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Cultural Center Adds Classes for Young Adults
The Allendale Cultural Center has expanded its arts program to include classes for young adults. Director Leah
Martin announced Monday that beginning in September, three new classes will be offered to the Allendale com-
munity. The course titles will be Yoga for Teenagers; Hip Hop Dance: Learning the Latest Moves; and Creative
Journaling for Teens: Discovering the Writer Within. The latter course will not be held at the Allendale Cul-
tural Center but instead will meet at the Allendale Public Library.
Staff member Tricia Cousins will teach the yoga and hip hop classes. Ms. Cousins is an accomplished cho-
reographer as well as an experienced dance educator. She has an MA in dance education from Teachers Col-
lege, Columbia University, where she wrote a thesis on the pedagogical effectiveness of dance education. The
journaling class will be taught by Betsy Milford. Ms. Milford is the head librarian at the Allendale Public Library
as well as a columnist for the professional journal
Library Focus.
The courses are part of the Allendale Cultural Center’s Project Teen, which was initiated by Leah Martin,
Director of the Cultural Center. According to Martin, this project is a direct result of her efforts to make the
center a more integral part of the Allendale community. Over the last several years, the number of people who
have visited the cultural center for classes or events has steadily declined. Project Teen is primarily funded by
a munificent grant from The McGee Arts Foundation, an organization devoted to bringing arts programs to
young adults. Martin oversees the Project Teen board, which consists of five board members. Two board mem-
bers are students at Allendale’s Brookdale High School; the other three are adults with backgrounds in educa-
tion and the arts.
The creative journaling class will be cosponsored by Brookdale High School, and students who complete
the class will be given the opportunity to publish one of their journal entries in
Pulse, Brookdale’s student lit-
erary magazine. Students who complete the hip hop class will be eligible to participate in the Allendale Review,
an annual concert sponsored by the cultural center that features local actors, musicians, and dancers.
All classes are scheduled to begin immediately following school dismissal, and transportation will be
available from Brookdale High School to the Allendale Cultural Center and the Allendale Public Library. For more
information about Project Teen, contact the cultural center’s programming office at 988-0099 or drop by the office
after June 1 to pick up a fall course catalog. The office is located on the third floor of the Allendale Town Hall.
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