CALL FOR PROPOSALS OF PARTICIPANTS IN

THE FORUM OF THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CHILDREN'S THEATER IN SUBOTICA, 2023.

Dear theatre experts! It is our pleasure to inform you that International Festival of Children's Theatres Subotica (Serbia), in co-operation with the Theatre Museum of Vojvodina from Novi Sad (Serbia), is organizing an INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLEGE OF THEATRE ARTS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE conference for the fourteenth time.

30TH INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S THEATER FESTIVAL SUBOTICA
(17-22.septembar 2023.)

14th THEATER ART RESEARCH FORUM FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH, SUBOTICA

TIME AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE THEATER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH

The Children's Theater Festival in Subotica is an opportunity for researchers from different countries to gather during the Festival days and present their research and projects. Also, with the plays performed during the Festival, Subotica becomes an important place where researchers and theater experts meet with creators of theater plays for children and youth from all over the world. The goal of this gathering is to improve the theater for children and youth.

Theatrical art greatly contributes to the quality upbringing of children. Therefore, the time that children and youth spend in theatres is proportional to the quality of the contents they are introduced to. Various contents have been created for children and youth aiming to achieve an aesthetic or educational goal. Also, techniques and approaches in performances are part of the responsibility of those who create theater contents. Therefore, the 14th Forum for the Research of Theater Art for Children and Youth at the 30th International Festival of Children's Theater in Subotica is directed towards research on Time and Responsibility in Theater for Children and Youth.

Possible sub-topics and frameworks:

Access to time as a measure of responsibility in theater for children and youth
Time as a creative act in theater for children and youth
Design of time and space in the theater for children and youth
Time and play in the theater for children and youth
Time as a phenomenon
Responsibility and creation in theater for children and youth
Responsibility and education in theater for children and youth
Responsibility and growing up
Responsibility and use of technology in theater for children and youth
Time and responsibility in different cultures
Access to stage language through time and responsibility
The language of time and its perception
Time, responsibility and environment
Time and rhythm in the stage space
Time and responsibility in group work
Time and responsibility in heritage interpretation

The 14th Theater Arts Research Forum for Children and Youth will be an opportunity to learn about the interpretation of time and responsibility in theater environments around the world. The Jubilee 30th Children's Theater Festival in Subotica will welcome researchers ready to accept a responsible interpretation of time in theater for children and youth.

The Festival will send an earlier reply to participants who need a confirmation of participation to ensure their arrival in Subotica. Therefore, you can send proposals until December 1, 2022 and you will receive a response by December 15, 2022. Participants who do not need to be notified in advance are welcome to submit a proposal by February 28, 2023.

Marijana Prpa Fink, PhD

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We have the honor to invite you to contribute by your presence and participation to the success of this meeting, which is going to be held within the framework of the 30th International Festival of Children's Theatres Subotica, Serbia, over three or four days between 17 – 22 September 2023.

Participants can decide in which section they want to contribute and send their proposals in written form (up to 500 words). Proposals must be sent by the above-mentioned deadlines and no later than February 28, 2023. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified no later than April 1, 2023!

Sessions will be held in Serbian and English with simultaneous interpretation provided. Papers presented during the conference will be published in full as a collection of papers, bilingually, in Serbian and in English language.

The authors whose proposals are accepted will be expected to submit their full papers (2000-4000 words) in English or in Serbian by 31st January 2024.

Please send your proposals to the following address: lutfestsubotica@gmail.com <http://lutfestsubotica@gmail.com> or by regular mail to:

OPEN UNIVERSITY SUBOTICA
International Festival of Children’s Theatre in Subotica
TRG CARA JOVANA NENADA 15
24000 SUBOTICA
SERBIA
Contact person: Zrnic Eva - coordinator of festival programs

Participants in the conference (chosen to present their papers) will be guests of the 30th International Festival of Children’s Theatre in Subotica in September 2023.

The organizer will provide transportation from the airport to Subotica and back (for those arriving by plane), free entrance to all Festival events, and cover accommodation costs for the duration of the conference (hotel - full board).

We look forward to receiving your applications.

Festival Head Office