As Bilkent University Theatre Department, we believe in the collaboration of all students and educators of acting, and organize a university theatre festival on our campus every year to celebrate the accomplishments of the acting students and their school year.
Bilkent Theatre Days – International University Theatre Festival brings all acting students from Turkey and the world together every June on the Bilkent University campus for a week. The festival showcases the end-of-year productions of graduating classes, and contributes to their learning with workshops and conferences, while creating lifelong friendships and collaborations among theatre artists of future generations.
In 2024, we have organized the 10th Bilkent Theatre Days. Our festival first began as a university international theatre festival, Bilkent Theatre Meetings in 1993 and 1996. The festival was restarted in 2012 by our students as Bilkent Theatre Days, bringing together all Turkish university acting departments. In 2014, our festival evolved into an annual international university theatre festival with invited guest universities from around the world as well as many Turkish universities.
Some of the visiting guest productions were from China, Colombia, Iran, South Korea, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Israel, Georgia, Northern Cyprus, and the USA.
Our festival is a student festival, still predominantly organized by students for students.
Acting departments interested in joining our next festival! Please take a look at the links, photos, and our Instagram pages below, and follow us at @bilkenttiyatro for announcements about our next festival!
