19 NOV THURSDAY
Performances
- OFFICIAL OPENING19:00
OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY OF THE ASIAN YOUTH THEATRE FESTIVAL 2020
Workshops and Activities
20 NOV
FRIDAY
Performances
- AYTF TEAM JAPAN (JAPAN)17:00AYTF Team JAPAN comprises: Fream! Theatre, Theatre Group GUMBO and Sakai International Community Arts
PANDEMIC OF WORDS
Abuse on social media, has led to a rapid rise in young Japanese people contemplating suicide, with an unfortunate few selecting to take their own lives. This tool for expanding the world economically and socially – that connects humans across the globe, has created a narrow and abnormal world in which there is only “You” and “Not you (= enemy)”.
It has created an alternative disease, that when combined with COVID can cause the “unhappiness infection”, a new & large lesion on modern Japanese society. Like the black Tsunami, it consumes and swallows healthy people, taking away their lives, not with blades or with guns, but with “Words” – hurtful and dangerous.
- BUDS THEATRE (Singapore)19:00
ALIEN NATION
Two security officers arrive at a high-level quarantine facility for duty, only to be met by a surveillance camera installed, pointing at them and unaccounted for. Amidst their many differences, they pull together to find out the truth of this situation.
- Prachyanat (Bangladesh)20:30
THE BLUE MAN
A young Bengali boy learns quickly that he is colour blind, but it is only on moving to the USA, that he discovers his skin is also blue. He quickly becomes a person of interest, increasing his popularity. However, as he is initially unaware of the reason for this popularity, he attempts to integrate into society. It is a difficult time in the USA, with the black lives matter movement becoming increasingly more visual. The man chooses to join the supporters of the movement as he abhors violence, but when he sees black people looting and destroying public property, he selects to join the opposition. Unfortunately, regardless of his own choices, neither party wishes to accept him, as he is too different. He is confused by the situation, and writes a letter to his parents to seek help about his identity. To which party does he belong? He tries to find a human connection that transcends race or colour – to find acceptance without agenda.
Workshops and Activities
- BUDS THEATRE (Singapore)10:00
FORUM THEATRE
- Collaboration: Hold On (BN, BD, SG & PH)11:00
- BUDS THEATRE (Singapore)12:00
ZOOMING THEATRE
- Open Stage 213:00A platform for ANYONE to share their skills and talents! Sign up at https://forms.gle/LSKotenTc7i4Y32L7
- Khmer Art Action (Cambodia)14:00
CONNECTING HUMANITY
We all know that comforting feeling when we are being physically embraced – feeling heard, emotionally understood and supported by another human being. That warm feeling of human connection is so important in maintaining our overall emotional and physical health. To join and support the topic human connection Khmer Art Action will run a workshop encouraging dialogue and interweave the dialogue into a storytelling process to aid connection.
- BUDS THEATRE (Singapore)15:00
VERBATIM THEATRE
- Gigi Art of Dance (Indonesia)16:00
RESPONDING WITH SENSES
An interactive creation process.
A Storytelling that will lead into a creative output.
Awakening all our senses, being honest and trusting our action and our emotion at that moment.
Giving time to listen, to write, to dance, to watch, to think, to express and to observe.
Creating a mindful experience and creation together, apart.
*Please prepare 1 meaningful object that reminds you of someone or a moment, Pen, Paper, voice recording device, colourful paint, body, mind and soul.
- Open Stage 318:00A platform for ANYONE to share their skills and talents! Sign up at https://forms.gle/LSKotenTc7i4Y32L7
- Traditional Music Sharing21:30
21 NOV
SATURDAY
Performances
- Inwa School of Performing Arts (Myanmar)15:00
A LESSON LEARNED
Once there was a family who worked at a brick factory outside of Mandalay. They had a son and a daughter. Every day the family would get up early and go to work. The children wished to go to school but the parents refused to send them due to their economic state. One day the boy accidentally cut his feet at work. The parents rubbed the wound with dust, but the boy’s feet got infected and he became sick. When the father was out, he ran into the village teacher and shared his problem. The village teacher took him and his son to the clinic. The boy was saved and the parents were grateful to the Doctor and the Teacher and thanked them for their care. After the incident they decided to send their children to school so that they too may one day become teachers and doctors and shared their experience with their friends so that they too acknowledged the value of education.
- 247 Studios (Brunei)17:00
THROUGH OUR EYES
A devised performance exploring the relationship between humans through inanimate objects. This performance will focus on how food is used as a social medium within Bruneian culture. This performance will include local art forms to aid in conveying the story. It will also touch on other inanimate objects that affect human relationships.
- YOUTH ADVOCATES THROUGH THEATER ARTS @ YATTA (Philippines)19:00
DEAFENING SILENCE
The story of three lives intertwined during a pandemic. A nurse and her struggles, an artist turned food delivery driver making ends meet, and a retrenched mother struggling to keep her family fed. The three characters discover their own sense of humanity as they are confronted with a new reality wrapped in anxiety, isolation and hopelessness.
- Lanyim Theatre (Thailand)20:30
PAN
A What is food? Sustenance? Socialisation? How are they connected? PAN is a developing and experimental performance aimed for full production in 2022. Inspired by cooking for protesters in Thailand, this performance addresses the relationship between the new generation of thinkers, how to earn a living with new standards and ambition for the future, through conversations and body movements in the kitchen.
Workshops and Activities
- Buds Theatre (Singapore)10:00
SPEAKING SINGLISH
What is Singlish? How did it come about? Can you create your own version of Singlish?
This workshop by the team from Singapore will begin with a simple sharing about Singlish as the informal language spoken by Singaporeans – what is it and where does it come from? The team will break down how it came about and how it works. Participants will then be asked to form their own new version of Singlish based on the different languages spoken by the AYTF participants. What would our collective language sound like? What would it be called? Can that be a meaningful way to bring us closer?
- Dialogue 111:00
THEATRICAL PRACTICE & COVID-19
- 247 Studios (Brunei)12:00
DANCE WITH BRUNEI
A dance workshop accompanied by traditional song, using styles and techniques synonymous with Brunei’s traditions and culture.
- Open Stage 413:00A platform for ANYONE to share their skills and talents! Sign up at https://forms.gle/LSKotenTc7i4Y32L7
- Work in Progress (Malaysia)14:00
ACTORS PREPARATION
This workshop is to introduce theatre activities and tools to prepare the actors mind and body to be present, to practice sensitivity in all things and build their intuition. This includes traditional games and activities.
- Prachyanat (Bangladesh)16:00
TRADITIONAL FOLK DANCE OF BANGLADESH
Bangladesh is a river oriented agricultural country with the majority of dance moves drawn from the landscape. Through this workshop participants will be able to learn about traditions and form the unusual shapes and images synonymous to the region. They will also learn about the musical instruments such as the ‘Dhol’ which accompanies the dance aiding the process of embodiment.
Open Stage 518:00A platform for ANYONE to share their skills and talents! Sign up at https://forms.gle/LSKotenTc7i4Y32L7
Traditional Music Sharing21:30
22 NOV
SUNDAY
Performances
- Khmer Art Action (Cambodia)15:00
THE MISERABLE LINE
What do you call a person who thinks he/she is always right, and any other opinion is wrong? If that person is your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend how do you deal with it? What makes a relationship? Is it more important to be right? Being right is so overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of basic human kindness. Where’s the fun in that? Where’s the love in that? There are so many healthier choices we can make other than needing to be right. let’s start making them! The Miserable Line is a story about a family that can’t connect to each other. Most couples have not hundreds of arguments; they’ve had the same argument hundreds of times. A daughter suffers from a mother who is always right and a father who is always drunk. Family problems come in all shapes and sizes; some are short-lived and easily managed, while others are more chronic and difficult to handle. Being right or wrong is not as important as humane.
- Work in Progress (Malaysia)17:00
CUBA FAHAM
Cuba Faham tells a tale of the differing perspectives of human connection on a day to day basis. To feel lost, far from the warmth and touch of another human being, whilst instead being presented with the impersonal view through a screen limited by variable connections. Impacting the way we live in this ‘new normal’ – an interference with what we used to be, pure human connection.
- Gigi Art of Dance (Indonesia)19:00
VIRTUAL INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE VOL. 2: NONGSKUY
With minimum physical contact allowed and more distancing policies enforced in Indonesian society, we face a dilemma in performing. How do you engage audiences when you can barely engage your fellow performers on stage? By taking cues from various technological measures taken during these times, Gigi Art of Dance seek to create a performance space that specifically engages the audience through these technological measures. This performance space allows the audience an opportunity to become active members of the performance, holding as much power as the performers, dancing for them and creating an equal space, where we aspire to reconnect again as humans and members of the same society. We call this space a Virtual Interactive Performance Experience, where everyone is important and all voice are values – A VIP EXPERIENCE.
Workshops and Activities
- Inwa School of Performing Arts (Myanmar)10:00
CHIN LONE PLAYING (CANE BALL)
Caneball is a traditional, non- competitive, national sport in Myanmar. The point of the game is to keep the rattan ball from hitting the ground while passing it back and forth as creatively as possible. It is played by men, women and children, often together, interchangeably. Although very fast, chinlone is more like a dance or performance. Together, with improvised balls, participants will try to create a performative movement sequence using the traditional style of play.
- Dialogue 211:00
LEVELLING THE PLAYING FIELD
- Team Japan (Japan)12:00
JAPANESE SWORD ACTION “TATE”
Participants will learn Japanese history through, “Tate“, a sword action that encompasses the spirit of the Samurai.
The aim of the workshop is to broaden the actors repertoire, expanding the range of expressions supporting ‘action’ theatre.
・Way of walking
・Battle preparation
・Post battle action.
- Open Stage 613:00A platform for ANYONE to share their skills and talents! Sign up at https://forms.gle/LSKotenTc7i4Y32L7
- YOUTH ADVOCATES THROUGH THEATER ARTS @ YATTA (Philippines)14:00
INSTRUMENT MAKING WORKSHOP
A workshop using environmental objects to create musical instruments for performance and storytelling. Facilitated by Nicky Dumapit, an artist, musician, storyteller and environmental and cultural activity of Dumaguete City.
- Lanyim Theatre (Thailand)16:00
KEEP MOVING
Let’s dance organically, instinctively, without premise! Let’s dance to be free, to forget, to express, to live again. Forget the choreography, the composition. Just feel the rhythm of the beats. Stop, pause, take a deep breath and dance again. Just keep moving!
- Open Stage 718:00A platform for ANYONE to share their skills and talents! Sign up at https://forms.gle/LSKotenTc7i4Y32L7