WAC
WAC Performing Arts & Media College provides training in the arts for children and young people up to the age of twenty-five. We also offer a range of career and personal development projects for the eighteen-plus age group. Based in London, we have a national and international reputation for our pioneering work.
WAC is a hive of creative industry! We are a registered charity and provide a vast range of affordable training opportunities for the under twenty-fives, offering high quality activities and experiences for all our six hundred members. We also offfer a range of career and personal development projects for the eighteen-plus age group.
Our priority is to ensure that low income and disadvantaged young people can take part in the performing arts at all levels. This extends as far as members want to go and especially if they choose to develop their skills into a future career in the arts.
During the summer we have had a number of our identified young people volunteering on various projects supporting other young people. These range from working closely with our learning disabilities group, the playscheme courses for 8-13 year olds, assisting with our wonder web programme as well as assisting with our senior summer school in performing arts.
We have some footage to show of some of the activities available to our learning disability students so that all of the partners can see some of the work in progress. These projects are residential and in this case a camping trip for a period of 5 days. The STEP assistants have worked extensively with this group both on and off site and have been able to support some very high needs students to engage in the activities, learn some independent living skills and generally to enjoy their holiday. All of these young people have been identified by various leaders as excellent in their individual roles and true troopers!
The playschemes have also been on and off site, including circus school for 50 children aged between 6-11 years. The assistants for these classes supported the children to participate in trampolining, acrobalance, circus skills and art workshops.
The off site trips included various museum visits, open spaces and a trip to the seaside!. Some of the staff employed by us for these projects were from our original Crossworker programme and have been instrumental in supporting our new cohort.