Welcome to Serbia! ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2023 TURNING POINT
Even though former Yugoslavia was among the founding countries of the ASSITEJ International in the 1960s, the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering has never before happened anywhere in our region. This year, ASSITEJ Serbia and ASSITEJ International are happy and proud to invite colleagues from all over the world with whom we share our passion and mission, to the first ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering which will take place in Belgrade and Novi Sad from 20-24 November 2023, under the title "Turning Point".
WHY TURNING POINT?
Looking at the place the whole world is in right now, and especially where the performing arts for children and youth are, we can be sure of one thing. We are now in a liminal space, a transitional, unlimited space that is part of the change from one state to another, a space of ignorance, confusion and uncertainty in which old truths have been abandoned and new ideas have not yet emerged. This transitional space often begins with a sense of loss, crisis, fear, meaninglessness, and the awareness that there is no going back. In the process, we give up the old meanings, and enter the marginal space in which new ones have not yet been created.