Since 2022, ASSITEJ Norway has hosted TYAOslo, a biennial performing arts residency dedicated to those working professionally within Theatre and Performing Arts for Young Audience. Now returning for its third edition in 2026, TYAOslo continues to provide a week-long space for reflection, creation, and exchange, connecting artists and best practices across borders.
The residency will take place 17–23 August 2026, in Oslo, Norway. It will explore the theme ‘Care in Artistic Spaces’. What does it take to create and hold artistic spaces that invite young audiences to dream, reflect, and truly feel seen, especially when engaging with complex or challenging themes?
Care is not understood here as protection from discomfort, but as an active, negotiated practice which involves responsibility and risk, listening, and at times friction. The residency invites artists to question not only how they care for their audiences, but how care shapes form, ethics, power, and artistic freedom.
TYAOslo26 is developed in collaboration with the Nordic-Baltic ASSITEJ Network (NBAN) and reflects the spirit of ASSITEJ International, the global network uniting artists, scholars, and producers who advocate for children’s right to arts and culture.
To be eligible to apply applicants must be from, live in/work in a Nordic-Baltic Country (Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia).
The residency offers the following:
- An artistic fee of 13,000 NOK
- Travel (flights, trains, hostel and transport to/from the airport and stations and public transport in Oslo)
- Accommodation (breakfast and lunch will be included in the accommodation)
- Per diems of 600 NOK a day
- Tickets to events as part of the residency
