Arts Empowering Life presents

Summer Performing Arts For Students

THEATRE CLASSES (2 Levels) & EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC

July 7-August 6, 2026

Young Explorers

8:30 – 10:30 AM
Every Tuesday & Thursday

Ages 6-10

Cost:
$40 per class (2 hour session)
$75 per week (2 classes)
$350 for all 10 classes (2 per week)

Snacks included
*Financial assistance available

Looking for enrichment and fun for your children this summer? Immerse them in the Arts! The Young Explorers program offers kids a focused opportunity to learn, create, and explore theatre guided by seasoned actors and teachers from Art Empowering Life.

Weekly Focus
Week 1: Imagineers Week (Create characters, worlds, movement, games)
Week 2: Comedy Club Week (Improv, ridiculous characters, fast-thinking games)
Week 3: Broadway Week (Songs, scenes, mini musical performance)
Week 4: Mask Makers & Puppet Masters (Build and perform)
Week 5: Shakespeare Unleashed (Swordplay, kings, queens, villains, dramatic scenes)

Young Artists

8:30 – 12:30 AM
Every Tuesday & Thursday

Ages 11-18

Cost:
$75 per class (4 hours)
$135 per week (2 classes)
$650 for all 10 classes (2 per week)

Lunch included
*Financial assistance available

Hone your craft with world class actors! The Young Artists program offers students an avenue to develop their fundamentals and character work throughout the summer months. Gain confidence while performing at the next level in an inspiring new space!

Weekly Focus
Week 1: Acting Fundamentals – Character Work, Expression, etc.
Week 2: Improv and Character Play – Teamwork, Humor, and Spontaneity
Week 3: Technical Theatre and Stagecraft – Set design, Props, Costumes, Lighting
Week 4: Movement and Stage Combat incorporated with Scene Work
Week 5: Shakespeare and Classical Theatre

About the Instructors

Workshops will be led by artists of Arts Empowering Life, each with years of high-level performance and teaching experience—private classes, workshops, and assemblies in the US, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and South Korea. Program instruction will be catered to the experience level of each student.

Early Childhood Music

9 – 10 AM
Every Tuesday & Thursday

Ages 3-6

Classes offered every Tuesday and Thursday

Cost:
$25 per class (1 hour session)
$45 per week (2 classes)
$200 for all 10 classes (2 per week)

Snack included
*Financial assistance available

Music classes have so many benefits for your little one as they grow and develop! Singing, moving and rhythm engage the body, brain and emotions all together, encouraging creativity, imagination and a good basis for lifetime of learning.

Our Classes include 4 Components:
– Folk Songs and Rounds: Learn to be expressive and to find the joy of singing with others.
– Keeping the Beat with Classical Music: Learn to hear, feel, and express beat patterns, to clap and move comfortably to music.
– Circle Songs and Dances: Experiences that are varied and expressive in response to various musical styles
– Music and Movement: Guided improvisation as a natural, free response to dynamics (soft/loud), tempi (fast/slow), and emotion (joyful/peaceful)

About the Instructor

Dr. SharonRose Pfeiffer is an organist at the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, MA and she has concertized throughout the U.S. and France. She earned degrees from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. At Westminster she studied Children’s Choir Pedagogy and Practicum with Helen Kemp and Sue Ellen Page. A course with John Feirabend at the Hartt School of Music on “First Steps in Music for Early Childhood” helped establish her three-pronged approach to teaching children:

1. the joy of singing 2. rhythmic ease 3. artistry

Dr. Pfeiffer has over 20 years of experience as Director of Children’s Choirs at numerous churches, including the formation and development of graded children’s choirs, preschool through high school.

“Our kids had a great time at the Performing Arts Center! Thank you Arts Empowering Life.” —A Parent