Education.
County Stage continues to inspire and enrich our community’s youth through the arts. Since our inception, we have fostered relationships with educators and students.
County Stage believes arts programs for students are essential tools for learning.
Students who receive arts education are more creative, more self-disciplined, more tolerant and better able to think critically and communicate. Active participation and learning in the arts improves overall academic achievement.
Grass is Lava Children's Dance Classes
(PAST EVENT)
Base31, Picton
Monday, August 7 to Friday, August 11, 2023 | 10:00am – 11:15am
$150 per child
AGES 5 - 12
Flight Dance Festival hosts Grass is Lava dance classes again this summer!
Follow educational leader and Indigenous worldview learner, Arwyn Carpenter on a dancing, musical, nature adventure.
Grass is Lava gathers young people, aged 5-12 years old, to experience belonging and the thrill of movement through imagery, story and the land.
ARWYN CARPENTER
GRASS IS LAVA LEADER
Arwyn Carpenter (they/them, settler) is a queer dancer, choreographer and educator from Tkaronto (Treaty 13 territory). Throughout their career, Arwyn has served as faculty at Canada’s National Ballet School, York University and 25 illustrious years at CCDT, formerly the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre. They hold an MFA in performance and choreography from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a BEd from UofT’s OISE. Their inquiry as a choreographer has explored Truth and Reconciliation, climate justice, artist Emily Carr, anti-racism and incarceration.
A well-loved educator, Arwyn spent 10 years teaching in the Toronto District School Board. Their tenure and accolades have been highlighted through OISE’s Excellence in Elementary/Intermediate Education Award (2010) and the Elementary Teachers’ of Toronto’s Arts Teacher of the Year Award (2017). Organizing their time between the city and Prince Edward County, Arwyn is an active member of the PEC Arts Council and a community dance artist with the Department of Illumination where they developprojects including Safety Dance and online Rainbow Dance Parties welcoming BIPOC, LGBTQ2S and all bodies. Arwyn’s current artistic venture investigates land “ownership” and the landscapes and shorelines of The County through an Indigenous-informed worldview.