In 2020, the Directorate General of Culture with the collaboration of the Directorate General of Early Childhood, Attention to Diversity and Educational Improvement launched the MAP TEATRE project, an intervention project in schools in the Balearic Islands to help develop dramatic expression among students as a vehicle for communication and understanding between human beings.

Five years later it is already a consolidated project in which the participation of 285 students in the first year of the 2020/2021 project has grown to a total of 2,885 participants between students and teachers, with an average of more than 800 to 900 participants per year between 2021/2022 and 2023/2024, without forgetting the specialists in performing arts and theatre pedagogy who have conducted drama workshops in the classrooms.

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The Teatre Xesc Forteza in Palma hosts the first closing gala of the MAP TEATRE project

This year, more than 700 primary, secondary and baccalaureate students from 20 schools in Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza took part.

The programmed closing galas will be: on Tuesday 1st April, the first closing at the Xesc Forteza Theatre in Palma, the second on Monday 7th April at the multifunctional hall Es Mercadal, the third on Wednesday 9th April at the Teatro España – Santa Eulàlia del Riu and the fourth and last one on 29th May at the Teatro Principal in Inca.

MAP Teatro is an acronym that comes from the acronym of three verbs: Motivate, Act and Project, which are the three parts of the project. Nine schools in Mallorca, six in Ibiza and five in Menorca took part in the project.
During the first quarter, the first part of the project, Motívate, was worked on, a training conference for the teachers of the registered schools, to learn about tools, resources and techniques to facilitate the work of creation in the classroom.
During the second term, the pupils enjoyed the second block, Acciónate, dramatic expression sessions in the classroom during school hours given by specialists in the performing arts.
With the third term of the school year also comes the third block of the project: Proyéctate, a space where the creations made by the pupils of the different schools will be presented and shared. This is why four closing ceremonies will be held in different theatres around the Balearic Islands to facilitate this meeting and create a space for communication and projection beyond the classroom.

At this first closing gala, gifts will be presented to the participating schools in Palma, and the director general of Culture, Ricarda Vicens Schluhe, the head of the Department of Early Childhood and Attention to Diversity, Aranzazu Fernández Arillo, and the artistic director of the project, Pere Josep Mascaró Perelló, are expected to attend.