Excerpt from pg. 73 of the Futures of Education report:
Building imagination, judgment and possibility through arts education

Education in the arts – music, drama, dance, design, visual arts, literature, poetry and more – can greatly expand students’ capacities to master complex skills and can support social and emotional learning across the curriculum. It can enhance our human abilities to access the experience of others, whether through empathy or the reading of non-verbal clues.

The arts also make visible certain truths that are sometimes obscured and provide concrete ways to celebrate multiple perspectives and interpretations of the world. Many forms of artistic expression traffic in subtleties and grapple with life’s ambiguities; students can learn that small difference can have large effects. Artistic experience often requires a willingness to surrender to the unknown; students can learn that everything changes with circumstance and opportunity. The arts also help us learn to say, show, and feel what needs to be said, shown, and felt, helping to advance the horizons of knowing, being, and communicating in and beyond the arts.

Curricula that invite creative expression through the arts have tremendous future-shaping potential. Artmaking provides new languages and means through which to make sense of the world, engage in cultural critique, and take political action. Curricula can also cultivate critical appreciation and engagement with cultural heritage and the powerful symbols, repertoires, and references of our collective identities.

The purpose of the summit is to bring together arts education professionals worldwide to share the latest research, thought, and practice in arts education assessment and evaluation. We invite primary and secondary school arts educators, higher education professionals, arts education researchers and policymakers, national, state and local education officials from across the world to join us online on October 11-15, 2021.
The impact of the arts and arts education is wide and significant. As a global arts education community, we seek to know the impact of our work in the many contexts in which it manifests. Assessment and evaluation of the impact of arts learning and arts programming involves complex and valuable processes that are shaped by the contexts in which arts education takes place. From design to implementation to analysis, unveiling the impact of our work is achieved in multiple ways – through various designs, models, and practices.


​Registration  for the summit is now open  .
Go to the registration page

​The Portuguese Journal of Artistic Education invites all interested parties to submit proposals for unpublished articles on any topic in the field of Art Education, resulting from original research or essays, preferably in the areas of Music Education, Dance, Theatre, Arts Plastics, Musicology and Art History.
Articles from all Portuguese-speaking countries are welcome and, in case of special relevance, works in English may be accepted.
Proposals must be sent by October 18, 2021, to the e-mail: paulo.esteireiro@edu.madeira.gov.pt.
For more information on publication standards, consult the website http://rpea.madeira.gov.pt/ .
          The RPEA is Indexed and Referenced by the following international databases of scientific periodicals:
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LATINDEX - Sistema Regional de Informação para as Revistas Científicas de América Latina, Caribe, Espanha e Portugal

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

REDIB - Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico https://www.redib.org/pt-pt

MIAR - Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas

OAJI - Open Academic Journals Index

SIS - Scientific Indexing Services.
CAPES - Portal de Periódicos da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior 
RCAAP - Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto e Portugal

Theatre educators all over the world are creating work and are looking for new ways to make performances. During this 36 hours online festival IDEA creates an open and inclusive space where members will share their work/practices/research with the world. This is a festival without curation, all languages are welcome and because of the non-stop program the festival will also be time-zone friendly. On the 28th and 29th of August the IDEA TOGETHER WE GO ON Festival will be there for the community within and outside IDEA.
 
We live in challenging times and the best way to deal with that is to share the ways we respond to a crisis as an interconnected, global and participatory theatre society. The TOGETHER WE GO ON festival is there for us to support each other in the work we are making.
 
Our goal is to make a festival that doesn't exclude anyone. IDEA is an organization for everyone that cares about theatre and the people it is created with. That is why we organize this time-zone free and language-inclusive online festival.


The Festival starts Saturday August 28th on 09.00 hrs a.m. (UTC) and has a non-stop program until Sunday August 29th 08.00 hrs p.m. (UTC). 


Please find the Zoom link to the Festival below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82493975116?pwd=Q1ByUlh4T0VkaS8wYWEvTmx2VXlxdz09

READ here the program 

Every 3rd Wednesday of the Month, theatre practitioners, researchers, and teachers initially from 12 African countries will speak and showcase theatre forms in their country blending the past and the present towards sustainable communities.

​JOIN the next African Theatre Webinar Series on 18 August 2021 on the topic:
“Producing Theatre in the New Normal”
UTC: 16 00 hrs | BERLIN: 18 00 hrs | KAMPALA /NAIROBI: 19 00 hrs
​AT: 
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https://zoom.us/j/94135725279?pwd=Tmg3MFZrNmVkUDV2d1p1RTNveFlmUT09
Meeting ID: 941 3572 5279 | Passcode: 309040

African Theatre Webinar Series is a Project of International Drama / Theatre and Education Association (IDEA), in Cooperation with Department of Performing Arts and Film, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda, and Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Rostock, Germany.

Project aims:
Inquiries to:
Every 3rd Wednesday of the Month, theatre practitioners, researchers, and teachers initially from 12 African countries will speak and show case theatre forms in their country blending the past and the present towards sustainable communities.
1. To share concepts of African drama and theatre globally as part of Africa’s contribution to world sources of knowledge and practice in drama and theatre.
2. To establish closer contacts, mutual, and professional relationships among drama and theatre practitioners in educational institutions in Africa and with the rest of the world.
3. To contribute towards efforts to mainstream Africa and Africans into world debates and agendas on drama and theatre forms and practice.
4. To contribute towards the decolonization hence liberation of Africa and the African mind from perpetual dependency on the West for cultural values and identities.

WAAE, the  World Alliance for Arts Education,  is co-organising with Ateliers du Reve  (a  French collective) and APECV ( Portuguese Association of art teachers)  a  MOOC  about Arts in context of humanitarian emergency. It will start on 15 September 2021. 

The MOOC "Arts, Armed Conflict and Humanitarian Aid" offers a 4 weeks training space in NAU platform  dedicated to the different professionals of the humanitarian or artistic field concerned by artistic practices in humanitarian emergencies.This MOOC aims to bring theoretical knowledge in Humanitarian aid contexts, through different topics, and to link this knowledge with a more practical part, allowing the participants to become aware of real situations lived in the field, as well as bringing expertise and sharing experiences of real contexts of artistic practices in humanitarian emergencies contexts