While the COVID-19 crisis was unfolding, hundreds of performing arts professionals around the world collaborated through ASSITEJ Coffee Sessions. They shared their realities, expressed their perspectives, and their emergencies. The ASSITEJ Manifesto is the fruit of all this work. We hope it will be a tool, and, through a coordinated international campaign, a powerful lever for recognition and support for arts for children and young people, and for those who produce them. We encourage you to disseminate it, share it, and explain it to the public, to disseminate it through social media, and to confront cultural decision-makers with its content.

More than ever, taking action to ensure equal and equitable access to arts and culture is essential, as we want our children to live in a sustainable and healthy world.