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CALL FOR APPLICATION The 13th international festival of highschool theatre Juventafest  will be held in Sarajevo from 6-10th September 2025, organized by the Association for development and improving of multimedia arts and culture „Medija-Art“. The application is open to all theatre groups whose performers are age 14 - 19. All participants on the scene (actors, choirs, dance groups, musicians), have to be of age anticipated for highschool.  It is [...]

The play "Scars" by the Youth Theatre Bileća was awarded  Grand Prix at the 12th International festival of high school theatre Juventafest, which was organized by the "Medija-Art" Association in Sarajevo from September 6 to 10. This play powerfully, precisely, suggestively, sincerely and with great confidence managed to address a painful generational issue, said the expert jury consisting of actress Ksenija Pajić, dramatist and professor Dragan Komadina and actor Benjamin [...]

The twelfth International festival of high school theatre Juventafest, organized by the "Medija-Art" Association, offered the audience a total of eight plays in the pre-festival and competition programme, with an emphasis on issues of human freedom, violence, the right to personal choice and diversity. One of the performances addressing the deep layers of the problem of violence against women, "Why did you wake up your husband?", by the Drama Club [...]

Discrimination, peer violence, rejection and misunderstanding are just some of the issues raised by the plays performed on Sunday, the third day of the competition programme at the 12th International festival of high school theatre Juventafest. The play "Scars" by the Youth Theatre Bileća (Bosnia and Herzegovina) was performed at the Centre for culture and youth in Municipality Centre Sarajevo. It emerged as a result of research conducted by the [...]

In the Centre for culture and youth in Municipality Centre Sarajevo, on the second day of the 12th Juventafest, the Acting Workshop Cultural Centre Čačak from Serbia performed its play "The Cripple of Inishmaan". The story of Billy was directed by Jovana Mišković and Dušan Vukašinović, while the cast of high school students from Čačak made their best effort to convey to the audience the most important aspects of a [...]

A play from Pula received a standing ovation The twelfth International festival of high school theatre Juventafest, organized by the "Medija-Art" Association, was officially declared open tonight at the Sarajevo Youth Theatre by the doyen of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian theatre and director of this event, Jasna Diklić. Nothing can compare with the willingness to communicate with others, to listen and ask, she said, encouraging young people to embrace freedom and creativity [...]

As part of the Juventafest Plus programme - Inclusion Movement, the documentary play "Up and Down" was performed last night in the Sarajevo War Theatre. The first performance of the play by the young people with Down syndrome, created in cooperation between the Sarajevo War Theatre and the Association "Life with Down syndrome of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina", was in January this year, therefore, this mature theatrical piece [...]

Thanks to the International festival of high school theatre Juventafest, organized by the Association "Medija - Art", for the twelfth year in a row Sarajevo becomes the centre of youthful energy and theatrical expression, learning, creativity, socializing, love and friendship. Juventafest again brings a rich programme that makes it more than just a festival. This festival is the youth event, it was pointed out at the press conference held in [...]

The following were chosen to volunteer at the 12th Juventafest:  Asja Čengić Sin Kurt Tea Bakrač Esma Pandžić Asja Demić Selma Omerović Lamija Mahmutagić Nadin Jonuz Amar Prolaz Armela Rešidović Mirza Juhić Adna Omerović Lara Kekić Amina Salihović Merjem Cico Tijana Zeherović Lana Kekić Alma Husnić Amina Avdaković The volunteer coordinator will contact the selected volunteers via the mobile phone [...]

Juventafest is inviting all high school students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, aged 14 to 19, who love theatre and are eager for new experiences (but also great time) to volunteer at this year's Festival! Aware of the fact that volunteers are an important part of any festival team without which the preparation, organization and activities during the Festival can not be imagined, we are looking for volunteers who would [...]