Call for papers opens for Music & Drama Education Expo 2024
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Drama educators can now apply to lead an Expo 2024 session, or to be part of the programme advisory board.
The call for papers is open for Europe’s largest drama education exhibition, the Music & Drama Education Expo, taking place on 22 and 23 February 2024 at the Business Design Centre in London.
Applications have also opened for the programme advisory board – a voluntary panel of teachers from across the sector who will work with the heads of content to shape the two-day event.
Each lasting 45 minutes, sessions range from on-the-feet workshops to presentations with seated audiences, and the full programme is CPD-accredited.
The drama and crossover sessions are allocated across the following topics:
- Diversity and inclusion
- SEND
- Policy and funding
- Business and marketing
- Curriculum and exams
- Mind and body
- International trends and approaches
- Collaboration and community
- Musical theatre
- Early Years and Primary
- Pedagogy
- Improvisation
- Composition
- Technology
- Classroom teaching
- Performing arts across the curriculum
- Extra-curricular music/performing arts
When applying to run a session, you will be asked to supply the following information in a 1,250-word application:
- Speaker bio (50 words maximum)
- Introduction (20 words maximum)
- Learning objectives (minimum of four)
- Content (800 word maximum)
- Equipment
- Audience (options are given for you to choose from)
- Key Stage applicability
The deadline for submitting a session is 9 June 2023.
Find out more about the Music & Drama Education Expo 2024.
Apply for a place on the programme advisory board.
