LIHU‘E — Kaua‘i Academy of Creative Arts will be offering a visual- and performing-arts program for young people ages 6 years (must be currently enrolled in first grade) and up during the upcoming fall public-school break, from 8 a.m. to
LIHU‘E — Kaua‘i Academy of Creative Arts will be offering a visual- and performing-arts program for young people ages 6 years (must be currently enrolled in first grade) and up during the upcoming fall public-school break, from 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 4 through 8 at Island School in Puhi, a press release states.
Financial assistance is available.
Students registering for the week will experience classes in hip-hop, drumming and printmaking. Professionally trained teacher, dance instructor and choreographer Jennifer Bell-Grey returns to teach a dance class that takes street dance, contemporary and jazz steps and combines them to create modern-day hip-hop steps and choreography.
Aki Conquest also returns to teach energetic drum performance based on West African, Japanese taiko and Afro-Cuban music arranged and choreographed by Aki.
New to the academy is local artist Melinda Morey, who will teach printmaking. This class will focus on relief printmaking incorporating recycled materials to produce colligraph (texture) prints, linear-relief images, monotypes and object prints. Morey has exhibited statewide, on the Mainland and internationally, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Contemporary Museum and the State Foundation for Culture and the Arts in Hawai‘i.
Registration and information forms are available at the Lihu‘e and Kapa‘a public libraries, Wilcox Elementary, Koloa School, Kalaheo School, Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School, St. Catherine and Kapa‘a Elementary schools. For more information, call Mary, 346-7586 or 652-2260.
