We are very excited about this next gathering of our ASSITEJ community, during which 19 shows will be presented and about fifty activities in the professional program. This part is currently still being developed, but you can already go to the website france2025.assitejonline.org to see the program of shows, buy a pass and organize your visit. ASSITEJ International, Scènes d’Enfance – ASSITEJ France, we are mobilized to prepare for your stay and continue to refine the international meeting. An online program will be offered to those who cannot make the trip.
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A special project – Fireflies – is being actively prepared to be part of ASSITEJ International, Scènes d’enfance – ASSITEJ France and Théâtre Massalia, the 2025 artistic meeting, “Bright Generations – Générations Lumineuses.” But all over France, Fireflies are also announcing this major event to the public.
The Fédération des Lucioles (the Federation of Fireflies) is a project imagined by the artists on the board of directors of Scènes d’enfance – ASSITEJ France. Every day since September 19, in a cultural venue in France, we celebrate the vitality of performing arts for young audiences, and the commitment of all in putting children at the heart of our actions. Before a show, we read a text specially written by Catherine Verlaguet: it talks about a child who goes to a show for the first time and who comes out of it moved, touched, different… We share this moment with the young spectators and others, we light a firefly imagined for the occasion, we pass it on to those who will take over the next day.
This Grand Tour of the Fireflies began at the Ministry of Culture on September 19 and will end with a Flight of the Fireflies on March 20 from all the participating locations, for the World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People. Then, on March 23, a parade of the Fireflies will conclude the opening ceremony of “Bright Generations – Générations Lumineuses.” We hope that many of you will share it with us.
We are very excited about this next gathering of our ASSITEJ community, during which 19 shows will be presented and about fifty activities in the professional program. This part is currently still being developed, but you can already go to the website france2025.assitejonline.org to see the program of shows, buy a pass and organize your visit. ASSITEJ International, Scènes d’Enfance – ASSITEJ France, we are mobilized to prepare for your stay and continue to refine the international meeting. An online program will be offered to those who cannot make the trip.
In the meantime in France, small fireflies imagined and launched by children testify to the importance of art and culture for their development and that of all. It is joyful. But, at the end of this year, in several countries around the world, children are deprived of it, some suffer from war and some die from it. I want to dedicate to them the Firefly that will be lit in Marseille on January 30, on the occasion of the official announcement of “Bright Generations.”
