international theatre for young audiences will be honoured along with outstanding promoters of shows for children and young people. Following the prize-giving ceremony the board of ASSITEJ Germany and the executive committee of ASSITEJ will be greeting guests to celebrate in the Festival café.

GRIPS Theater and Augenblick mal! 2015 invite you to take part in the BONUSTRACK at Augenblick mal! Open Stage & Party on 25^th April 2015 at 9.00 pm in the GRIPS theatre in Hansaplatz. Here Festival guests who have applied in advance can climb on stage for three minutes and demonstrate their talents as singers, entertainers, comedians, poets or dancers. Following this the stage of the GRIPS Theater will be turned into a dancefloor till the early hours of the morning.

The Festival Closing Ceremony will take place on Sunday 26^th April 2015. After the final performance all guests are invited to gather for a glass of champagne.