March 27th is observed as world theatre day, which was first initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute. It highlights the importance of keeping the joy and the magic of the theatre alive, and all the hard work that goes into live performances on the theatre stage. Today at the Bliss they invited two schools, Belize Elementary and Sunshine preschool, around 110 students in total to experience and get a tour of the theatre, guided by their tech team. Here's what that was like for those kids.

Jillian Fuller, Theatre Director, ICA
"Today is being celebrated as world theatre day and since it is world theatre day and we are the only ones here that have a theatre we decided to do the celebration and invite some preschoolers especially since it's child simulation month. And we invited the preschoolers we did a little demonstration with the lights, sound effects, we did some art and we had a little drumming so that they can see what does on not only in front of the stage but also behind the scenes."

"It has been pretty good. We did some sound effects with some scary scenes and they were a bit scared and then we had them do some dancing and stuff like that and they were happy after that."

"They are our future and they are our little stars. So what they are doing, we made them paint some stars and then we are going to put it on a backdrop that's what we are going to use as part of our backdrop for the women in art tonight."

Keeran Ysaguirre, Assistant stage Tech, ICA
"Well for world theatre day what we are teaching the kids is how to actually decorate a backdrop so what we do, what I did I had them paint a star and also right now what they are doing is painting a moon as well so I had created a little backdrop on the stage so what we are going to do is we are going to go ahead and have stick the star on the cloth that's on the stage and my fellow assistant taught them how to make different sounds using the mic and using our sound system and after that out light tech taught them the different colours of light that we do have red, blue, green, orange, purple so we taught them how to, how the light system moves up and down and stuff like that."

"They did enjoy it; they actually had a drumming session as well, whereby our lead drummer Denmark for the late Aurelio went ahead and taught them how to beat the Garifuna drums as well, so they enjoyed that. It was very interactive. They were interacting with the light technicians and so we asked them different colours and shapes and the kids are very smart."