WANTED: Host Family for ISTA Festival in March
This year our ISTA ensemble is hosting a High School ISTA Theater festival from Thursday, March 27th to Sunday, March 30th. Students from Portugal, Turkey, Munich and Cuba will be attending this Theater Festival at JFKS.
We need your help! We still need approx. 29 beds for students aged 13-18 for three nights.
Your responsibilities are:
- Provide a bed Thursday, Friday and Saturday night
- Provide breakfast on Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- Provide a dinner on Saturday night
- Provide a take-along lunch for Sunday (sandwich, fruit and drink)
- Provide transportation to your home Thursday night, to and from school Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning (to school only).
If you are willing and able to take in one or two students for the three nights, we would be most grateful!
In return, you would receive free tickets to either the musical or the Spring play, admission to the Sunday, March 30th showing at the end of the ISTA festival and an honorable mention on our ISTA patrons list on our playbills.
Please go to this link to register: ISTA 2025 Housing.
Once we have more information about the student‘s needs (allergies, food requests) we will inform you!
Thank you for your support!
ISTA Festivals
Our festivals give young people an immersive theatre experience over several days in exciting cities and locations across the world. Festivals are built on story-based inquiry and provide participants with the skills and experience needed to explore theatre collaboratively and develop themselves as global learners.
At ISTA we use stories to share, explore, create and present stories of who we are and of our world. We believe sharing stories from particular settings and cultures is a powerful approach to global learning. Story also provides a concrete focus for young people and artist’s creative work.
Equally weighted so that everyone has the same opportunities – ISTA festivals are the best way for young people to learn about theatre, themselves and each other.
The Berlin Festival has the overlying topic: Rising to Escape
The space between the past, present, and future: linking history with current events and future aspirations, understanding the continuum of time and its impact on our lives. We will be exploring the story of how two families escaped the GDR with a hot air balloon and will be visiting the Wall Museum and the East Side Gallery. The students will be working with theatre artists from around the world to create a performance on the final day of the festival.
