Start Your Dream theatre project completed in Egypt’s Sharqiya

  • Date: 17-Jan-2021
  • Source: Ahram
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:Egypt
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Start Your Dream theatre project completed in Egypt’s Sharqiya

The Start Your Dream project has been completed in Sharqiya, a governorate in northern Egypt with its capital being Zagazig.

During an official ceremony which took place in Zagazig Culture Palace last week, Culture Minister Ines Abdel-Dayem distributed certificates of the projects' completion to 64 actors who participated in the training.

Organised by the General Authority for Cultural Palaces headed by Ahmed Awad, the ceremony was attended by numerous officials from Sharqiya, including the governor, Mamdouh El-Ghorab.

Start Your Dream is part of the initiative which originated in Cairo's Youth Theatre and expanded to other governorates last year.

The most recent workshops took place in Fayoum, where a group 53 people completed the project and staged a performance in early January. Prior to that, the same project was completed in a workshop in Assiut.



Sharqiya's Start Your Dream lasted for six months. The workshop saw 594 applicants, from which 120 young men and women were selected. 64 talents reached the workshop's final stage: 15 young women and 49 men.

The project is spearheaded by Adel Hassaan, the director of the Youth Theatre, who is hoping to develop and offer opportunities to young people interested in acting and the field