Mission Statement The mission of the North of Boston Arts Center is to provide an inclusive About NoBAC North of Boston Arts Center (NOBAC) is a multi-media program where children of all ages can explore the world through the arts. NOBAC is dedicated to providing knowledge and education of Art, Music, Dance, Photography, Multi-Media, and Theatre Culture through stage experience. In an after school program we provide school age students with knowledge of the Arts through practice, participation and performance. We strive to pave the way for preschoolers as well, as they embark on their educational journey, through a diversified cultural program. We offer the children enrichment, education and participation opportunities in previously unexplored arts venues. This is an opportunity for them to work with and learn from renowned local and national artists. Faculty Among our staff are some of the most talented people on the North Shore. We are all very committed to the education of anyone willing to learn. Bonnie Rynkowski :: Founding Director
Later, she traveled to Europe and trained at the American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria, an intensive opera training program. Following this time, she sang with the Bavarian State Opera and the Alte Peter Choir in Munich. She applied extensive training and experience over a 30-year career as teacher, voice instructor, choral conductor, professional singer, and concert coordinator/producer. Her advanced degree in Music Education has been instrumental to her various successes with students and in performance. Motivating and communicating is her expertise with students at all levels, ages, and abilities, developing students based on individual learning requirements. She is trained and experienced in contemporary teaching methods and techniques which she recently exercised at St. Mary's School, teaching Grades K -8. In this setting, she conceptualized, directed and produced three concerts each including a one act musical involving entire student body. Bonnie also wrote a new school Music Curriculum as part of requisite for application of new accreditation with the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Her professional performing career spans stages in Boston, New York City, Munich, Germany and the North Shore. She taught choral vocal workshops and conducted choirs in Munich and the Boston area. Bonnie has also produced the CD "Your Virtual Voice," which is a vocal instruction CD. She studied vocal relaxation therapy from David Blair McCloskey which she incorporates into her present vocal training methods. Bonnie is also bilingual, she speaks both English and German. Henry Allen :: Director
Henry's career as a director, performer, visual artist, writer and arts educator has spanned more than 25 years. He is a graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory MFA program, studied at the Art Institute of Boston, and has served on the boards of Expressive Arts Collaborative, Outward Spiral Theatre, as well as on the Parent Advisory Board of the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital. He was a grant recipient of Allied Arts, Inc., and has performed extensively with renowned theatre companies in Colorado and Minnesota, including two Tony Award winning regional theatres. Henry was also a co-founding director of an annual Latin American Political Theatre Festival in Minneapolis, and has enjoyed longtime relationships with Steppingstone Theatre for Youth Development and Wells Fargo Bank, MN, as an arts educator and theatrical director. Henry has written a collection of short plays for children to perform, based on Jewish folktales from around the world, and is also a jazz vocalist and Master of Ceremonies, having performed regularly at venues throughout the Twin Cities. In addition to his theatrical career, he has worked for many years in private and public education as a educator (Theater Arts, Life Skills, Phy Ed, Early Childhood, Spanish, and Latin American Studies), a creative education consultant, and has also served as a teacher and administrator in two Waldorf schools. After his son became ill, Henry founded The Brain Candy Project (www.braincandyproject.org), a non-profit organization that serves parents who are living in the hospital with critically ill children. In August, 2009, Henry moved himself, his two dogs, and his charitable foundation to Manchester-By-The-Sea to begin a new life. The creative education of children, parents and teachers is an area of deep concern and commitment in Henry's life. Natash Haverty :: Faculty Before moving to Rockport this summer, Natasha Haverty was living in New York City and working at The Moth, a nonprofit organization devoted to the art of live storytelling. At The Moth she coordinated the MothSHOP, the outreach program that brings storytelling workshops to youth and adults through out the five boroughs. Before that she was trained in radio documentary at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, ME, and before that she graduated from Brown University. This July, Tasha received the "Liberty and Justice for All" grant from the Massachusetts Council for the Humanities for an oral history project. She has been performing improvisational theater just a little longer than she has been teaching it, and has taught in many environments, from the Creative Arts at Park day camp in Brookline to a medium security women's prison in Cranston, RI. Whether as a performer, a teacher, or radio producer, she is fully committed to the importance of listening. |
Bonnie Rynkowski grew up in Salem, Massachusetts and graduated from Salem High School. She received a Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Lowell and a Master Degree from the Boston Conservatory of Music. Bonnie lived in New York City where she studied with Maestro Carlo Faria and Jane Klaviter of the Metropolitan Opera. Here, she studied acting at the HB Studio and dance with Maurice Hines, Michelle Assaf and Doug Wassell.
Henry Allen was steeped in world culture from an early age. The son of a US diplomat, his experiences living in Europe and Latin America have had a profound impact on his life and work as an artist, educator and parent. Surviving cancer, overcoming obesity, and losing his 13 year old son to brain cancer have taught many lessons in courage, empowerment and integrity.