Bespoke & Air

Tailored | Immersive | Extraordinary

Bring the power of ISTA directly to your school with bespoke student events and artist-in-residence (AIR) experiences. Designed around your curriculum, values, and calendar, these tailor-made arts programmes connect your students with world-class artists and educators—sparking creativity, deepening learning, and enriching your international arts curriculum.

Benefits of a Bespoke ISTA experience

A bespoke ISTA experience is tailored to your school’s goals, offering the flexibility, focus, and world-class expertise to create maximum impact—without the need for travel. Here’s what you can expect:

Plan sessions around your students’ needs, term structure, or special events.

Align workshops with core components, assessment tasks, and syllabus objectives.

Work with renowned theatre and film practitioners, IB specialists, and ISTA artist.

Take away inspirations, approaches, and practical techniques to enrich student learning.

Here are just a few examples of what we can create together—starting points to spark ideas, not set boundaries:

Bespoke Student Events

Design a one-of-a-kind ISTA experience that aligns with your school’s needs, goals, and curriculum. Whether it’s a multi-day arts festival or an
in-house IB DP TAPS (Theatre and Performance Symposium), we’ll co-create a tailor-made event with you—delivered in person, online, or as a hybrid—bringing world-class global arts learning directly to your students.

Choose your own focus, format, and schedule to align with school events or initiatives

Work with an all-star team of international artists, curriculum specialists, and arts educators

Create interdisciplinary learning experiences across theatre, film and the arts

Inspire, challenge, and connect your community through a unique shared event

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The Artist in Residence was like bringing a personalised ISTA festival right into my class.

MYP Arts Teacher

Bespoke Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Experiences

Host an ISTA artist at your school—on site or online—for anything from a half-day workshop to a full-term residency. Tailored to your goals, each AIR experience can focus on:

Explore global arts traditions, practices, and performance styles

Investigate influential theorists, artists, and creative movements

Develop collaborative creation techniques and original work

"The Artist in Residence came at the perfect time to boost students’ confidence, challenge their thinking and reignite their sense of play!"

IB DP Theatre Teacher

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Discover our growing range of creative resources, publications, and classroom tools for theatre, film and the arts. Every visit supports our mission and helps raise awareness of the unique materials we create for educators and students worldwide.

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Partnering with ISTA to create a bespoke event unblocks a world of artistic possibility, where your vision meets our global expertise to inspire, challenge, and transform your students.