GLA is proud to announce a new partnership with the Professional Theater and Dance Youth Academy (PTDYA). PTDYA will provide a comprehensive curricular arts program for students in grades 5-8 at GLA during the 22-23 school year.
PTDYA is a non-profit organization that provides professional music and arts education in Chicago’s under-resourced schools and communities so that our city’s most vulnerable youth have a supportive space to learn, grow, and thrive. We support our black and brown students in learning how to celebrate themselves through the arts. Through our partnership students will learn music theory, choreography, staging, blocking and participate in a fully costumed professional production. In addition, PTDYA will be launching an after school program for students passionate about the arts called The Academy Kids.
Our main instructors will be Brandon Lampkin, Musical Director, and Michael Jones PTDYA Executive Director who will also be serving as Great Lakes Academy’s Artistic Director this school year.