The Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop (RPTW) has been working on promoting the performing arts of music, theatre, dance and more besides in Pakistan since 1976. In more recent years their promotions took the form of festivals of different kinds, and now it is the turn of the youth of Pakistan. The International Youth Performing Arts Festival started life as a local Youth Performing Arts Festival in Lahore. But as the festival’s name became more famous, 2006 saw it become the National Youth Performing Arts Festival. Now 2008, the festival has gained international fame and has matured to the International Youth Performing Arts Festival. More than that, it will be a chance to see different cultures, different forms of theatre and different people altogether. It is because of this chance that over the years the festival has attracted huge crowds over the years, to see local and international acclaimed acts in dance, stage-acts, music, film and even puppeteering. It is not only a chance for the people of Pakistan to see such differences; it is an opportunity for those who do not know Pakistan very well to understand the culture and traditions of the nation, a chance to converse with people, interact with the country and build bridges between the different countries to unit the world through a single passion; performing arts.
