The BUZZ project hosts five multinational training labs for professional directors and artists who create performance work with young people in order to learn, share and develop a professional practice with other artists and cultural leaders from across Europe.
Each Artists’ Lab will focus on a different topic in contemporary youth theatre practice. The third Artists Training Lab will be held at Rogaland Theater in Stavanger, Norway, from 6 – 10 March 2023 offering professional youth theatre artists the chance to explore dramaturgical approaches to youth theatre. Questions such as How we can equip our dramaturgical toolbox? or Does the written word still have its place in youth theatre? will be explored. Participants will take part in a series of activities exploring how dramaturgy can be used with in a youth theatre context. There will be enough space to gain insights into the work, methods and best practices via workshops, debates and presentations in peer-to-peer groups.
The organisers offer the travel to Stavanger, accommodation, and all meals during the lab. Two artists from each of Scotland, Ireland, Belgium & Germany as well as four artists from Norway will be selected. There will be also five places available for artists applying from elsewhere in Europe. The Call is open to theatre artists who create work with young people, can demonstrate how the opportunity to work internationally will enhance their practice and how the Lab’s theme ‘Dramaturgical Approaches to youth theatre’ will be of particular benefit to their practice. Artists based in the European Union, or another eligible country, including UK are welcome to apply until 23 November. Find more information here.
BUZZ is a new European youth theatre network. Created by leading arts organisations from Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Belgium and Germany, and with funding from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, BUZZ aims to cross-pollinate youth theatre practice across the continent for the first time.
