Give a Gift That Keeps on Giving: the Arts
Beck Center for the Arts invites you to take a sneak peek of the exciting new classes we are offering next semester by checking out the winter/spring 2010 class catalog, now available online at www.beckcenter.org. Dance with a former Radio City Rockette; throw a pot on our new electric wheel; train to be a Tony Award winner. Enroll in one of more than 140 classes offered each week in dance, music, theater, and visual arts at the Beck Center, winner of the 2009 “Best of the West” award for both Music and Dance Education by West Shore Magazine. Classes fill up fast, so register today! Call 216.521.2540 x10 to sign up for classes.
Winter/spring classes begin the first week of February and make a great holiday gift for any member of the family. Can’t decide which class to take? We offer gift certificates for any amount for every name on your shopping list.
Beck Center is also proud to announce that Tony Award-winner and former Beck student, Alice Ripley is now an Honorary Director of the Beck Center Board of Directors. Ms. Ripley won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance for a Leading Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway hit, Next to Normal. In a letter from our winter/spring catalog, she reminisces about “Saturday mornings learning theater techniques, making close friendships, and developing a strong love for the theater.” We encourage you to develop your creative self and artistic skills at the Beck Center. Take a class and enrich your life.
Also don’t forget to join us for Super Saturday on November 21, from 9 to 11 a.m. This free, hands-on art activity for young artists, ages 10 and under, and their families happens each month at Beck Center. This month we will make a Thanksgiving craft, compliments of Usborne Books, and parents can do some pre-holiday shopping with Direct Sellers of Lakewood. A portion of the proceeds from the sale benefits the Beck Center.
This series is generously sponsored by the Lakewood Arts Festival, to expose young artists to the arts and to stimulate their creative abilities. For more information, contact Ed Gallagher, Beck’s director of education, at egallagher@beckcenter.org, or call 216.521.2540 x10. The Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood.