Wokingham

Wokingham Borough Council’s youth service will begin running an arts club at Woodley Airfield Centre from Tuesday June 24. The aim is to encourage young people to find their creative side and get stuck into exploring different types of art media and performance art. The evenings are aimed at 13 to 19 year-olds and are free of charge.

Sessions planned for the summer months include salsa dancing, visual media workshops and drawing, painting and collage sessions. The Wokingham programme will continue in the autumn with a fresh set of activities, including jewellery-making.

Matt Parry (17), a member of Woodley Airfield Youth Centre, said: “This is going to be a really good chance for young people to do different types of art outside of school. I have been organising the dancing sessions and I have already spoken to lots of young people about it.”

Paul Blount, area youth work manager for Woodley and the north, said: “Young people have worked very hard to get this programme of activities together. I hope that others will take up the opportunity to learn new things and to have fun for free! We would also like to hear from young people about what types of art activities they would like to see us running, as we can work on making it happen.”

Wokingham Borough Council