Step up for top class Wokingham music and dance tuition
Step in and Step Up - Wokingham Youth Centre’s Performing Arts Group, the Step Up Academy, is hosting an open day on September 10.
The group is getting ready to recruit fresh new young talent to join their team, with an open event from 7pm until 9.30pm providing a friendly opportunity for any young Wokingham people interested in dance, drama, singing, DJ-ing and other musical skills to find out more about the Academy.
The Step Up Academy project, which runs on a Monday evening at Wokingham Youth Centre, is organised by young people for young people aged 13 to 18 years and is supported by Wokingham Borough Council’s youth service. Membership is £1.50 for the year, and for just 50p a week members can receive training and learn new skills in almost all areas of the performing arts.
Drama is taught by Lori Tingay, an experienced drama and voice coach. Street dance is coached by Gaston Nicholas-Ford and Becci Wild, who are currently training as professional dance teachers, and their class is proving a very popular choice. DJ-ing skills are taught by Olli Parris and Co, who are UK scratching champions and second in the world – perhaps giving Wokingham youngsters the best possible example of how to become UK champions on the decks in the future!
Wokingham Young people involved in the project can gain nationally recognised certificates in youth arts, and even youth achievement awards.
Youth worker Cyril Sansum said: “We already put on regular performances but we’d like to build the Academy even bigger. At the open evening there will be demonstrations, and there will also be plenty of time for new people to meet us all and see what we are about.”
Champion for youth and leisure Wokingham Cllr Malcolm Bryant said: “The arts group is getting more confident by the week, and some of them have just visited Ireland to perform with another group in an exchange arrangement, which has been a real confidence boost for many of them. It just goes to show that many young people do spend their time doing something creative and I am glad the council has been able to help them to do this. I do hope many new youngsters will visit the open evening and give it a try – it’s an opportunity not to be missed!”
For more information on the open evening and the Step Up Academy please contact Cyril Sansum at Wokingham Youth Centre, 35 Reading Road, Wokingham on (0118) 978 3610.
The group is getting ready to recruit fresh new young talent to join their team, with an open event from 7pm until 9.30pm providing a friendly opportunity for any young Wokingham people interested in dance, drama, singing, DJ-ing and other musical skills to find out more about the Academy.
The Step Up Academy project, which runs on a Monday evening at Wokingham Youth Centre, is organised by young people for young people aged 13 to 18 years and is supported by Wokingham Borough Council’s youth service. Membership is £1.50 for the year, and for just 50p a week members can receive training and learn new skills in almost all areas of the performing arts.
Drama is taught by Lori Tingay, an experienced drama and voice coach. Street dance is coached by Gaston Nicholas-Ford and Becci Wild, who are currently training as professional dance teachers, and their class is proving a very popular choice. DJ-ing skills are taught by Olli Parris and Co, who are UK scratching champions and second in the world – perhaps giving Wokingham youngsters the best possible example of how to become UK champions on the decks in the future!
Wokingham Young people involved in the project can gain nationally recognised certificates in youth arts, and even youth achievement awards.
Youth worker Cyril Sansum said: “We already put on regular performances but we’d like to build the Academy even bigger. At the open evening there will be demonstrations, and there will also be plenty of time for new people to meet us all and see what we are about.”
Champion for youth and leisure Wokingham Cllr Malcolm Bryant said: “The arts group is getting more confident by the week, and some of them have just visited Ireland to perform with another group in an exchange arrangement, which has been a real confidence boost for many of them. It just goes to show that many young people do spend their time doing something creative and I am glad the council has been able to help them to do this. I do hope many new youngsters will visit the open evening and give it a try – it’s an opportunity not to be missed!”
For more information on the open evening and the Step Up Academy please contact Cyril Sansum at Wokingham Youth Centre, 35 Reading Road, Wokingham on (0118) 978 3610.
Wokingham Borough Council
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