Education beyond the classroom.
Breakfast Club Academy is the education wing of Breakfast Club Dhaka. Students and young people learn music, crafts, events and leadership by doing them for real, through three programs: Recess, Award and Scholarship.
Breakfast Club Academy is built to introduce students and young people to learning beyond textbooks. It encourages creativity, practical knowledge, confidence, collaboration, and exposure to fields such as music, crafts, event organizing, and creative culture.
Breakfast Club Dhaka moved the dancefloor into daylight, with every age on one floor. Every one of those mornings needed a crew. The Academy hands those skills to the next generation.
OMDGTAKTonmoy Dutta Gupta & Tawsif Alam KhanFounders, Breakfast Club Dhaka
Ideas turned into posters, tees, sets and stages.
How real events get planned, built and run.
Students speak, perform and lead in front of their own school.
Crews, not solo projects. Everyone has a role.
Discover the programs under Breakfast Club Academy. One is live now, two are on the way.
A creative learning space for students to explore music, crafts, activities, and experiences beyond routine education.
Learn MoreA platform to recognize and celebrate promising young talent, participation, creativity, and excellence.
Recognising young people who make things happen, on stage, behind it and in their communities. Details to be announced.
A support initiative to help young learners access opportunities, encouragement, and educational growth.
An annual scholarship for students who want to pursue a career in arts, music or cooking. Students from every school that hosts Recess are eligible to apply.
What a student takes home from the Academy, and the floor it is built on.
Skills a syllabus skips: running a stage, making a poster, shooting a reel.
Students lead the work. Adults coach from the side.
Ideas go from a sketch to something people can see, wear and hear.
Artists, alumni and families in one room, inside the school.
Budgets, timelines, vendors and deadlines, handled for real.
Open to every student in a partner school, with scholarships to follow.
Discover the programs under Breakfast Club Academy.
School periods, run by the students. Danced by their parents.
After three weeks of workshops, the students build the stage, make the posters, shoot the content and run the floor. Teachers, parents and alumni share it with them.
Recess is made for the school's own community. Nobody else is invited.
Students run it and dance in it. Teachers coordinate, supervise and join the floor.
Invited through the school. They see what their children built, and share the floor with them.
Former students come home: on the decks as artists, in the crowd, and as proof the path exists.
Every Recess is built from the same blocks: performances, the student stage and the tutorial class. The format decides how many of each. Pick one to see the full flow.
The students who run Recess are recruited and trained by the people who run Breakfast Club. Training starts at least three weeks before the event.
Founder of Breakfast Club Dhaka. He leads a 40-minute basic tutorial on playing a musical instrument, then talks about music: how he got started, how a set is built, and what it takes to make music your thing.
Students register before the event through the school. No walk-ins on the day.
A maximum of 30 students are selected from the applications, with the teacher coordinator.
Selected students join OMDG on the day for the 40-minute tutorial and the music talk.
No public promotion before the day. The room belongs to the school. The world sees it after.
The event management team runs the promotion inside school, plus one message to parents and alumni through the school's WhatsApp groups.
Students, teachers, parents and alumni. The crew runs the guest list and the door.
Student-made reels and photos go up as collab posts on the school's page, Breakfast Club Academy and Breakfast Club Dhaka.
Every trainer does this work for Breakfast Club already. Where a workshop names more than one trainer, any of them can run it.
The full checklist for one Recess. Ticks stay on this device.
No workshop or class runs without the teacher coordinator or a teacher present.
No student content is posted without photo consent and the coordinator's sign-off.
We coach and stand beside them. We don't take the job off them.
We arrive before the first Recess period and leave the campus as we found it.
Every reel, photo and post promised to the school goes out.
With the school, within seven days of every Recess.
Recess puts students, teachers, parents and alumni in one room, run by the students themselves. Here is how it's paid for, and how partners help.
Four costs make a Recess happen. Two groups can cover them. Tap an option to see what it covers.
Tees and pieces designed by the students in the art & graphics workshop.
Food and drinks for the crew, performers and guests on the day.
Stage, sound, instruments, power and the artists' setup.
Backdrops, decor and materials for the stage & decor team.
Former students backing Recess at their old schools. Every gift is counted here the moment it is logged.
No goal set yet.
Parents who bank with XYZ Bank get tokens they can transfer to their kids' accounts. It's an XYZ Bank programme where kids practise earning money by doing tasks.
Parents who use the XYZ Bank app receive tokens.
The parent gives their child a task to complete.
The child does the task.
The parent transfers tokens to the child's account. Earned, not given.
Talk to us about supporting Recess.
Start from a format or set everything yourself. The run sheet updates as you go, and the proposal is written from your choices.
Manual: tap periods to add or remove them. Recess runs from the first to the last period you pick.
Who takes part, where it happens and how it is paid for. Anything left open shows as to be confirmed in the proposal.
A 4-page PDF with your run sheet and details, the workshops, the tutorial class, the runway dated back from your event, the funding route and next steps.
Four steps to your first Recess.
Pick a format, a date and the periods above, then download your proposal.
A teacher coordinator and a student leader to work with Sadat Ahmed.
Students for the four workshops, plus applications for the tutorial class.
The WhatsApp group opens and the workshops begin.