On the 1st of February ASSITEJ Lithuania started celebrating 20th anniversary. For this occasion they held opening of the celebration year with the international event online in Zoom and live on Facebook.
For the whole 2021 year they have planned many more other exciting live and online events open to the international community as well. You can get to know all 30 our members on our Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AssitejLithuania as during February every day you will find there short videos of each member introducing their activities.
The main event is ahead in October – the 6th International festival of theater for children and youth “Jėga/Cool” which will be held in the Western part of Lithuania in Klaipėda city and region.
General Assembly in November
The General meeting assembly of the ASSITEJ Lithuania due to the lockdown restrictions was held online on the 27th November 2020. Current President of the ASSITEJ Lithuania Violeta Podolskaitė was reelected for the next five years term. She was successfully in this position from the very beginning of the Association. The Board of the ASSITEJ Lithuania was elected as well. New members Jurga Knyvienė (Kaunas City Chamber Theater), Raimondas Klezys (No Shoes Theater) and Birutė Banevičiūtė (Dansema dance theater) joined previous members Saulė Degutytė (The Table Theater) and Inesa Pilvelytė (Alytus City Theater). Birutė Banevičiūtė was elected as the Chair of the Board.