Four shows that you shouldn’t miss this spring!
The Wac Arts Diploma in Professional Musical Theatre is an exciting programme that offers not only a traditional, classical and contemporary syllabus but also performance techniques from around the...
Wac Arts Birthday Schedule Spring 2019
By Wac Arts on 21/02/2019 in Diploma, Holiday Projects, Homepage, Inclusive, Junior, Senior, Support Us, Wac Arts Interactive, Wac Arts Nites, Wac Arts Reach, Wonder Wac ArtsWac Arts Birthday Schedule Spring 2019 Wac Arts believes in the infinite power of the arts to unleash the extraordinary potential of young people. Wac Arts is celebrating 40...
Meet a Tutor: Anoushka Lucas
Anoushka Lucas is a singer, songwriter and composer for theatre. Her music has been championed on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 & Jazz FM. Anoushka’s debut album is...
Wac Arts explores its heritage
At the start of Wac Art’s 40th Birthday celebration year we were overjoyed to be awarded an £86,400 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). This has allowed us...
What’s On at Wac Arts – Winter-Spring 2019
Wac Arts believes in the infinite power of the arts to unleash the extraordinary potential of young people. Wac Arts offers inclusive performing arts and media programmes for young...
Runner Interview – Andrew Brandon
There are now less than 40 days until the London Landmarks Half Marathon 2019! We’ve been catching up with our runners as they continue their training and fundraising ahead...
Drama as a Tool for Development
By Wac Arts on 07/02/2019 in Homepage, Inclusive, Wac Arts Interactive, Wac Arts Reach, Wonder Wac ArtsDrama and physical movement activities can elicit some of the most unexpected and profound outcomes when working with young people with SEN. It is important to allow young people...
We have a vacancy for a Chief Executive
Package: Salary will be competitive with market rate and negotiable depending upon experience Location: Europe – Belsize Park, London Deadline: 22 February 2019 Wac Arts believes in the infinite...
February Fun Run
We are delighted to be taking part in the London Landmarks Half Marathon once again this year, with a team of fifteen runners who will be raising money for...
Runner Interview – Owen Turner
The London Landmarks Half Marathon 2019 is fast approaching, and all our runners are busy training to make sure they’re ready! Team Member Owen Turner took a break from...
Looking back to look forward…
Looking back to look forward… It’s a brand new year, so we’ve been looking back at everything that happened here at Wac Arts during 2018. It was a big...
Meet a Tutor: Leon Hazlewood
Leon trained at the London Studio Centre studying Performing Arts. As a professional dancer, singer and actor, Leon’s theatre credits include: Showboat, A Night at the Cotton Club, Hollywood...
New Senior Wac Arts Fencing Classes
Welcome back to a new year at Wac Arts! 2019 promises to be an exciting year, with lots of amazing events coming your way to continue our 40th Birthday...
Meet a Tutor: Why Wac Arts Matters
Tommy Edwards, graduate from the prestigious Arts University of Bournemouth, is an experienced film-maker and facilitator, with close to 10 years of experience working both in the film industry...
Winter Revolution
We were delighted to once again welcome Che Walker and his ‘Revolutionaries’ last Sunday, for a Revolution event packed full of amazing performances, with a few festive treats thrown...
Review of our Diploma 3rd year showcase ‘Road’
Wac Arts 3rd year Diploma student’s presentation of ‘Road’ directed by Ben Bennett was a production full of passion and dark, raw emotion. Based on the book written by...
Targets smashed at the Wac Arts Cabaret
Sunday saw the latest event in our 40th birthday schedule and our 5th annual fundraiser, the Wac Arts Cabaret! The fabulous evening was directed by Wac Arts Patron and...
Our Professional Showcases Review
On 29 and 30 November, our 40th birthday celebration continued with amazing performances by our full time professional training students. They performed two different showcases in the theatre at...
Wonder Wac Arts Buddying and Transitions Tutors
Salary: Range £12.46 – £18.84 per hour (plus Holiday Pay) depending on experience Duration: 3 month-12 month sessional contract Hours: Between 4-12 hours per week (After school and Weekend)...
Wac Arts at the BBC Creative Jam
Wac Arts was honoured to be selected as the featured organisation for the BBC Design and Engineering Creative Jam. Together, BBC and Adobe held the event for BBC designers...
Alum and Tutor Lati Saka Shares her Past, Present, and Future with Wac Arts
We sat down with Lati, one of our original students and current tutor, to talk about her experiences at Wac Arts and what she envisions for the organisation’s future....
Thornton’s Budgens Goes Plastic Free
Our neighbour Thornton’s Budgens is the first British grocery store to announce plastic free zones! In only 10 weeks, Thornton’s Budgens has replaced nearly 2,000 plastic products with alternative...
Fantastic prizes up for grabs in our Wac Arts Birthday Raffle!
The perfect chance to win an amazing treat for you or your friends and family! Prizes include: Draw will take place on December 12th 2018 at Wac Arts £15...
Wac Arts at the Jack Petchey Foundation Awards
Monday 29th October saw a number of Wac Arts students from across programmes joining the Jack Petchey Foundation for the celebratory award event at the Shaw Theatre in Euston....
Diploma Showcase Tickets Available Now
Get your tickets now to support our full-time students Tickets for our Diploma programme’s end of term performance at the Arts and Media School Islington Theatre (the next event...
Alum Kandace pops in to wish Wac Arts a Happy Birthday!
Alum Kandace Caine Shares Why Wac Arts Matters to Her “I need to write, I need to create. And I know that’s not for everyone, to create and write...
Design Our Logo!
By Wac Arts on 24/10/2018 in Homepage, Inclusive, Junior, Senior, Support Us, Wac Arts Interactive, Wac Arts Nites, Wac Arts Reach, Wonder Wac ArtsWac Arts has launched a 40th Birthday logo creation project and we would love for you to be involved. You can create a logo in various ways either digitally…
Calling our Alumni
This year Wac Arts is turning 40! We have just kicked off our year of events to commemorate the occasion with a fantastic Open Day, and now we want...
Durga Puja at Wac Arts
From 15th to 19th October Durga Puja will be holding their annual festival at Wac Arts. Durga Puja, also called Durgotsava, is an annual Hindu multi-day festival that features...
We Are Camden: 40th Birthday Networking Breakfast
40th Birthday Networking Breakfast Wac Arts is celebrating 40 years of providing transformational performing arts and media programmes to young people. We would like to invite our community to...
Wac Arts Open Day Review
By Wac Arts on 26/09/2018 in Homepage, Inclusive, Junior, Senior, Wac Arts Interactive, Wac Arts Reach, Wonder Wac ArtsAs Senior Wac Arts students returned for a new year of classes last Sunday, we opened our doors to the local community for the We Are Wac Arts Open...
Funding Success
Wac Arts celebrates its 40th Birthday with National Lottery support 2018 marks Wac Arts 40th anniversary and draws on 140 years of community activism in the grade 2-listed Old...
Dance Opportunities!
We Are Dance:Join Wac Arts for a month of dance to kick off our 40th Birthday celebrations You can’t have a celebration without some dancing! So we’re starting our...
We Are Wac Arts: Open Day
By Wac Arts on 29/08/2018 in Homepage, Inclusive, Junior, Senior, Support Us, Wac Arts Interactive, Wac Arts Nites, Wac Arts Reach, Wonder Wac ArtsWe Are Wac Arts: Open Day Wac Arts is celebrating its 40th Birthday and we would love for you to join us at our first event of the birthday...
Wac Arts 40th Birthday Celebration Year
By Wac Arts on 28/08/2018 in Diploma, Heritage, Homepage, Inclusive, Junior, Senior, Wac Arts Interactive, Wac Arts Nites, Wac Arts Reach, Wonder Wac ArtsWe Are 40 Wac Arts is celebrating 40 years of providing transformational performing arts and media programmes to young people. Wac Arts believes in the infinite power of the...
Wac Arts Summer Schools Roundup
Our Summer programmes come to an end today, having bought performing arts and media training to more than 100 young people over three weeks. Keep reading to find out...
Wac Arts awarded funding by Ronnie Scott’s Charitable Foundation
Wac Arts have an incredibly rich history of Jazz musicianship, with alumni including Michael and Mark Mondesir, Nikki Yeoh, Julian Joseph, Zoe Rahman, Courtney Pine, David Mrakpor and Ricky...
FREE Taster Day at Wac Arts on 9 September 2018
An opportunity to audition for one of London’s most prominent, exciting and long running arts training programmes. What happens at Taster Day Taster Day is an open day where...
We meet with Alum Elaine Grant to talk about Wac Arts’ Early Days (part 3)
Read the previous parts of this interview here: In the last interview in this series, Wac Arts alum Elaine Grant tells us about her favourite...
Alum Elaine Grant discusses her career (interview part 2)
Read the first part of this interview here. Elaine Grant was one of our first students, as well as being an employee of Wac Arts for eleven years. Keep...
Our Grads Take Their Talent into the World
Thursday 12th July saw the graduation of our six, third-year Diploma in Professional Musical Theatre students. Shekira-Nicole, Ela Kalicka, Shelby Lattany, Bimpe Pacheco, Frances-Ann Bratke and Siana Stoddart opened...
Urban Motivation wow audience with their Street Skillz
By Wac Arts on 18/07/2018 in Homepage, Inclusive, Wac Arts Interactive, Wac Arts Reach, Wonder Wac ArtsUrban 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,...
Wac Arts Masterclass Week Review
At Wac Arts we aim to give our students the best opportunities to develop their skills and work with professionals who know what it takes to succeed and have...
We meet with Alum Elaine Grant to talk about Wac Arts’ Early Days (part 1)
Over forty years of providing ridiculously good performing arts training, we have seen thousands of young people come through our doors. As we head towards our fortieth birthday, we...
Join the Wac Arts Running Team in 2019
Earlier this year, our team of ten runners raised over £7500 to support our programmes by taking part in the inaugural London Landmarks Half Marathon. This event was the...
Threepenny Opera Review
Threepenny Opera Review The Wac Arts Diploma in Professional Musical Theatre performed in the final year production of The Threepenny Opera on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th June...
What Wac Arts means to me, by John Gaine
By Wac Arts on 21/06/2018 in Homepage, Inclusive, Interviews, Wac Arts Interactive, Wac Arts Nites, Wac Arts Reach, Wonder Wac ArtsAs 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 Reach Sessional Tutor Vacancy
Inclusivity has many facets, disability being one of them. Wac Arts believes that however diverse an individual may be, the arts do not merely represent a creative or recreational...
Wonder Wac Arts Sessional Tutor Vacancy
Inclusivity has many facets, disability being one of them. Wac Arts believes that however diverse an individual may be, the arts do not merely represent a creative or recreational...
Ministry of Senses
By Wac Arts on 14/06/2018 in Homepage, Inclusive, Wac Arts Interactive, Wac Arts Reach, Wonder Wac ArtsHoliday 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…
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