Canadian Children’s Theatre practitioners recently made a preliminary bid to host an AITA/IATA World Festival of Children’s Theatre in Stratford, Ontario in 2016.  The Chair of the Standing Committee for Children and Youth, Helle Hauger, recommended the action to the AITA/IATA Executive Board at its recent meeting in Nancy, France, and the EB has given [...]

The Festival is arranged by the Danish Amateur Theatre Association (DATS) in cooperation with The Municipality of Sønderborg. The Festival will be held under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Marie. The NEATA Festival is a 5-day theatre festival where about 200 theatre people from the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries and from the [...]

I consider myself a very lucky person to have been able to attend the 11th World Festival of Children’s Theatre in Lingen (Ems) in Germany in June of 2010. I attended in my capacity as President of AITA/IATA which was a great honour for me. As this must be a brief article, I will refer [...]

It was a wonderful experience for me to meet so many delegates, friends and new faces in Monaco. As members and friends of AITA/IATA will expect, it was a very well organised Congress and Festival and all aspects were efficient and framed within a warm welcome and warm hospitality. Thank you to all those who [...]

Coordinator, Mrs. Helle Hauger, reports about the conclusions emerging from the corresponding break out group in Monaco As an essential part of AITA/IATA the standing committee for children and youth (SCCY) have a possibility to address the Congress and to lead a session of 2.5 hours during the congress. This time we choose to focus [...]