Reflecting changing times: MDEE 2023

Times are changing,’ agrees Onur Orkut, teacher and academic, when I talk to him in his capacity as advisory board member for drama content in the Music & Drama Education Expo 2023. The conference has come a long way since Drama first entered the programme seven years ago, but never has there been so many new ways of thinking to incorporate into the programming.

Each year a call for papers produces ideas for workshops and seminars put forward by teachers, practitioners, writers, academics and representatives of organisations, theatre companies and charities. Much of the programme selected from these proposals with the invaluable input of an advisory board representing the delegate base: teachers of diverse kinds of students from early years and primary all the way up to higher education.