Background

What is priceless?

In response to the banking crisis, the Papiertheater ("paper theater") established a large table in public space from 2009-2013 as a forum for citizens around the world (further information: unbezahlbar-daspapiertheater.de)

In addition to the various country-specific responses, one connecting common denominator could be found: "Children are priceless - and so is their well-being".

From this perspective, the Papiertheater has developed the project CHILDREN’S CONFERENCE. For a period spanning 4 years, children and adolescents from all over the globe should be encouraged to speak their minds and thus remind of this common denominator in our complex world.

We ask children and young people about their fears and desires regarding their future lives and their demands on society. What do the children think about contemporary ecological, political and social issues? What are their ideas? What can adults learn from it?

Questionnaire

The basis of the CONFERENCE OF CHILDREN is the specially developed "questionnaire". Each child can design it individually and thus publish his or her own opinion. The Papiertheater collects all books received by 2018 in order to put them in the public spotlight at the "CHILDREN’S SUMMIT CONFERENCE" in Nuremberg on September 20, 2018.

Do you want to participate? Order the "Questionnaire" here.

Conference Theater

Deepening the process of the CHILDREN’S CONFERENCE will take place in the so-called "Conference Theater". Within three days, the Papiertheater develops a scenic play with a group of 10-30 children & young people in which the contents of the questionnaires are being staged. Through music, dance and paper art, the children and adolescents will play their topics on the stage.

The CONFERENCE OF CHILDREN intends to be a public invitation to take children's opinions seriously. It wants to empower children and teenagers to be heard.

For this reason, through the course of the "Conference Theater" children and adolescents approach adults on the street and ask them for the opportunity to write their central messages with chalk paint on their cars.

Are you interested in realizing the „Conference Theater“? Contact us!