Latino

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Other

Latino

Other

Arts Integration Subjects

Science

http://www.musicenter.org

Special Education

About:

artworxLA was founded in 1992 as The HeArt Project to help fill the void in arts education among L.A. inner city youth. Our mission is to combat the epidemic high school dropout crisis with a long-term, sequential arts program offering students a pursuable life path that inspires them to stay in school, evolve as unique individuals and flourish as creative adults. In nearly 25 years of success in the field, we know that true transformation for high-risk teenagers is achieved through three interlocking elements: 1) Creatively educating them with sustained arts exposure and immersion; 2) Connecting them to a network of peers, artists, cultural partners, higher education, creative industries, and supportive adults; and 3) Investing human and financial resources around persistent support for students and alumni to build self-confidence and personal responsibility.

Using art as a key engager, artworxLA provides creative learning experiences for 600 alternative high school students across L.A. County every year. Our program gives struggling students renewed perspective on education and life, helping them to be curious, to love learning, and to see a bright future.

Music Center

kwall — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 03:10:40 +0000

Music Center kwall Wed, 03/08/2017 - 19:10

Phone

213-972-3376

Website

kwyffels@musiccenter.org

Supervisorial District Located

First

District Partners

Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes Union Elementary School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

http://www.theatricum.com

Science

Special Education

Yes

About:

As L.A.’s performing arts center, The Music Center convenes artists, communities and ideas with the goal of deepening the cultural lives of every resident in Los Angeles County. The Music Center provides year-round programming inside The Music Center’s four theatres, on Jerry Moss Plaza, outside at Gloria Molina Grand Park—a 12-acre adjacent green space—in schools and other locations all over Los Angeles County. The Music Center presents world-class dance with Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, participatory dancing experiences, free and low-cost public concerts and events, arts education programs, workshops, performances, interactive experiences and special events. The Music Center also manages the theatres, the Plaza and Gloria Molina Grand Park on behalf of the County of Los Angeles. The Music Center is home to four renowned resident companies—Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA Opera and LA Phil.

Arts Education Programs
The Music Center's arts education programs serve young people and educators of all backgrounds and abilities, with festivals and events on campus, in-school performing arts assemblies, arts integration residencies for students (grades TK-12) and professional development for educators (TK-12) in dance, music, theatre visual and media arts. This includes The Music Center's Teach Through The Arts Initiative in support of Proposition 28 - with educator coaching and Professional Learning Community sessions with a Music Center teaching artist and online support. Our offerings feature over 50 performing arts assemblies (K-12) in dance, music, theatre and storytelling and free festivals and events each year, including the Blue Ribbon Children’s Festival (5th grade), the Very Special Arts Festival (TK-12) and student matinee dance performances (grades 6-12).

Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum

kwall — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 03:10:40 +0000

Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum kwall Wed, 03/08/2017 - 19:10

Phone

(310) 455-2322

Website

District Partners

ICEF Public Schools Charter Network

PUC Schools Charter Network

Magnolia Public Schools Charter Network

Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes Union Elementary School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

http://www.theunusualsuspects.org

Special Education

Yes

About:

MISSION
To elevate, educate, and entertain audiences of all ages by presenting thought-provoking classics, socially relevant plays, and education programs in a beautiful, natural outdoor sanctuary for the arts. By passing on a sense of history to young people and adults alike, great works of art inform their present and inspire their future. A true renaissance theatre, we offer (at affordable prices) a diversity of programming from Shakespeare to poetry; from folk music to the development of future playwrights – all to help understand the world we live in and to embrace our shared humanity.

HISTORY
In the 1950s, Will Geer was blacklisted. His career shattered, the artist/botanist sold vegetables, presented Shakespeare, and played music with friends such as Woody Guthrie and John Randolph at his family home in Topanga. The seeds of the Theatricum Botanicum were planted. In 1978 Geer passed away. Daughter Ellen grew Theatricum into an Equity theatre and launched the Academy of the Classics and School Programs. An L.A. cultural landmark, Theatricum has been serving the patrons, families and students of the greater Los Angeles area for over 40 years.

Student Programming:

School Programs
School Days Field Trip Program
Offered for 5 weeks each spring and two weeks each fall, students (K-12) and teachers from public, private, parochial and special needs schools travel to Theatricum’s outdoor amphitheatre to see a full production of a Shakespeare play, participate in an interactive Living History program featuring Queen Elizabeth and William Shakespeare, and engage in technique workshops. Prior to the field trip, students receive an in-school preparatory visit and teachers receive an extensive study guide and are invited to participate in a professional development workshop. Schools are charge a per-pupil fee to participate (range of prices based on size of group). Chaperones are free at a rate of 1/20 students and $15 each after that.

Classroom Enrichment
Theatricum offers extensive arts education programming in the schools in the following categories: Assemblies (American History Concert-style assemblies, Living History visits, Shakespeare plays, and Children’s Literature); Workshops (juggling, combat, dance, text, music, ensemble, etc.); Residencies (Students Act the Classics - students are directed by Theatricum artist-educators in edited versions of Shakespeare plays; Classics off-the-Page - individually designed curriculum – including workshops and performances - created to bring a particular text “off-the-page” for a classroom or student group; and Americana off-the-Page - individually designed curriculum – including workshops and performances - created to bring a particular period in American History “off-the-page” for a classroom or student group). Programs are tailored for each teacher’s needs (budget, schedule, curricular) and are brought directly to the school site.

The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company

kwall — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 03:10:40 +0000

The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company kwall Wed, 03/08/2017 - 19:10

Phone

(323) 739-0768

Website

District Partners

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

Special Education

Yes

About:

The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company (US) is a recognized leader in the fields of arts education, mentorship and community building, having been a thriving force in the underserved neighborhoods of Los Angeles County for over two decades. Our participant-driven theatre-arts programs utilize arts education to mitigate the underlying family and community risk factors that threaten the healthy development of the 1,000+ children and adults we serve annually (90% in grades 5-12), including foster youth and incarcerated minors. Designed to empower youth with lifelong skills, the benefits of our programs go beyond the reach of a typical arts education workshop to provide vulnerable youth with the hope and confidence to overcome their difficult surroundings.

US was founded over 20 years ago with the mission to empower youth in underserved and at-risk environments with the means and methods necessary to explore personal and social conflicts and develop self-esteem and communication and coping skills in order to make positive life choices and become productive members of the community. Since then, US has grown from a small youth-intervention program into a collaborative, community-based theatre arts organization with a presence in underserved schools and juvenile detention camps throughout Los Angeles County. Today, with a staff of 7; a roster of 20 professional teaching artists; best-practice, standards-based curricula; and a significant role in countywide collaborative efforts, US’s innovative, place-based programs now serve over 1,000 Los Angelinos each year between the ages of 7-65+.

Professional Development:

Description of 4 hour Lesson: Discovering Our Voice: Personal Expression through Theatre.
The Unusual Suspects 4 hour interactive professional development workshop provides middle school teachers the tools to build a creative classroom environment where students feel safe to explore personal and social group identities; and develop characters and story lines which become the foundational material to fuel a collaborative playwriting process. The US presenter will use theatre arts and playwriting exercises that demonstrate theatrical story development, script writing, and improvisation techniques. The standards based, language arts enrichment workshop will utilize ensemble exercises to establish trust, improvisation techniques to illustrate conflict and character development strategies, and writing exercises to explore the link between personal, cultural, and community issues.

Get Lit - Words Ignite

kwall — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 03:10:02 +0000

Get Lit - Words Ignite kwall Thu, 02/16/2017 - 19:10

Phone

(213) 388-8639

Website

http://www.getlit.org

Supervisorial District Located

Second

District Partners

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

Special Education

About:

Get Lit – Words Ignite fuses classic and spoken word poetry to increase teen literacy and cultivate enthusiastic learners emboldened to inspire social consciousness in diverse communities. “Claim Your Poem, Claim Your Life.”

Get Lit – Words Ignite brings the transformative power of poetic expression to thousands of underserved young people each year through a unique standards based curriculum that fuses classic literature and poetry with contemporary spoken word techniques and performance while developing multiple literacies, refining creative self-expression, and fostering cultural understanding and social engagement. Poets, students, teachers, coaches, and mentors bring the Get Lit Curriculum into Los Angeles schools and connect them to each other through the countywide Classic Slam, where thousands come out to snap their fingers in response to crackling performances. Our award winning troupe, The Get Lit Players, perform classic and original poems in schools, performance venues, festivals, and public spaces throughout Southern California and the nation. The interrelated practices of reading, writing, and performance that are built into these programs combine with personal responsibility, empathy, and motivation to overcome obstacles to learning and build a foundation of self-confidence that equips youth to be successful, contributing citizens.

Student Programming:

The Get Lit curriculum has been offered in Los Angeles high schools since 2006. Currently, over 7,000 teens from nearly 100 high schools graduate from the program, which is taught in multiple classrooms in each school. The curriculum consists of reading, writing, memorizing and performing classic and spoken word poetry in a 12-lesson unit plan aligned to the Common Core Standards (Strand 9 and Strand 11: numbers 3,4,6,7 and 10). Students select poems by writers such as Kim Addonizio, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Gabriel Garcia Lorca, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, William Shakespeare, Tupac Shakur, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, and many others. Then, they write their own poems in response. This reflective, expressive process ignites a passion for language that fuels learning and a life long love of poetry and literature, while engaging each student’s deepest level of humanity and creativity.

Education Through Music-LA

kwall — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:10:01 +0000

Education Through Music-LA kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 19:10

Phone

818-433-7600

Website

http://www.etmla.org

info@etmla.org

Supervisorial District Located

Fifth

District Partners

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

Science

http://www.CenterTheatreGroup.org

Special Education

Yes

About:

Education Through Music-Los Angeles puts music back into inner-city schools as part of the core curriculum for every child, where it belongs. Education Through Music-LA is serving nearly 12,000 students with weekly, yearlong music instruction. Music has the power to transform the lives of children and their communities, and to provide them with such lifelong benefits including self-confidence, problem-solving skills, teamwork, perseverance, concentration, and motivation to stay in school.

Our objectives include:

Weekly, yearlong instruction for every child.
Integration across the curriculum to reinforce overall learning.
Ongoing training for music teachers and class teachers.
Guidance for school leaders to build towards sustainability.
Parent engagement and involvement as advocates for their music program.

Student Programming:

ETM-LA establishes strong partnerships with Los Angeles County schools to provide comprehensive, high-quality music education based on CA State and National Standards, during the school day. While many programs may serve only a subset of the school population, we provide equity for all children, including those with special needs, engaging every child with weekly, yearlong standards-based instruction that integrates skills and concepts across the curriculum.

Areas of instruction include general music, strings, guitar, recorder, ukulele, band, and chorus, determined through customized planning with each school. Depending on the grade level, each student receives one 30-50-minute music class weekly throughout the entire school year in a designated music room.

Professional Development:

In order to ensure high quality instruction for all students, music teachers participate in six annual professional development workshops and a five-day intensive training institute every August. We also provide academic teachers at partner schools with professional development workshops on how to connect skills and concepts from the music curriculum into lesson plans. In addition, ETM-LA helps principals and school district leaders plan for long-term sustainability.

Our in-school music education and training programs are overseen by Program Director Ryan Rowles, M. Ed, a school music educator with over 16 years’ experience, as well as Executive Director Victoria Lanier, a Juilliard Pre-College trained violinist with a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. in Education from Columbia Teachers College. ETM-LA's professional development workshops are hands-on, relevant to the participants and their teaching needs, and customized to provide support for a wide range of teaching levels.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles

kwall — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:10:01 +0000

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 19:10

Phone

(310) 972-3022

Website

education@ctgla.org

Supervisorial District Located

First

District Partners

ICEF Public Schools Charter Network

PUC Schools Charter Network

Magnolia Public Schools Charter Network

Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes Union Elementary School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

http://www.24thstreet.org

Special Education

Yes

About:

At Center Theatre Group and under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, we believe theatre creates an extraordinary connection between artists and audiences that only starts on the stage. Theatre creates the energy that feeds a city, a culture, and a society. Theatre reflects the community it serves. As one of the nation’s most influential nonprofit theatre companies, we proudly continue our 50-year tradition of using the art of theatre to broaden horizons and illuminate new perspectives.

Center Theatre Group is a place where artists, audiences, community members, and students and educators connect through the power of storytelling. Our programs support artists at all points in their careers, engage audiences before and after the show, encourage our community to make theatre a part of their everyday lives, and inspire the next generation of theatregoers, artists, and artisans.

Student Programming:

Center Theatre Group's education programs support the next generation of theatregoers, artists, and artisans, encouraging them to learn more about themselves, the world, and the arts. Through workshops, events, discussions, and other programs, we encourage, support, and connect young people with theatre, and with one another.

24th Street Theatre Company

kwall — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:10:01 +0000

24th Street Theatre Company kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 19:10

Phone

213-745-6516

Website

theatre@24thstreet.org

Supervisorial District Located

First

District Partners

ICEF Public Schools Charter Network

PUC Schools Charter Network

Magnolia Public Schools Charter Network

Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes Union Elementary School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

Special Education

About:

Since 1997 24th Street Theatre has been a leader in Arts Education, both in LA and nationally, by providing world-class theatre field trips, school residencies, and professional development workshops that teachers actually love! 24th Street Theatre is a unique organization blending professional children’s theatre and world class Arts Education. 24th Street’s acclaimed educational programming is created by award-winning director/educator Debbie Devine, who also heads the drama department at the prestigious Colburn School, is a theatrical director/acting coach for the LA Philharmonic, and is certified by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s teaching artist training program. Devine won the USC Rossier School of Education’s Rose Award for innovation and leadership in the field of Arts Education. 24th Street’s productions have won the coveted LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Ovation Awards, LA Weekly Awards, and the national TCG (Theatre Communications Group) Peter Zeisler Award for Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre.

Student Programming:

ENTER STAGE RIGHT field trip program offers students and teachers an introduction to the live theatre they will never forget! This proven program has been adored by over 75,000 students and teachers. (1) It begins with an in-class Theatre workshop for each classroom participating. The art form is introduced in such a fun way that student will be on their feet creating artists tableaux before they have time to feel shy about it. By the end of the first workshop, your students will be proudly thinking of themselves as a theatre artists. (2) Then, students and teachers take a field trip to LA’s most charming professional theatre for an interactive, live theatre performance that spans from the ancient Greeks to 21st century multi-media. ESR was built to connect to the VAPA standards, and thus satisfy many different areas of standards based learning. ESR is a private performance for up to 100 students and teachers, so that your school has it’s very own exclusive show. (3) Our teaching artists return to your school following your performance at 24th STreet Theatre to help your students unpack all they experienced at the theatre. The cost of an ESR fieldtrip package includes two busses, the Pre and Post-field trip in-class workshops and the field trip to the theatre. IN-SCHOOL RESIDENCIES are also available with 24th STreet's teaching artists and are customized to fit your school’s needs.

Professional Development:

TEACHING AS A PERFORMING ART PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS. Here’s a PD workshop that your teachers will actually thank you for. 24th STreet’s Teaching As a Performing Art PD workshops help educators remember why they became teachers. Our PD’s nurture teachers’ spirits while giving them practical theatre tools to incorporate in their classrooms. TAPA PD’s teach educators to use theatre as Arts Integration with other content areas while also giving teachers new confidence in their storytelling and performing skills. And best of all, we’ll host your PD right here on the stage of our professional theatre, with live music and all the elements which adds great fun and magic to the experience. WE also do in-school PD’s and can customize our content for special school or district needs. VAPA and English-Language Arts Content Standards are incorporated in all phases of the program. Thousands of educators across the U.S. have benefitted from TAPA PD workshops!

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

kwall — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:10:02 +0000

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 16:10

Phone

(310) 246-3800

Website

http://www.thewallis.org

education@thewallis.org

Supervisorial District Located

Third

District Partners

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

African-American

European

Latino

Arts Integration Subjects