Arts

At International School Bangkok, learning through the design, fine, and performing arts is valued for all students from pre-K through Grade 12. With over 50 arts-dedicated faculty, staff and instructors, 27 music practice rooms, 12 performing arts classrooms, seven visual arts studios, two theaters, two art galleries, a makerspace, a film studio and an invention center, there is plenty of support for every child to explore their own creativity.

Despite limitations imposed by the pandemic, celebrations of lear ning in the arts took place throughout the year in the form of both virtual and in-person exhibitions, concerts, plays, dance performances, festivals, conventions, and a few field trips, including a trip to Dallas, Texas USA by our high school robotics team for the VEX World Championships. Go Steel Panthers!

Other highlights included our first musical production since 2019 and hosting the 2021 IASAS Cultural Convention for Art & Film. Although hosted online, the convention was anything but virtual, with multiple guest artists present throughout the three-day event providing live workshops for all six schools’ participants direct from the artists’ own studios via Zoom.

Altogether, ISB students connected with upwards of 25 guest artists this year through lectures, workshops, performances, and festivals, providing invaluable opportunities for our students to learn from and observe practicing artists at work. Three years of postponements resulted in sold-out audiences for ISB’s production of the Disney classic “High School Musical: The Musical,” reminding everyone that truly, “We’re all in this together!”