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WAC Performing Arts and Media College
United KingdomWAC Performing Arts and Media College
213 Haverstock Hill
London
NW3 4QP
Phone : 0207 6925873
Email : julian@wac.co.uk
Web site : http://www.wac.co.uk
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Extra information
- Presentation
WAC Performing Arts and Media College (formerly Weekend Arts College) began twenty five years ago as an initiative to provide training for young people from low income families in the performing arts. It aimed to offer high level professional standard classes to enable those young people with talent to be in a position to apply to conservatories and specialist training in order to further their education.
Today, the organisation has extended the range of its programmes in a number of ways. It has fully developed a practice of arts education which values the general ‘transferable’ or ‘key’ skills young people learn from arts experiences. It provides dedicated training for digital media artists and specialised courses for young people with learning difficulties. As WAC grew so it has specialised in training arts trainers to work in educational contexts. WAC is an accredited centre for NVQ’s and works to support the growth of small businesses in the cultural industries and to facilitate the professional development of artists’ careers. WAC continues to give those young people who are marginalised by society priority access to all its programmes and this philosophy underpins its lifelong learning programmes.
WAC continues to provide training opportunities in the creative and cultural industries for 600 young people a year. It has a national and international reputation for innovative ways of teaching and learning offering access to cutting edge media and arts projects. It is involved in a number of strategic research projects and partnerships aiming to influence the development of the education system. - Date
of creation : 1978
- Kind
of organisation : Regional/non-profit-making
- Employees : more than 100 remunerated people and more than 100 voluntary people
- Media Interests : Multimedia - Internet - Games -
- Financial Support : public funds - contracts for services - private donations - commercial activities -
- Annual Budget : more than 500.000 Euros
- Main
purpose
Direct actvities and training in the arts and media for young people from low income families. Training and Research to support this. - Relation
between media education and the main purpose of the
activity
Media production actvites are central to the organisation, its values and practices - Definition
of media education :
to developa critical understanding and creative use of all forms of media - Kind
of activity carried out :
as a main activity on a secondary level exceptionally never Training : X Research : X Leading activities : X Teaching : X Production : X Evaluation : X Publishing : X Coordination/network : X Other : X - Significant
activities
production by young people
developing key and transferable skills
understanding nad researching media education
- Target
audience :
Adults : teachers - parents - activity leaders -
Young people : family context - out-of-school context - Other : aged 0 to 3
aged 3 to 6
aged 6 to 12
aged 12 to 18
over 18
policy maker/educator audience - Main
partners
Euro Media Literacy 