North Stars Afterschool Arts Program

is a unique, performance-based after-school arts program for students 12-18 years old. Students are recruited city-wide to participate in this free program. Youth interested in poetry, spoken word, dance and music are encouraged to join this stellar afterschool arts program. The North Stars program includes:

 

• Poetry and Spoken Word
• Music – singing and instrumental
• Dance – hip-hop, modern, step, tap, and African
• African Enrichment - West African Dance, Masquerade Drumming, Shekere, and Stilt Walking
• Cooking - creating meals for small reception

The North Stars uses social and oral history as a text to provide content for the expressive arts.  This afterschool arts program is here to provide students with: 

• literacy and writing skills
• performing skills
• leadership, activism, and social skills,
• classes that will lead to a not-to-be-missed original multimedia theater production in May.

 For more information, contact Program Associate, Melissa Talley-Palmer at mpalmer@artsanctuary.org or 215-232-4485.  

 

The North Stars program is funded by: Lincoln Financial Foundation, Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation,The Hamilton Family Foundation, Douty Foundation, Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial, The Seybert Institution, Rosenlund Family Foundation, Verizon and YouthAdelphia.