What is the Gi60 International Schools Partnership?

The Gi60 International Schools Partnership is a unique young people's playwriting festival taking as its starting point the hugely successful and totally unique Gi60 festival.

Mission statement

Gi60 International Schools Partnership (ISP) aims to bring together young people from diverse locations and backgrounds across the world to share in a unique creative writing and performance project culminating in a gala live at the University of Leeds's brand new venue stage@leeds. The aim of Gi60 ISP is to celebrate diversity, promote literacy and encourage young people's creative writing (In line with Arts Council Yorkshire's initiative Young People and Writing).

Playwright Jim Kenworth and students from Selwyn Primary School in Newham, East London talk about their experiences of the Gi60 International Schools Partnership (click image to play video):