{"id":326,"date":"2026-01-29T19:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/?p=326"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:24:49","slug":"call-for-applications-15th-international-children-theatre-festival-bitolino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Call for Applications: 15th International children theatre festival &#8220;BITOLINO&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International children theatre festival &#8220;BITOLINO&#8221; is announcing an open call for participation in the<br \/>\ncompetitive programme of it\u2019s 15th festival edition which is going to be held 03 August \u2013 07 August 2026, in<br \/>\nBitola, North Macedonia. The host of the festival is a ACA \u201eBabec Theater\u201c &#8211; Bitola.<\/p>\n<p>We have successfully completed 14 editions of the festival in the period 2011-2025 with 91 played shows,<br \/>\n14 workshops, attendance of 18.158 spectators. On our festival we have welcomed 59 theater companies<br \/>\nfrom 37 countries and 5 continents.<\/p>\n<p>More informations for the previous festival editions could be found on our web page babec.mk<\/p>\n<p>All puppet and children&#8217;s theatres, as well as all those theatres which have performances for children in<br \/>\ntheir repertoire are invited to send their applications via <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/wQUkDh2Cmj1vQogk8\">Google Forms<\/a> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>by 01 March 2026 at the latest<\/strong><\/span>.<br \/>\nApplications received beyond the stated deadline will not be considered.<\/p>\n<p>How to apply:<br \/>\nAll those applying for official selection are under obligation, to complete the application form and provide:<br \/>\n1. full length video recording of the whole performance<br \/>\n2. 5 photographs of the performance<br \/>\n3. short summary of the performance in English (up to 900 characters)<br \/>\n4. cast and production team list (full names and positions)<br \/>\n5. short text about theatre, or CV (up to 900 characters)<br \/>\n6. theatre logo<\/p>\n<p>Without these elements the application will NOT be considered valid and complete. These elements are<br \/>\nnecessary for the selection.<\/p>\n<p>Selection process:<br \/>\nThe basic criteria for the selection of performances is their artistic quality. The quality of the performances<br \/>\napplied for competitive programme will be judged by the festival selector. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Selection results will be published<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>on the Festival website by 01 April 2026 at the latest.<\/strong><\/span> Individual notifications will be send only to those<br \/>\ntheatres\/participants whose performance is chosen to be presented within competitive programme.<\/p>\n<p>Award:<br \/>\n1. Grand Prix of the Festival for the Best Performance<br \/>\nAward is decided by 3-member international jury chosen from among world-renowned theatre artist and<br \/>\ntheoreticians.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Conditions of participation:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Festival covers:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>&#8211; Food and accommodation for (max.) 3 days.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>&#8211; fee for participation in the festival program &#8211; 300 EURO<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>&#8211; Transport from Skopje\/Ohrid International Airport to Bitola<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>&#8211; Technical support<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nIf you have any questions or need more information, please do not hesitate to contact us. The contact<br \/>\nperson is Filip Etmishovski, director of the Festival (phone:0038975313304, e-mail: babecteatar@gmail.com)<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to receiving your application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International children theatre festival &#8220;BITOLINO&#8221; is announcing an open call for participation in the competitive programme of it\u2019s 15th festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babec.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}