Encounters

The encounter took place from 7th to 17th August 2026 in İzmir, Türkiye.

The theme of the encouter was “A Library of the World: The rest is still unwritten” and it was inviting participants, aged 15 - 17, to explore stories from different cultures while creating new narratives together and shape the collective creative process through workshops and the final performance

Organisator:

Çağdaş Drama Derneği (Contemporary Drama Association)

THE 17th EDERED YOUTH ENCOUNTER

took place between 14th and 24th August 2025 in Bressanone/Brixen (South Tyrol,Italy).

The theme of this encounter was “AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH – REACHING THE SUMMIT’.

Young people aged 12 to 16, theatre enthusiastic peers from all over Europe, worked together and they learned techniques and met new people.

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Theaterpädagogisches Zentrum (TPZ) Brixen 

(info about the Encounter)

THE 16^th EDERED YOUTH ENCOUNTER

took place from 8th to 18th July 2024 in Ghent (Belgium).

The theme of this encounter was ‘LOUDER TOGETHER!’.

Young people aged 18 to 26, worked towards a final performance during various workshops.

They were learning techniques, met new people and got to know a fantastic city through fun activities!

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OPENDOEK, the organization that inspires, facilitates and supports theater in leisure time in Flanders and Brussels

The 15^th EDERED youth encounter took place from 4th to 11th june 2023 in Orfű (Hungary).

The theme of the encounter was  “Seeking the way”.

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Országos Diákszínjátszó Egyesület / National Association of Youth Theatre

10. Theatre Olympics, Hungary 2023

  The first day of the Encounter 

 The second day of the Encounter

The 14^th EDERED youth encounter held from 25th july to 2th august 2021 in Osijek (Croatia), Brussels (Belgium), Turgi (Switzerland) and Thessaloniki (Greece).

The theme of the encounter was “URBAN JUNGLE”.

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 The 13^th EDERED Youth Encounter took place from 5th to 11th August 2019 in Course Center Högsand, Hanko, Finland. 

The theme of the Encounter was be “IT’S MY NATURE“.

Finland hosted EDERED in 2019. Eleven countries from all around Europe were invited to participate and develop the Theme “IT’S MY NATURE”. Participants aged 15-17 and their workshop leaders worked together covering topics of Environmentalism and Nature’s role in everyday life. Let’s take care of our Nature! We really need our Seas, Forrests, Mountains, Animals and everything from Mother Earth. Let’s take care of ourselves as well. It’s My Nature, it’s Your Nature! Participating countries were Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Israel, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey and UK.

Organisator of the Encounter and host was
Finnish centre of AITA/IATA 

The 13^th EDERED Youth Encounter took place from 11^th to 22^nd of July 2018 in “Lycée Saliège” – Toulouse, France. 

The theme of the Encounter was “GREAT EXPLORERS“.

Organisator of the Encounter and host was FNCTA (French Federation of Amateur Theatre)

The 12^th EDERED Youth Encounter took place between 19^th  – 30^th July 2017 in Aalborg, Denmark.

The theme of the Encounter was  “TIVOLI“.

Organisator of the Encounter and host was DATS (Danish Amateur Theatre Association)

The 11^th EDERED Youth Encounter was take place
between 8^th – 14^th August 2016 in Joachimsthal, Germany.

 The theme of the Encounter was “Fluid Boundaries“.

Organisator of the Encounter were:

BDAT – Bund Deutscher Amateurtheater e.V.

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Polish Theatre Society / Towarzystwo Teatralne im. Jędrzeja Cierniaka

The 10^th EDERED Youth Encounter was take place
between 6^th – 19^th July 2015 in
Begegnungszentrum, Rüdlingen, Switzerland .

 The theme of the Encounter was “eyes full of colours and secrets”.

Organisator of the Encounter was The Swiss Amateur Theatre organization (ZSV)

Follow the 10th EDERED Encounter  

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The 9th EDERED Youth Encounter took place from the 29th July to the 8th August 2013 at The Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, near Ipswich,  United Kingdom. The theme of the Encounter was “Tribes”.

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EDERED “Tribes” Performance by Paul Clark

The 15^th EDERED, was take place from the 6^th till the 20^th of July 2012 in YİBO (Seferihisar Boarding School)  in Seferihisar / Turkey.

The theme of the encounter was ‘SLOWNESS.

Organisator was Çağdaş Drama Derneği (CDD) – Association for Contemporary Drama.

The 14^th EDERED, took place from the 10^th till the 24^th of July 2011 in Youth Camp Hoge Rielen in Kasterlee, Belgium (45 km away from of Antwerp). Organisator was OPENDOEK, Belgium amateur theatre association.

The theme of the encounter was  “Kaleidoscope” (diversity).
Groups from 14 country (8 participants from 12 till 14 years old) were on a
‘somewhere over the rainbow’ adventure.

13th EUROPEAN CHILDREN THEATRE ENCOUNTER, 1th – 14th July 2009,

Theme: “Play without limits”

The Theatre Union of the Russian Federation and Russian Centre of AITA announced the 13th European Children Theatre Encounter to be held in Russia. Groups from 16 European countries were invited to participate in the Encounter.T-shirt logo:

 The 12^th EDERED, took place from the 18^th till the 31^th of July 2005 in Cork, Ireland.

Organisator was NAYD – National Association for Youth Drama

The theme of the encounter was  “DREAMTIME”. See the Dreamtime booklet!

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The 11^th Children’s EDERED, took place from the 14^th till the 27^th of July 2003 in Pazin, Croatia.

Organisators were TIRENA and Croatian Center for Drama Education. 

The theme of the encounter was  “JOURNEY”. 

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The 10^h Children’s EDERED, took place from the 8^th till the 22^th of July 2001 in Viljandi, Estonia.

The theme of the encounter was  “BRIDGES”.

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The 5th Youth Encounter took place 1997 in Besancon, France. 

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The 8th Children Encounter took place from 14th till 28th July 1996 in Hannover, Germany. The theme  was  “Nature, Technic and Children”.

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The 4th Youth Encounter took place from 23rd till 30th July 1995 in Ankara, Turkey. The theme  was “Sanata Evet / Yes to Art”.

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The 7th Children Encounter took place 1994 in Valleta, Malta. The theme was “The Sea—A Lifeline”.

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The 6th Children Encounter took place 1992 in Békéscsaba, Hungary. The theme  was “You see best with your heart”.

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The 3rd Youth Encounter took place from 15th till 27th July 1991 in Dublin, Ireland. The theme was “Alivealive-O”.

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The 5th Children Encounter took place 1990 in Echternach, Luxembourg. The theme  was “Tribes – Bridges and Breaking Barriers”.

The 2nd Youth Encounter took place 1989 in Bonn, Germany. The theme  was “Discover Another Country”.

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The 4th Children Encounter took place 1988 in Vienna, Austria. The theme  was “Tower of Babel”.

The first Encounter took place from 4th till 18th July 1982 in La Merlagne, Belgium.