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 Fall Program 2026
Oakwood Techniques is an after school performing arts program fostering a lifelong love of the arts and self-expression! Oakwood Techniques Summer Program is open to students grades 3-8. The program is free but space is limited!
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 6, 2026
PROGRAM DATES/TIMES:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30-6:30pm
September 22nd - December 17th
Snack and dinner served each day!
Featuring classes in Percussion, Acting, and Dance!
If you have any questions, please contact Kristoph DiMaria
Email: oakwoodtechniques@oakwoodcommunitycenter.org
Phone: (518) 274-2434
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.