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After-school Programming

For more than half a century, the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre has been a prime ambassador of arts education, exploring the Jewish experience through theatre and preserving Yiddish language and culture while promoting intercultural dialogue.

The YAYA course provides musical theatre training through theatre-based exercises and games from the perspective of Jewish heritage and Yiddish culture. The course focuses on storytelling, building trust within the ensemble, tactic and objective work and status and character development. The students are introduced to the Yiddish language through song. Based on core Jewish values and inspired by the vision of Dora and Bryna Wasserman, the award-winning Young Actors for Young Audiences (YAYA) program forms the cornerstone of youth arts education at the Segal Centre.

Past successful productions such as No More Raisins, No More Almonds by Batia Bettman and The Children of Terezin featuring the opera Brundibar by Edit Kuper, Nor a Mame based on a short story by Geltman Litman, adapted by Edit Kuper and Raizel Candib, and Chelm by Abraham Shulman, still resonate throughout the community.

For more information on the 2015-2016 courses and to register, please click here.

 

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