Celebrate Drama is SDEA’s education and outreach event that happens once every two years, dedicated to sharing the benefits and diversity of drama and theatre education with everyone.
1-2 June 2012, The Arts House. Look out this page for programme updates and ticket prices.
Held as part of the Singapore Arts Festival, Celebrate Drama 2012 will focus on young people working in, with and for communities. Titled ‘Connecting Communities Through YOUth’, it features two days of workshops, presentations and performances with dialogues to explore choices, to develop understanding of young people.
Here’s a peek at some of the items on offer:
Develop Skills with these Workshops
1. 'To Timor with Love' is a presentation by Singapore Poly's students that is aimed at increasing awareness of diseases and its preventive measures through drama.
This workshop is recommended for those reaching out to children or to communities with language barriers, and for overseas CIP projects.
2. 'Working with Young Performers with Disabilities' is an informative and hands on workshop by Edith Podseta to help better understand the needs and structures to bring out the best in performers with challenges.
This workshop is recommended for teachers, drama educators, and parents.
3. 'An Empty Bowl' is a workshop that specifically targets lower secondary students who know people at risk of becoming Anorexic, through the employment of a series of creative and interactive drama activities.
This workshop will address the issue of Anorexia Nervosa among youths and adolescents through the employment of a series of creative and interactive dramatic activities.
4. 'Listen' is a workshop that aims to raise awareness of the impact and dispel misconceptions of HIV/AIDS through a performance coupled with drama activities.
This workshop and 'An Empty Bowl' are recommended for teachers, counselors, healthcare workers, as well as students.
Be a Voice in Discussions
'Responsible Drama in CIP' is a discussion aimed at students and teachers on how to use drama as an outreach tool responsbily.
Are a handful of drama games and strategies good enough to be taken out of school to do CIP? While drama looks relatively simple, its outcomes and benefits need to be clearly understood when brought to the community.
'Self:Harm' is a performance-led discussion by youth group Theatre:Connect on how performances that highlight self-harm could have a negative impact on the audience.
Panelists include actors, a director, psychologists, and teachers.
Watch Inspiring Performances
'When I'm Sixty Four' is a collaboration between youths from Theatre Cell and Ageless Theatre, a community theatre collective for seniors. In this production, seniors re-tell their stories to preserve and pass them on for future generations. Come watch how oral history is used to capture, document and propagate social and cultural identities through the medium of theatre.
'Just Stressed Lah!' is a devised performance by teachers and students, and how stress affects them.
More on Celebrate Drama 2012
There is also a movement piece by the Down Syndrome Association.
The facilitators of these workshops are current Singapore Polytechnic students who will be closely mentored by SDEA member and theatre practitioner, Rosemary McGowan, as well as a professional psychotherapist who has experience in the particular issue. All sessions will be held at your school.
SDEA will also be presenting a devised piece at Celebrate Drama. It will feature teachers and students who may or may not be from the same school working together as artists on stage.
If you’re interested in getting involved or finding out more about any of these projects, please email sdeaconnect@gmail.com.