World Theatre Day

2018-03-27

World Theatre Day is celebrated globally on the 24th of March. It was created in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI), when President Arvi Kivimaa proposed on behalf of the Finnish Centre of the International Theatre Institute, first in Helsinki, and then in Vienna at the 9th World Congress of the ITI in June 1961, that a World Theatre Day be instituted. ITI is an international non-governmental organization, founded in 1948 by UNESCO and the international theatre community.