Spy Hop’s afterschool programming is offered in a scaffolded approach. Explore introductory, intermediate, and advanced classes in film, music, audio and design! All classes are taught by a professional teaching artist at the Kahlert Youth Media Arts Center in downtown Salt Lake City.
Introductory
Intermediate
Advanced
Introductory
OPEN MIC gives teens free access to our music recording studio every Friday afternoon.
OPEN MIC gives teens free access to our music recording studio every Friday afternoon.
Media Labs offer in-depth instruction at an introductory level in areas like filmmaking, beatmaking, and game design that give you the basic skills you need to make the art in your head come to life.
REEL Stories gives you the chance tell your story to the world. You will write, direct, and edit your own five-minute documentary film that speaks to who you are, what you’re into, and where you live.
Spy Hop’s summer camps provide full-day workshop style experiences jam-packed with opportunities for learning and creative self-expression.
Intermediate
OPEN MIC gives teens free access to our music recording studio every Friday afternoon.
Phase 2 hosts an open session for Spy Hop students, alumni, and friends to hang out with the Phase 2 team, learn, practice with gear, and meet other young creatives every third Friday of the month.
Paid apprenticeships in film, design, music, and audio production give you a hands-on experience through project-based learning to hone your craft in the medium you love.
Resonate is a fast-paced hip-hop production program that celebrates the use of rap as a vehicle for self-expression and social change.
In this program, you will focus intensely on the songwriting process to create individual songs that utilize concepts like writing in key, arranging, melody, dynamics, lyric writing, and finished compositions.
Put your gift for gab to work and be a part of the team that produces the Off the Cuff video podcast, a rapid-fire podcast show that gives you a chance to broadcast your wacky, fun, passionate, and inspired thoughts for the future with an online audience.
Advanced
OPEN MIC gives teens free access to our music recording studio every Friday afternoon.
Spend 12 months with other passionate, experienced, creative teens to write, shoot, and edit a short fiction or non-fiction film.
This gives young musicians a one-of-a-kind opportunity to form a band, write original songs, produce an album and perform around Salt Lake City.
POWER UP! students design, illustrate and code a game focused around a social issue and release it to the public.
LOUD & CLEAR YOUTH RADIO is Utah’s only youth-produced radio show where students DJ a Saturday night show on community radio station 90.9 FM KRCL.