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The Wac Arts Weekender returns to the Old Town Hall
By Wac Arts on 11/04/201800
The Wac Arts Weekender returns to the Old Town Hall Following the success of the first ever Wac Arts Weekender in 2017, ‘Beyond Time’ aimed even bigger. The festival was created and inspired by a team of Young Advisors and professional creatives. With 26 events over five days, we opened up our building and our programmes to over 700 […] -
Beyond Time
Book tickets for the Wac Arts Weekender 2018 here. Wac Arts Ticket Pricing You will see that you can chose to buy tickets for the Wac Arts Weekender events at £5 or come along for free – we are pricing all the events below on a Pay What You Choose basis. All funds raised through tickets help us to […] -
Wac Arts celebrate being Thorntons Budgens Charity of the Year with explosive performance
As we announced earlier this week, Wac Arts have been selected by Thornton Budgen’s as their Charity of the Year! To celebrate, we held a launch event on Wednesday evening. Helping us celebrate in style, our Over-18s group, Urban Motivation, performed a show entitled ‘2069’. The performance, entirely devised by the group themselves, retold the story of the Pied Piper […] -
Wac Arts receive funding from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
Wac Arts are delighted to be receiving £30,000 in funding from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, as announced today. The funding, spread over the next three years, will enable us to continue to provide specialist tutors on our Diploma and Senior Wac Arts programmes. Following on from last December’s Centre Stage report, priority was given to organisations, such as Wac […] -
Inclusive Technology at Wac Arts
At Wac Arts we believe that the creative arts are uniquely placed to offer participants with PMLD situations where they work independently and are in control, where they have powerful sensory experiences and where they can work and interact with peers on an equal level. To this end we have developed Assistive Creative Technology projects that enable us to include […] -
Parallel London 2017
Parallel London began last year as an annual, fully accessible and all-inclusive, mass participation push/run event. Alongside the race events is a festival, with performances from inclusive groups and stalls showcasing what is on offer across the country. We were fortunate enough to have been invited along to the event last year and were delighted to be invited back to […] -
Announcing… our 2017 summer programmes
Our popular holiday programmes are back for another year, with a very special series of evening workshops in August in partnership with Strongback Productions. Find out more about this and other upcoming projects below. Wac Arts Summer Schools are generously supported by Arts Council England. Drama Summer School A week of drama workshops for 14-26 year olds in […] -
Wac Arts receives funding news to support its future as a thriving arts organisation for young people
Wac Arts mission is to empower young people to change their world through performing arts and media. Wac Arts is building a sustainable and vibrant future. To do this the organisation is on the vital journey to secure support for its delivery of diverse and inclusive arts training for those young people in Camden (and surrounding areas) who need it […] -
Wac Arts staff and young people attend London Youth’s 130th Birthday Celebrations
We were honoured to be invited to London Youth’s 130th birthday celebrations at Buckingham Palace at the end of May. London Youth is a network of over 300 community organisations that support young people across the capital through a range of dynamic schemes – they may be well over a century old but they’re not showing any signs of slowing […] -
The Wac Arts Weekender Review!
Last weekend saw 42 events run over four days and it was a fantastic success. With so much happening, the building came alive and we enjoyed every moment, whether it was watching our students with pride, listening to the experts at the panel discussions, showing potential new Wac Arts students around the building or watching the Masterclasses that were taught […]