3. Required experience.
To volunteer with Dramatic Need in South Africa, we require that you have an either a degree/diploma or a minimum of five years professional experience in any discipline of the creative arts.
This includes anyone who has graduated from a recognised drama, arts, dance or music school/college or a performing arts program (such as a circus school) or anyone who has been professionally involved in the arts for an extended period.
Creative arts disciplines that Dramatic Need accepts volunteers from include:
- Circus arts
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Puppetry
- Dance
- Graphic design
- Architecture
- Music (classical or modern)
- Street dance/music (hip-hop, beat-boxing, DJing, rap etc)
- Drama
- Animation
- Film-making
- Photography
- Screen printing
- Pottery
- Mask-making
- Applied drama
- Physical theatre
- Design
Before leaving, participants will be given and information pack which includes travel advice, information on cultural differences, disease, security, first aid, language and basic child psychology. It is essential that you have valid, personal travel insurance before you leave for South Africa or Rwanda.
Please note that although Dramatic Need is firmly against volunteers teaching on religious or political subject matter, the programme does encourage the inclusion of health issues and HIV awareness as workshop themes.
Please see Fine Print for details on CRB checks, immunisation and travel insurance.
