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Sîlan Diljen

#minflykt

Seminar

Last autumn, Swedish public radio aired the documentary #minflykt (#myflight) in which Siljan Diljen described her flight to Sweden. She now meets audiences with her personal tale of escape, inheritance and sorrow b ...

Listen

Sign language

5114 dagar Photo: Ola Kjelbye

5114 dagar

Jury selection

Performance

How is it to have lived in 5114 days? To be almost adult, but looked upon as a kid. Filled with secrets and longing, but at the same time scared to death.

Theatre

Lower secondary school

adhdwhwdg

8 kvadrat - Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Husby

Jury selection

Performance

The world can be contained in a small space. It can also be hidden in a story that starts here and now. And which shows the warm and tender relationship of two brothers. A story that overflows to all of us who are t ...

Family

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Performance image, åååå snälla följ mig, Photo: Urban Jörén

åååå snälla följ mig <3<3<3

Jury selection

Performance

A musical for children between the ages of 10-12 about fans, femininity and group belonging.

Musical

Gul ruta med rosa prickar

Access, choice and collaboration

Seminar

Folkteatern Gävleborg/Scen:se, Estrad Norr and Oily Cart Theatre are in the beginning of a unique artistic collaboration that will run over the coming three years, with the aim to create the most accessible show pos ...

English

Funktion

prickar bibu

Accessible Performing Arts

How are performing arts to become accessible to everyone? What is required from institutions and independent groups for people with various functional impairments to be able to partake of performing arts on equal te ...

Listen

Sign language

prickar bibu

Accessible Web – introduction and workshop

Workshop

The Swedish Arts Council requires all cultural groups and institutions in receipt of state funding to have their websites and e-services adapted for accessibility by 2016 at the latest.

Try

Föreställningsbild med text på grön platta med texten Adventures of Harriharri — Episode III - Harold Hejazi

Adventures of Harriharri — Episode III - Harold Hejazi

Jury selection

Performance

In Adventures of HarriHarri Episode III, artist Harold Hajezi explores themes of belonging, racialization and alienation in a personal and humorous way. In the borderland between gaming, performance, and theater we ...

English

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Anchors Away

Anchors Away

Performance

Three little people with big dreams of sailing.

Dance

Family

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med rosa textplatta med texten Artisten - Helsingborgs Stadsteater & Malmö Stadsteater

Artisten - Helsingborgs Stadsteater & Malmö Stadsteater

Performance

The red carpet is rolled out and the foyer smells sweetly of powder and audience expectations. Welcome to the magical world of the theatre, full of glitter, glamour and fabulous wigs! You are about to see a real wor ...

Family

Lower primary school

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Theatre

prickar bibu

Artistic discussion

Seminar

Meet the artists behind the productions you just have seen or will see. Hear about the processes, choices and conditions around what they produce.

Discuss

Listen

Sign language

ASSITEJ ARTISTIC ENCOUNTER

Seminar

How can we face the future as artists? What do we need to succeed as TYA artists in the future? Join these interactive sessions as we prepare to face the future together

ASSITEJ INTERNATIONAL - CREATIVE EUROPE SUPPORTS ASSITEJ

Seminar

ASSITEJ International is from 2022 supported by Creative Europe to build the collective resilience of theatre and the performing arts for young Audiences. This presentation and conversation is about what this suppor ...

Föreställningsfoto med rosa textplatta med texten Astons stenar - Teater Pero och Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

Astons stenar - Teater Pero & Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

Performance

A story about the little dog who wants to take care of all the stones he can find. Some are big and some are small. One is sad and another one has a cold. All of them needs to be taken care of. From a child’s perspe ...

Lower primary school

Musical theatre

Preschool

bild Bak-å-fram-på, bibu 2018, Photo: Lina Ikse

Bak-å-fram-på

Performance

This performance is not selected by the jury but included in Tema Friktionskraft: Teatercentrum presents a tool for analysing performances to encourage a norm-creative approach to artistic work and audience developm ...

Friction

Theatre

Dance

Performance image, Barnteater som gränsvakt mellan "barn" och "vuxna", bibu, 2016

Barnteater som gränsvakt mellan ”barn” och ”vuxna”

Seminar

Does children’s theatre exist if there are no “children”? Do we need to start by defining what separates children from adults in order to do culture for children? And how is the category of “children” portrayed on s ...

Listen

Performance image Beyond Sensation

BEYOND SENSATION

Jury selection

Performance

Beyond Sensation is based on the concept of “creating the new with tradition and building the old with future”. With cooperation and exchange between the two parties, the  future image is portrayed with the present ...

Theatre

Black wooden house with white knots

bibu the Party!

Other

Put on your dancing shoes, put in your chewing gum - it's time to mingle and dance!

Party

Bibu The Party!

Other

Bibu invites you to a party on Saturday 21 May at The Tivoli between 20.30 pm-1am. Come and mingle, be inspired and talk to known and unknown. The party opens at 20.30 with award ceremony, dj, music and surprises!

Mingle

Bibu-festen!

Bibu-party!

Other

Bibu invites you to the party on Friday the 15th of May at Tivoli!

Party

Föreställningsfoto med blå textplatta med texten Boll? Boll. Boll! - Mittiprickteatern

Boll? Boll. Boll! - Mittiprickteatern

Performance

Boll? Boll. Boll! (Ball? Ball. Ball!) is a fantastical, playful and physical theatre show about a dream-like world where anything is possible. Where a small red ball suddenly can turn into a mouthwatering cake while ...

Preschool

Theatre

Young Swedstage

BOOK PRESENTATION: CULTURAL POLICY FOR ARTS EDUCATION

Seminar

The Research Program of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development at the University of Hildesheim in Germany brought together experts from the Universities in Dar Es Salam, Kampala, Nairobi, Pr ...

Discuss

English

Research

Bounce!

Bounce!

Jury selection

Performance

Bounce! happily discusses the failure, an universal experience, an unexpected start for a new way of living.

Dance

Lower primary school

Middle school

Föreställningsfoto med textplatta Breath in the Wild - Shiraz Amar

Breath in the Wild - Shiraz Amar

Performance

Something we've never seen! Tents that dance, tents that move, tents that float and hug, tents that frolic, tents that are sad and happy - to the beat of disco music. It's exciting and crazy - here it's allowed to l ...

Dance

Lower primary school

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Young Swedstage

Perfoming image Buster Keaton på månen

BUSTER KEATON PÅ MÅNEN

Jury selection

Performance

Suzanne Osten returns to Unga Klara with a play by Gunilla Linn&nbsp;Persson.

Theatre

Byggsats Producent

Workshop

Together the participants will build the perfect job desciption for a lasting Producer/Production manager.

Discuss

c/o UNG TEATER - AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON ACTING TRAINING

Seminar

Four persons from four countries meet in a conversation to elucidate and discuss views on theatre for youth and what place it could be given in acting education from an international perspective.

English

Theatre

Performance image Čázevulošnieida - The Underwater girl

Čázevulošnieida – THE UNDERWATER GIRL

Jury selection

Performance

Čázevulošnieida, directly translated to The underwater girl, is an interdisciplinary work of art. The work is both an art installation and a dance art performance based on the Sea Sámi story ‘Undervannsjenta’ and ab ...

Dance

Preschool

CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS VOICES - PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

Seminar

A unique opportunity to experience indigenous artists speaking about their artistic work, including artistic languages and narratives.  Celebrating Indigenous Voices - what stories are we telling, and what storie ...

English

CHAIN REACTION - HOW TO USE NETWORKING TO BUILD NEW SUSTAINABILITY PATTERNS

Workshop

The workshop aims to sharing and raise networking practices considering the networking as a tool to support the cooperation versus competition and to develop sustainability long-term patterns.&nbsp;

Chotto Desh (Storbritannien), bibu 2016

Chotto Desh (UK)

Jury selection

Performance

Akram Khan’s Desh was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike when it was first presented in 2011.

Dance

English

Performance image, Collaborative Theatre, bibu, 2018

Collaborative Theatre & Participation as Citizen Voice Amplifiers for Social Transformation

Seminar

Nabeel’s presentation will focus on his journey to explore theatre and other  performance methods that are more sensitive and relevant to local communities, in direct collaboration and partnership with community mem ...

Listen

English

Hospital clown in colourful clothes leaning against a hospital wall with one foot in the air.

Comedy in sickness and crisis – does it really work?

Seminar

What happens when there is no planned performance, when the artist shows up totally unexpected and when someone in the audience is seriously ill? Those are the everyday conditions for one of the performing arts’ mos ...

English

Communitas -CAMP and Trampoline House

Communitas -CAMP and Trampoline House

Seminar

Wich potential public art institutions – educational and museological – hold to contribute to unpacking and producing resolutions to the global urgencies.

English

Communitas -Rachel Tess

Communitas -Rachel Tess

Seminar

Through the lecture IS THIS IT? Tess shares her perspective on community and social/interactive artistic practices for young audiences through the works Reflective Nebula and Den Kosmiska Havsträdgårdspassagen. ...

English

CREATING PERFORMANCES FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES WHO HAVE THE MOST BARRIERS TO ACCESS

Workshop

Workshops for actors and dancers with&nbsp;Ellie Griffiths&nbsp;(UK) and&nbsp;Natasha Gilmore&nbsp;(SCT-UK)

Circus

English

Funktion

Theatre

CUBAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Seminar

Conference on Theater and sustainable development in Cuba. Voices and strategies for a new world at the XXI ASSITEJ World Congress, 2024.

CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC AWAKENING FOR A NEW ECONOMICS OF WELL-BEING

Seminar

How is the the alliance of culture and health in the Child’s Cultural and Artistic Awakening an answer for a better tomorrow?

Cx4: Clowns, Common misunderstandings, Colonialism and Children, bibu 2018

Cx4: Clowns, Common misunderstandings, Colonialism and Children

Seminar

Who can kick who? What’s the role of gender and skin colour? Who finds clowns scary? What are some traps for the aspiring clown?

Listen

English

DANCE PERCEPTION AND EXPRESSION OF THE VERY YOUNG AUDIENCES

Seminar

Seminar for performing arts professionals on dance perception and expression of very young audience including methodology presentation, observation of baby dance class and discussions.&nbsp;

People dancing, bibu 2016

Danceoke

Other

Almost like karaoke but instead of singing alone, we dance together. It´s easy. Watch, mimic and dance. Like Beyoncé, Whitney, Britney and Gwen. With ÖFA:kollektivet

Try

English

Party

Danspodden Isadora talks to Ásrún Magnúsdóttir

Danspodden Isadora talks to Ásrún Magnúsdóttir

Seminar

Danspodden Isadora talks to Ásrún Magnúsdóttir, choreographer for Listening Party, about her artistic work, community dance and about working with participating youths in different countries.

English

De Passant, show image, bibu 2018, Photo: Kathleen Michiels

De Passant

Jury selection

Performance

Some people feel at home wherever they are. Others spend their whole life looking, wandering hither and thither, longing for a place to put down roots and eventually come home to. But what exactly is home?&nbsp;

Theatre

Dance

DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT AND DISABILITY; REACHING FURTHER - A PRESENTATION

Seminar

Rosie Heafford, Artistic Director of Second Hand Dance, presents a talk on digital engagement and developing access tools for young audiences.&nbsp; The activity will be presented with the use of audio visual and sl ...

Funktion

DIGITAL LEAP - CREATING AND SHARING DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE IN ARTISTIC PRODUCTION

Seminar

Creating and sharing digital knowledge in artistic production. Digital Leap offers a training programme and free learning resources – Cookbooks – for circus and dance professionals who are interested in deepening th ...

Circus

Dance

English

Discussion with the International Selection Committee

Seminar

Meet the International Selection Committee that has made the international selection for bibu 2024. Listen to their reasoning regarding artistic quality and the vibrant tendencies that have been relevant during &nbs ...

Discuss

English

Diversity and Inclusion in performing arts for children and young people within a Nordic context

Seminar

In recent years there have been a number of reports released throughout the Nordic countries about diversity within the arts and culture sector.

Djurens karneval

Performance

In Djurens karneval (Carnival of the Animals) a magical universe full of imaginative creatures awaits.

Dance

Middle school

Performance image Do as I say

DO AS I SAY

Jury selection

Performance

The performance is interactive and both the audience and dancers receive verbal instructions from a recorded voice, but who is actually in charge? Through abstract choreography and concrete stories, the audience is ...

Lower secondary school

Young Swedstage

Föreställningsfoto med rosa textplatta med texten Dunkers Kulturhus presenterar Mellan oss emellan - Kollaborativet

Dunkers Kulturhus presenterar Mellan oss emellan - Kollaborativet

Performance

An immersive performing arts experience for all senses - together we explore a universe of materials whose unique properties bring our hearing, sight, movement and touch to life. A place for presence and community w ...

Dance

Funktion

Theatre

Performance image, East Side Stories, Bibu, 2018

East Side Stories

Performance

"East Side Stories" is a musical based on the true stories and the many encounters with people living in the eastern parts of Helsingborg.

Theatre

Musical

Show image, bibu 2016

Echoa (France)

Jury selection

Performance

French dance company Arcosm presents the highly praised ECHOA. The production reflects the company’s objective to build bridges between artistic disciplines and languages.

Dance

Musical

English

Performance image Ett frö i rymden

ETT FRÖ I RYMDEN

Jury selection

Performance

Marionetteatern upsizes and fills the stage with giant jellyfish, a bicycle fish on wheels, a squirrel that’s fast as lightning and an unstoppable machine. With newly-written music, puppets and colourful stage sets, ...

Preschool

Puppetry

Extreme Icebreaker

Other

Don't know many people at Bibu? No worries! In Extreme Icebreaker, EVERYONE is invited to join.

Mingle

Performance image Fanfiction

FANFICTION

Jury selection

Performance

From her old letters, diaries and family albums, Johanna Karlsson creates a scenic fanzine. In the performance, she cuts apart memories and books in an attempt to create a new story; with a happy ending. Fanfiction ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Performance image Fångad i ett nätverk

FÅNGAD I ETT NÄTVERK

Performance

Fångad i ett nätverk is a play to be played in classrooms about exposure online that aim to build safety and confidence between actors and audience. It focuses on the vulnerability for young girls, and boys, in cons ...

Lower secondary school

The school as venue

Theatre

Young adults

prickar bibu

Feministic theatre for children

Seminar

Since 2014, Gustav Deinoff and Farnaz Arbabi are the new artistic directors of Unga Klara. They have pursued a clearly anti-racist and feminist profile for the theater.

Listen

Sign language

image festivalparty

Festival Party

The place to meet and talk to colleagues; known and unknown faces in a relaxed atmosphere.

Discuss

Mingle

Party

Listen

Fika with Bibu - Climate Crisis and Impact of International Touring

Fika med Bibu - Climate Crisis and Impact of International Touring

Seminar

Carbon footprint and environmental impact is becoming a primary concern in creating, producing, presenting and touring international performing arts productions.

English

Fika med Bibu - Performing arts for youth in Pakistan

Fika med Bibu - Performing arts for youth in Pakistan

Seminar

Performing arts for youth in Pakistan - presentation and discussion with aspects on gender issues and women´s place within the field.

English

Bibu

Fika with bibu

Seminar

"Fika with bibu" is a meeting place for exchange, reflection and conversation between invited foreign guests and Swedish practitioners.

Mingle

English

Fika with Bibu and the international council

Fika with Bibu and the international council

Seminar

Fika with Bibu and the international council for Bibu 2020 - about their selection process and discussions on international performing arts for children and youth.

English

Finding other methods - talk

Finding other methods - talk

Seminar

A discussion about cultural identity and if dance contains common denominators. If we are characterized by places and methods. If there is an artistic essence.

English

Finding other methods

Finding other methods - workshop

Workshop

This workshop invites dancers from Sweden and Cuba to a shared practice.  Artistic methods from various viewpoints are researched and evaluated, exploring cultural identity, the personal and the cultural and if ther ...

English

Fisken och Bintou – Flickan som fick alla att lyssna

Performance

A performance based on a traditional Senegalese tale about children’s right to be heard and respected. Includes live music, singing and interaction with the audience.

Musical theatre

Preschool

Lower primary school

Middle school

The school as venue

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Forever young - Regionteater Väst

Forever young - Regionteater Väst

Jury selection

Performance

The actors need the young audience's DNA to escape their mortality and, as if by magic, the audience's contract is both upside down and perfectly clear. Between skincare routines and karaoke, the three actors tackle ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Förhör

Förhör

Jury selection

Performance

Sara hasn’t been to school for over a month. She is tormented by anxiety, which grows so strong that she vomits if she is trying to get anywhere near the building

Theatre

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

Four Go Wild in Wellies

Four Go Wild in Wellies

Performance

Four Go Wild in Wellies is a whimsical adventure featuring bobble hats, scarves, tents that have a life of their own and, of course, lots of fun in wellies!

Dance

Preschool

For pupils with learning disabilities

Funktion

Performance image Free room to play

FREE ROOM TO PLAY

Performance

Free Room to Play want to create new possibilities for children and young people with disabilities to create and perform music. To widen the understanding of the ability of these young people as creators and allow t ...

Funktion

FROM CASTING TO PERFORMANCE - ACTORS WITH DISABILITIES FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

Workshop

Gain practical tools for the casting, rehearsal, and performance process of actors with disabilities. Engage with best practices for this work across a range of TYA content and actor disability.

Funktion

Future Beats

Future Beats

Jury selection

Performance

The earliest rhythm can be perceived as ritualized everyday occurrences: Calm and attention, satisfaction and protest, hunger and fulfillment.

Musical theatre

Preschool

Family

GAGA - TRAINING WITH DANSALLIANSEN

Other

Dansalliansen offer GAGA Dancers training for dancers and physical actors during Bibu.  Coach: Emma Rozgoni, certified Gaga instructor

Dance

English

Game Over, bibu 2016

Game Over

Jury selection

Performance

When ten years old Lisa is diagnosed with a disease, the kind you don´t get well from, her dad comes up with an idea. He develops a videogame designed to help Lisa and the family to cope with the worst of outcomes.

Theatre

Sign language

GETTING UNCOMFORTABLE WITH PARTICIPATION

Workshop

A guided conversational workshop on the ways in which discomfort in facilitators can function as a warning signal for the pitfalls of participation.

Glängtan Photo: Ola Kjelbye

Glängtan

Jury selection

Performance

Below the ground, where we cannot see, the trees lead their mysterious lives. They talk to each other, take care of their youngsters, and they might even remember things.

Theatre

Lower primary school

Seminar, bibu 2018

Go International! Why and How?

Seminar

”How do you keep your international network alive and kicking? What does it mean to continuously be active on the international stage? What does it take? What is its value?

Listen

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Goldbergvariationerna -Kompani Giraff

Goldbergvariationerna - Kompani Giraff

Jury selection

Performance

Things cease to exist under the influence of play and manipulation. Equilibrism lifts our imagination as the two circus performers take us into a visually distinctive and magical world of chain reactions, where we m ...

Circus

Family

Lower primary school

Middle school

GUIDED TOUR ON THE BORDER – LOCAL HISTORY EXHIBITION

Other

Take the opportunity to learn a bit about the history of Helsingborg and take part of this guided tour by Jenny Fridh from Dunkers kulturhus.

Hands on International networking and mingle

Other

Swedish Performing Arts Coalition (Scensverige) invites both Swedish and international&nbsp; guests to present their organizations and goals, get to know the perfect collaborator, expand their network, get new ideas ...

English

Mingle

Perfomance image Häxor

HÄXOR

Performance

Häxor are in our midst and have been around for hundreds of years, but how do you recognize a witch? How do you know it's not a witch sitting opposite you on the bus, who's your teacher, or who's your married aunt? ...

Lower primary school

Young Swedstage

Hela familjen, Photo: Markus Gårdner

Hela familjen

Jury selection

Performance

Poor Leia (yes, she is named after the lady in the bikini in Star Wars) has a secret love who will dump her twice, but she doesn’t know that yet.

Theatre

Middle school

Hemligt

Hemligt

Jury selection

Performance

A performance that aims to, together with the audience, approach the most private - the diary - and examine our innermost feelings and thoughts.

Theatre

Middle school

Hopp och hinder

Hopp och hinder

Jury selection

Performance

About discovering, mastering and living out your inner hobbyhorse. Three hobby horse riders are born in a hockey rink where the hockey sticks quickly transform into three lively horses.

Theatre

Preschool

Lower primary school

Performance image Hear how quiet it is

HÖR SÅ TYST DET ÄR

Jury selection

Performance

Hör så tyst det är as it is, is an interactive experience, for the middle school, created by the performing arts collective Nyxxx, where the audience and actors together create a narrative concert based on sound sce ...

Listen

Lower primary school

Middle school

Theatre

Performance image, Blaue Frau, bibu 2018

HOW you create determines WHAT you create

Workshop

A workshop with Finnish-Swedish Blaue Frau

Try

English

Hugo

Hugo – elak, blodtörstig och jättefarlig

Performance

Having been a tightrope walker, he is of course no ordinary crocodile, and loves to knit and bake. He wants nothing more than to receive guests in his neat little house.

Theatre

Mime

Preschool

Lower primary school

The school as venue

Performance image I am time, I am space - A sensory journey of discovery

I AM TIME, I AM SPACE – A SENSORY JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

Performance

Light, shadows, reflections, soft, hard, rough, cold, hot, heavy and airy in the sounds of the body. An experiential walk in a landscape where body and space can find their own rhythm to breathe. Rooms to explore, t ...

Dance

Funktion

Stranden

Ibland känns det som våra själar möts, jag och min publik 

Seminar

The project Scen:se – about creating arts experiences for children and youth with complex needs

Funktion

English

Invigning

Inaugeration Bibu 2020!

Other

Inauguration talks and prize ceremony.

Inauguration

Dots, bibu 2016

Independent theatre – anytime – anywhere - Available performances touring 2016-2017

Get informed about current Swedish independent performing art for children and young people touring 2016-2017.

Mingle

Discuss

INFINITE FUTURES, INFINITE SOULS - THEATRE PEDAGOGY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Workshop

For Theatre Lab (Youth) students, their only 'embodied' time during the pandemic was when they came to our farm, in Covid bubbles, to live and work. They harvested fruit and made a blended work called “What’s Inside ...

INTER-GENERATIONAL: A DIALOGUE ON FAIRNESS FOR FUTURE

Workshop

TYA can be a utopian place for all generations. We play with ways of making it available to people of different background.

International reception

Performance

The mayor of Helsingborg welcomes our international guests and shows the town hall. A drink and a snack will be provided by City of Helsingborg.

Mingle

Performance image Into the roots

INTO THE ROOTS

Performance

With a strong presence, Fanny Kivimäki gives a performance about life, dreams and remorse. Depicted through a combination of expressive music, dreamy video art and with expressive dance in focus.

Lower secondary school

Young Swedstage

Into the Roots

Into the Roots

Jury selection

Performance

Some of us left home of our own free will, while others were forced into exile. The performance portrays the nostalgia which we, for better or worse, associate with everything that comes from our roots. 

Dance

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

Gul ruta med rosa prickar

Is the space for LGBT+ perspectives for a young audience shrinking?

Seminar

In Sweden we are used to being very free in the topics and perspectives for young audiences. We are now facing a societal backlash due to the increasing influences of neo-conservative ideas, where LGBT+ art and indi ...

English

ITYARN - BOOKRELEASE

Seminar

ITYARN Book Launch: Diversity, Representation and Culture in TYA &nbsp;

I'm here show image, bibu 2018, Photo: Julia Lindemalm

I´m her(e)

Jury selection

Performance

Ara has skipped school for a very long time now. Because she has been given a room of her own by Virginia Woolf. One billion followers on YouTube, Musica.ly and Instagram can see what she does in there. She can trav ...

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Jag tänker på dig - Johanssons pelargoner och dans

Jag tänker på dig (I'm thinking of you) - Johanssons pelargoner och dans

Jury selection

Performance

A gentle voice in the headphones guides us through the library. On the basis of our own bodies, we move through the room in a choreography. Alone and together with others. With assignments we are taken into the wor ...

Dance

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Theatre

JUCK, bibu 2016

JUCK

Jury selection

Performance

JUCK&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;movement,&nbsp;JUCK&nbsp;is activism, JUCK&nbsp;is power,&nbsp;JUCK&nbsp;is not&nbsp;oops I did it again,&nbsp;JUCK&nbsp;is&nbsp;dance. JUCK&nbsp;is.​

Dance

Kabaret de Poche Puppetery

Kabaret de Poche

Performance

Paris, Montmartre, Moulin Rouge ...

Puppetry

KEYNOTE SEMINAR - CREATING POSSIBILITIES AND CO-CREATING ARTISTIC WORK

Seminar

For children and youth with complex needs. Key note by Ellie Griffiths, Oily Cart theatre with special guest speaker Fiona Ferguson, Imaginate.

English

Funktion

Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge, bibu 2018, Photo: Julius Matuschik

Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge

Jury selection

Performance

What would happen if you could chose your own family? What kind of freedom would it create? Who would take care of whom? 

Theatre

English

koreografin performance image, Photo: Johan Sundén

Koreografin

Jury selection

Performance

"Koreografin" explores the world through movement and investigates how the way we move affects how we perceive the world. What we think, see and feel.

Dance

Middle school

Lower secondary school

Young adults

Performance image The Choreography

KOREOGRAFIN

Performance

The Choreography is based on audience participation. Everyone in the audience gets a pair of headphones through which they will hear a voice telling them how to move, how to relate to one’s body and how to relate to ...

Young Swedstage

performance image LÅR, bibu 2018, Photo: Graham Adey

LÅR

Jury selection

Performance

"LÅR" is a playful show, a tribute to the thighs where they get to glitter, giggle, be recognised,

Dance

Lower secondary school

Middle school

LET'S TALK ABOUT MONEY

Seminar

Or is that something we shouldn't talk about? How does a performing artist make a living? We put a couple of questions on the round table about markets, attitudes towards money and maybe touch some taboos.....

English

Performance image Lilla Svansjön

LILLA SVANSJÖN

Performance

Claire Parsons' performance Lilla Svansjön was created in collaboration with Unga Dramaten in Stockholm. Instead of the graceful swans that the visitor expects, three figures appear on stage trying out flights, t ...

Dance

Young Swedstage

Listening Party

Listening Party

Jury selection

Performance

It's a teenage party and they cry if they want to. 

Dance

Middle school

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

Ljuset i samtiden och i framtiden

Seminar

The audience visiting a contemporary performing arts production expects that the stage lighting is very expressive and done with the latest typ of high end equipment as for example moving head and projections. In a ...

Listen

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Lyssnaren - Skuggteatern

Lyssnaren (The Listener) - Skuggteatern

Jury selection

Performance

With great openness and sincerity, it tells the story of a silent child's observations of the world around it. In the audience's headphones, the everyday tones and sounds that we easily take for granted take on new ...

Family

Lower primary school

Preschool

Theatre

Illustration Next Generation

MAKE ROOM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION (GIVING YOU PLACEMAKING)

Seminar

The Next Generation is a residency program aiming to support artistic and cultural exchange and collaboration between international artists under 36 with an interest for working with performing arts for children and ...

performance image mamman, bibu 2018, Photo: Henrik Dahl

Mamman

Jury selection

Performance

A show for social justice activists of all sizes. The little town where we lived only had one purpose. The factory.

Theatre

Puppetry

Middle school

Performance image Mantis and the Bee

MANTIS AND THE BEE

Jury selection

Performance

Mantis and the Bee is based on a story of the first people.  It is a visual, musical, and humorous exploration of /Xam mythology and the origin of life. The performance uses dance, masks, puppetry, Khoikhoi, and Eng ...

Middle school

Puppetry

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med grön textplatta med texten me two / WE, THE CLIQUE - Low Air Vilnius city dance theatre

me two / WE, THE CLIQUE - Low Air Vilnius city dance theatre

Jury selection

Performance

me two / We, the Clique is a bold, cheeky and intense performance where the audience is confronted with the authentic storytelling of the young performers. It is naked and stripped down. The personal testimonies are ...

Dance

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Young adults

MEANINGFUL CO-DESIGN ACROSS AUDIENCE AND COMMUNITY

Seminar

A case study in empowering young audiences with the skills to be future change makers.

Mellan oss

Jury selection

Performance

What are boundaries, and what do they do to us? Which boundaries can we cross, and are they open to all of us? How does something become boundary-less or boundless? 

Dance

Theatre

Preschool

MELO Collective

MELO Collective’s creative processes with playful tools

Workshop

Playful dance and movement exercises that require no prior knowledge; confidence exercises and creative collaborative exercises in collaboration with (live) music.

Funktion

English

Mingla och möt Sveriges danskonsulenter

Mingle with the regional dance consultant/developers in Sweden, we are also proud to launch our new website and show you examples of what we work with regionally.

Mingle

Performance image Mitatim

MISTATIM

Jury selection

Performance

An unforgettable story of reconciliation, Mistatim is about the taming of a wild horse and the truest of friendships. Under a prairie sky, a simple wooden fence is all that separates Calvin on his ranch and Speck on ...

Dance

Theatre

Performance image Mitt jag

MITT JAG

Jury selection

Performance

The performance Mitt jag encourages a positive self-image and seeing the beauty of our differences. Through movement and textiles, we together create an illuminated sculptural world where the starting point is that ...

Dance

Middle school

Mitt kalas!

Performance

I Mitt kalas! firar Jago sin födelsedag. Jago älskar att fylla år, inte minst för att man som födelsedagsbarn får bestämma över alla andra.

Theatre

Preschool

The school as venue

Perfomance image Mizeria

MIZERIA

Jury selection

Performance

The twins Aicha and Ali were born on the same day, in the same family and both carry their postcode as a flag. On each side, they struggle to find their way between pile of pipes, washing times, telemarketing jobs, ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Young adults

Performance image Mizeria

MOLN

Jury selection

Performance

Moln is a circus performance imbued with music and inspired by the life and work of legendary Swedish poet Karin Boye. Its framework is the tale of a collection of individuals living at each other’s mercy in a sort ...

Circus

Young Swedstage

MOMENTS - sculptures of Karin Wiberg, bibu 2016

MOMENTS - sculptures of Karin Wiberg

Other

Karin Wiberg is a talented and sensitive artist, who has created, for the first time at Dunkers kulturhus, an installation of her sculptures.

Morgonyoga, bibu 2016

Morning Yoga

Workshop

Start your festival day with morning yoga at Dunkers Kulturhus, the stairs towards the sound. No prior knowledge or special clothes&nbsp;is required.

Try

Moving from ”Play” to ”The Play” and back again: teachers and theatre-makers in collaboration

Seminar

The theory and practice behind various modes of access to performance for audiences with complex needs

Funktion

English

performance image myriader av världar, bibu 2018, Photo: Markus Gårdner

Myriader av världar

Jury selection

Performance

Get up CLOSE and personal with art – for babies and toddlers aged 3-18 months. Allow your little one to experience art and explore every corner of the stage!

Opera

Dance

Performance image Mysteriet på Gården

MYSTERIET PÅ GÅRDEN

Performance

This is an exciting performance that is played outdoors on the preschool / school yard. Three fairy tale archaeologists come to the preschool yard because they heard that a fairy tale had taken place at this very pl ...

Preschool

The school as venue

Theatre

NADAM - A SONIC EXPERIENCE FOR BABIES

Seminar

In this lecture, Dr.

Performance image Nätet

NÄTET

Performance

Agnes is an up-and-coming writer whose debut was a big hit. Felix is an artist who has been assigned to illustrate Agnes’ new book - a horror story for teenagers. They have never met before but now they are travelli ...

Middle school

The school as venue

Theatre

NE NE NE (NÄ NÄ NÄ)

NE NE NE (NÄ NÄ NÄ)

Performance

Ne Ne Ne is a playful dance theatre exploration of a meadow in a forest. There is a tea cup and a fish and an umbrella hanging from the trees, and underneath the trees there might be caterpillars and perhaps also ev ...

Dance

NEXT GENERATION - A WAY TO MOVE FORWARD

Seminar

Session is focused on motivating national centers by sharing three NG success stories along with NG alumni to look at how they can build on their experience of the residency.

Nordic Baltic ASSITEJ Network Pitching event

Other

In this event, eight companies and performing artists from the Nordic and Baltic countries present themselves and their productions ready for touring - all in one hour. After the pitch presentation, you are welcome ...

English

Mingle

Nordic Baltic ASSITEJ Network Speed pitch

Other

In this event, eight companies and performing artists from the Nordic and Baltic countries present themselves to eight programmers - in eight short 1:1 meetings. &nbsp; By invitation only&nbsp;

English

Performance image Katma Teater

NORWAY NOW - PITCH SESSION/GET TO KNOW NORWAY

Other

Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN), Scenekunstbruket and Assitej Norway invite you to participate at Norway Now: Young Audiences/ Get to know Norway on Saturday May 21st. Norway Now is a concept for promoting Norwegi ...

persons in a monster suit

ÖFA: MONSTER

Jury selection

Performance

ÖFA: Monster is a performance that invites you inside, a show and an experience  here monstrous emotions ravages, and where monsters makes room for dreams about alternative realities.

Dance

Performance image Ögonvittnen - Lea & Stefan

ÖGONVITTNEN - LEA & STEFAN

Jury selection

Performance

What do you think it was like as a child to end up in a concentration camp during World War II? What places, scents, faces do you think one remember from such an experience? Stefan Zablocki and Lea Gleitman survived ...

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Oorlog, show image, bibu 2018

Oorlog

Jury selection

Performance

A balloon, slowly loosing it’s air. Little helicopters falling of a tree. A shower that weeps. An audience that shoots and three soldiers on roller-skates, speaking backwards with shock.

Theatre

OPEN STAGES: PERFORMING ARTS AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

Seminar

At the occasion of ASSITEJ's Artistic Gathering in 2019, ASSITEJ France, Italy and Spain united and launched Open Stages.

Opening Ceremony

OPENING CEREMONY BIBU 2022!

Other

Welcome to the opening ceremony of Bibu 2022!  The opening starts at 16.00 the 17 May at Helsingborgs Konserthus in the Great Hall under the direction of our conferences Kajsa Giertz, VD at Helsingborgs Stadsteater ...

Inauguration

Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand, woman with fair skin and long dark hair wearing a white T-shirt.

OPENING of BIBU 2024!

Other

Welcome to the opening of Bibu 2024! In the main hall at Helsingborg Concert Hall, we invite you to a festive ceremony with several exciting welcome speakers and wonderful entertainment.&nbsp;

English

Inauguration

Performance image Orfeus & Eurydike

ORFEUS & EURYDIKE

Jury selection

Performance

Orfeus & Eurydike is based on the story of Orfeus who in his despair after losing his beloved steps into the underworld to bring her back. The story poses questions about what it is to love and mourn. There is an ad ...

Dance

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Oxytocin - Backa Teater

Oxytocin - Backa Teater

Jury selection

Performance

Tender and precise puppet theatre with a total focus on the young audience. The expressive puppets and the carefully crafted stage pave the way for approaching the most intimate and fragile issues. The puppeteers na ...

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Puppetry

Young adults

Young Swedstage

Performance image På ren svenska

PÅ REN SVENSKA

Jury selection

Performance

På ren svenska (In Pure Swedish) is a performance that examines what it is to be Swedish. How is a national affiliation created? How does one become Swedish? And who can join the community?

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med blå textplatta med texten PACE – Below Zero

PACE – Below Zero

Performance

PACE is the first production of the Scandinavian made circus company Below Zero. The show is an intimate duett with the hand to hand couple Axel and Sara. It touches on the idea of relationships - status, power imba ...

Circus

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Young Swedstage

Performance image, Papper - en ordlös saga om livet, bibu 2018, Photo: Petra Hallberg

Papper - en ordlös saga om livet

Jury selection

Performance

Crumpled paper, folded paper, twisted paper, torn paper; a never ending cycle where figures appear out of nowhere, transform, perish - and are resurrected.

Mime

Puppetry

Theatre

Performance image, Pavlovs Tispe, bibu, 2016

Pavlovs Tispe – ett slag ståuppteater (Norge)

Performance

In cooperation with director Kai Johnsen actor Camara Joof has created a performance with events from Camara´s own life where she sometimes fall short, sometime goes to far.

Theatre

Performative practices for neurodiverse children

Workshop

Towards Sensuous Ecologies: Performative practices and stage design attuned to neurodiverse perception and various physicality in immersive dance performances for young audiences&nbsp;

Funktion

PERFORMING GREEN - TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE PERFORMING ARTS SECTOR

Seminar

During the winter and spring 2021/2022 ASSITEJ Sweden arranged a workshop series in collaboration with with the Danish organization Bæredygtig Scenekunst NU about sustainability in the performing arts field.

Sustainability

Francisca Skoogh

Petrusjka

Other

Rachmaninovs third piano concert, called Rach 3.

Listen

Performance image, Pim & Theo (Danmark), bibu, 2018

Pim & Theo (Danmark)

Performance

It’s a bloody mess in the streets and a moral mess in our heads…

Theatre

English

PLAYFUL ACTIVISM - EXPLORING HOW PLAY CAN BE USED TO SPARK CHANGE

Workshop

Toby Peach, Associate Director of innovative UK theatre makers, Coney, will introduce their Playful Activism practice that has been used to inspire social change with young people over the past 5 years.

Performance image Playful Tiger

PLAYFUL TIGER

Performance

Playful Tiger is for children and young people with complex needs such as autism. It tells the story of a tiger’s visit to a rigid family home where he turns their world upside down. It’s chaotic but brilliantly fun ...

Circus

Dance

Funktion

Playful Tiger – to make a performance accessible

Playful Tiger – to make a performance accessible

Seminar

About artistic decisions behind making a version of an existing production for a new audience group - children and young people who where profoundly autistic and mainly non-verbal.

Funktion

English

People on plinth, bibu 2016

Plint - tales from a school gymnasium

Seminar

How can a story wander between different mediums? A three part collaboration set on a vaulting horse; live audio drama, radio theatre and children’s own stories.

Listen

prickar bibu

Portraying racism and structural racism for the young audience

Seminar

Are stories about xenophobia and structural racism part of today’s performance art for children and the young?

Listen

English

Post performance discussion Adventures of Harriharri — Episode III

Other

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the International committee. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity to ask ques ...

Post performance discussion Vástádus Eana - The answer is land

Other

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the International committee. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity to ask ques ...

Post performance discussion Whizz Whirr Bang Clang

Other

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the International committee. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity to ask ques ...

Performance image, Propeté, bibu, 2016

Propreté

Jury selection

Performance

Life is organization who works though a special set of rules.

Dance

Group photo, bibu 2016

Prospero workshops –Developing performing arts for children world wide

Seminar

Welcome to a seminar where we are developing new scripts for children and youths in an intercultural context. We will read new scripts from Uganda, Burkina Faso and Nepal.&nbsp; The seminar is partly held in english ...

Listen

English

Puppetry is everywhere in the Nordics and the Baltics

Seminar

Puppet theater is more and more visible within the field of performing arts. Sometimes it plays the main role, sometimes it is an element alongside other expressions. A similar development is taking place throughout ...

English

Puppetry

Rabbinens katt

Rabbinens katt

Jury selection

Performance

A music and puppet show about a cat that starts talking and the consequences of it.

Puppetry

Family

Rasist? bild

Racist?

Performance

What is it to be a racist in Denmark or Sweden in 2016? Through Facebook the Afro-Danish performer Sara Traore has contacted people with racist beliefs.

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten

Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten

Jury selection

Performance

Raised on Rhythm is a bodily total experience where dance, rhythm and music seamlessly intertwine to create a playful, explosive, energizing universe. From the audience's own heartbeat, the dancers take us on a wind ...

Dance

English

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Rapport från ett omklädningsrum, bibu 2018, Photo: Chrisander Brun

Rapport från ett omklädningsrum

Jury selection

Performance

Dreams, shower gel and sexual harassments – what is really going on in a locker room? What wellknown and untold stories are hidden among sweaty socks and wooden benches?

Theatre

REMAPPING INDIGENOUS PRESENCE ON STAGE

Seminar

Get an international perspective on the indigenous presence on stage with this indigenous-led discussion where artists from Sweden, Canada, Australia and New Zealand share their ideas and experiences.

REPRESENTATION, CREATION AND INSPIRATION

Seminar

Glad Theatre has taken the initiative to create a series of international artist residencies in which they invite artists who inspires them into spaces of creation and exploration. Their first artist residency was c ...

English

Funktion

Theatre

RESEARCHING TYA: THE WORK OF ITYARN - HEAR WHAT RESEARCH CAN DO FOR YOU

Seminar

Presented by: ITYARN (International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network)

REVIVAL OF ANCIENT NATURE RITUALS

Seminar

How we can creatively work with children on sustainable development. My experiences in using Iranian mythical narratives and ancient rain rituals in a children drama class to remind the value of water resources in p ...

Revolution, bibu 2016

Revolution

Jury selection

Performance

Revolution is a performance about hair, liberation and identity. It is a modern fairytale about the bond we have to our families, friends and loved ones.

Theatre

Performance image, Rhapsody in Black, bibu, 2016

Rhapsody in Black (USA)

Performance

Rhapsody in Black follows one man´s spellbinding personal journey through an underprivileged childhood in the ghettos of McKeesport, Pennsylvania to teenage experiments with crime and drugs to scholastic achievement ...

Theatre

English

Riddare av tusen äventyr

Riddare av tusen äventyr

Jury selection

Performance

An unreal campsite, a girl hike and a collective dream. PotatoPotato creates a show based on the Swedish Girl Scout movement.

Theatre

Lower secondary school

Rörelseworkshop med Tove Sahlin

Workshop

A playful movement workshop for actors, dancers, mime artists and all theatre workers open to movement.

English

People running, bibu 2016

Run for your life

Seminar

The climate crisis is one of our time critical issue and if it is great for us as it is crucial for the next generation.

Listen

Perfomance image SAJJVA - The other world

SAAJVA, THE OTHER WORLD

Performance

A dance piece where the choreographer Ola Stinnerbom has developed an acrobatic dance technique on constantly staying and dancing upside down. In the older Saami Culture, the Kingdome of death was a mirror world dir ...

Dance

Young Swedstage

SALTBUSH

Jury selection

Performance

Saltbush is a plant that can be found throughout Australia in almost all Aboriginal lands, and so it represents a common thread between all the different nations of Australian Indigenous peoples. The narrative centr ...

Dance

Preschool

Shakespeares hjärtslag

Shakespeares hjärtslag

Performance

Shakespeares Hjärtslag (Shakespeare’s Hearbeat) is based on William Shakespeare's play Pericles. Using a number of selected scenes and rhythmic lyrics, music and songs from the the children/young people are invited ...

Theatre

For pupils with learning disabilities

Funktion

Performance image Shel We

SHEL WE

Jury selection

Performance

Shel We is an enchanting, playfully intriguing and visually stunning dance show created by Tupua Tigafua.  A highly accomplished dancer and choreographer who has had an illustrious career dancing for some of Aotearo ...

Dance

English

Middle school

signalisterna, bibu 2018, Photo: Jonas Jörneberg

Signalisterna

Jury selection

Performance

"The Signalists" are part of the three-year project named Stafetten, where Masthuggsteater collaborates with students at Sandeklevs school in Bergsjön.

Theatre

Dance

Preschool

Lower primary school

Sissy Bomb, show image, bibu 2018, Photo: RES

Sissy Bomb

Jury selection

Performance

A collective and anti-educational project about &nbsp;empowerment and och free spaces for a young audience and grownups (from 14 years and up).

Dance

Performance image, Sisters Academy, bibu, 2016

Sisters Academy – Where art radically meet education and vice versa

Seminar

Gry  Worre Hallberg will present the radical art-educational project Sisters Academy.

English

Listen

Six drummers på Operaverkstan, bibu 2016

Six drummers på Operaverkstan

Jury selection

Performance

Where does music begin, and where does it end? What does silence sound like? What do you hear?

Try

Musical

Theatre

Skymningsfåglar (Dusk birds) - Katja Seitajoki & Arena Baubo

Jury selection

Performance

Using darkness as a stage, this performance is full of sound, life and movement. It's a beautiful and carefully crafted spectacle that awakens the imagination and sharpens the senses. Mysterious night creatures come ...

Dance

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Snattaren - Ung Scen Öst

Snattaren (The Snatcher) - Ung Scen Öst

Jury selection

Performance

Alejandro Leiva Wenger's clever play Snattaren (The Snatcher), directed by Martin Rosengardten, is a thrilling story with references to The Usual Suspects. It captures the audience from the first moment and keeps th ...

Family

Middle school

Theatre

Performance image Snö

SNÖ

Jury selection

Performance

The snow creaks and squeaks. The ice is cracking. The animals move across the landscape. Nature is self-evident, eternal and unadulterated. A source of energy and reflection. The Sami language has 200 words for snow ...

Dance

Preschool

Puppetry

Young Swedstage

So Sorry

So Sorry

Jury selection

Performance

A dance collage of popular culture, packaged in pink plastic. A playful, intense collage of pop culture’s expression and dance.

Dance

Upper secondary school

Social Circus – Art, laughter, change

Seminar

Come to a seminar with Cirkus Cirkör, Clowner utan Gränser (Clowns without Borders) and Sorin Sirkus!

Circus

English

Show image, bibu 2016

Sörmlandsmodellen–tillgång till scenkonst för barn och unga

Seminar

All children should have – but what? That question asked Scenkonst Sörmland after 30 years with Sörmlandsmodellen - the comprehensive county theater mission that guarantees all children in the age between 5-15 years ...

Listen

Föreställningsfoto med blå textplatta med texten SOS - Stormar och strömavbrott – Shake it Collaborations

SOS - Stormar och strömavbrott – Shake it Collaborations

Performance

For the worrying kind as well as for those who never do, SOS – Stories of Storms is an equally playful and serious family performance where reality merges with imagination. The harp and cello guide us through stor ...

Dance

Lower primary school

Middle school

Young Swedstage

Sound Symphony

Sound Symphony

Performance

Sound Symphony is a new, highly interactive, sensory performance, made especially for young audiences on the autistic spectrum and with profound and multiple learning difficulties. A playful journey through music, s ...

Musical theatre

For pupils with learning disabilities

Funktion

Sova vaken (Sleep awake) - Unga Operan

Jury selection

Performance

Big emotions and charged musical drama in a handy format. The tour-friendly children's opera Sova vaken (Sleep awake) is about the dilemmas and existential concerns of a child of divorce. The child's cat also has a ...

Family

Lower primary school

Opera

Stora drömspelet

Performance

Kliv in i drömmens egendomliga, fantasifulla och roliga värld!

Theatre

Performance image Stora drömspelet

STORA DRÖMSPELET

Jury selection

Performance

Stora drömspelet is a show for everyone who still got a childish mind left. Erik Holmström has together with the ensemble created a spectacle for the youngest audience. I Stora drömspelet, the audience gets to step ...

Family

Preschool

Puppetry

Theatre

Performance image Storm

STORM

Performance

Designed for children and young people who are on the autistic spectrum, this enchanting, intimate production has been carefully designed to put audience members at ease throughout, giving them space and time to mov ...

Funktion

Stranden

Stranden

Performance

Stranden is based on the poem "Dover Beach" written by Matthew Arnold and the audience is invited to the scenery where the poem takes place, a poetic beach café by the sea.

Theatre

For pupils with learning disabilities

Funktion

Performance image Stranden

STRANDEN

Performance

The set design is adapted with custom-made seating for the audience, and newly composed music is performed live on stage by the actors. The show is built up in several layers to be able to communicate with children ...

Funktion

Theatre

Sustainable touring opportunities in the Nordic - Baltic region

Seminar

The Nordic-Baltic ASSITEJ Network is a regional network and co-operation format that includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden.&nbsp;&nbsp;

English

Sustainability

Dots, bibu 2016

Tea with Teater Tre and Small size

Seminar

Vad är Small size och varför gör vi scenkonst för den yngsta publiken? Med Te-stunden som inramning vill Teater Tre och Sara Myrberg bjuda in till ett samtal om konst för de yngsta och om hur mötet med konstnärer fr ...

Listen

Teachers as careful actors and actors as careful teachers

Seminar

This seminar relates to the current touring pedagogic program, Under Stjärnorna (Below the Stars), initiated by Folkteatern Gävleborg/Scen:se in collaboration with Estrad Norr.

English

Show image, bibu 2016

Teater Smuts startar punkband - Motståndsstrategier i ett fascistiskt Europa

Jury selection

Performance

What happens to us when uniforms are replaced by polished politicians and who is responsible for the wave of fascist victories around Europe?

Theatre

Musical

Teater Tre och Moomsteatern om europeiskt samarbete

Seminar

Why is it relevant to take part in international cooperation? How does it work and what do you get out of it? Two theaters with focus on production for children and young people share their experiences of being part ...

Listen

prickar bibu

Teatercentrums breakfast meeting - get to know the artist behind the performance

Seminar

The artists behind three performances chosen by the jury for bibu.se 2016 have agreed to sit down over breakfast with a small audience to talk about who they are and what they create.

Listen

English

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

Jury selection

Performance

This high-energy performance exposes the inherent narcissism that is at the centre of motherhood and how this becomes a burden to the child embarking on adulthood.

Dance

Theatre

Middle school

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

English

Bibu-baren

The Bibu-bar

Other

The Tivoli opens the door for all Bibu delegates. Mingel, eat, drink and meet new friends. Enjoy the May sunshine outdoors at the porch.

Party

Mingle

The Boat

The Boat

Performance

A young woman appears in your neighborhood. With great difficulty she drags a wooden boat through the streets. A dreamlike scene. She seems lost, tired and perhaps hungry as well?

Work in progress

Green coloured image with lounge chairs in several rows with a green triangle made up of three arrows above.

The Climate, our most important story - The role of performing arts in the climate transition

Seminar

Discussion and presentation on the role of performing arts in the climate transition in two parts.

English

The Nordic Baltic ASSITEJ Network Lounge

Other

Welcome to the Nordic-Baltic ASSITEJ Lounge!&nbsp; This is the place to unwind, relax and sit-down during breaks in your festival program. The place to catch up with friends or just spend time.&nbsp;

Mingle

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - ESTONIA

Seminar

Talk on minority culture groups in Estonia.

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - FINLAND

Seminar

Seminar on collaboration between festivals and artists in the Nordic Baltic Region to ensure good sustainable practices.

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - LATVIA

Seminar

LATVIA Workshop: What is a contemporary theatre show for children and young people today?

English

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - LITHUANIA

Seminar

Workshop/discussion: Kitchen of traditional creative theater games with contemporary spices.

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - NORWAY

Seminar

Seminar on National Identity in Performing Arts in relations to a Nordic-Baltic regional identity.

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - SWEDEN

Seminar

Seminar on Perspectives on distribution – how do we organize to secure children’s rights to performing arts in school?

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - VOICES OF YOUNG: SUSTAINABILITY AND PARTICIPATION

Seminar

Round Table: Voices of young - Sustainability &amp; Participation

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - YOUTH RESIDENCY: REFLECTIONS OF YOUNG

Seminar

Reflections of young: “This is What I Saw”.&nbsp;Feedback and reflections from the youth participants about selected performances being part of the festival. Hosted by Nordic-Baltic Youth Residency participants.

THE NORDIC BALTIC NETWORK

Seminar

A tasting menu from current Nordic-Baltic Performing Arts for Young Audiences.&nbsp;Presentation of selected artists/performing arts companies from each country in the&nbsp;network.

THE ROLE OF THE ONLINE FORMAT IN THE THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES (TYA)

Seminar

The round table "The role of the online format in the TYA". We will think how online projects can help our live international events become better prepared, lower in cost and more eco-friendly.

English

Children playing, bibu 2016

The theatre and the school

Seminar

A seminar about Unga Teaterns experiences building a new organisation where theatre and school meets. Exploring the borders and the possibilities.

Listen

prickar bibu

The white stage

Seminar

Which bodies take place on the stage today? Which stories are told and from which perspectives? Can anyone represent anything, and how do we break the white dominance?

Listen

English

The World through Picture Books cover

The World through Picture Books

Other

During the 7th of May to the 11th of June, the international exhibition The World through Picture Books is visiting Helsingborg City Library.

THEATRE AND LIVELIHOOD - A CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Seminar

This Roundtable Discussion, will see participants share their thoughts on the relation between theatre and livelihood. They would answer the question, 'is theatre alone to earn a livelihood?'

THEATRE FOR EMERGING TRUTH AND LIBERATORY ACTIONS

Seminar

The session highlights the Applied Theatre processes being worked with the children, of urban slums and schools, focusing on education system, climate sustainability practices, Peace &amp; Justice.

English

THINKING ABOUT ARTISTIC CREATION FOR EARLY YEARS - MASTERCLASS with Barbara Kölling

Workshop

Small Size Network invites you to a collective reflection and dialogue about artistic creation for early years facilitated by Barbara Kölling, artistic director of Helios theater from Hamm, Germany.&nbsp;The convers ...

English

Föreställningsfoto med blå textplatta med texten THIS IS NOT A RELIGION – Bobbi Lo Produktion

THIS IS NOT A RELIGION – Bobbi Lo Produktion

Performance

In this piece, you will experience community with the collective through untamed dance. Be uplifted and indulge in togetherness and comfort. Seamlessly, structure and form change and your intuition is put into play. ...

Dance

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Young adults

Young Swedstage

Performance image Tigern i magen

TIGERN I MAGEN

Performance

Tigern i magen is written by the comic book author Sara Hansson and is presented in collaboration with Banditsagor. With the help of a picturesque world of sound and a dollhouse-like scenography, we are moved into a ...

Family

Preschool

Theatre

Performance image Time Loops

TIME LOOPS

Performance

Time Loops wants to find the extraordinary and remarkable in the everyday. Investigate community, location and time in relation to people, routines and landmarks in some residential areas in Skåne. Praise the power ...

Dance

Performance image, Törnrosa, bibu 2018, Photo: Sandra Lee Pettersson

Törnrosa – den enda sanna kärlekens tid

Jury selection

Performance

After a hundred years of sleep, the beautiful princess is about to be awakened by “the one true love’s kiss”.

Theatre

Tråkmånsafton

Tråkmånsafton

Jury selection

Performance

A circus show about the most boring day of the year, the Humdrum Day.

Circus

Preschool

Lower primary school

Image of woman, bibu 2016

Transmedial narrative on stage and beyond – two examples from Helsingborg

Seminar

Performing Arts Creator/Director Sara Cronberg elaborates on her experiences from two projects: The Invisible City – a game in development, and Väsen – digitalisation and creative participation in the transmedial pe ...

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tyst performance image bibu 2018, Photo: Lyad Kamel

Tyst

Performance

This performance is not selected by the jury but included in Tema Friktionskraft: Teatercentrum presents a tool for analysing performances to encourage a norm-creative approach to artistic work and audience developm ...

Friction

Theatre

UMBRELLA SESSIONS - DEVELOP YOUR ASSITEJ NATIONAL CENTRE OR NETWORK

Seminar

UMBRELLA networking is for anyone engaged in an ASSITEJ National Centre or ASSITEJ Network as a board member, staff, volunteer, or active member. It is also for members who wish to create a new Centre or Network.

UNDERSTANDING DESIGN THINKING IN CLASSROOM DRAMA

Workshop

Look at “ Gender Equality” in the context of design thinking tools and case studies from rural parts of India.&nbsp;

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Untz baby untz - Dansstaionen & MYKA

UNTZ BABY UNTZ – Dansstationen & MYKA

Jury selection

Performance

The beats of the bass drum increase in intensity, the smoke machine fizzes and soon babies and toddlers are welcomed to their first encounter with the club space. It's a pulsating, expressive and inviting choreograp ...

Dance

Family

Preschool

Upprop för den fria scenkonsten

Upprop för den fria scenkonsten

Seminar

A discussion about the free cultural life in Sweden.

Discuss

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Performance image, Ursäkta, bibu, 2016

Ursäkta, skulle ni kunna svälta lite tystare, vi försöker faktiskt skapa lite ekonomisk tillväxt här borta!

Jury selection

Performance

Four people up in the clouds. Here, money is nothing but numbers.

Theatre

three persons holding hands

Vahák

Jury selection

Performance

The performance Vahák - violence - takes place in a reality where colonial and homophobic violence act together.

Dance

Theatre

Musical

Vår klass, bibu 2016

Vår klass

Jury selection

Performance

The play Vår klass tells the story of ten teenagers in a small Polish village in 1925 and through the nazi and sovjet occupations all the way to this day.

Theatre

English

Performance image Vara

VARA

Performance

Vara is a performance with humor and imagination where the audience gets to follow Hamlet's grief and frustration for the first time in her parents' divorce. The audience gets to see her try to take power over a sit ...

Lower primary school

The school as venue

Theatre

Performance image Våra viktigaste vuxna

VÅRA VIKTIGASTE VUXNA

Jury selection

Performance

In the adult world, it is common to like and think about children, but the year when the children's convention became Swedish law, Angereds Teater became the perspective and let the children like the adults. What ar ...

Lower primary school

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med grön textplatta med texten VÁSTÁDUS EANA - The answer is land - Elle Sofe Company

VÁSTÁDUS EANA - The answer is land - Elle Sofe Company

Jury selection

Performance

Yoik and dance come together in this all-round work of art, which is also a female manifestation of the nature we are entrusted to manage. 'Vástádus eana' begins outdoors as an external journey about nature and our ...

Dance

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Young adults

Vi vet var du bor

Vi vet var du bor

Performance

An electronic opera about freedom of expression. What is your teacher up to when he/she’ s not at work?

Musical theatre

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

The school as venue

Vilka är ni?

Vilka är ni?

Jury selection

Performance

Both humorous and serious. A theatrical performance for all the family. The audience encounters characters from the plant and animal kingdoms of the forest in an absurd and poetic performance.

Theatre

Lower primary school

Middle school

Vill ha hund

Jury selection

Performance

Playful paws, kisses from a wet nose, soft cuddly fur.

Puppetry

Preschool

Family

Walk and Talk: Diversity and accessibility in the performing arts for young audiences

Other

Walk and Talks facilitate an unformal meeting on a personal level and assist the flow of thoughts and creativity by walking.  All festival visitors are welcomed to participate.   &nbsp;

English

Funktion

Walk and Talk: Vision the future of the field and reflect the festival experience so far

Other

Walk and Talks facilitate an unformal meeting on a personal level and assist the flow of thoughts and creativity by walking.  All festival visitors are welcomed to participate.   &nbsp;

English

Weren´t You Expecting Me? Keynote Lecture with Caroline Bowditch

Seminar

KEYNOTE in ENGLISH

What do we need next?

Seminar

An international delegation of disabled artists from Sweden and Scotland in conversation with Caroline Bowditch about the future of performing arts for children and youth.&nbsp;

English

Funktion

dots bibu

Which kinds of norm violations do child audiences accept?

Seminar

A discussion about children's attitudes toward norms, codes of behavior and traditions as they exist in the theater and within story-telling.

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Föreställningsfoto med grön textplatta med texten Whizz, whirr, bang, clang! - Teater Viirus & Hav-Anna Company

Whizz, whirr, bang, clang! - Hav-Anna Company & Teater Viirus

Jury selection

Performance

Whizz, whirr, bang, clang! is an exceptionally well-composed entirety and a place for sensory experiences, imagination and philosophising. The heartfelt and witty performance meets the audience with curiosity, empat ...

Family

Lower primary school

Middle school

Theatre

Man in skirt, bibu 2016

Who may portray what?

Seminar

What is it accepted that an actor portrays on stage? Can an actor portray something without that specific experience?

Why are you afraid of the public space?

Seminar

If you start thinking about public space, like really really think about it, as a place for art, you suddenly realize the potential.

English

WHY DO WE MAKE THEATRE?

Seminar

Why is art important, and what is its job to do? If the goal with creating theatre is to change the structures of the society, how does it then affect the creative process?&nbsp;

Kelly Hunter

Workshop med Kelly Hunter – Shakespeare’s Heartbeat – om att skapa scenkonst för och med barn och unga med autism

Workshop

​The Hunter Heartbeat Method is a series of sensory games I have created for children and young people with autism.

English

Performance image Drömlek

WOW, WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?

Seminar

Performance dramaturgy in contemporary circus The “wow-effect” is great in the genre of circus.The artists are risking their lives before us, the comic of the scene surprises and the human potential is strained m ...

Circus

English

YOUNG DANCE NETWORK OPEN UP

Seminar

YDN is opening up.&nbsp;The Young Dance Network is conceived as a network for exchange and aims to give space for different voices of professionals in the field of dance for young audience. From 2022 we will be open ...

Illustration Young Swedstage

YOUNG SWEDSTAGE: WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Seminar

For Young Swedstage we have selected eight productions from different genres, able to tour and accessible for a non-Swedish speaking audience. What are our fellow programmers and festival directors looking for when ...

Participants in a dance workshop in a studio

Your Convention – A Workshop for My Convention

Workshop

My Convention is a performing arts performance by children, for children, about their convention. Together, we throw ourselves into the world of law in an experience where music interacts with movement and children' ...

Funktion

Sagan om Sverige, bibu 2018, Photo: Linn Saalbach

​Sagan om Sverige

Performance

​Sagan om Sverige is the meeting between the Swedish actor Jörgen and the young, Syrian poet Daniel.

Theatre

Image of people, bibu 2016

”You get used to the beauty” / “We don’t hang out – we walk around”

Seminar

The seminar’s title consists of quotes from youth in Norrbotten (the far north of Sweden) and Botkyrka (a suburb of Stockholm). It is also the titles of two productions based on young people’s own stories from what ...

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