CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL
July 2024
This year's Creative Arts Festival was another wonderful celebration of students' creative work across a range of different departments. This year, we had 236 individual performers over the two evenings, and a large student-led Backstage and Front of House teams in addition to the 178 students who had their work exhibited during the event.
The first night started with the Year 9 Drama group performing extracts from 'Sparkleshark', followed by a 'gig style' concert by our IGS bands who are currently preparing for the IGS Battle of the Bands heats in September and IGS Showcase at the Kings Hall on 6th November, where one band will be selected to go through to the Red Kite Battle of the Bands in January.
The second evening featured a concert, showcasing students' work in extra-curricular clubs such as Musical Theatre Group, Drama Groups, Choirs, Orchestra, Bands and many more. Our wonderful backstage group ran the sound, lighting and projections throughout the evening which truly brought the students' performances to life.
There was an exhibition of students Art, Photography and English (creative writing and poetry) work across two floors, accompanied by more live music, provided by Thomas Mays (Y9) and our fantastic Acapella Vocal Group 'Lyrical' (Y10). Refreshments were served by the PTA throughout both evenings, as they continue to support and reinvest in the arts at IGS.
A huge well done to all of the 400+ students involved, this was a fantastic event and we hope to celebrate even more of our students' creative work at our next Creative Arts Festival on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd July 2025!
