Biennale programme
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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 ...
Adventures of Harriharri — Episode III - Harold Hejazi
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Chotto Desh (UK)
Performance
Akram Khan’s Desh was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike when it was first presented in 2011.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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. ...
CREATING PERFORMANCES FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES WHO HAVE THE MOST BARRIERS TO ACCESS
Workshop
Workshops for actors and dancers with Ellie Griffiths (UK) and Natasha Gilmore (SCT-UK)
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?
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
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Echoa (France)
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.
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.
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.
Fika with bibu
Seminar
"Fika with bibu" is a meeting place for exchange, reflection and conversation between invited foreign guests and Swedish practitioners.
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.
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.
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 ...
GAGA - TRAINING WITH DANSALLIANSEN
Other
Dansalliansen offer GAGA Dancers training for dancers and physical actors during Bibu. Coach: Emma Rozgoni, certified Gaga instructor
Hands on International networking and mingle
Other
Swedish Performing Arts Coalition (Scensverige) invites both Swedish and international guests to present their organizations and goals, get to know the perfect collaborator, expand their network, get new ideas ...
HOW you create determines WHAT you create
Workshop
A workshop with Finnish-Swedish Blaue Frau
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
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 ...
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.
Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge
Performance
What would happen if you could chose your own family? What kind of freedom would it create? Who would take care of whom?
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.....
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.
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
Neighbours around the Baltic Sea - playwrights as important carriers of messages reflecting society
Seminar
"Neighbours" is a playwright´s project to investigate an experienced lack of knowledge between neighbours across the Baltic Sea. In this presentation and reading we will share our work with you!
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 ...
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. By invitation only
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.
Pim & Theo (Danmark)
Performance
It’s a bloody mess in the streets and a moral mess in our heads…
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.
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?
Presentation, workshop and reading of GRIPS Theatres show ”Kriegerin”
Seminar
Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks and fights. The only place she feels home is the Neo-Nazi gang she ...
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. The seminar is partly held in 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 ...
Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rörelseworkshop med Tove Sahlin
Workshop
A playful movement workshop for actors, dancers, mime artists and all theatre workers open to movement.
SHEL WE
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 ...
Sisters Academy – Where art radically meet education and vice versa
Seminar
Gry Worre Hallberg will present the radical art-educational project Sisters Academy.
Social Circus – Art, laughter, change
Seminar
Come to a seminar with Cirkus Cirkör, Clowner utan Gränser (Clowns without Borders) and Sorin Sirkus!
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.
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.
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.
The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother
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.
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.
THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - LATVIA
Seminar
LATVIA Workshop: What is a contemporary theatre show for children and young people today?
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.
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?
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 & Justice.
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. The convers ...
Vår klass
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why international co-operation?
Seminar
Why do we need to reach out for more and what can we gain from working abroad?
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.
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 ...