Classes begin January 16!

Our Winter/Spring Program Guide is full of great opportunities for all ages in the visual, literary and performing arts!  Enrich your own life or a child’s life by registering today!

FOR ADULTS

We have Zumba, Intro to Wheel Throwing, Visual Arts Walk in Studio, private music lessons, private dance lessons, Painting Studio, yoga, Piloxing and more!

FOR TEENS

We have our 2012 Seussical production to be performed at the Cedarburg Performing Arts Center, Just for Gleeks GLEE group, Painting Studio, Fundamentals of Music Theory, Intro to Wheel Throwing, Ballet, Lyrical, Tap, Hip Hop and Modern dance, Broadway Bound, School Daze Comedy, private lessons and more!

FOR ELEMENTARY AGE

We have Pizza Productions drama class, Aladdin KIDS, Willy Wonka KIDS, Seussical Jr., birthday parties, private lessons, Art Sampler, Sing Your Heart Out, dance classes, modeling classes, Lets Have Fun Sing-A-Long and more!

FOR PRE-K and/or KINDERGARTEN

Partners in Art, Naomi’s Music Together, Ballet and Jazz, Imagine Me in the Arts, private piano, birthday parties and more!

CONTACT

info@northshoreacademyofthearts.org or call 262.377.3514 or

REGISTER ONLINE today!!!

GRAFTON, WI

For Immediate Release

Contact 1.262.377.3514 or info@northshoreacademyofthearts.org

Photo Opportunity:  November 21 or November 28 between 5pm and 7:30pm, 1111 Broad Street Grafton WI

Fifty five southeastern Wisconsin children, ages 6 to 11, will be presenting the musical ANNIE Kids on December 5 at 5pm and 7pm.  The musical will be about 45 minutes long and held at the North Shore Academy of the Arts (NSAA), 1111 Broad Street Grafton, WI.  Admission is free and open to the public however donations will be collected at the door.

The musical consists of two casts.  The “Green Cast” will perform at 5pm and contains thirty three cast members.  The “Purple Cast” will perform at 7pm and contains twenty two cast members.

The NSAA Jr. Stagekids Program is directed by Angela Mack who is also the Marketing Director for NSAA.  “The Jr. Stagekids program is part of a spiraling and growing musical curriculum at NSAA.  Typically children enter through our Pre-K “Imagine Me” program, move onto “Stage-Kinder-Kids”, then Jr. Stagekids, Stagekids and all the way up to the adult level,” said Mack who has also played “Motormouth Maybelle” in Hairspray and “Narrator” in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Cedarburg Performing Arts Center (CPAC).

Pictured above is the “Green Cast” Annie played by 4th grader Claire Holtebeck.  “Claire has been singing, dancing and acting since she could move and speak,” commented her mom Lisa.  “In her free time, she makes up commercials and videotapes herself for YouTube.  Claire also loves playing soccer and hanging with friends and family.  She is VERY excited to be a part of ‘Annie’–a lifelong dream!”

The “Purple Cast” Annie is played by an eight year old Greta Dane from Cedarburg (pictured above).  Greta was also recently cast as the lead in a traveling theater group based out of Milwaukee, WI.  “Greta is a pretty amazing kid…I have raised her to believe that she can do anything she wants if she puts her mind to it and I have yet to see her prove me wrong.  She loves to sing and spends time composing her own songs.  She also plays and loves piano and got an electric guitar for her 8th birthday last month which she is slowly teaching herself how to play. Her role as Annie is her first shot at acting”, said her mom Sharon.

NSAA is now registering for their 2012 productions which include Stagekids Seussical (target ages 2nd through 8th grade), Aladdin Kids, Willy Wonka Kids and a brand new 30-minute comedy for the middle schooled called “School Daze”.    Online registration and discounts are now being offered on the NSAA website. www.northshoreacademyofthearts.org

Contact:  Sheri Bestor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Email:sherib@northshoreacademyofthearts.org
 

The NSAA Arts Mill announces “AT THE H-ART OF GIVING”.

Celebrate wellness and the arts by 2 local organizations, North Shore Academy of the Arts and Unified Body Wellness Institute, for an evening of fine dining, sample wellness experiences and wonderful holiday shopping!

This event will take place on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 from 5:30-9pm.

(Grafton, WI)  The NSAA Arts Mill in Grafton (1300 14th Avenue, Grafton, WI 53024) is pleased to announce a special event featuring fine dining & holiday shopping.  “At the H-ART of Giving” is an event featuring an organic vegetarian meal. Dinner is $25/per person.

Schedule of Events:
•5:30-6pm: Relax with complimentary sample experiences of massage and reiki.
•6-7:30pm: Sit and enjoy a vegetarian meal and cash, organic wine & refreshment bar with peaceful, live music.
•7:30-9pm: Complete your holiday shopping with locally-made and fair-trade gift items, wellness gift certificates and raffles.
•Browse and shop for art work created by professional, local artists in the Arts Mill Boutique and Gallery.
 

To reserve your space, call:
NSAA @ 262.377.3514 or register online www.northshoreacademyoftgearts.org
(please specify any dietary needs when you purchase your ticket)

Don’t miss this special evening to prepare for the holidays while supporting organizations whose missions are to educate and serve the community in wellness and the arts. If you can’t attend the dinner but would like to shop, it will be opening to the public at 8pm.

The North Shore Academy of the Arts is a Wisconsin not-for-profit organization dedicated to offering high caliber opportunities in the performing, visual and
literary arts to all ages. To learn more about this organization, visit them on-line at: http://northshoreacademyofthearts.com/
 

Unified Body Wellness Institute, Inc. is dedicated to inspiring individuals and communities through educational and wellness programming.  For more information on this organization, visit them on-line at: http://www.ubwellinstitute.org/

For more information on NSAA’s Arts Mill , check out our website at:
http://www.theartsmill.org

If you would like more information on this event, or to schedule an interview with Sheri Bestor, please email her at sherib@northshoreacademyofthearts.org.

Coming Soon!  Youth Casting Call!

READ FLYER FOR MORE INFORMATION!

Be a part of our 2012 Production of Seussical!  

Must pre-register.  ONLINE REGISTRATION available.  Contact info@northshoreacademyofthearts.org or call 262.377.3514 and leave a message.

Take a peak at what we are offering this fall! 

Email info@northshoreacademyofthearts.org or call 262.377.3514

REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE ONLINE…Register early to receive a discount!

Grafton, WI The private music students from the North Shore Academy of the Arts (NSAA) will be presenting a Spring Recital on Friday May 20 for the public.  The event is free and will be held at 6pm at 1111 Broad Street in Grafton.  Over 25 students will be presenting vocal, guitar, piano and original pieces that they have been preparing in private lessons. 

The North Shore Academy of the Arts has a team of instructors available to teach private lessons to all ages in music, dance and the visual arts.  Email info@northshoreacademyofthearts.org or call 262.377.3514 for inquiries about private lessons.

May is National Foster Care Month!

View Flyer for project 3mpower event May 15 

This event is FREE and open to the public!

By Linda J. Steiner

If you ask Grace Meehan, student leader of  Mequon High School’s Kids4Kids, why her group is doing a collaborative arts project with children who are in foster care or youth aging out of the system, she’ll tell you it’s because there are a lot more similarities than differences among young people.

“People might have a bad connotation about kids in foster care,” she said, “but they’re still young like us, and they have bright futures.”

Kids4Kids, which raises money for and tries to increase awareness about foster care, has been involved since early this year in an undertaking called Project 3mpower. The project aims to build awareness in the public and camaraderie and self-confidence in the young people involved by artistically telling the story of foster life.

Under the guidance of instructors at the North Shore Academy of the Arts in Grafton, the Homestead students have been working along with children and young adults served by St. Aemilian-Lakeside, a 161-year-old social services organization in Milwaukee.

They have been creating a variety of artworks from painting and pottery to song, dance, drama and poetry. The works will be showcased at a culminating public event May 15 from 3:30 -5 p.m., at the Arts Mill Gallery & Boutique, 1300 14^th Ave., Grafton.

The project hopes to change the way the public understands and responds to the needs of foster youth. The name 3mpower comes from the goal of empowering three populations: foster and non-foster kids and the public.

“This helps them to see it’s not a bad thing to be in foster care,” said Jeanetta Watson, who is part of a St. Aemilian-Lakeside Independent Living Services (ILS) program that helps youth leaving foster care successfully transition to adulthood. Jeanetta worked at the last session, April 10, on a painting that will illustrate many of the emotions she experienced while in foster care.

“They seem like a nice bunch of kids,” she said about the Homestead students. “They want to participate and they wanted to learn about my experiences in foster care and how I felt about it,” she said.

Some of her experiences were met with surprise, said Jeanetta, who was in nine foster homes from the time she was 3 until she was 16.  “But we talked about how you’ve got to not worry about the bad, think of the good, and go from there.”

Another young woman in an ILS program, Kaitlin Harris, said the questions posed to her were good because, “a lot of people don’t know what it’s like to be in foster care, so I pretty much told them everything: going house to house, being in shelters. And everybody’s experience in foster care is different.”

“It’s a great opportunity, because some of the kids (in foster care) still don’t have resources, places to go,” said Jeanetta. “There’s a need to speak out.”

Grant Brogan, a Homestead freshman, said he got involved in the project because it’s fun. “And it’s a way to reach out to a different community and to help others. And you’re making new friends.”

A 9–year-old boy named Julio who is being assisted by St. Aemilian-Lakeside’s Family  Preservation Services, said it was pretty cool working with Grant. “He looks like Justin Bieber!” he said with a laugh.

“No matter where you grow up, we all have common interests, and it’s good to find those common interests,” said Patrick Tucker, also a freshman at Homestead.

As Unique Wilson from the ILS program worked on writing a song, she said, “It’s about hope and faith, not giving up, always having hope for tomorrow being a better day.”

Unique and Joann Hogan, another former foster young person served by St. Aemilian-Lakeside,  worked with Angela Mack, a performing arts instructor, on creating the song. The two young women do lyrics and melody and Angela is putting it to music.

“It takes a lot of vulnerability to write a song like this and it takes a lot of trust,” Angela said. “This is a song of encouragement to all people who feel like giving up.”

All the young people involved in Project 3mpower are looking forward to sharing their creativity with the public on May 15. The event is free and will also feature shopping at the gallery. For more information, contact Karen Johnson, division director of Community Services at St. Aemilian-Lakeside, at 414-465-5734. For more information on foster care and a variety of services to youth who must leave the system when they turn 18, go to www.st-al.org.

Sheri Bestor, NSAA Founder assumes the additional title of  President and Divisions Coordination Director—Working with the long term and day to day vision of the Arts Mill and coordinating it with the vision and mission of North Shore Academy of the Arts to insure coordinated efforts for growth and success of both entities and together as a whole. Contact Sheri at sherib@northshoreacademyofthearts.org