“From Kids to Kids: Experimental Project of Scripts for Contemporary Taiwanese Children” aims to promote the cultural and social values of children’s theater and get rid of traditionally dogmatic or entertaining frameworks to transform it into a platform for cultural dialogues and emotional connections. The project highlights the two-way creative method of “from kids to kids,” which regards children as co-creators and incorporates their viewpoints into the creation through workshops and text tests. The creative project stays focused on the topic of contemporary social issues, such as emotional education in the era of anxiety, climate change, and urban-rural gaps, to respond to children’s real lives through theater.

This year, the project concentrates on the issue of “loss,” examining how children understand and deal with loss as well as how they contemplate its significance and necessity. Considering that loss has been a common experience for most people due to the pandemic, climate change, and rapid development of technology, this project is intended to provide space for children to explore and express themselves.

The main approaches of the project are as follows: cross-regional children’s workshops slated to be held in the Shuangxi District to collect local issues related to loss; multi-phased theater workshops designed for children and a co-creation group involving children members to absorb children’s perspectives into the script; an examination of the educational and artistic values as well as repeated inspection and revision of the texts to combine with the experimentality of contemporary children’s art; and forums and events for communications and dialogues to invite experts to exchange cross-disciplinarily and to encourage public engagement, fostering cultural conversations while recording the results of the project.

This time, we will try to find an approach in which we can see stories for children from the children’s perspectives.