The Walkerville Centre
for Creative Arts (WCCA) is a program for visual and performing
arts students in the Windsor - Essex County region. Courses are
taught at all grades of secondary school in dance (ballet, modern
and jazz); drama (theatre acting, tech and music theatre); vocal
music; piano; orchestral instruments; guitar; studio arts (drawing,
painting, sculpture and printmaking) and media arts (video, animation,
photography and digital animation). Students must audition for the
program. An application with audition requirements is available
on-line or at your local public high school or elementary school.
You must be enrolled in a high school in the Greater Essex County
District School Board to participate in this program. All courses
are fully accredited Arts courses listed in the Ontario Ministry
of Education curriculum. This program is for students who have exceptional
abilities in the arts and who are self-motivated.
Former Grads
Graduates
of this program have gone on to distinguished professional arts
careers:
Tamia
Hill (formerly Washington) is a Grammy nominated R&B singer
Craig Ramsay is a professional dancer, actor, singer on Broadway
and has appeared in TV movies (Once Upon a Mattress) Jay Leno
and the Today Show
Peter Senchuk is a professional trombonist
Melissa Williams is a professional dancer/actress, was on
tour with Prince, choreographs for actors and was in the movie
Showgirls
Dan Jovanov is a dancer in Los Angeles
Kristyn Dayus is a dancer with the Radio City Rockettes
Kagan McLeod is a freelance artist / illustrator
Nadia Sulaiman is an actress (Second City)
Chris Mio is an actor in Toronto
Dayna Curtis is a dancer on scholarship in Los Angeles
Liz Nantais is a professional accompanist (Fosse, Sweet Charity)
Nav Sehmbi is an international R & B recording artist
Sarah Lochhead is dancing internationally
Crystal Gage (formerly Gauthier) is a country music singer
on the way to Nashville
Genevieve Marentette is an international jazz vocalist in
Hong Kong
Rory O’Connor is an artist who designed a monument in
Dieppe, France honouring the Essex Scottish Regiment
There are many more...
History
This program
was initiated by the Windsor Board of Education in 1989. It
has been continued by the Greater Essex County District School
Board and has grown from 171 students to 378 in 2002. All
courses are taught in facilities at Walkerville Collegiate
- 2100 Richmond Street, Windsor Ontario N8Y 1L4. For additional
information you may contact the Director of the program (Mrs.
E Maynard) by phone at (519) 252-6514, fax 252-3404.
