What's New > February Zoom Session: Exploring World Stage Design 2025 & TAC
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When: Monday, February 24, 2025 | 11 am to 12:00 pm EST
Where: On Zoom
Join CITT/ICTS and OISTAT representatives for an inspiring conversation about World Stage Design 2025 and TAC in Sharjah, UAE!
World Stage Design (WSD) is the first and only designer-based exhibition to showcase and celebrate performance design from individual designers. Created and produced by OISTAT, WSD is held every four years and has now travelled to many cities including: Toronto, Canada (2005); Seoul, South Korea (2009); Cardiff, Wales, UK (2013); Taipei, Taiwan (2017), Calgary, Alberta (2022) and now Sharjah, UAE (2025). World Stage Design 2025 will be co-produced by Sharjah Performing Arts Academy and OISTAT.
This landmark event brings together the world's most innovative minds in performance design, scenography and theater technology. Discover how Sharjah will be transformed into a vibrant hub of creativity, hosting exhibitions, workshops, performances and discussions that explore the future of design in the performing arts for WSD 2025. Learn about the event's commitment to sustainability, cultural exchange, and cutting-edge innovations that are redefining storytelling on a global stage, and how they intend to create a dynamic intersection of tradition and modernity in the heart of the UAE. Visit the WSD2025 website to learn more.
The presentation will also shed light on the Theatre Architecture Competition (TAC), a major event organized every four years by the OISTAT Architecture Commission, by delving into the background of the event and the reasons for its importance, as well as providing a brief overview of the Commission's other activities and meetings. Visit the TAC website to learn more.
Registration is required, but FREE and open to all, members and non-members alike.
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Guest presenters
- Jacqui George Project Director, World Stage Design 2025
- Maaike Westinga Chair, OISTAT Architecture Commission
About the presenters
Jacqui George
Jacqui has been working in Stage and Production Management for the last 25 years. with a major focus on Conservatoire training. She has taught at several conservatoires and is a Master of Education and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2018 Jacqui joined the senior leadership team at Sharjah Performing Arts Academy to design and implement a Conservatoire performing and production arts undergraduate training, the first of its kind in the MENA region.
Jacqui has worked with professional companies such as National Theatre Wales, National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and Shared Experience. She has toured the UK extensively, produced Rep seasons in the West End, and internationally worked in Shanghai, World Expo, Berliner Festspiele, and Paphos, City of Culture. Jacqui also enjoys producing work with her and her husband’s company, We Made This. Jacqui was one half of Stand By Please, the stage management podcast and is currently writing a book to be published by Routledge, "The Art of Collaboration".
Maaike Westinga, MA Dip Architect (TU Delft)
Maaike Westinga is an architect and director of TenBrasWestinga architecture / interior design, this architectural practice she runs together with Roel ten Bras since 2008. Maaike was responsible for the design and realisation for a variety of theatres and cultural centers. She managed to combine the interests of the architectural firm and the client in a balanced manner. In controlling the design and construction process, Maaike strives for consistent elaboration, simplicity combined with a strong expression, good manufacturability and smart integration of constructions and installations in the architecture.
TenBrasWestinga is a member of BNA (Royal Institute of Dutch Architects). In 2017 Maaike entered as a member of the board of the VPT (association for stage technology). She was elected as chair in 2019, this position she held until January 2024. Since 2020 Maaike became chair of the Architecture Commission of Oistat. Maaike has experience in several architectural juries in the Netherlands.