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March was Showcase Season at Wac Arts, with young people from our programmes having the opportunity to share their work from the past term. Senior Wac Arts kicked the...

Our amazing team of Wac Arts runners have raised a fantastic £8,000 so far with donations still coming in. Watch their journey and why they ran for Wac Arts...

Bare Peas “Healthy is Wealthy” Award winning game is available for Camden Youth Organisations to test – for free! The young people at Wac Arts have created a video...

Meet an Artist Happy International Woman’s Day! At Wac Arts we love to speak to our community and find out what they are up to when they are not...

Less than three weeks till race day! To help with his training, we invited Running Team member Rob Black in to try out ‘Bare Peas’, the game being developed...

We are delighted to be launching our new Youth Voices Project, funded by Arts Council England, forming the beginning of our journey towards authentic youth governance. This programme will...

The Old Hampstead Town Hall opened in 1878 and operated as Hampstead Vestry Hall 1878, it was renamed Hampstead Town Hall in 1900, and renamed Old Hampstead Town Hall...

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 Wac Arts believes in the infinite power of the arts to unleash the extraordinary potential of young people. Wac Arts is celebrating 40...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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… 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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....

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...

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...

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....

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 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...

Wac 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…

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...

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...

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...

As 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...

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...

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 Wac Arts is celebrating its 40th Birthday and we would love for you to join us at our first event of the birthday...

We 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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,...

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...