ASSITEJ Haiti Archives - ASSITEJ International https://assitej-international.org/category/assitej-national-centres/assitej-haiti/ International Association of Theatre & Performing Arts for Children & Young People Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:05:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://assitej-international.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-ASSITEJ-Logo_RGB-1-32x32.png ASSITEJ Haiti Archives - ASSITEJ International https://assitej-international.org/category/assitej-national-centres/assitej-haiti/ 32 32 Theatre embraces Haiti – A humanitarian aid project https://assitej-international.org/2021/08/28/theatre-embraces-haiti-a-humanitarian-aid-project/ Sat, 28 Aug 2021 10:28:48 +0000 http://www.assitej-international.org/?p=20609 After the extreme weather events that hit Haiti a few days ago, the artistic community is turning to humanitarian aid projects for the Caribbean country. Severely hit by a major...

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After the extreme weather events that hit Haiti a few days ago, the artistic community is turning to humanitarian aid projects for the Caribbean country. Severely hit by a major earthquake, followed by a cyclone, in a short period of time, the Haitian population asks for help through civil society organizations. Hundreds of Haitian families have been affected, especially in the southern region of the country.

A partnership between ASSITEJ Cuba and CBTIJ/ASSITEJ Brasil, with the support of the Ibero-American Network of the International Association of Theater for Young Audiences (ASSITEJ), plans emergency fundraising actions. The amounts collected will be fully allocated to the emergency action plan of the ASSITEJ national center in Haiti.

The first action is an online theatre festival, with the participation of artistic collectives from several countries in the region. The companies are giving away the rights to exhibit their work during the event. More than 40 collectives have already joined the proposal, and others are expected to join in the coming days. Different artistic languages, in shows in Portuguese, Spanish and non-verbal language, integrate the diversified programming.
The festival “Theater embraces Haiti” takes place next Saturday and Sunday, August 28th and 29th.

Details about the schedule and links to access the artistic pieces are available in this Google Drive folder.

In Brazil, the form of contribution, of spontaneous value, and which will give full access to the virtual programming, for 48 hours, is via bank transfer. The Pix key for the online bank transfer is 09121995. The president of CBTIJ/ASSITEJ Brasil, Cleiton Echeveste de Oliveira, is in charge of this account.

For information about contributions from other countries, please contact us by email below.

CONTACT
Cleiton Echeveste / Eduardo Almeida
Centro Brasileiro de Teatro para a Infância e Juventude (CBTIJ/ASSITEJ Brasil)
cbtij@cbtij.org.br / @cbtij_assitej_brasil / + 55 21 993940679

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Playwriting in Haiti https://assitej-international.org/2021/05/26/news-from-haiti/ Wed, 26 May 2021 12:33:31 +0000 http://www.assitej-international.org/?p=20192 Fenêtre des enfants – ASSITEJ Haiti is mobilizing for the 1st of June of playwriting. Read an interview with Jonathan Registre, one of the founders of this recently founded national center What...

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Fenêtre des enfants – ASSITEJ Haiti is mobilizing for the 1st of June of playwriting. Read an interview with Jonathan Registre, one of the founders of this recently founded national center


What have you organized for June 1, 2021?

We are proposing a staged reading, “Le Bleu des abeilles”, a text by Laura Alcoba, whom I met in Reims, within the framework of M’Auteurs. An actress will read the text for us at the Alliance Française in Jacmel. Afterwards, we will have a reading workshop and a theater workshop. And then a talk with the author C. Bernard Sérant, with whom we inaugurated the project “Être acteur (e) de jeunesse en Haϊti” (Being an actor for youth in Haïti). We would also like to launch an awareness campaign for early childhood activities, around the theme of cultural health, inspired by the work of Sophie Marinopoulos.

Are you helped, for this June 1st edition?

No, still not. We work without means, in a completely voluntary way. It is difficult for the actors, who work with us out of friendship. We don’t even have enough to contribute to their expenses, so that they can continue to work. I promise them that one day there will be subsidies, but in the meantime, we have to keep working, even without money. The French Institute has not answered our messages.

ASSITEJ Haiti has managed, in spite of everything, to operate on a permanent basis. How do you manage to do this?

There is a core group of five people, but, depending on the needs, there are other professionals who are interested in working with us, for example for the video. A new person will soon be in charge of international communication, among others with ASSITEJ and its Ibero-American network. The poster of June 1st was designed by a graphic designer I met at the Barak Festival in Belgium, Hubert de Jamblinne.

We have service partnerships. For example, associations that work in the audiovisual field, that take care of the photos, others that do mediation. Some of them offer us spaces to host activities, like the Pyepoudre Cultural Center.

What do you need the most?

The most difficult thing is that we don’t have an office. We can find the material, but it is difficult to work without internet, with power cuts. We also have a great need for children’s books, plays, scientific and educational documents.

Beyond that, we are looking for ways to develop our activities, through partnerships with other countries. The “jackpot” would be to produce shows in cooperation, and to bring people from France, Belgium, Canada, the United States, and Cuba to conduct workshops. We work with people who lack experience. How do you write a play for young audiences? We have writers, but they write novels, short stories… Writing for a show is something else. In October 2022, we are creating the International Festival of Performances for Young Audiences and Young Children in Haiti, which we would like to be preceded by a residency entitled “Season of writing and youth creations”.

We have the stories, we have the audience, and we know how to work with the minimum of means.

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Fenêtre des enfants – ASSITEJ Haiti https://assitej-international.org/2021/05/26/fenetre-des-enfants-assitej-haiti/ Wed, 26 May 2021 12:33:31 +0000 http://www.assitej-international.org/?p=20207 ITW Jonathan Registre FF – Qu’avez-vous organisé pour le 1er juin 2021 ? JR – Nous proposons une lecture scénique, “Le Bleu des abeilles”, un texte de Laura Alcoba, que j’ai...

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ITW Jonathan Registre

FF – Qu’avez-vous organisé pour le 1er juin 2021 ?

JR – Nous proposons une lecture scénique, “Le Bleu des abeilles”, un texte de Laura Alcoba, que j’ai rencontrée à Reims, dans le cadre de M’Auteurs. Une comédienne va lire le texte pour nous à l’Alliance Française de Jacmel. Après, nous aurons un atelier de lecture, et un atelier de théâtre. Et puis une causerie avec l’auteur C. Bernard Sérant, avec lequel nous avons inauguré le projet “Être acteur (e) de jeunesse en Haϊti“. Nous voudrions également lancer une campagne de sensibilisation aux activités pour la petite enfance, autour du thème de la santé culturelle, en nous inspirant du travail de Sophie Marinopoulos.

FF – Êtes-vous aidés, pour cette édition du 1er juin?

JR – Non, toujours pas. Nous travaillons sans moyens, de façon entièrement bénévole. C’est difficile pour les acteurs, qui travaillent avec nous par amitié. Nous n’avons même pas de quoi contribuer à leurs frais, pour qu’ils puissent continuer à travailler. Je leur promets qu’un jour, il y aura des subventions, mais, en attendant, nous devons continuer à travailler, même sans argent. L’Institut Français n’a pas répondu à nos courriers.

FF – L’ASSITEJ Haïti réussi, malgré tout, à fonctionner de façon permanente, en particulier autour du 1er juin. Comment faites-vous ?

RG – Il y a un noyau de cinq personnes, mais, selon les besoins, il y a d’autres professionnels que cela intéresse de travailler avec nous, par exemple pour la vidéo. Une nouvelle personne va bientôt s’occuper plus particulièrement de la communication internationale, entre autres avec l’ASSITEJ et son réseau ibéro-américain. L’affiche du 1er juin a été conçue par un graphiste que j’avais rencontré au Festival Barak, en Belgique, Hubert de Jamblinne.

Nous avons des partenariats de services. Par exemple des associations qui travaillent dans l’audio-visuel, qui prennent en charge les photos, d’autres qui font de la médiation. Certaines nous offrent les espaces pour recevoir des activités, comme le Centre culturel Pyepoudre,

FF – Qu’est-ce qui vous manque le plus ?

RG – Le plus difficile est que nous n’avons pas de bureaux. Le matériel, nous pouvons le trouver, mais c’est difficile de travailler sans internet, avec des coupures d’électricité. Nous avons aussi un besoin important de livres jeunesse, de pièces de théâtre, de documents scientifiques et pédagogiques.

Au-delà, nous cherchons les moyens de développer nos activités, à travers des partenariats avec d’autres pays. Le “gros lot”, ce serait d’arriver à produire des spectacles en coopération, et de faire venir des gens de France, de Belgique, du Canada, des USA, ou de Cuba, pour animer des ateliers. Nous travaillons avec des personnes qui manquent d’expérience. Comment écrire une pièce de théâtre jeune public ? Nous avons des écrivains, mais ils écrivent des histoires, des nouvelles… Écrire pour un spectacle, c’est autre chose. En octobre 2022, nous créons le Festival international de spectacles jeune public et petite enfance en Haïti, dont nous voudrions qu’il soit précédé d’une résidence intitulée “Saison d’écriture et de créations jeunesses”.

Les histoires, nous les avons, le public aussi, et nous savons travailler avec le minimum de moyens.

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