Join us at SummerGATE 2025!
Priority Registration Opens on January 6th, 2025, and General Registration opens on January 13th, 2025
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SummerGATE the sister organization of SFYC, has made K-8 STEAM courses active, fun, & engaging for over 40 years. SummerGATE is a California, non-profit, educational corporation established by the San Francisco Association for the Gifted and Talented for the purpose of providing college-bound students with challenging summer classes. Many SFYC staff members teach classes in three sessions, mid June through early August. More at summergatesf.org or infosummergate@gmail.com or 415-629-8540.
OUR 2025 MUSIC, DRAMA and DANCE CLASSES:
Hand Drumming - Grades 4-8
Learn the techniques of hand-drumming, from the simple tambourine to the more complicated and rarer percussion instruments used throughout the world. Students explore rhythms from Africa and the Caribbean isles, then create their own unique style.
Intro to Guitar - Grades 3-8
Guitars are supplied for this introductory class. Students run basic chords and strumming techniques. Folks and rock songs are used as the basis for the music created.
SummerGATE Sings - Grades 3-8
From Classical to Pop music, students learn choral songs in two and three part harmony, featuring upbeat songs from the Broadway, Folk, and jazz styles, plus fresh tunes by current popular artists. Our class culminates in an energized “funformance” on the last day of SummerGATE.
Disney Showcase Spectacular! - Grades 1-3
We will sing and dance to some of a biggest hits from Frozen, Encanto, Beauty and the Beast, Moana, and Aladdin. We learn choral music and dance routines from top-notch musical instructors, and students perform solos on ensemble songs in our performance. You won’t want to miss our exciting rendition of this musical on the last day of SummerGATE.
SummerGATE Goes to Broadway: Cabaret - Grades 4-8
Ours is an intense, fun-filled musical class of singing, movement, and theater, where we learn to perform with joy and confidence. While focusing on a variety of favorite Broadway musicals, both classic and contemporary, students study monologues and dialogues. We learn choral music and dance routines from top-notch musical instructors, and students perform solos on ensemble songs in our performance. You won’t want to miss our exciting rendition of this musical on the last day of SummerGATE. This year’s musicals will include songs from Wicked, Six, In the Heights, Hamilton, The Lion King, Waitress, and much more.
Hip Hip Dance - Grades 3-5 This class is a basic introduction to hip hop and jazz funk style dance. The class will include hip hop technique and choreography, and of course freestyle improvisation! We will have a blast dancing to age appropriate music and moves for the young dancers.
Hip Hop Dance - Grades 6-8 This hip hop class is a fast-paced and energetic dance style using the latest street/urban dance moves set to hip hop music. Hip hop encompasses a wide range of street styles including breaking, locking and popping. This class for young beginners specifically focuses on developing rhythm and coordination while encouraging individual style.
SO Much DRAMA - Grades 6-8 For eager and imaginative students looking to cultivate a lifelong love and confidence in acting! This class is a unique opportunity to move from improvisation work to scripted text. Focusing on play titles specific to the experiences of young people, this class will develop students’ abilities to analyze text and connect the words of a playwright to choices of emotion, relationship, and dramatic action.
Theater Games and Improv - Grades 3-5 Kids will have fun exploring the first stages of acting technique through games and new friendships! We will start building a toolbox of essential acting skills: playing action, portraying given circumstances, and deepening our vocal, physical, and emotional acting choices as we create special and unusual characters! Working both individually, with partners, and in small groups, we will explore improvisation, and learn the basic language of the theater world.