Children’s and Youth Theatre
Towards the Unknown Future Ota Akira
TYA Inclusive Arts Festival 2019 Those working in the field of theatre for children and young people in Japan were by and large spending the whole year preparing for the 20th ASSITEJ World Congress and International Theatre Festival for Children and Young Audiences. ASSITEJ was founded forty years ago and the world congress to be held in Japan, which has been a long-held dream for the Japan Center of ASSITEJ,
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will be the largest-ever international performing arts festival for children and young people. In February 2018, the Asia TYA Festival in Japan 2018 was held to create a system for receiving cooperation from other Asian countries by deepening the relationship between Japan and Asia prior to the large-scale congress. With this in mind, in January 2019, Inclusive Arts Festival 2019 was held to prepare for opening a new gateway. Holding these two festivals must have been great experiences that paved the way for the success of the first ASSITEJ World Congress organized in Japan. TYA Inclusive Arts Festival 2019 was held from January 14 to 20 at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center and fifteen productions were performed thirty-eight times. The word Theatre in Japan
Theatre Yearbook 2020
