Bitolino

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International children theater festival Bitolino
Dates	5–7 August
Frequency	Annually
Venue	Babec Theater
Location(s)	Bitola, North Macedonia
Founded	2011
Area	International
Activity	Grand Prix for best performance
People	Vasko Mavrovski

Bitolino is an annual children theater festival held in August in organization of the Babec Theater, every year professional children theaters from all over the world participate in the festival. The main prize is the Grand Prix for best performance. The attendance for this festival has exceeded 10,000.

Participating theaters

Tiyatrotem Theater (Istanbul, Turkey) 2011,2012^[1]
Theatre for children at Narva Gates (Saint Petersburg, Russia) 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018
Key Theater (Tel Aviv, Israel) 2014^[2]
Youth Theater Sarajevo (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) 2013
Telling tales (West Yorkshire, England) 2012^[3]
Anton Panov Theater (Strumica, North Macedonia) 2012
Babec Theater (Bitola, North Macedonia) 2011^[4]
Theater Pan (Lugano, Switzerland) 2012
Dodona Theater (Pristina, Kosovo) 2012,2013
David Zuazola Puppets Company (Santiago, Chile) 2013
Artropos (Chubut, Argentina) 2013^[5]
Mini Theater (Ljubljana, Slovenia) 2011
Mala Scena Theater (Zagreb, Croatia) 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015
Bereze Theater (Istanbul, Turkey) 2013
Ariel Theater (Sofia, Bulgaria) 2013
Puppet Theatre Shilo (Sofia, Bulgaria) 2011
Drama and Puppet Theatre (Vratsa, Bulgaria) 2012
Children's Cultural Centre (Belgrade, Serbia) 2014^[6]
Tăndărică Animation Theater (Bucharest, Romania) 2014
Shadow Theater (Marzelo, Italy) 2014^[7]
Teater Sagohuset (Lund, Sweden) 2015
La Bazooka (Le Havre, France) ^[8]
Ruti Tamir Mime and Puppet Theater (Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel)^[9]
Theater Feurblau (Graz, Austria) ^[10]
Masque Theatere (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States) ^[11]
Centre ACA Theatre (Tirana, Albania 2016 ^[12]
Compagnie alleRetour (Cannes, France) 2016 ^[13]
Small Delights Company (Brussels, Belgium 2016 ^[14]
Mimos Marionette Theater (Yerevan, Armenia) 2016 ^[13]
Marian Baćev and Arcadia Fusion Art (Sofia, Bulgaria) 2017 ^[13]
Nada theater (Ruma, Serbia) 2017 ^[13]
Tarla Faresi Theater (Izmir, Turkey) 2018 ^[15]

Jury members

Valentina Gramosli (Actress) 2016 ^[16]
Yavor Zehirov (Puppet master) 2016 ^[16]
Nikola Projchevski (Actor) 2016 ^[16]
Jovan Ristovski (director) 2015
Valentina Lutts (Director/Manager of Theatre "At Narva Gates") 2015^[17]
Sonja Mihajlovska (Actor) 2015
Bojana Artinovska-Trpcheska (Artist) 2014
Valdet Rama (Director/Manager of Dodona Theater) 2014
Boris Chorevski (Actor)-2014
Sunchica Unevska (Journalist)-2013
Şehsuvar Aktaş (Actor) – 2013
Jasmina Vasileva (Actor)-2013
Nada Kokotovich (Director) – 2012
Petar Mirchevski (Actor) – 2012
Aneta Blazevska (Journalist) – 2012

Grand Prix for the Best Performance

Grand Prix for Best Performance is the only award of the festival and is awarded to the best performance from the official competition. The award is decided by three-member international jury chosen from among world-renowned theatre artist and theoreticians. Laureates:

2012 – Tiyatrotem Theater (Istanbul, Turkey) for the performance We can't go on like this
2013 – David Zuazola Puppets Company (Santiago, Chile) for the performance Dirty Wing^[18]
2014 – Mala Scena Theater (Zagreb, Croatia) for the performance Funny Monster^[19]
2015- Ruti Tamir Mime and Puppet Theater (Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel) for the performance Four Fables and Queen ^[9]
2016- Theatre for children at Narva Gates (Saint Petersburg, Russia) for the performance The Little Prince ^[20]

The Grand Prix was not awarded in 2017 and 2018.

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