It's time to top up your vocal skills! This thorough and fun improvers' course will benefit your further vocal development as an actor or professional speaker. You will consolidate work on breath support and explore pitch and resonance. The course will be held in the college.

It's time to top up your vocal skills! This thorough and fun improvers' course will benefit your further vocal development as an actor or professional speaker. You will consolidate work on breath support and explore pitch and resonance. The course will be held in the college.

What will we cover?
Breath support, control and pressure, resonance, pitch awareness, articulation and techniques of communication.

By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Identify your own vocal weaknesses and develop ways to address them.
- Display improvements in breath capacity and support using more advanced breathing exercises.
- Apply articulation pitch and variety to a whole range of texts and material.
- Further develop the resonance of your voice by examining secondary and tertiary areas of resonance.

Improve the quality of your voice and standard of speech; relaxation and alignment; breath capacity/control; articulation, forward placement and vocal expression, primarily aimed at performers. This course will be taught in the college.

What is the course about?
To improve the quality of your voice for increased confidence in communication and performance. To develop vocal skills and thus an understanding of how the voice works. The course is primarily aimed at the actor/performer.

What will we cover?
Physical alignment.
Breathing - diaphragmatic, lower abdominal and lower intercostal.
Relaxation techniques, opening the channel for sound.
Forward placement work.
Jaw and tongue; opening throat.
Vowel work and consonant drills.

What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
Demonstrate an awareness of the body and its effect on the voice.
Demonstrate effective relaxation techniques.
Demonstrate deep breathing/support of sound.
Demonstrate a more powerful voice and richer tone.
Articulate clearly in speech.
Demonstrate vocal confidence and awareness.

Improve the quality of your voice and standard of speech through relaxation, stance, breath capacity/control, articulation, forward placing and expression. This course will be delivered in the college.

What is the course about?
To improve the quality of your voice for increased confidence in communication. To develop vocal skills and an understanding of how the voice works with practical focus on relaxation, stance, breath capacity/control, articulation, forward placement and expression.

What will we cover?
Relaxation, alignment and posture, breath support, control and pressure, resonance, pitch awareness, articulation and techniques of communication.

What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
Demonstrate more confidence in your voice and how you use it.
Display an awareness of the technique of supporting your voice and controlling your breath.
Practise articulation exercises to improve clarity and diction.

The CPA Clinics are held online and are for those who have already gone through the entire CPA course but want to talk more about next steps in terms of how to approach their specific career, the progress they've made thus far and to brainstorm any new ideas or obstacles. These events are for small groups of no more than 8 people and run for 4 hours and can be booked as follows:

Group Sessions (Saturdays, 10am - 2pm): £205.00 per person (maximum 8 spaces)

Private Online Sessions (Date/Time by arrangement): £395.00 per person (2 hours)

The CPA intensive Workshop can be booked either online or in person by individuals and/or organisations desiring a live in-house group session (maximum 15 people). The session is convened by Jacqueline Malcolm or one of the CPA Ambassadors, and includes either access to the CPA Online workbook or, if a live session is required, the 100+ page printed CPA Workbook. The session delves into the 5 effective steps toward building a personal brand that will grab the attention of your potential clients and make you stand out in the marketplace. Topics included will be:

- Facing Reality: Perfect Life Vs Personal Goals
- Personal Branding: Your Brand Promise
- Business Confidence: Knowing Your Worth
- Intentional Networking: Making the Right Connections
- Grasping Opportunities: When to Say Yes

TIME: Either 1 whole day or 2 x Half Day

The CPA Taster Webinar is ideally suited for those who are well skilled in their chosen field, but have no idea of what to do next. How do you identify and then ultimately present yourself to potential clients? How do you get seen in a very competitive market? And how do you make this skill pay? This first webinar and key step will look at, Facing Reality: Perfect Life Vs Personal Goals.

Join in our new Dance & Drama Club at our North East Centre for Autism in Newton Aycliffe
The group has now finished for the summer holidays but will resume in September, we would like to hear from parents what days you would like the sessions to run.

The clubs are FREE and we welcome children and young people with autism and other special needs to attend. A formal diagnosis is not required.

If you're 15-25 and you're into art, film and theatre then HOME Young Creatives is for you.

Each year, we'll be putting an amazing series of free workshops, projects and commissioning opportunities which will be led by industry professionals. Your creative career starts here!

Our Young People's Theatres are for all young actors aged 16+. We work inclusively with learning disabled and/or autistic and neurotypical actors who perform together as equal partners.
Following the school terms, each Young People’s Theatre works towards two pieces each year created by the members and supported by professionals.

This course offers a one year introductory course to the skills associated with theatre acting. More specifically, it is tailored to those wanting to learn about the craft of acting, how to develop your own physical, vocal and imaginative skills, and to explore the dramatic text in performance.

It runs over 3 terms, each term lasting 13 weeks. You will attend the college on one evening a week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday) from 7pm to 9.30pm, plus extra rehearsals as required (usually on a Saturday), technical and dress rehearsals and performances as the work demands, totalling approximately 120 hours of contact time.
You will act in APT productions at the end of each term.

Location: Sidcup