Oakwood Techniques
Performing arts instruction and programming for kids!
Dance, Music and Theater!
Oakwood Techniques is a performing arts after school program that lays the foundation for a lifelong love of the arts and builds participants’ self-expressive skills and confidence.
Oakwood Techniques Summer Program 2026
Oakwood Techniques Summer Program 2026 is a 5-week youth arts intensive with a focus on performing arts. Students will participate in creating a live theatrical show to be presented at the end of the program. Oakwood Techniques Summer Program 2026 will include acting, arts workshops, field trips, and community building.
Oakwood Techniques Summer Program is open to students grades 4th-8th. Space is limited to 35 students, so register ASAP.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday June 1, 2026
To ensure the success of the production for all students, students are required to attend all program days.
PROGRAM DATES/TIMES:
July 6th- August 7th
Monday-Friday 8:30AM-4:30PM
If you have any questions, please contact the program coordinator, Mr. Justin Relf
Email: oakwoodtechniques@oakwoodcommunitycenter.org
Phone: (518) 269-5704
Full and partial scholarships are available for qualifying students!
FAQs
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Oakwood Techniques has fall and spring sessions which take place in the after school hours, and a full-day, five-week summer program.
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All sessions are open to all students in the 3rd-8th grades.
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Registration info will be posted before the start of each session. For more information please contact the program coordinator Justin Relf at (518) 269-5704 or email at: justinrelfocc@gmail.com.
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Oakwood Techniques began in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Executive Director, Shanna Goldman, the staff at Troy CSD School 2, and program director Justin Relf collaborated to create a program that would see youth in under invested neighborhoods become performing artists by fostering natural interest and talent with quality performing arts training.
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Sessions can hold up to 25 students.
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We have five adult staff that work in our program. We are also a work site for the Rensselaer County Summer Youth and Youth Employment Program, hosting several high school student employees in our program.
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Yes! During the school year, students receive a snack when they arrive and eat a meal cooked in our kitchen together at the end of the program.
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Oakwood Community Center is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and all donations made to it are tax-deductible.