Open Call

The thematic frame for INAF27 – WHO CARES? builds on the exploration initiated by ASSITEJ Norway’s residency program TYAOslo26 – Space of Care:

CARE?

Care can mean protection.
Care can mean responsibility.
Care can mean tenderness.
Care can mean pushing someone to the edge – because you believe they can handle it.

Can also mean not caring at all, because who cares?

Open Call for Performances:

We are looking for performances for audiences aged 0–19 that resonate with this thematic field. We are looking for performances that deal with the topic of care both thematically and how it has been produced by using care as a method for the creative work and outreach.

Your work might:

• Explore care as love, solidarity, or protection

• Examine neglect, indifference, or exclusion (lack of care)

• Use humour to disarm difficult themes

• Use horror as a caring concept

• Address urgent social, political, or existential questions

• Challenge audiences rather than shield them

• Question who is cared for and who is not

• Play with the idea of being “careless”

We are interested in works that dare to engage young audiences seriously, emotionally, intellectually, physically. Works that recognise children and young people as complex individuals in a complex world are welcomed.

Open Call Professional Program:

We are also looking for workshops, lectures, panel talks and masterclasses dealing with the topic of care. This is very broad – we know! But we are very curious to get to know different practices when it comes to dealing with care in creative spaces, artistic methods, audience outreach work etc.

Some questions to explore could be

How do we hold space for different experiences within the same audience?
How do we take responsibility without becoming didactic?
How do we provoke without abandoning care?

INAF is ASSITEJ Norway’s biannual festival, and we are part of the global network ASSITEJ International, advocating for children and young people’s right to arts and culture across more than 90 countries. INAF gathers artists, presenters, producers and delegates from Norway and abroad. We are looking forward to welcoming you here in Oslo next year!