Izegem on the occasion of the Day of the Colleges visited Flemish minister of Education Hilde Crevits (CD&V). this morning the Izegemse Academy of arts. They climbed up on stage and brought all rappend an ode to ‘t Hof van Commerce.
All of the 168 art schools in Flanders convert today the doors are wide open to the public for the annual Day of the Academies. In total followed more than 200,000 students part-time arts education in Flanders, an absolute record. “That figure is firmly in the elevator,” says Crevits. “In West-Vlaanderen are 38.000 students enrolled, but fewer than 3.705, or almost ten percent more compared to last year. That has to do with the new decree on part-time artistic education, which can also six-year-olds now music and words can follow. They clearly have the hang of it. Previously could that age group only go to dance or the visual and audiovisual arts.”
the academy of Izegem notice that the number of bids rises. “Since the founding of the Academy of arts, where the domains of Word, Music and Image were merged to increase the bids are spectacular. This school year we clock off at 2.368 students. That there are six hundred more than five years ago,” ships of Education Kurt Himpe (N-VA). “We are the third largest academy of the province has become, after Waregem and Roeselare.”
Reason enough for the minister to pay a visit to ‘the city of brushes and shoes.” Crevits went there to see how various students of the department of Word on the stage, sketches of 1 minute, brought, after which she, too, is a meritorious mini-action brought. She brought a West-Flemish rap in the tradition of Izegemnaar Flip Kowlier and ended up with ‘East West, Izegem best’. The public could already taste.
