To enroll your child, please e-mail priya.shah@eastbaycenter.org or call (510) 234-5624 ext 2501

(e-mail preferred!) and provide the following information:

Child’s name, your name, phone number, address, grade/room number, course requests.

Payments:

·     Class fees are due by April 8th.

·     You may opt to pay 50% at the beginning of class and 50% at the halfway point in the session

     There is a $3 service charge for this option.

Inscripciones:

Las descripciones de las clases, la información acerca el instructor, y confirmación de las salas estarán disponibles en http://fairmontschool.org

/fasep

CLASS DESCRIPTIONS & INSTRUCTOR BIOS

Music Video

Lights! Camera! Action! Learn all about the making of music videos and then get to help create them as a class. This semester we'll be focusing on how to produce and edit music videos and not just from behind the camera! Get to know both sides of video making through performing and production so you can make your own!

Instructor: Solas Burke

Solas Burke-Lalgee is a East Bay grown vocalist and educator who graduated from the Berkeley College of Music and has been teaching at the EBCPA for two years. He loves to teach kids a well-rounded sense of music and believed that knowing how to talk about music is important. From beginners musicianship, to performance and beyond, he helps his classes discover a multitude of personal strengths within themselves.

Earth Stewardship 

In this fun & enriching class we join together as tribal members of planet earth to investigate the ways the earth keeps us alive and kicking in our daily lives, and in turn how we may take care of her. Through movement exercises – we keep our feet on the ground and stay connected to our bodies and we’ll learn earth-balancing meditations to focus our minds. Some of our activities will include crafts made of things from nature or recycled items, drumming & rattle time to connect to the earth’s heart beat, connecting with power animals and more. We will learn about the power of sacred circles, what it means to be earth walkers…keepers of planet, and the importance of taking care of all living things...and we’ll have a really good time doing it!

Instructor: Jnana Gowan

Jnana Gowan, Director of Powerhouse Education is the founder and creator of the Bunny Head Yoga Program & Summer Camps. A mother herself, she's been studying teaching yoga since 1999- teaching children since 2003. Among other experience she has completed two 200-hour yoga teacher-training programs, and is recognized by the Yoga Alliance. She's instructed yoga in the corporate world, written chapters for two published books, assisted women in transitional times - yet she finds that working with the Bunny Heads to be the icing on the cake!

Hip Hop:

Students are introduced to different styles of Hip Hop.  Students refine their sense of rhythm, expand their knowledge of repertoire and gain enhanced control of their movements.

Theater

This course provides an introduction to theatrical techniques and exercises including; physical and vocal warm up exercises, tongue twisters for vocal articulation, engagement of the diaphragm, projecting messages and emotions, memorization techniques, script analysis, and improve games.

Instructor: Jamar Welch

Jamar Welch received his AA degree in theater arts from Los Angeles theater academy and graduated a "most outstanding student of excellence" on the deans list. Jamar began his performing arts journey at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond CA. He studied various forms of dance under the guidance of Silvia Townsend (ballet ), Deborah Vaughan (Contra Costa College, Dimensions Dance Theatre) and Lynn Coles (Laney College). Jamar has learned ballet, jazz, modern and African dance, but specializes in hip hop dance. Jamar is the artistic director of the Housing Authority dance group established in 1991 in Richmond CA. He is also Co director of the Iron Triangle Urban Ballet. As an actor/ dancer Jamar has performed in videos, commercials, films, plays and concerts. He has worked with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Usher and Bette Midler. As a dance teacher, Jamar has toured internationally teaching his signature "hip house soul" dance style in Guatemala, Japan and Hawaii. He has taught in the Oakland, Richmond, Hawaii, and Los Angeles school districts. Jamar teaches all ages and is committed to sharing his knowledge and experience to whom so ever shows interest.

Visual Arts: Painting and Sculpture

Young artists explore a variety of media (water colors, pastels, markers, colored pencils, clay) to visually express their rich emotional lives. Children are lovingly encouraged to develop their vivid imaginations while mastering fine art skills. Each class begins with an inspiring short story selected from the best of children's literature. 

Instructor: Lisa Di Prima

Lisa is a free-lance graphic designer and a master teacher at the Richmond Art Center. She teaches mixed media classes at Mira Vista and Harding Elementary. She is also the artistic director of the Berkeley Jazz Art Program.

Visual Arts: Sketching and Drawing

This course will emphasize learning drawing skills collected in a sketch book, building towards finished paintings on canvas board.  The children will be introduced to still life drawing, perspective drawing, and portraits of animals. I like to collect the work and return a portfolio at the end of the session.

Mosaics

Students will begin with learning basic design elements of mosaics.  At first, students will learn to plan and sketch ideas and create mosaics from paper.  Painting, drawing, planning and sketching skills will be developed.  Successful designs will be used to create finished mosaics with pebbles and glass mosaic tiles.

Instructor: Julianne Wallace

Julianne Wallace Sterling is a Bay Area painter and arts educator born in Southern California. She graduated from UC Riverside with a BS in Economics and pursued post-baccalaureate studies in art at San Francisco State.  Her work has been exhibited at Dacia Gallery in New York, A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novato and Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland. She was also recently awarded first prize at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art’s 2010 Juried Annual. Her work has been written about in the San Francisco Chronicle and the East Bay Express. She was nominated for a Pro Arts’ 2 x 2 Solos Exhibition and Commissioning Program. Ms. Sterling’s work was recently selected for A.I.R. Gallery’s 9th Biennial in Brooklyn in March 2011. She had a  Solo Exhibition at Mercury Twenty Gallery in Oakland, CA in May 2012.

Intro Guitar

Learn guitar in a relaxed setting. Students will quickly learn fundamentals such as chords, note names, and tuning. We will also work on the correct ways to hold the instrument as well as basic strumming patterns. No previous musical experience necessary. If the student has some knowledge of guitar, we will build on any fundamentals the student may already know and include scales, more complex repertoire, theory, and improvisation.

Instructor: Hassan El Tayyab

Hassan is a performing Singer/Songwriter around the Bay Area. He has taught private and group guitar lessons for over 7 years to children and adults of all ages. He is currently a music teacher in Fairmont, Madera, Harding, elementary schools in El Cerrito and an instructor for the Berkeley, CA non-profit folk organization The Freight and Salvage. Hassan was also the lead music instructor forth Brookline, MA after-school enrichment program DASEP.

Engineering

Each day in this class offers an engineering project for students to explore. Key engineering principles and some guided practice are introduced at the beginning of class, but most of the time is spent designing, testing, and building. Craft wood, wheels, rubber bands, and propellers are some of the materials that students will use to build helicopters, cars, and catapults. Many of the projects use small hot glue guns. Hands-on projects, boosting critical thinking skills, and having a blast is what this class is all about. Best of all, students get to take home everything they make!

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Instructor: TBA

Chess

This class will expose kids to the fun of Chess, teaching them the rules of the game, movement of the pieces, castling, en passent, promotion, checking the king, and how to reach check mate. Younger children will learn skills such as taking turns, good sportsmanship, and planning ahead. Older kids will learn the finer points of one of the world’s oldest strategy games, including openings, the tactics of the middle and end games, the meaning and use of pins, forks, skewers and so on, combinations, avoiding the Fool’s mate, and much more.

Berkeley Chess School

Since 1982, the Berkeley Chess School has enriched the lives of thousands of Bay Area children. The Berkeley Chess School is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to sharing the joys and wonders of chess with as many young people as possible through instruction in the schools and tournament play. For more information, visit http://www.berkeleychessschool.org/

Basketball FUN-Damentals (Grades K-2)

Get a great foundation in one of America’s and the World’s great games! Students will get an introduction to the history of basketball, and learn the rules and regulations of the sport. Each week’s instruction will focus on a different aspect of the game, such as shooting (lay-ups, jump shots, free throws), passing (chest pass, bounce pass, overhead pass), defense (stance, footwork), conditioning (running drills), and rebounding (positioning, jumping, strength), through a series of basic drills, exercises, and races.

Instructor: Elias Shipley

Elias is head coach of women's freshman basketball at Terra Linda High School. As a student, he attended Fairmont, the SF Arts Institute, and graduated from El Cerrito High School, where he played JV and Varsity basketball for the Gauchos. He was introduced to basketball before he could walk. Ever since, he’s been in love with the game, watching hours of high school, college, and NBA games. He began playing in leagues in 3rd grade, and found that a great deal of practice and hard work made up for his small size and lack of skills. Today, Elias stands at 6’3” and looks forward to introducing the kids to the game he loves in a fun environment where a good work ethic and teamwork can be used on and off the court.

Children’s Chorus

The After School Children Chorus class will focus on songs that the children love to sing, enrich the children's repertoire of American and international folk songs, and improve skills such as keeping time and rhythm, pitch, dynamics and harmony, and team work. The group will work on a repertoire to be presented at the end of the session.

Achi Ben Shalom

Achi Ben Shalom is a certified music educator. His career includes teaching classroom music, musical theater, chorus, guitar and ukulele for over 20 years. He is also a singer/guitarist, the leader of the band Adama and the director of Nigunim Community Chorus, performing occasionally around the Bay Area. This is Achi's second year working with the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts. 

Registration materials, class descriptions, instructor information, and final room assignments are also available on-line at http://fairmontschool.org/fasep.