Here is a sampling of our many classes. For a full program list please contact innovation@accelerateineducation.com
FASHION FUN
This exciting class offers students the chance to experience and explore fashion and pattern making. The course is tailored to meet the needs of young novices who want to learn and practice the art of patternmaking for fashion studies. Tutor-led demonstrations will provide the starting point from which they will practice and develop their skills and aesthetic values. All materials and equipment included.
MAKEUP FOR STAGE & SCREEN
Learn tips and techniques from an established film, television and print makeup artist. Explore this fun and exciting art form that can be turned into a professional career! You’ll learn about and tools of the trade, facial structure and feature study, foundation selection and conceal and correct techniques. You’ll dabble in special effects makeup such as creating a realistic black eye, a bloody injury and aging using highlight and shadow. Get ready for the red carpet with basic beauty training including hands-on application of foundation, concealer, contour and highlight, basic beauty eyes, smokey eyes, fake lashes, eyeliner, brows and lips. Meets once per week for 8 weeks.
PLAYING IT OUT
In this fun course students find peer group support in a nurturing and creative environment using the expressive arts. Let go of stress and find joy in playing while building confidence, leadership skills, and spontaneity! Each class builds upon the other with process focused group improvisation, trust building, action oriented goal setting and the practice new outcomes. This course promises to be Playful, Meaningful, and Extraordinarily Unique! "It's a happy talent to know how to play!"- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
PLAYWRIGHTING
Do you have a story that you’re dying to tell? We’ll explore writers, writing and most of all—getting your story down on paper. This class will be equal parts active (we’ll write, of course), constructive (we’ll break it down, to build it up) and appreciative (we’ll see what other writers are doing these days). We’ll help you turn your idea into a play, film or tv show!
YOUNG CHEF'S KITCHEN
In this 8 week course, students will have fun with food! In addition to weekly recipes the classes include learning about nutrition, dining etiquette, healthy eating, and careers in the culinary arts
