tyaoslo performing arts residency

Since 2022, ASSITEJ Norway has hosted TYAOslo, a biennial performing arts residency dedicated to those working professionally within Theater and Performing Arts for Young Audiences (TYA). 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.

In 2026, the residency explores 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.