SUE’S TOP PICKS 
Overwhelmed by all the options? Look at Sue Giles’ hot tips below.

1. Artistic and Cultural Awakening for the Early Years (France)
Mon 22 Mar, 10pm AEDT
ASSITEJ France and Dr Sophie Marinopoulos launch the research report: “A National Strategy for Cultural Health – Promoting and Sustaining the Child’s Cultural Awakening from Birth to the Age of Three Within the Parent-Child Bond”. They will also share a blueprint for the implementation of public policies against ‘cultural malnutrition.’ 

2. Writing for New Generations (International)
Thu 25 Mar, 11am AEDT
5 playwrights from 5 continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania and Latin America) meet to discuss the challenges of writing for new generations. 

3. Our Poetic Self is for Everyone (Denmark)
Fri 26 Mar, 7pm AEDT
A short presentation on ‘The Poetic Self’, a performance concept and method developed by Sisters Hope. This will be followed by a Poetic Self exercise, facilitated in a sort of dream space. 

4. Tapping into our Childhood through Play (South Africa)
Fri 26 Mar, 7pm AEDT
This workshop uses African indigenous games to tap into one’s childhood, a cognitive way of accessing the world of a child before creating work for them. These games explore what it feels like to throw yourself in a world of play and not think like an adult.  

5. How can we face the future as artists? (International)
Sat 27 Mar, 11am AEDT | 29 Mar, 11am AEDT
Two-part interactive session on what we need to succeed as TYA artists. Part One | Part Two 

6. This is Grayson (Australia)
Sun 28 Mar, 8.30pm AEDT
Writer/Director Davina Wright and Producer Xavier O’Shannessy present excerpts from ‘This is Grayson’. This site-specific, immersive and experimental work discusses the importance of young queer audiences seeing a queer world onstage, and giving children agency in the imagining of work made for them.