COMING IN MARCH 2023...#SeizeThe Day
What is Sieze The Day?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
And...whatever you do, shout about it!
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 potitive effects it has had.
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