After-School opportunities in the North End

After-School Opportunities in the North End. 

The Green Street Arts Center After-School program kicked off on Monday afternoon. Classes are available for students in grades 1 -8. Green Street offers Arts classes in Movement, Visual Art, Arts & Science, Literary Arts and Media. 

Check out the catalog and register today. Green Street Arts Center Fall classes. To register for classes call Green Street at 860-685-7871.

Students who are registered for the after-school program at Green Street can also sign up for the musical mentoring program to receive music lessons from Wesleyan University students through the musical mentoring program.

The Green Street Arts Center also offers private music lessons. 

Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater is also accepting registrations for their fall classes. Oddfellows offers theater classes for kids between the age of 2-20. Check out the classes that Oddfellows is offering. Fall classes at Oddfellows. 

Oddfellows and Art-Farm are also offering a great opportunity for students who are interested in more serious circus training. Circophony is a new youth circus company committed to providing first class training to aspiring circus artists while creating exciting new circus performances which will be available to tour to schools, clubs, fairs, events and festivals.

Young people will receive a rigorous combination of circus training, physical conditioning and rehearsal/production experience. members are expected to arrive punctually, attend all rehearsals and performances, work hard, be strong team members, and train independently outside of rehearsals to develop their skills. Check here for more information about Circophony.

High school students interested in performing on stage at Oddfellows can also audition forthe Teen Rep Production: William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead: A True Account of the Zombie Plague of 1599. Find out more information about auditioning here.

To register for classes call Oddfellows Playhouse at 860-347-6143

Both of these programs offer generous financial aid and payment plans to families that qualify. 

North End Night Market

A huge thanks to the vendors, customers and volunteers that made the first night market such a success! Buru Style was amazing...the whole evening made us all so glad to live in Middletown...

Music was sponsored by Oddfellows Playhouse, Green Street Arts Center and North End Action Team.

Opening Evening & Mural Unveiling at Green Street Arts Center

A Free Sample of Green Street’s Fall Semester Classes Plus the Unveiling of a New Mural

Join teaching artists, students, and friends of Wesleyan University’s Green Street Arts Center on Friday, September 10 for a celebration of creativity. Guests can preview Green Street’s fall calendar with mini-classes in Salsa dance, West African Drumming and Dance and more. There will also be performances featuring music and dance from around the world, visual arts projects for the whole family, food from Green Street’s partner restaurants and guided tours. The festivities start at 5:30pm at 617 Main Street for the official opening of Green Street’s new mural, on the wall of St. Vincent DePaul place. At 6pm, the event moves across the street to Green Street Arts Center and then concludes at 8pm. This event is free and open to the public.

This event is the kick-off event for Green Street’s Fall Season of classes and events, which starts on September 13th and features such classes as Tai Chi, Yoga, West African Drumming, Writing Workshop, and Sound Recording.

To register for classes or request more information, visit www.greenstreetartscenter.org or call (860) 685-7871. Green Street Members receive 20% off of all classes. Registration is now available online. Wesleyan University’s Green Street Arts Center is located at 51 Green Street in Middletown, Connecticut.

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“Our community truly shines when it comes together—as it so often does—in celebration of creativity. Opening Evening is an opportunity for us to celebrate ourselves, and for new members of our artistic community to meet and join us.”—Sarah-Jane Ripa, Artistic and Education Coordinator, Green Street Arts Center

“Watching the mural come together over the last few months has been truly inspirational—an incredible example of community collaboration, partnership and human bonding. I hope everyone will join us as we celebrate its official unveiling and all of the people who made it come alive.” —Jessica Carso, Managing Director, Green Street Arts Center

Green Street Arts Center of Wesleyan University is a vibrant center for arts education, serving the community and Greater Middletown region. Created in collaboration with the City of Middletown and the North End Action Team, Green Street is housed in the former schoolhouse at 51 Green Street. Programming includes an After School Arts & Science Program and a wide range of affordable classes and workshops for people of all ages in music, dance, visual arts, theater, sound recording, media arts and creative writing. Green Street enables people from all walks of life to converge in one special place, a place that encourages us all to learn more about the world we share and to appreciate people’s differences and similarities, respecting who we are as individuals through the arts.

Indira Karamcheti To Read Work of Nobel Laureates

Nobel Literature Discussion at Green Street

Wesleyan University’s Green Street Arts Center Presents
Indira Karamcheti To Read Work of Nobel Laureates

Sunday Salon Series Brings Wesleyan Professor to Discuss Prize-Winning Literature

Middletown, Conn, November 13, 2009—Since 1901, Nobel prizes have become the most prestigious international recognition of achievement. They are earned by a broadly international register of scientists, activists, and authors. Wesleyan Associate Professor of English Indira Karamcheti will read from the several works of recent Nobel Laureates, in addition to leading a discussion of the criteria for establishing Nobel's ideal of the "greatest benefit [to] mankind," as it relates to literature.

This informal lecture takes place on Sunday, November 22 from 2–4pm as part of the Sunday Salon Discussion Series, Green Street’s monthly discussion series for creative minds and curious individuals hosted by Wesleyan University Chemistry Professor David Beveridge. Each monthly salon includes plenty of opportunity for socializing as well as a reception with light refreshments.

Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for Green Street members, seniors, and students. Green Street Arts Center is located at 51 Green Street, Middletown, CT. To register or get more information, please visit: www.greenstreetartscenter.org or call (860) 685-7871.

About Indira Karamcheti
Indira Karamcheti, Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies is an important new voice in the field of postcolonial literature. Her broad ranging interests in the geographies of marginality encompass Caribbean and African-American literatures. She received a BA, MA, and PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

About Green Street Arts Center
Wesleyan University’s Green Street Arts Center, which opened in January 2005, is a vibrant center for arts education, serving residents of the neighborhood and the region. It is a project of Wesleyan University in collaboration with the City of Middletown and the North End Action Team (NEAT). Programming in the former schoolhouse at 51 Green Street includes an after school arts education program and a wide range of affordable classes and workshops for children and adults in music, dance, visual arts, theater, sound recording, media arts and creative writing.

5th Annual Green Street Arts Festival

Join the students, friends and teaching artists of Wesleyan University’s Green Street Art Center for a day of indoor and outdoor creative fun in celebration of the Center and Middletown’s North End. Green Street teaching artist Jocelyn Pleasant and her jazz band C. Dzen’s Reign kick off this year’s Arts Festival, which also includes performances by afterschool students and teachers in breakdancing, hip hop, salsa, movement, tap, “Shared Ability” dance and African drumming. Exhibitions by Green Street’s Flash Forward Photography Meet-Up, children’s art classes and others will be on display. Green Street’s Peer Education Performance Project will perform The Struggle, a theater piece which they wrote and directed themselves. Special guest performers include Pretty Boiiz, a rap duo whose members both graduated from Middletown High as well as Green Street alumna the ThoroEnergy dance group.

The Arts Fest will also be the official unveiling of the Green Street Community Mural Project, a large mural created by afterschool Students, community members and mural artist Marela Zacarias on the corner of Main and Green Streets.

Other festival activities include: Video screenings of Green Street’s Intergenerational Oral History Project, Digital Animation and Photojournalism classes, and face-painting by Samantha Lee. The festival takes place on Saturday, June 13 from 1–4pm at 51 Green Street in Middletown. Admission is free. Please call 860-685-7871 or visit www.greenstreetartscenter.org for more information.

Visit http://www.prettyboiiz.com/ for more information on the Pretty Boiiz including video and audio.

Homeownership Classes in April

Time Homeowner and Credit Counseling with Rosa Carrero of Liberty Bank
WEDNESDAYS, April 1, 8, 15, 22
6:30 to 8pm | FREE
Rosa Carrero from Liberty Bank presents four info sessions designed to help people take the first steps toward buying a home. Topics include credit counseling (Session 1), finding the right home (Session 2), the lending process (Session 3) and understanding legalities (Session 4). Participants in all four will receive a certificate of completion that meets one eligibility requirement for The City Of Middletown grant and down payment assistance, CHFA and CHFA down payment assistance programs.

Computer Basics with Shawn Hill
WEDNESDAYS, May 6, 13, 20, 27
6:30 to 8pm | FREE
The North End Action Team and Green Street Arts Center will offer a short, free introduction to computer basics. In four classes over four weeks, you will learn how to create Microsoft Word documents (resumes, cover letters, email attachments) and explore the possibilities of creating household or small business budgets and lists using Microsoft Excel. By the time you have completed all four sessions, you will have the building blocks needed for adding a new skill set to a job application, or for organizing your household finances. People with all levels of computer experience, from absolute beginners and up, are welcome.
*Don't worry if you've missed any, you can make them up at any time.

For more information, or to register in advance, please call the North End Action Team at (860) 346-4845. NEAT will provide child care during Homeownership classes. Please be sure to mention whether your child or children will be attending when you register.