Welcome to Arts a Go Go! Classes from babies to 19 year olds! Please read below about our Wednesday drama classes.

 

Students selected for this class have shown not only excellent ability in acting, but also a desire and commitment to drama and the performing arts, and an ability to get on well with others in the group. The content in this class can be a little heavier than other classes, with more mature scripts and concepts. Please email rachel@artsagogo.co.nz if you would like your child to be considered for this class.

 

Students will have fun and exciting learning opportunities in such areas as physical theatre, script-work, story-telling, role-playing, mime and improvisation. Drama techniques are explored including voice, status, monologue, devising, trust and characterisation, while at the same time students build up a knowledge of acting and theatrical terms. The class helps children develop confidence, friendships and a willingness to take risks. Lifetime lessons will be learned that will help them in both classroom and social situations. Our classes help students experience joy and we often hear they are the highlight of a student's week. Arts a Go Go! stages highly regarded theatre plays/shows in November each year and details come out about this in June. Show rehearsals begin in Term 3.

 

Stu was director of Capital E, an internationally recognised performance and creative technology facility for children in Wellington and worked there passionately for 17 years. He was also the founder and director of the Capital E National Arts Festival, bringing two weeks of professional national and international theatre and performances to thousands of children and school groups every two years. Prior to that, he was head of Drama, Art and Music at a Hamilton middle school. His own acting experience includes many years in professional improvisation theatre and various plays. Stu has created and directed a number of productions for children. He has an honours degree in arts and the media, and has been invited to speak internationally on children and creativity. In 2015 Stu travelled to Edinburgh at the request of the British Council to peer review the Edinburgh Children’s Festival and was asked to attend the International Children’s festival in Okinawa, Japan, to forge relationships with Japan for New Zealand professional theatre.

 

Wednesday drama students are divided into four groups and your child's time will be confirmed depending on enrolments. Students are placed in the class that best fits them as individuals, factoring in age, friendships and class numbers. Content changes to match the class and students do not progress to later times, like being put up a level. (With the exception of advanced drama, which is by invitation only for some senior students.) We have outstanding drama students in each class, regardless of time.

 

3.30 - 4.30pm approx age 6-10

4.45 -5.45pm approx age 11-12

6.00-7.00pm Senior approx age 13+

7.10 -8.40pm Advanced Drama (by invitation)

 

Parents and caregivers are welcome at Arts a Go Go! and there is room to wait should they wish to, however, for all classes other than those for pre-schoolers and 5 year olds, beyond the first day of term, parents and siblings are not to stay in the room where instruction is taking place. This is to avoid affecting the concentration of students and teaching staff and affecting the children's confidence by people watching them as they create, learn and experiment. On the second to last week of terms 1 and 2, there will be parent viewing day, where parents and family have the opportunity to observe the classes in action and see the progress their children have made. This does not apply in terms 3 and 4 when we are show focused.

 

At the completion of each term, students will be presented with an Arts a Go Go! participation certificate in recognition of attendance, attitude and commitment plus medals, plaques and trophies as they progress, for example, a bronze Arts a Go Go! medal after 1 year, a silver medal after 2 years, a gold medal after 3 years, bronze plaque after 4 years and more.

 

Your child is welcome to try the first class before committing for the term. Please still enrol so that a space is held and proceed to "checkout" to enter details. (Immediate payment is not required and an invoice with the due date and bank account is automatically emailed.)

 

Term fees are generally due by the third week of term. An invoice is automatically generated and emailed to you on enrolment. We do not currently accept credit card payments through Enrolmy. On the invoice is the bank account number for internet banking. Please reference with your child's name and the term you are paying for. The total fee displayed includes GST.

 

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