this FIET fair Balearic Islands Awarded this Tuesday with National Performing Arts Award for Children and Teens 2022 for “quality of programming”. This was highlighted by the jury for this award, handed out by the Ministry of Culture and Sports through the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), and 30.000 €.
The Jury agreed to present this award to FIET, the Balearic Islands Children’s and Youth Theater Fair. programming quality Ensuring the participation of the fair and the whole city, which turns Fira into an event that has a social impact, activates its environment, and makes it a meeting place for artists and citizens”. high impact in the field theatre for children and young people, not only in the panorama of the Catalan Performing Arts, but also at the national level”.
The National Performing Arts Award for Children and Youth recognizes an individual or organization’s outstanding work in the performing arts for children and youth, preferably through a work or performance that has been publicly released or represented throughout 2021.
Celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, FIET Held in Vilafranca de Bonany since 2002 (Majorca)Throughout the month of October and each edition, it brings together around 19,000 spectators and dozens of theater management companies and professionals, both locally and from the rest of Europe, making this city a theater reference point for children and young people.
FIET is the flagship project of the non-profit association Sa Xerxa, founded in 2003. structuring and promoting the theater offer for children and youth on all islands. He has also realized other projects such as Formentera Festival, Barruguet, Santa Eulària des Riu Family Theater Festival, Theater Festival for Fiets and Fietes de Maó and FESTIVO, Montuïri Summer Festival.
The association also promotes theatrical creativity with calls such as the Guillem de Efak Award for children’s and youth theatrical texts and the BÒTIL competition for theater and literary productions. On the other hand, Teatre Als Pobles (TAP) circuit encourages the dissemination of theatre, which enables local organizations and educational and cultural institutions to benefit from quality theater for children and family audiences.
In the last five editions, the prize has been awarded to Pupaclown (2017), the Marie de Jongh company (2018), the playwright Itziar Pascual (2019), the La Baldufa company (2020) and the Segovia International Puppet Festival, Titirimundi ( 2021).