COMING IN MARCH 2023...#SeizeThe Day

By -

 What is Seize The Day?

In March 2022 the DTEA co-ordinated events led by schools, theatre companies and practitioners, who invited their local MP and press to visit them and witness their experience.   Why not get involved?


You don't have to do anything special - just do whatever it is you do best, but invite your local MP, councillors, and press to experience it with you!

And...whatever you do, shout about it!

Seize The Day | World theatre day | DTEA (dtealliance.co.uk)

Drama in schools and Theatre for young audiences has been dismissed, underfunded and undervalued for decades. We need decision makers, Government, MPs and school governors, to understand the value of Drama and Theatre Education.

 

Between 2010 and 2017 there was a 24% drop in students taking GCSE Drama. The Covid pandemic has had a devastating impact upon theatres that produce work for young audience despite emergency funding to sustain companies through the worst of it. The government has reneged on promised funding for arts subjects in schools while slashed funding in higher education.  


We are expanding our campaign for 2023 with a weeks worth of events across the UK in schools and theatres, featuring performances, workshops and more with children and young people.


You could:

  • Run a drama class or workshop, perhaps with a visiting practitioner,

  • Stage a short performance by children and young people,

  • Hold a cross curricular drama project in a school,

  • Deliver a drama-centred assembly,

  • Stage youth theatre performance in a local theatre or community setting,

  • Stage a student production, a work in progress, a rehearsal, or extract of a project in a university, perhaps with a local school invited to attend

  • Stage a professional performance with school audiences in a theatre school, library or community setting.​

​

  • Film it, photograph it, document the event.

  • Interview those who take part and those who watch - get them to tell you why drama and theatre is important and the impact it has had on them.

  • Invite your MP, Councillors and local Press! 

  • Running an event is one thing, telling people about it is essential!This is your opportunity to share your experience, of the journey the children and young people have been on, how drama and theatre has impacted them and the positive effects it has had.

  • You'll find more information and help with this link:



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NOWT LIKE THIS IN AMERICA now available from Amazon and IngramSpark

By -
Image
“With your plays, it’s not just about the football and the Steel Strike, it’s all about us. It’s about our lives, how we live”.                               Kay and Tom , Drake the Bookshop signing.   “If you want to know what life was like for an ordinary working-class family on Tees-side, during the steel strike of 1980, you can do no better than buy Nowt Like This in America, a superb Community Play written by Alan Spence. Thoughtful, funny, emotionally powerful, it follows the fortunes of one family, the personal being framed by the political. As an added bonus, the script is contextualised by both background material on the author and the period (heartfelt and honest) as well as production notes".        Bri...
Read more

What audiences said about...My Name is Tom...

By -
Image
        "I'd like to thank the cast of actors for portraying  the experience of young  people's lives.  It was very good."   "This production has some important key messages and  the cast are  an amazing   group of people."      “If you have not booked your tickets yet, I recommend that you do so.    “This play should be seen by every school,  it  was excellent and so topical”                            Congratulations Alan Spence. I also thought these actors were great at doubling-up as teenagers and parents”.     “It addresses some serious subject matter that affects young adults and  families of all cultures, ranging from Cyber-bulling, Sexting,Child Exploitation,  Pornography and much mor...
Read more

Debbonnaire: UK risks losing global reputation for Arts excellence.

By -
Mary Stone: Arts Professional - 30th June 2025.  Former Shadow Culture Secretary Thangam Debbonaire delivered her maiden speech in the House of Lords during a debate on music education in which peers criticised government 'inaction' on the previous commitments to the arts and creative education.  Debbonaire used her maiden speech during a short debate on music education to make the 'a political case for the arts.' She also urged museums to be "honest about the stories behind their objects"and stressed that the arts can provide a good living for "people from all backgrounds".  Debbonaire as Shadow Culture Secretary curated the Creating Growth: Labours plans for the Arts, Culture and Creative Industries in 2024 and before Sunak had even announced the the next election. She introduced the glossy leaflet and managed to use the words, theatre, plays and drama, just once each in some thirty three pages. If there really is levelling up, then surely they sho...
Read more