Percussion, Drew Tucker
The world drum circle is a fun and energetic class that teaches percussion traditions and rhythms from various cultures, including Cuba, Brazil, India, West Africa and the Middle East. These cultures are explored through performance and cultural research. Through hands- on experience in performance, small-group instruction, and demonstrative performances, the world drum circle class provides an excellent and hands on look into the children's own backgrounds and cultures.
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Theater Art, Maia Banks
Theatre Art class connects a constellation of educational components; such as language skills, as well as expressing ideas and emotions that cannot be conveyed by language alone. It also incorporates aspects of visual art, music, dance, cultural awareness, reading and writing, and memorization. Students learn to use their body, face and presence as a medium to create art. Engaging the students through connection, collaboration, participation, culture and community, often give the students life skills that are tapped into and utilized into adulthood.
The end result will be a set of three theatre performances in front of an audience at the Benefit for the STARS Showcase performance.

Mixed Media, Laura Michels
Using a Media Medley: chalk; paints; watercolor pencils; glue paint; color pencils; crayons and markers, students will embrace the Spring term concept of human figure interpreted by emerging artists.  Students will capture the vibrance of the young human spirit in colorful expressions of their hands; their feet; their faces and themselves in creative interpretations of seascapes, landscapes and still-life’s.  The classroom focus will stress creativity, cooperation and respect for fellow emerging artists.

Stepping, Chaquanna Darrisaw
Stepping is a developmentally designed education and fitness that allows students to use their body as an instrument to produce rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand claps. Students will be introduced to basic six and eight counts and will also learn teamwork and leadership skills. Lessons will include imagination, creativity and style. All children will confidently perform in front of an audience at the end of the summer showcase.

African Dance, Lanecia Radcliff
Through this class students will discover the rhythms and dance of West Africa and link the movements and dances to the current popular music of Hip Hop. Students will learn how to execute specific West African movements and dances, and to relate those dances to the correct corresponding rhythms. This class will encourage physical fitness, and at the same time expose students to the rich and beautiful culture of West Africa. Students will use their creativity and knowledge of West African movements to create Hip Hop movements with vibrancy and with a foundation of knowledge of West African dance movements.