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West Side YMCA - Community Arts
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West Side YMCA focuses on developing healthy bodies, minds, and spirits through various learning activities and arts programs. They provide opportunities for self-expression, arts education, and professional performing arts training, while also teaching life skills and fostering creativity.
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Jump Into Memoir
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Whether you’re a new, continuing, or returning writer, take the plunge into memoir writing! This workshop will provide a supportive and stimulating springboard for shaping the raw material of your life into short pieces worth sharing. Together we'll explore elements of craft, experiment with form, tackle obstacles to creativity, and inspire one another. Students who participate are eligible to partake in the December student reading. Location...
YMCA Singers Forum
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Enjoy singing in the shower? Looking for a place to practice new material for professional singing? For the novice or seasoned performer, Singers Forum is a friendly and supportive environment for anyone who loves to sing. Classes include group songs and warm-ups as well as individual vocal coaching. Developing confidence is the most essential part of a singers' success. Singers Forum is a low pressure and fun way to find this confidence...
Drawing & Watercolor (Beg/Int)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Introduction to the basic techniques of drawing and watercolor. Our subjects will be still-life, art reproductions and photos. Supplies will be provided for the first class. Enjoy developing your rendering skills in a supportive environment
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The Art and Craft of Novel Writing
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
You have an idea for a novel. Perhaps you’ve sketched out some characters or jotted down some scenes. Maybe you’ve written a few chapters, or a first draft — or maybe you haven't been able to get started. This workshop will help you proceed from where you are, whether that’s Square One or somewhere along the way. Writing a novel involves creating a world populated by compelling characters while making sure every moment brings the story to...
Tools and Techniques of Poetry
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Share your story, sculpt your feelings & ideas, explore the art & craft of poetry! This workshop is open to both beginning & advanced writers. We will create a safe environment to cultivate and hone poetic tools & techniques. Over the course of the workshop: We will examine the poet's toolkit, e.g., line-breaks, rhyme, metaphor, forms etc., in a supportive atmosphere, through writing prompts and exercises. ...
The Heart of the Matter
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Making the reader feel is one of the most important goals of creative writing. But there aren’t cheap shortcuts and creating emotion on the page is an artful enterprise. This seminar will discuss the importance of risking sentimentality to get at sentiment. Some methods we’ll look at include surprise, restraint, opposing forces, and the use of concrete, resonate detail. The seminar will include a talk, discussion,...
$125
Intro to Theatre (Ages 6-8 years old)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Introductory theatre course for beginners to build confidence, vocabulary and skills for theatre making. Learnings include stage directions, script reading, character arc, emotive action and more. Low pressure and lots of fun!
Ballet (Ages 3-4)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
This ballet class is perfect for young dancers of any skill level. This class will be tailored to each student's abilities, while challenging them through classical barre exercises, across-the -floor combinations, and creative play. Dancers will learn basic ballet positions, balances, port-de-bras, short variations, and modes of expression form the classical canon.
Ballet (Ages 5-8)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
This ballet class is perfect for young dancers of any skill level. This class will be tailored to each student's abilities, while challenging them through classical barre exercises, across-the -floor combinations, and creative play. Dancers will learn basic ballet positions, balances, port-de-bras, short variations, and modes of expression form the classical canon.
Intro to Musical Theatre (Ages 8-12 years old)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Introductory course on the basics of musical theatre. Learnings include composure role, story arcs, musicals, straight plays, ensemble dances and more. Singing and dancing isn't hard when you're having fun!
Clay and Creative Expression (Ages 8 - 12)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Students will explore drawing and painting techniques using pencils, pastels, watercolor and acrylics to develop technical skills with rendering and color. In addition they will make several ceramic projects learning building and glazing methods.
Youth Hip-Hop (6 - 8 years old)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
This introductory level dance class provides a structured method of learning various hip hop movements in a fun-filled and vibrant class environment, and offers a new set of combinations and routines every time. Location Instructions: Students will need to check in with reception, and on their first visit they will need to check in with the Membership Desk to get their program participant card for entry. Reception will direct them to the room where...
Building A Portfolio 11 - 15 yrs
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
This fall, we are offering a new program for kids - ages 11 to 15, titled Building A Portfolio. This studio class is designed to help middle school students create the skilled portfolio drawings, paintings and sketchbook required for placement in specialized art high schools. Students will improve their ability to draw from observation — still-life arrangements, landscape/street scenes (weather permitting) and live models — using a variety of...
Teen Tech Crew (Ages 12 - 19 yrs)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
In Teen Tech Crew, technical theater professionals teach weekly workshops in lighting, stage management, sound, costume, and scenic design. students practice their new techniques in support of the kids company productions of getting to know... Oklahoma! and Guys and Dolls, Jr. as well as backstage during teen theater collective’s dramatic play presentations the brothers Grimm Spectaculathon and Metamorphoses. The Teen Tech Crew is...
Works in Progress
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
For nonfiction writers (eg. memoir, magazine, and personal essay) interested in working towards some form of publication. Each week participants share and discuss works in progress. The class has a special emphasis on how to use fiction techniques of narration, description, dialogue, and structure to improve each piece. Location Instructions: Students will need to check in with reception, and on their first visit they will need to check in with...
Beaded Jewelry Workshop
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
This five (5) weeks workshop is for beginners as well as those with some beading experience. Participants will learn a variety of popular beadwork stitches, which will then be applied to projects chosen by the instructor. Supplies will be available for purchase at the classes.
Karate Pee Wee (4-5yrs old)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Jin Sei Ryu Karate develops physical conditioning, mental awareness and self-defense strategies. Students will learn to develop speed, power, focus, and balance.
Karate Junior (6-8yrs old)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Jin Sei Ryu Karate develops physical conditioning, mental awareness and self-defense strategies. Students will learn to develop speed, power, focus, and balance.
Karate Youth (9-12yrs old)
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Jin Sei Ryu Karate develops physical conditioning, mental awareness and self-defense strategies. Students will learn to develop speed, power, focus, and balance.
Fiction 101
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
A great class if you want to try writing fiction or you are returning to the genre. Fiction 101 helps you understand and apply the basic elements of good fiction writing (dialogue, character, beginnings and endings) through writing exercises and assignments, peer discussion, and instructor feedback. Location Instructions: Students will need to check in with reception, and on their first visit they will need to check in with the Membership Desk to...
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