Last September, GWA-Dubai joined more than 200 schools worldwide to share in the magic of Drama.
The ISTA festival model is based on a collaborative process culminating in a final performance and includes:
Ensembles, workshops, full group, host housing, out and about (artistic/cultural experience in the host city) and social activities.
ISTA's FESTIVAL PEDAGOGY:
What do young people get out of a festival?
Every festival is a unique, immersive experience and each one:
• places young people in an environment in which international mindedness can flourish; • brings people – educators, artists and young people - together in a spirit of collaboration regardless of age, nationality and experience; • immerses children in an experience where they can learn about theatre and through theatre; • develops cultural literacy and capital through interaction between people, place and perspective.
Through ISTAʼs festival model of engagement (people, place, perspective) children develop intellectually, socially, emotionally and physically and are better able to understand who they are, how they fit into the world and what they could do and be in the future.