ISTA - International Schools Theatre Association

"The lessons taught at the ISTA festivals, have stayed with me for life. Although school does hold great happy memories, ISTA festivals and participating in Drama at school definitely hold my happiest memories."
Michelle Ellis, ISTA Alumni 1993-1995

Welcome to the ISTA Alumni!

First of all thank you for checking in with us on our Alumni page. All of our former students, staff and member schools are considered Alumni of ISTA. We share many common bonds and we remain connected in many ways ... so please help us maintain and further develop these bonds around the globe.

Alumni Database
As we would love to hear from you and to be able to add your name to the ISTA Alumni database, please contact Emmy at emmya@ista.co.uk. In getting in touch please add the following information:
. Your full name
. Your e-mail address
. ISTA festival(s) attended (country, year, month)
. Your main reason for getting in touch with us
Should you wish, please also add some memory or thoughts on ISTA.

Trying to contact an old ISTA-friend?
If you're trying to contact an old ensemble leader or ISTA friend, we would be more than happy to help. Write to us and we will do our best to get you in touch with the person or the school that they are/were affiliated with the best we can.

www.facebook.com
Another suggestion would be to try the networking website, www.facebook.com as an ISTA networking group has created with the wonderful lines:
"A group for those who are proud to have been a part of ISTA!"
"Because we know, and only we know, that until you've lived ISTA, you haven't lived."

The ISTA group already has 225 members. There is also a ISTA Copenhagen 07 group, an ISTA Shanghai 06 group, and many others. Check it out!

Staying involved with ISTA
We are proud to announce that no less that 6 of our current staff members are former ISTA students. If you are an ex-ISTA student or teacher and would like to get involved there are several options: you can apply to become a staff member, you can contribute to our quarterly magazine Scene, or see if you can come to an ISTA festival in your region (for the full calendar with locations, please go to Events).

Supporting ISTA
For £400.00 a year, it's possible to become a Global Patron of ISTA. By becoming a Global Patron you support ISTA is a number of ways, including: supporting the Founders Scholarship Fund to provide financial support to students from ISTA Member Schools to attend festivals and TAPS; and also supporting ISTA's Development budget to enable us to continue to provide best practice for students and teachers.

For £400.00 per year we will honour your patronage by listing you in our quarterly journal 'Scene' (distribution 300 per quarter), our website and in all our event programmes (we run 22 events per year - which in 2006-2007 reached 1522 students and 304 teachers).

We look forward to hearing from you!