FEDU ( bs, Festival dječije umjetnosti / Фестивал дјечије умјетности) is an annual children's

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held in

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. It is held in May, lasts for six days and showcases extensive

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and music programs from around the world. Furthermore, it organizes numerous workshops for children between the ages of 6 and 14. The festival was established in 2015 by a team headed by children's writer Fahrudin Kučuk in cooperation with the government of the Sarajevo Canton. The main festival venue is the

Sarajevo National Theatre The Sarajevo National Theatre ( Bosnian and Serbian: ''Narodno pozorište Sarajevo'', Народно позориште Сарајево, Croatian: ''Narodno kazalište Sarajevo'') was founded in November 1921. The opening ceremony was led by ...

. The festival has hosted productions from over 20 countries. It is the only international children's art festival in the

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Format

The festival has a competition format that includes three main programmes: Musical, Theatrical and Fairy tale, while also running smaller programmes for puppetry, interactive education, costume design and fine arts. The musical programme holds both choir and solo singing sub-programmes as well as instrumental programmes broken down into

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groups. The theatrical programme hosts Bosnian and international children's theatre companies with the productions being showcased in the Sarajevo National Theatre, the

Kamerni teatar 55 Kamerni teatar 55 (English: ''Chamber Theater 55'') is a theater in Sarajevo, established in 1955. It is registered as public institution under the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Canton Sarajevo. On average, around 13,000 people view performanc ...

and the

Sarajevo Youth Theatre The Sarajevo Youth Theatre ( bs, Pozorište mladih Sarajevo / Позориште младих Сарајево) is a children's and youth theatre in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 1950 under the name ''Pioneer Theatre''. It i ...

. The Fairy tale programme is a literary competition open to adults and it awards the best new children's fairy tale of the year. The awards ceremony is held in the Sarajevo National Theatre on the last day of the festival. It has hosted productions by the

Stretford Children's Theatre Stretford Children's Theatre is a youth theatre based in Stretford, England. It was founded in the 1940s by Bertram H. Holland, and ceased to exist in the late 1970s or early 1980s. An offshoot adult theatre company made up of former members of th ...

, Silver Lake Children's Theatre Group,

Young Spectator's Theatre Young Spectator's Theatre (Театр Юного Зрителя, ТЮЗ) was a standard name of a theatre for children and youth in many cities of the Soviet Union, usually referred to by this abbreviation: тюз, TYuZ (sometimes translated as "T ...

, Puppet Theatre Mostar, Branko Mihaljević Children's Theatre and others.

Venues

* International Center for Children and Youth *

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* Centar Municipality Hall * Vijećnica

References

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External links

official website
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