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Open Call Residency í Danmörku
ROOTS & ROUTES is a new four-year Danish/international residency program aimed at artists creating performing arts for children and young audiences, supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.
The overall program is a collaboration between five organizations/venues: Teaterhuset Filuren, Aaben Dans, Teater Hund, Syddjurs Egnsteater, and ASSITEJ Denmark.
This cross-national collaboration between organizations with different artistic profiles will draw on diverse experiences and different networks to develop shared practices.
ROOTS & ROUTES’ four residencies take an exploratory approach to the following questions: How do we create pathways for new voices? Which concepts and understandings of artistic quality are at play? What view of children are we using as our lens here?
Deadlines: Application will close Thursday 15th of October 2026. And all artists will receive an answer on their application no later than November 15, 2026.
As part of the residency, we offer:
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An artistic fee of 17.000 DKK for the entire stay
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Travel and accommodation
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Flight, trains, hostel and transport to/from the airport and stations.
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Public transportation in Aarhus in relation to the residency’s program.
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Breakfast and lunch will be included in the accommodation, and per diems if/when joint dinners are not a part of the program.
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Tickets to events as part of the residency.
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The facilitator of the residency in Aarhus 2027 will be:
Eoin McKenzie is a Glasgow-based performance maker and Artistic Director of Guesthouse Projects.
Read info on structure, requirements, and the residency theme in the open call (attached) and online: International residency – Filuren
Assitej á Íslandi
Samtök sviðslistahópa og leikúsa fyrir unga áhorfendur
Aðalfundur Assitej
22. og 28. september
Listening Before Words – Creating Sensory Performance for Young Audiences
Vinnustofa á Zoom með Helgu Arnalds
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The Nordic-Baltic ASSITEJ Network (NBAN), together with ASSITEJ Iceland, invites you to an online talk and experimental workshop with Icelandic theatre maker, director and visual artist Helga Arnalds.
Listening Before Words – Creating Sensory Performance for Young Audiences
How do we create performances for children and young audiences when we don’t begin with words, a script, or even a clear idea of what we want to say?
In this online talk and workshop, Helga Arnalds invites participants to explore sensory and embodied approaches to artistic creation.
Date: 27 October 2026
Time: 11:00 GMT / 12:00 CET / 13:00 EET
Place: Zoom
Duration: 1.5 hours
More about the workshop
Helga Arnalds is an Icelandic theatre maker, director and visual artist, and the artistic director of 10 Fingers. Her work explores visual and wordless performance, material-based creation and embodied approaches to the creative process. Drawing on more than thirty years of creating visual and wordless theatre, Helga will share approaches developed through her work with 10 Fingers, an evolving collaborative artistic practice that brings together different artists for each project. Taking the wordless performance LIFE – a Mudpie, created with soil for children and families, as a starting point, Helga explores listening — to materials, the body, collaborators, the work itself and the young spectator.
How can sensory and embodied experience become a starting point for artistic creation? And what changes when we shift our attention from what we want to tell children towards what we want to make possible for them to experience? The talk draws on Helga’s practice of Listening to the Material and her research into embodied thinking, Focusing and the felt sense — a form of bodily knowing that can be present before we have words for it.
At its heart is a question: What does it mean to trust the child as a spectator — to create space for young audiences to sense, imagine and make meaning for themselves? The session concludes with a short guided Focusing experience, inviting participants to move from talking about listening to experiencing it for themselves.
Helga Arnalds / 10 Fingers the10fingers.com
Join us to learn more about Helga’s practice and discover new tools and approaches for your own artistic practice!
Registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1CNSzU-U7E40x7PH9Rz5VboLUJAwHdqkKvXgSJV47Rha2Dg/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=117153372985799845101
Registration deadline: 22 October 2026
Please note that the workshop is limited to 50 participants
Aðalfundur Assitej á Íslandi var haldin 22. og 28. september
Lárus Vilhjálmsson formaður lagði fram ársskýrslu samtakanna, ársrreikning fyrir 2025, og samantekt um UNGA 2026 sem var í apríl.
Fjöldi fólks bauð sig fram til stjórnar og hlutu eftirtaldir kosningu:
Í aðalstjórn
Egill Andrason fyrir Borgarleikhúsið
Einar Aðalsteinsson fyrir Þjóðleikhúsið
Jenný Lára Arnórsdóttir fyrir Leikfélag Akureyrar
Salka Gullbrá Þórarinsdóttir
Ævar Þór Benediktsson.
Í varastjórn
Björgvin FranzGíslason
Jóakim Kvaran
Lárus Vilhjálmsson.
UNGI 2026 fór fram dagana 23. - 26. apríl.
Hátíðin var einstaklega glæsileg að þessu sinni og voru 3 erlendar sýningar á hátíðinni auk 7 íslenskra sýninga.
Hátíðin var að þessu sinni með sterka norræna/baltneska nærveru og eru tvær erlendu sýningarnar þaðan.
UNGI var einnig með málstofu um sviðslistamenntun á Íslandi og bauð upp á vinnustofur fyrir ungmenni frá Nærrænu/Baltnesku löndunum og vinnustofu um sögumanninn og sviðið í samvinnu við tengslanet smáþjóða innan Assitej. Þetta tókst afar vel.
Fjöldi barna kom á sýningarnar á UNGA og einnig var fjöldi erlendra gesta. Um það bil 2.200 komu á sýningarnar þrátt fyrir að takmarkaður fjöldi hafi verið á ungbarnasýningar sem voru þrjár að þessu sinni.
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ASSITEJ is an international organization of performing artists who make performing arts for children and young people.
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The organization promotes cooperation and communication between artists and theaters both domestically and abroad and thus contribute to artistic development.
ASSITEJ in Iceland has been operating since 1990 and has aimed to protect theater for children and young people by, among other things, promoting communication between artists who work in this field in Iceland and encouraging them to international cooperation.
The Icelandic branch of the association has organized international workshops, participated in Nordic cooperation, sent representatives to courses and workshops and has mediated the selection of Icelandic performances at foreign theater festivals.
The core of the activities in Iceland since 2013 has been UNGI, an annual international performing arts festival for young audiences in Reykjavík. The festival is independent but held in parallel and in good cooperation with the Children's Culture Festival in Reykjavík. The festival has marked its place in the cultural life of the city.
It has been decided to make the UNGA International Performing Arts Festival a biennial and to use the intervening year to build up the organization's internal work and support the professional scene in Iceland. That year is called the EGG
Home address
Hjardarhagi 47
107 Reykjavik
Board of ASSITEJ
Chair: Agnes Wild
Treasurer: Lárus Vilhjálmsson
UNGA Executive Director: Aude Busson
Board members: Anna Bergljót Thorarensen, Guðrún Ýr Eðvaldsdóttir, Hallveig Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Helga Arnalds, Hrefna Lind Lárusdóttir, Nick Candy and Þórhallur Sigurðsson.
Be in touch
Email: assitej.iceland@gmail.com