Deadline: 31 October 2019

The 20th ASSITEJ World Congress Festival will be in Japan from May, 14-24 2020.

The specific theme for 2020 is Towards the Unknown—Beginning the Journey

The magazine will be published in English in Japanese. We will again create a visual magazine that communicates through images text.  Both visuals text should address the theme: Beginning the Journey.

This magazine calls for articles that envision beginning the journey to the future the unknown from numerous artistic perspectives:

• How would you start your journey as artists, directors, actors, producers, pedagogues, dramaturgs, researchers, dancers, musicians, scenographers, video artists?

• How do we see the journey of the audience towards the unknown?

• What role can the arts culture provide along the journey?

• How does TYA begin to address the increasing humanitarian crises affecting children youth?

• Can exposure to arts culture alleviate emotional distress in children youth, if so how?

• How could TYA expfurther inclusivity in TYA?

• Are there examples of TYA that have begun their journey towards the future, if so how? For better or for worse?

Articles should

• be between 500-700 words maximum sent in Word PDF (both), Times 12pt font via e-mail

• include a title the name of the author at the top, a 25 word bio of the author at the end.

• be accompanied by high quality photos in separate files from the article, TIFF preferred but JPEG is acceptable, the size of the files should not be less than 5 MB.

  Photos should be credited with name of photographer, company, play.

  All files should be named by last name of author country.

  Submissions should be in English (Japanese translations will be provided)