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Urban Motivation wow audience with their Street Skillz
By Wac Arts on 18/07/201800
Urban Motivation is our over-18 Disability Inclusion group, who work together to create performances devised by themselves about subjects that matter to them, using performance styles that excite them, all created to entertain the audience. This term, they were led by three leaders within the group, who supported the rest of their team to develop their skills and create a […] -
What Wac Arts means to me, by John Gaine
As Wac Arts heads into our fortieth birthday, we have been talking to the young people who are current attendee and those who are alum about their experiences at Wac Arts. You may of seen on our social media that we have been capturing these conversations to give our networks a sneak peak into our community and life at Wac […] -
Ministry of Senses
Holiday project from the 6th-10th August 2018. Using dynamic dance music technology, multi-sensory visual tools and dazzling dance skills, the young people will re-invent our perceptions of the rave experience. -
Wac Arts Summer Schools 2018
Dance, singing, music production, circus skills and aerials for ages 5 and up this summer (13th-24th August 2018). -
The need to give creative value to technology to enrich young people’s lives
Across the various youth settings and schools that work with disabled young people, you’ll find an abundance of technology. There’s everything from iPads to tech like Sound Beams, Eye Gaze, skoogs, makey makey circuit boards… The list goes on. There are lots of weird and wonderful tools out there that help provide a dynamic multi-sensory experience for disabled young people. […] -
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. -
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 […]