EDUCATION & OUTREACH
LHE collaborates with the YMCA
& National Arts Council in offering Arts Education
Programmes (AEP) to Singapore schools. Since 1999 this
programme has reached over 200,000 students from more than 150
schools. LHE has also conducted dance workshops for the hearing-impaired,
youths with disabilities and Toa Payoh Girls';
Home, a reform centre for young offenders.
LHE offers lindy hop
classes for the public at the YMCA, where we
have instructed over 900 dancers in the past seven years. LHE
also hosts monthly dances at the Singapore
Art Museum. In addition, LHE produces Blackspeak,a
quarterly journal for informed discussion of jazz dance and
other issues related to jazz music, expressions and history.