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By Wac Arts on 14/09/201800
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 Town Hall for which we are custodians. We are delighted that the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded Wac Arts a grant of £86,400 for our Connecting Communities Project to celebrate […] -
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 40th Birthday celebrations with a month of dance. Keep reading to find out about all the dance opportunities we have here at Wac Arts, giving you the chance to ‘Keep Dancing’ […] -
We Are Wac Arts: Open Day
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 year the We Are Wac Arts: Open Day. The Open Day is on the 23rd September which is also the start of term for Senior Wac Arts, the original programme that […] -
Director of Programmes Vacancy
Wac Arts is looking for a talented, innovative and passionate Director of Programmes to play a leading part in the future of Wac Arts and the young people who engage with its programmes. Wac Arts aspiration is to lift generation after generation of young people empowering them with the life skills that only the arts can offer; with a commitment […] -
Wac Arts 40th Birthday Celebration Year
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 arts to unleash the extraordinary potential of young people.The charity has always been driven by the needs of young people and the community and has gone from strength to strength in […] -
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 more about what our students got up to. Week One Our Summer programme kicked off with this fantastic Summer School from our Disability and Inclusion team. Students were tasked with creating […] -
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 and David Mian. This has been fostered since the early 1980’s when Ian Carr began teaching music at Wac Arts and launched the London Fusion Orchestra, while working on his own […] -
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 you can try out all the classes offered at Senior Wac Arts for FREE. This day also gives us the opportunity to assess what level you should start at. We will […] -
We meet with Alum Elaine Grant to talk about Wac Arts’ Early Days (part 3)
Read the previous parts of this interview here: [Part One] [Part Two] In the last interview in this series, Wac Arts alum Elaine Grant tells us about her favourite memories of Wac Arts, and why she travels an hour across London with her daughter so that she can come to our classes. HB: So what would you say is your […] -
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 reading to find out more about her career. HB: Once you had graduated, did you find getting the parts that you wanted a struggle? EG: I remember the term when I […]