WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL YOUNG MAKERS MARATHON?

The school which organises the festival, BAI, tours all over Europe with a short theatre piece.
In 2004 BAI, Bizkaia Theatre School and ACT Festival with other four theatre festivals and schools started out this project, the involved participants are: ITs Amsterdam, ITs Brussels, Scarborough theatre students Festival, Ostend Festival and Pend Fridge Festival from Edinburgh (students section).

This way all together we created a show of short pieces that this year will have its third edition.

This year new festival partners will join the International Young Makers Marathon: Skena Up from Kosovo and FIST (Belgrade).

All festival partners choose a performance to show a work in the marathon tour and therefore each production will be performed at each festival country in Europe.

The piece which represented BAI in the first edition tour was Maria Ibarrtetxe´s and Patricia Fuentes´ work Txatxorras ´Cube. Last year Saioa Fernandez and Unai Izquierdo´s piece Was Monna Lisa una lampara? won the first award New Spirit in Skena Up(Kosovo).
This year Elena Deyerre, David Quincoces and Gabi Reig presents:
In solitude and madness…but in the mood of talking

Our participants

The International Young Makers Marathon (IYMM) will have an even more international version in the 2006.
In collaboration with this group of prestigious international festivals, ACT 2006 will bring even more short productions from abroad.

In the 2005, the young makers Marathon made a tour all over Europe visiting, apart from other places, such Festivals as ITs Brussels and ITs Amsterdam, Scarborough (England), Edinburgh (Scotland) , Brussels and Ostend (Belgium), Skena Up (Kosovo), Brno (Czech Republic) and FIST (Belgrade).

By this means the audience will have the unique opportunity to see the new international talents for the future.

The productions are especially targeted to the young audience all over the world and the quality of the works is outstanding according to the previous years reviews.
For BAI students, the marathon is the first step to make their dream come true: A professional and international career.
In this 2006 students from BAI will visit these festivals living an unforgettable experience