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2017-2018 AE-EXT Project Descriptions of 27

California Arts Council 2017-2018 Arts Education: Extension

Project Descriptions

The Arts Education: Extension program supports arts education programs for PreK-12 students that operate after school and during the summer, on school sites, in artistic venues, and in community settings. The intention of this program is to offer young people sequential, hands-on training in artistic disciplines, including dance, literary arts, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts. Learn more at http://arts.ca.gov/programs/ae.php.

Number of Grants Awarded: 169 | Total Investment: $2,307,877

Application ID, Organization, County, Grant Award Amount

Project Description

AE-EXT-17-1844 24th Street Theatre Company Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, 24TH STREET THEATRE COMPANY will provide free immersive, after-school and summer arts classes and mentoring opportunities for up to 100 low-income, K-12 youth. Program activities align with California Visual and Performing Arts Standards and include two culminating performances through which students will demonstrate skills learned. Classes will be conducted on the stage at 24th STreet Theatre and be led by highly qualified teaching artists.

AE-EXT-17-1758 3 Point 0 Sacramento County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, 3Point0, Inc. DBA Studio T Urban Dance Academy will partner with nonprofits, schools, and community centers to bring enriching after-school and summer dance and performing arts classes to K-12th grade students in arts starved communities throughout Greater Sacramento. Funds will be use to purchase portable studio equipment, for facilities rental, to secure necessary equipment and transportation for students, and for staffing costs.

AE-EXT-17-1502 916 Ink Sacramento County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, 916 INK will provide 3, week-long Amplify Your Voice Summer Camps to serve 60-90 elementary school students in South Sacramento with an intensive arts education experience, transforming them into published authors, fostering improved academic skills and producing one professional anthology of student work. Students will have opportunities to engage with local artists in music, performance and fine arts to explore different storytelling methods.

http://arts.ca.gov/programs/ae.php


AE-EXT-17-1597 A Step Beyond San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, A Step Beyond will maintain and expand its core dance education component. A Step Beyond (ASB) is a creative after-school youth development program whose core activity is dance education and performance. ASB serves a population of very low-income children and youth from North Inland San Diego County, providing dance, academic support, social support, counseling, and family involvement opportunities over a nine to ten year period.

AE-EXT-17-1849 Abada-Capoeira San Francisco San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco will provide after-school, weekend and summertime arts education to youth, grades K-12. Programs focus on Brazilian arts, particularly capoeira, and are held in schools and at our Mission District Capoeira Arts Center. Programs are free or low-cost to participants and target youth with limited access to quality art and physical education. Funds support artistic fees, program materials, and operational and outreach costs.

AE-EXT-17-1557 Actors Gang Inc Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, The Actors' Gang will deliver 5 theatre workshops at The Actors' Gang for elementary and middle school students offering skills-based workshops in our unique style of theatre which explores emotional states, characters of the Commedia dell'Arte, and ensemble building. Students work in an artistically safe space, collaboratively with their peers and professional theatre artists. Each session culminates in an original theatre piece.

AE-EXT-17-1777 Advaita Society Alameda County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Kala Art Institute (Advaita Society) will offer Camp Kala, a six-week summer art program for children and youth ages 6-17 on-site at Kala Art Institute. Each session is one week, led by a teaching-artist with assistance from three assistants serving 18 young artists per week. Each year, we strengthen our equity and inclusion plan, making this hands--on summer art making and learning experience accessible to all our young neighbors.

AE-EXT-17-1776 Aimusic School Santa Clara County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Aimusic School will provide a Chinese Music Education for Youth program whose tuition is waived for new students. 10 teaching artists will give 40-60 students from the age of 6-9, learning traditional Chinese instruments for a whole school year. With 30 sessions, each includes an instrumental class followed by a music theory. The grant fund will be used for paying the artists and the rental of classroom facility in San Jose City College.

AE-EXT-17-1735 The Aja Project San Diego County $10,298

With support from the California Arts Council, The AjA Project will engage youth in the community of City Heights in AjA’s Youth Media Project which positions young people as knowledge bearers in their communities and elevates their voices into the public sphere through the arts . In doing so, youth are disrupting the false narratives that can often perpetuate cycles of thought and behavior, at the individual and societal level.


AE-EXT-17-1821 Alonzo King Lines Ballet San Francisco County $4,978

With support from the California Arts Council, Alonzo King LINES Ballet will provide free after-school dance education through HeART with LINES school and community partners, serving primarily low-income students of color. Students are given an opportunity to learn dance concepts, experiment with movement, and develop ideas through choreography in a safe and accessible environment. Current partners include the Tenderloin Boys and Mission Boys and Girls Clubs, and De Marillac Academy.

AE-EXT-17-1862 Angelica Center for Arts and Music Los Angeles County $13,500

With the support from the California Arts Council, ANGELICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND MUSIC will strive to achieve our goals of serving underserved youth in need of constructive and creative arts activities; increasing the hourly pay rates of our instructors to reach parity with similar organizations and recruit and retain a qualified and dedicated staff; and strengthening the quality and effectiveness of the program and staff through professional development opportunities.

AE-EXT-17-1838 Angels Gate Cultural Center Inc Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER INC will provide a comprehensive 2nd-12th grade after school visual arts program at the Boys and Girls Club of the LA Harbor, dubbed Studio 327. The entire program offers dance and visual arts education to Elementary students, while older students will receive music and visual arts education as we collaborate with Pony Box Dance Company and Jazz Angels. This funding request works to fund the visual arts components.

AE-EXT-17-1934 Armory Center for the Arts Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, the Armory Center for the Arts will deliver 12 afterschool artist residencies at Learning Works School in East Pasadena and Learning Works @ Homeboy Industries in Boyle Heights. The program uses the transformative powers of arts education to re-engage in-crisis teens—dropouts, probation youth, expelled youth, and pregnant teens and teen moms—with their education, their peers, their families, and the community.

AE-EXT-17-1762 Art of Elan San Diego County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Art of Élan will provide its “Young Artists in Harmony” (YAH) afterschool residency program in partnership with A Reason To Survive (ARTS), which uses arts to transform the lives of at-risk youth. The 10-week residency consists of weekly workshops where student composers are mentored by Art of Élan professional musicians who showcase the works in 2 public concerts that are recorded for online streaming to be enjoyed by listeners worldwide.

AE-EXT-17-1548 Arts Collaborative of Nevada County Nevada County $4,493

With support from the California Arts Council, the ARTS COLLABORATIVE OF NEVADA COUNTY (ACNC) will provide weekly instruction in visual arts to K-6 After School and Summer School students in Grass Valley and Penn Valley School Districts. All arts lessons integrate CA visual arts standards with Common Core curriculum or school-adopted character education. ACNC and partner NEO will provide older students (gr. 6-12) after school arts instruction in music, photography, recording, and painting.


AE-EXT-17-1641 Arts Council Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Arts Council Santa Cruz County hires teaching artists to train high school students in the arts (visual arts, guitar, drumming, theater, and dance) and together, they teach elementary and middle school students. The vast majority of teachers and students are Latinx, Spanish-speaking, and grew up in Watsonville. The program helps youth develop creative skills, a love for the arts, positive self-expression, and leadership abilities.

AE-EXT-17-1573 Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc Alameda County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, AHC will implement after school programming for ArtEsteem’s West Oakland Legacy Project (WOLP), an arts integrated curricula emphasizing leadership development, environmental awareness, and STEAM programming. In partnership with Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), local artists, and local art-based businesses, the project will increase successful artistic opportunities for at-risk children and youth in West Oakland.

AE-EXT-17-1631 Bay Area Music Project Alameda County $14,250

With support from the California Arts Council, the Bay Area Music Project will provide 105 elementary school children with 38 weeks of intensive after school music instruction, academic support, and inspiring experiences. Following the respected El Sistema model, two dedicated teaching artists will work with children every weekday in an orchestra setting, with multi-level classes in winds, choir, and music exploration. Approximately 60% of BAMP’s students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

AE-EXT-17-1442 Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, BAYCAT will provide hands-on digital media arts education at no cost to 150 underrepresented youth in San Francisco. Professional teaching artists empower youth to discover their own creative voices by giving them unparalleled access to high quality digital media technology and training. Semesters culminate in screening events that create an opportunity to celebrate diverse artists, build social justice awareness and amplify community dialogue.

AE-EXT-17-1686 Bayview Opera House Inc San Francisco County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Bayview Opera House will provide 10 classes of 15 class hours each, in hip hop and modern dance, sculpture, mixed media and painting, to 120-180 Bayview elementary school children. Classes will be taught by PUSH Dance Company, and teaching artist William Rhodes. Classes will emphasize learning through the arts and support the creative development of the whole child. A culminating professionally produced event will showcase the outcomes.

AE-EXT-17-1761 Bell Arts Factory Ventura County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, BELL ARTS FACTORY will continue and expand our Youth Art Program. We are currently offering classes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for children ages 5 to 12. We want to offer classes on Monday and Tuesday, offer art series for adolescents, and expand our Spanish Language Summer Art Camp. This funding will help us reach more children, offer a diverse array of arts instruction, purchase supplies, and allow us to bring in guest teachers.

AE-EXT-17-1540 Blue Line Arts Placer County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, BLUE LINE ARTS will introduce 25 teenagers to the art of architecture through a 30-hour summer class integrating art and inspiring imaginations as they develop an understanding of how cities are designed and built. The summer break class will take place at the Blue Line Arts Gallery in downtown Roseville, in collaboration with Placer County Office of Education.


AE-EXT-17-1865 Boomshake Music Alameda County $9,350

With support from the California Arts Council, Boomshake Music will offer workshops in multicultural street and popular drumming to students at two East Oakland elementary schools. Working with teaching artists from diverse backgrounds, students will learn traditional rhythms and develop their own creative voices through percussion, song, and storytelling. By performing at schools, festivals and social justice events, students will use music to reflect on and engage with their communities.

AE-EXT-17-1626 Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz County $6,800

With support from the California Arts Council, Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County (BGCSCC) will offer 60 underserved children and teenagers (ages 8-15) no- or low-cost interactive summer art classes that explore large-scale art installations. Designed to enhance the success of our 2017 Summer Teen Art Program (funded in part by the California Arts Council), this year’s project builds on previous participant and project success and expands the project to include younger members.

AE-EXT-17-1812 Brockus Project Dance Company Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Brockus Project Dance Company will provide three sessions of “New Perspective” a tuition free 8 week session of dance classes taught by highly skilled California artists for youth from underprivileged backgrounds. The program includes 3-4 days a week of training and weekly field trips exposing students to cultural and natural activities as a way to expand their creativity, spark academic engagement and transform their perceptions of humanity.

AE-EXT-17-1732 California Dance Institute Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, California Dance Institute (CDI) will offer after-school instruction in dance and music in underserved public schools. The CDI in-school program gives children a basic understanding of movement, rhythm and music. A selected group of children then continue dance instruction for 1.5 hours weekly on an advanced team and perform in a professionally staged Event of the Year production with up to 350 dancers, 12 musicians, backdrops and lighting.

AE-EXT-17-1922 California Institute Of The Arts Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, California Institute of the Arts' Community Arts Partnership (CAP) program will provide free, high quality beginning and advanced music instruction to high school students as a part of the CAP Summer Arts (CAPSA) programs. CalArts alumni artist instructors will lead four weeks of world music instruction (6 hours/day; 5 days/week) to approximately 60 music students from underserved neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County.

AE-EXT-17-1564 California Shakespeare Theater Alameda County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER will offer a four-week Conservatory program, providing 60 Bay Area youth from diverse backgrounds with intensive training in the full range of theater techniques, while also offering paid professional development opportunities for emerging artists to assist professional Bay Area theater artists in classes such as: Acting, Voice-over, Commedia dell'Arte, Improv, Make-up, Shakespearean History, Auditioning, among others.


AE-EXT-17-1623 California Symphony Orchestra Inc Contra Costa County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the California Symphony will transform futures of elementary-age students through orchestral music training to combat poverty, strengthen education, and foster positive decision-making to unlock the world. Sound Minds is a comprehensive after-school program, inspired by El Sistema, and provides hands-on music instruction and academic enrichment to young, low-income students after school three days a week at no cost to students and families.

AE-EXT-17-1833 Cantare Con Vivo Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Cantare Con Vivo will provide 150 underserved Oakland youth with free, in-depth choral music classes and performance opportunities. Through weekly rehearsals, students will learn VAPA-aligned music skills, sing music from diverse cultures and styles and gain self-confidence and poise through performing. After-School Choirs will rehearse weekly and perform regularly over 32-week residencies; Summer program will rehearse daily for two weeks.

AE-EXT-17-1748 Cazadero Performing Arts Camp Inc Alameda County $14,250

With support from the California Arts Council, Cazadero Performing Arts Camp will offer seven weeks of sleep-away summer instrumental music camp in the redwoods of Western Sonoma County. Open to aspiring musicians ages 10-18 from all socio-economic levels (particular emphasis in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties), in-residence music educators work closely with young musicians to grow skill-sets and musicianship in music genres from classical to jazz in solo, small, and large ensemble settings.

AE-EXT-17-1739 Center for Community Arts, City of Walnut Creek Contra Costa County $12,038

With support from the California Arts Council, Center for Community Arts will deepen partnerships with 3 public schools in Concord and Walnut Creek, expanding its after school arts programs to reach up to 160 mostly low-income students in grades 1-8. In each of 8, 15-session residencies, students will focus on a single discipline (vs. 2 the previous years) to enable more in-depth skill-building and deeper engagement in the creative process, and will share their learning in a culminating event.

AE-EXT-17-1909 Chinese Cultural Productions San Francisco County $10,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Chinese Cultural Productions will conduct an after-school dance program at John Yehall Chin Elementary School in San Francisco. CCP will provide four hours of weekly classes in traditional Chinese dance to approximately 25 students for 32 weeks. The program will culminate in one on-site (in-school) public performance and one public performance in a San Francisco arts venue.

AE-EXT-17-1660 City Hearts Kids Say Yes to the Arts LA Fringe Theatre Inc Los Angeles County $9,000

With support from the California Arts Council, CITY HEARTS KIDS SAY YES TO THE ARTS will offer FRESH FOCUS: A New Shot At Life, an in-depth, disciplined photography course for at-risk children. Beginning & advanced classes will be held 2x/week over the school year at Jefferson & Roosevelt ElS, and Whaley MS, Title 1 schools in Compton, CA. Taught by faculty member/professional photographer Brian Nieman, trained in the VAPA standards, program will serve 40, 3rd–8th grade students.


AE-EXT-17-1595 City of San Fernando Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, City of San Fernando Mariachi Master Apprentice Program will connect Grammy Award winning musicians with underserved youth in an after school experience focusing on beginner-advanced mariachi folk instrument instruction, arrangement, and performance skills. Targeting grades 6-12, the 32wk program incorporates artistic and historical concepts to preserve traditional mariachi music. Curriculum instills self-confidence, pride and positive identity.

AE-EXT-17-1867 The Colburn School Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, THE COLBURN SCHOOL will engage up to 105 students from 11 Title I public schools in Los Angeles in our Jumpstart Young Musicians Program. Over 30 weeks, students will receive the highest caliber of instrumental music training by Colburn faculty and Conservatory Teaching Artists. They will meet 7.5 to 8.5 hours per week for free, in-depth instruction, including full band, sectional rehearsals and private lessons.

AE-EXT-17-1737 Collage Dance Theatre Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre (HDDT) will develop its arts education residency, “Duck Tales,” in partnership with A Place Called Home and the Inglewood Senior Center. Community participants will use movement and objects of memory to build intergenerational bonds, culminating in a free public performance involving the youth, seniors and HDDT company dancers. Funds will be used for HDDT’s teaching artists, educational materials and performer fees.

AE-EXT-17-1767 Community Initiatives/Harmony Project Bay Area San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Harmony Project Bay Area will continue its program of quality after school instrumental/orchestral music instruction to serve the 22 low income children (for a 2nd year) whose participation was funded by last year's CAC grant. The requested amount, plus matching, will pay for the necessary teaching artist/hours and supplies for one year. Each child will receive a minimum of 180 hours of group instruction, plus public performances, free of charge.

AE-EXT-17-1585 CRE Outreach Foundation Inc Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, CRE Outreach will provide 120 students with after-school music lessons through a partnership between our program, Outreach Through The Arts, and the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District. All students in the district's music program, grades 4 - 12, that also qualify for the free or reduced school lunch program will qualify for our free after-school music lessons. The district will contribute funds to the project through their Bergman Endowment.

AE-EXT-17-1931 Cutting Ball Theater San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Cutting Ball Theater will teach three sessions of a theater class throughout the school year at De Marillac Academy in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. Students will select a myth or folktale mined from a prevalent cultural population at De Marillac (Latinx, Pacific Islander, South East Asian). Students will adapt this story to modern day, and perform it for family, friends and community at a culminating event.

AE-EXT-17-1541 Dance & Drum in Humboldt Humboldt County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Dance and Drum in Humboldt will provide music instruction for Humboldt County youth, ages 6-14. Our courses will operate during the summer of 2018, and through the after school programs at our partnering schools through the 2018-2019 school year. Classes will primarily focus on using melodic percussion instruments, such as Steel Pan and Marimba, as well as other percussion instruments.


AE-EXT-17-1787 Destiny Arts Center Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council (CAC), Destiny Arts Center (DAC) will bring professionally taught South African dance and percussion programming to three of Bay Area Community Resources’ (BACR) after-school programs. Through DAC, approximately 160 students (grades K-5) in Title I West Oakland elementary schools will receive high-quality arts instruction and socio-emotional support, gaining an increased sense of peace, power, and creativity.

AE-EXT-17-1921 Diavolo Dance Theatre Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, DIAVOLO will expand arts accessibility to highly under-resourced communities by providing after-school programs at "Everybody Dance", Thomas Riley High School, Trinity Street Elementary and Dolores Huerta Elementary as well as summer programs at "Everybody Dance" and Watts Towers Arts Center. Workshops will culminate in student performances on DIAVOLO’s distinct set pieces such as abstract ladders, ramps, and wheels.

AE-EXT-17-1682 Dimensions Dance Theater Incorporated Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Dimensions Dance Theater will provide 300 students in grades 3-12 at The Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts and Carl B. Munck Elementary with in depth standards-based instruction in African-derived dance, during after school and summer over a 35-week period, with a culminating public performance by participating students at the end of each of the three sessions (Summer, Fall, and Winter/Spring).

AE-EXT-17-1499 Diversionary Theatre Productions Inc San Diego County $7,500

With support from the California Arts Council, DIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC will provide produce a two week theatre summer camp for LGBT+A youth from diverse, underserved, and low income communities.

AE-EXT-17-1602 Dramatic Results Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Dramatic Results will immerse 20 fourth/fifth grade, low-income, GATE students in a 3-week cross-city Summer STEAM Institute. Students will engage in, experience and become excited about STEAM-subjects and local STEAM resources (ie: Urban Gardens, the public library’s maker space, etc.) through hands-on arts-integrated projects that develop their artistic abilities, promote life skills, and develop long-term mutually beneficial relationships.

AE-EXT-17-1494 Eagle Rock Community Cultural Association Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock (CFAER), will provide in-depth, after-school teaching residencies for six contemporary artists in local elementary and middle schools. The residencies will be a part of CFAER’s Afterschool Arts: Imagine Studio program, which provides free, standards-based, after-school arts enrichment programs for students ages 6-12 in underserved Northeast LA schools, all with Title I status and limited arts offerings.


AE-EXT-17-1756 East Bay Center for the Performing Arts Contra Costa County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS will provide a yearlong residency program at 11 Title 1 elementary schools supporting WCCUSD’s Expanded Learning program. Nearly 1,000 children from low-income neighborhoods receive robust after-school programming in global art traditions, art appreciation, instrumental instruction, and ensemble performance techniques aligned with the VAPA Standards and WCCUSD’s quality youth program framework.

AE-EXT-17-1840 East Side Community Arts Santa Clara County $6,375

With support from the California Arts Council, East Side Community Arts will offer high-quality, culturally relevant, free summer art opportunities to 200 youth in East San Jose in the form of a half-day summer camp experience.

AE-EXT-17-1470 El Camino Youth Symphony Association Santa Clara County $5,250

With support from the California Arts Council, ECYS will expand our Endangered Instruments Program (EIP). EIP was established to offer low-income students affordable, high-quality music education while proactively meeting the need for youth musicians who play French horn, viola, & double bass. By awarding need-based scholarships, EIP reaches students whose schools offer little to no music education; students take weekly lessons and have free access to their 'endangered' instrument of choice.

AE-EXT-17-1604 El Sistema Santa Cruz Santa Cruz County $17,100

With the support from the California Arts Council, El Sistema Santa Cruz provides a free afterschool pre-orchestra and beginning orchestra program to two title I elementary schools in Santa Cruz county. More than classic music instruction, this intensive approach engages K-5 students in daily group lessons, rehearsals and performances, while emphasizing peer learning and community engagement. The goals of El Sistema center on developing critical life skills and laying the groundwork for success.

AE-EXT-17-1563 Elemental Strings Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Elemental Music will provide motivated elementary and middle school-aged musicians with the opportunity to deepen their study outside of school hours through rigorous, standards-based ensemble instruction in strings, woodwinds, percussion, guitar and voice, supplementing the music instruction they are receiving through in-school music programs.

AE-EXT-17-1837 Encore Theatre Group Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, ENCORE THEATRE GROUP will provide high quality, sustained training in musical theatre, technical theatre, dance and acting to students ages 4-18 in our Summer Theatre Camps, including our Shakespeare and Musical Theatre camps. We will make the program available to students who have no access to arts programming and will give them the opportunity to participate regardless of their level of skill, their disability or their ability to pay tuition.

AE-EXT-17-1691 Fern Street Community Arts Inc San Diego County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Fern Street Circus continue its After-School Circus Program in San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood. Offered free-of-charge at two City rec centers, the program provides year-round instruction in tumbling, juggling, clowning, tightwire, and specialty skills in San Diego’s most diverse, low income area. Through circus, we focus on building physical literacy (the mastery of fundamental movement skills) and resilience for students, aged 6 – 17.


AE-EXT-17-1918 Focus On Family Foundation Inc Sacramento County $13,500

With the support from the California Arts Council, Focus on Family Foundation Inc will provide visual and performing arts programs through two distinct venues: The South Sacramento Visual and Performing Arts Academy and after school academic enrichment programs at 5 after school program sites in South Sacramento.

AE-EXT-17-1576 The Gabriella Foundation Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, The Gabriella Foundation will provide dance classes to underserved children in Los Angeles. The $18,000 Artists in Schools Extension grant will help provide high-quality, sequential, standards-based after-school dance instruction for 1006 children and youth ages 4 to 19 at six sites. This grant will specifically fund 10 twice-weekly classes from September 2018 through June 2019.

AE-EXT-17-1638 Get Lit Words Ignite Inc Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Get Lit–Words Ignite will provide significant training and performance opportunities for The Get Lit Players, an award-winning troupe of teenage poets who perform for thousands of peers and community members annually in school assemblies and concerts in California, and across the globe via the internet. They are the only teen performance troupe in the nation that combines the study and performance of classic poetry with original, spoken-word poems.

AE-EXT-17-1855 Ghetto Film School Inc Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC will provide the Fellows Program, which delivers free, hands-on filmmaking instruction and training from leading filmmakers and industry professionals to Los Angeles County high school students grades 9-12.

AE-EXT-17-1567 Girls Rock Sb Santa Barbara County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Girls Rock SB will offer scholarships for low-income and/or at risk girls to participate in our music and art education and mentorship summer camp in 2018. Participants on the music track will attend instrument lessons (choosing between drums, guitar, bass, vocals or keys), form a band, collaboratively write an original song, record in a professional recording studio, and perform with their band at a live showcase event.

AE-EXT-17-1730 Greenway Arts Alliance Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Greenway Arts Alliance will provide our After School Workshops in Dance, Film, Spoken Word Poetry and Drama, directly engaging approximately 130 students from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles in grades 9-12 through sequential, arts-based learning that is aligned to Common Core and VAPA standards.

AE-EXT-17-1612 The heArt Project Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, artworxLA will deliver a sequential series of after-school residencies in visual art, music production, and fashion design for L.A. County continuation high school students during the 2018-19 academic year. Ten-week residencies will be led by professional teaching artists on college campuses, with potential partners such as Young Producers Group and Beatz by Girls, Art Center College of Design, and Otis College of Art and Design (2017-18).


AE-EXT-17-1683 Handful Players Inc San Francisco County $15,300

With the support from the California Arts Council, Handful Players will conduct performing arts education programs for underserved and high need youth, K-12th grade, at community summer camps of 8 Youth Organizations in San Francisco’s Western Addition. These programs will include musical theater with original and culturally relevant plays, dance, spoken word, clowning and puppet workshops led by accomplished artists. The students will perform at enriching summer community youth showcases.

AE-EXT-17-1590 The Harmony Project Los Angeles County $17,100

With the support from the California Arts Council, The Harmony Project will provide music education for 400 underserved children (age kinder-high school) enrolled at our Alexandria Program. Each child receives, at no cost, an instrument of their own, after-school and Saturday music instruction taught year-round by professional teaching artists, performance opportunities, and support services that include mentorships, leadership training, college prep workshops, and cultural field trips.

AE-EXT-17-1720 Hernandez Mariachi Heritage Society Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Hernandez Mariachi Heritage Society will produce the annual intensive mariachi music instructional summer institute known as the Mariachi Nationals. This annual music institute provides master class style instruction in the mariachi genre of music, plus educational panels and performances to students in grades 3-12.

AE-EXT-17-1663 Higher Gliffs Inc Alameda County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, master aerosol writing practitioner, Desi Mundo will facilitate a comprehensive, multi-generational after-school visual arts academy, ArrowSoul, at Unity Schools' high school campus that culminates in community murals at the school and in the surrounding neighborhoods.

AE-EXT-17-1866 Inlandia Institute Riverside County $1,875

With support from the California Arts Council, INLANDIA INSTITUTE will implement Year 4 of the highly acclaimed SCIPP creative literacy program which in 2015 was initiated at Bryant School of Arts and Innovation, 4324 Third Street, Riverside, CA 92501. In this project, two of the Inlandia Institute’s core programs, 1) Creative Literacy for Children and Youth and 2) Literary Professional Development, are linked to reach two target audiences, children and emerging creative writers and educators.

AE-EXT-17-1854 Inner-City Arts Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Inner-City Arts will provide two three-week sessions of Artists in the Middle, a summer arts education program, for 220 middle school students. Over the three weeks, students will receive standards-based instruction in four different art forms across the visual, media, and performing arts, totaling 45 hours of artistic immersion. Funds will primarily be used to cover the costs of Teaching Artists’ salaries and benefits, and materials and supplies.

AE-EXT-17-1600 Inyo Council for the Arts Inyo County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Inyo Council for the Arts will provide high quality art, music and theater classes to students across our rural and remote county. Classes will be held after school and will be open to all high school students, with an emphasis on "at risk" students. We are proposing a minimum of 80 art and theater classes, and 40 music classes.


AE-EXT-17-1533 JC Culture Foundation Los Angeles County $9,988

With support from the California Arts Council, JC Culture Foundation will provide free after school educational programs on and off school sites. The programs will be provided to the students of Niemes Elementary School, Burbank Elementary School, Leal Elementary School and Gonsalves Elementary School.The programs include: (1) Lion Dance (2) Dragon Dance and (3) Drums Program. We also provide an advanced training program to middle and high school students in our studio weekly year-round.

AE-EXT-17-1644 Kadima Conservatory Of Music Inc Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Kadima Conservatory of Music will conduct a 30-week residency to provide free after-school standards-based string, wind and brass instruction to students in grades 2-5, as well as a 5-week Summer Music Seminar experience to foster program continuity for participating students. This work is one component of our partnership with Vaughn Next Century Learning Center, a public school in the underserved San Fernando Valley.

AE-EXT-17-1708 Kalw San Francisco Unified School District San Francisco County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, KALW will teach students in San Francisco public high schools the art of audio journalism and storytelling, and provide the opportunity for their voices to be heard by a broad audience. We propose to increase the impact of our ongoing six-year old program by aligning it with the curriculum of SFUSD’s Academies of Media Arts, implementing a “media literacy” element in our curriculum, and expanding our student cohort.

AE-EXT-17-1534 Kids in the Spotlight Inc Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, KIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT will provide filmmaking classes to 60 foster care youth 12-18 living in group homes. Includes 15 weeks of intensive, creative hands-on filmmaking instruction aligned with State Standards, taught by Hollywood’s industry professionals. Program builds self-esteem, other life-skills and impacts academic work. For the 9th year program culminates in an Oscars-type gala/film festival of judging student films open to public.

AE-EXT-17-1493 Kings and Clowns Inc Los Angeles County $14,875

With support from the California Arts Council, KINGS AND CLOWNS INC will through the Arts Alive program, supply over 1000 students with quality after school arts education through performing opportunities in underserved K-8 schools of Pico Union and South Los Angeles in the subjects of drama, dance, keyboard, ukulele, guitar and strings.

AE-EXT-17-1425 Lacer Afterschool Programs Los Angeles County $17,100

With the support of the California Arts Council, LACER Afterschool Programs offers The Rock Band Project. The 9-month workshop provides the students of LeConte MS free after school classes where they learn music theory, how to play instruments, rehearsal and performance techniques. The project culminates in a rock concert assembly for over 1K of their peers! The curriculum fosters proficiency in music education and youth development. In short, the kids form a band and perform for the community.

AE-EXT-17-1856 Loco Bloco San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, LOCO BLOCO will provide artistic residencies during the 4 afterschool and 2 summer programs of The Jamestown Community Center with instruction in Afro-Latino drumming, dance, stilt-walking and performance for youth in grades K-8. Based in Creative Youth Development and Artivist frameworks, these programs focus on empowering youth to use art to overcome discrimination and create positive change.


AE-EXT-17-1881 Los Angeles Music and Art School Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, LAMusArt will provide free music learning and performance opportunities for students residing in the community of East Los Angeles through four Tuition-Free Music Ensemble Programs. The four Tuition-Free Music Ensemble Programs are comprised of the Youth Orchestra (ages 14+), Choir (ages 7+), Jazz Ensemble (ages 14+), and Mariachi Ensemble (ages 7-13) and collectively serve an average of 150 monthly students.

AE-EXT-17-1810 Los Angeles Philharmonic Association Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association will provide after-school and weekend orchestral music instruction in three underserved areas of Los Angeles through its Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) program. Each year, YOLA serves 800 children, who engage in a sequential, repertoire-driven curriculum delivered by highly-qualified teaching artists. YOLA is centered around the orchestra as a symbol for community in which every participant has a place.

AE-EXT-17-1625 Los Angeles Youth Orchestra Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra (LAYO) will be able to fund 6 professional faculty coach positions (violin (2), brass, cello, percussion and double bass) for an entire season (two semesters, fall and spring). Faculty coaches lead students in weekly sectional rehearsals, participate in tutti rehearsals, alongside the Artistic Director and Conductor, and assist at the concert performances for both the Symphony and Concert Orchestras.

AE-EXT-17-1636 Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center Contra Costa County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy will offer hands-on, sequential training in Mexican traditional and popular art forms to underserved children ages 4-17 in the artistic disciplines of music and dance. These after-school and summer classes are designed to encourage students to learn core artistic skills through their long-term study of the arts.

AE-EXT-17-1742 Malashock Dance & Company San Diego County $11,250

With support from the California Arts Council, Malashock Dance & Company will provide 20 weeks of sequential technique and composition classes in a tuition-free, after school dance residency in partnership with TranscenDANCE, culminating in a public performance where students' choreography will be performed by professional dancers. Malashock Dance and TranscenDANCE align in their mission and commitment to providing programs that use dance to strengthen individuals and their communities.

AE-EXT-17-1535 Mandarins of Sacramento Inc Sacramento County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Mandarins of Sacramento Inc will give the gift of music through an after school band program for students at elementary schools whose curriculum does not offer an opportunity to learn to play a musical instrument. Music connects children with their culture through a common language, crossing generational, social, and racial barriers. Participation in performing arts builds discipline, character, pride, and self-confidence at a crucial age, providing a springboard for greater achievements in their teenage years and adulthood.

AE-EXT-17-1591 Marin Shakespeare Company Marin County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY will offer full scholarships to 80 low-income youth currently benefiting from in-schools drama classes, to extend their learning by participation in a two-week summer Shakespeare camp, culminating in the performance of an abbreviated Shakespeare play. Benefits include building self-confidence, self-expression, teamwork and artistic performance skills, as well as learning complex language arts and literary skills.


AE-EXT-17-1920 Mariposa County Arts Council Inc Mariposa County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the Mariposa County Arts Council, Inc. (MCACI) will partner with the County of Mariposa’s Department of Parks and Recreation to expand our current 8-week Summer Art program into a 10-week Performing Arts Camp. This program will offer deep, hands-on arts programming, provided by the region’s best performing arts instructors to youth who have extremely limited or no exposure to the arts.

AE-EXT-17-1490 Media Arts Center San Diego San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Media Arts Center San Diego trains disadvantaged students in 21st century media arts skills during our after-school Teen Producers Project. Beneficiaries are Latino and immigrant youth grades 9-12. TPP takes place after-school at Juvenile Court and Community School, Sweetwater High School, and our Digital Gym community technology center. Students collaborate and learn to produce digital stories about issues that affect their lives and communities.

AE-EXT-17-1599 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) will continue to implement the MOCA Teen Program, which brings together 18 high school juniors and seniors to learn about the inner-workings of the museum and explore contemporary art and creative careers. Led by two program coordinators, this diverse group of students meets at MOCA on Thursday nights to work collaboratively and support each other on a journey of self-discovery through the arts.

AE-EXT-17-1893 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego San Diego County $12,750

With support from the California Arts Council, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will implement the Teen Advisory Program (TAG). TAG will serve a diverse group of 15-20 youth in grades 9-12 from throughout San Diego County. Through bimonthly sessions, teens will gain exposure to the Museum galleries and staff, collaborate with local artists, and experiment with a wide range of artistic practices to explore social issues through contemporary art.

AE-EXT-17-1774 Music Changing Lives Riverside County $13,500

With the support of the California Arts Council, Music Changing Lives will offer at-risk students the opportunity to participate in an after-school programs composed of music, art, financial literacy and tutoring. After-which, students are able to participate in the Changing Lives Showcase, a music and art after-school enrichment program, which is focused on increasing the graduation rate while providing a venue in which K-12 students can develop their artistic talents and express themselves.

AE-EXT-17-1468 Natomas Arts And Education Foundation Sacramento County $8,719

With the support from the California Arts Council, Natomas Arts and Education will produce a large scale musical with a cast of children, ages 10-18, the Benvenuti Performing Arts Center stage. Our Youth Theatre for All projects will provide a valuable professional opportunity for young performers without charging a performance fee or requiring anything more than a commitment of time and dedication to the production.


AE-EXT-17-1894 Neighborhood Music School Association Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the Neighborhood Music School will support the salaries of its 23 independently-contracted Teaching Artists, who provide private music instruction to more than 360 students per week. Our Teaching Artists’ constant interaction with and contributions to our students make them essential to our mission. Students receive weekly private lessons and participate in eight Student Recitals that are free and open to the public.

AE-EXT-17-1529 New Directions for Youth Inc Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, New Directions for Youth, Inc will provide $18,000 to match pending Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs grant to present Mask Making Adventures with Teaching Artist Judy Leventhal, LCSW . Twenty low income youth, ages ten to fifteen in one of the Mayor's Office Gang Reduction and Youth Development Zones will create sculptural masks and prepare journals to build identity and multicultural understanding through creative ability in art.

AE-EXT-17-1496 New West Symphony Association Ventura County $7,650

With support from the California Arts Council, New West Symphony Association will provide tuition-free music instruction to 155 children from low-income families in Ventura. New West Symphony’s Harmony Project of Ventura County aims to develop lifelong social and academic skills in some of Ventura’s neediest students by creating equitable access to music education. We focus on delivering quality programming and expanding in a sustainable manner.

AE-EXT-17-1594 Nueva Vision Community School Los Angeles County $11,250

With support from the California Arts Council, Nueva Vision Community School will provide free and affordable after-school music education to youth from underserved communities throughout the San Fernando Valley area (LA). Our music program curriculum focuses on repertoire performance, technique, theory, and musicianship. We serve 80+ youth and offer instruction in piano, guitar, voice, drums, and wind instruments. Grant funds will be used for outreach, learning materials, and artists salaries.

AE-EXT-17-1467 Oakland Youth Chorus Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, the Oakland Youth Chorus will conduct yearlong, sequential, K-12 after school and community choral music classes and ensembles that teach to VAPA standards, enhance multicultural understanding, and promote collaboration and positive self-expression in Oakland and Richmond. Six middle school, eleven elementary school classes, and our advanced 5-12 high school community ensembles will be taught by accomplished performing musicians and music educators.

AE-EXT-17-1864 Ojai Festivals Ltd Ventura County $6,469

With support from the California Arts Council, the Ojai Music Festival will present Family Day Camp, a week-long immersive Pre-K to 5th grade music program that provides local children with an age-appropriate microcosm of the Ojai Music Festival experience.

AE-EXT-17-1565 Old Globe Theatre San Diego County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, The Old Globe will provide the Pam Farr Summer Shakespeare Studio, a four-week summer program for students in grades 9-12 and recent graduates. The program offers a unique opportunity for students not only to develop foundational skills for reading, interpreting, and performing Shakespeare’s plays, but also to cultivate their own artistic voice through storytelling and creating original material inspired by deep, personal connections to Shakespeare.


AE-EXT-17-1897 Outside the Lens San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Outside the Lens will teach refugee youth in San Diego the tools and expertise to communicate their own narratives through digital media using our VAPA and National Core Arts-aligned curriculum. Students will develop their creative voice, build media literacy skills, and showcase their work in a final public exhibition. This program builds on previous CAC support to incorporate participant feedback and grow the program.

AE-EXT-17-1472 Pacific Chorale Orange County $7,119

With support from the California Arts Council, PACIFIC CHORALE will provide a high-quality summer day camp to up to 60 high school students in partnership with Cal State Fullerton. Choral Camp focuses on choral ensemble skills, healthy vocal technique, and musicianship, and is intended for students who lack the capacity or opportunity to attend longer, residential summer programs.

AE-EXT-17-1651 Pacific Symphony Orange County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, PACIFIC SYMPHONY will fund the participation of professional musicians in its Santa Ana Strings violin instruction program for Title I children. The program provides grade 2-6 students with intensive training from Symphony musicians through coaching, mentoring, performance opportunities, academic tutoring and a violin to take home. The program is designed to advance student academic achievement and encourage their continuing arts participation.

AE-EXT-17-1802 Pasadena Educational Foundation Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Pasadena Educational Foundation will provide arts education classes for students in grades K-12 during the summer. A variety of classes in visual arts, music, dance, and theater - led by artists, credentials arts teachers, and staff of local arts organizations - will take place four days a week for five weeks at five Pasadena Unified School District campuses. Students will develop artistic abilities through sequential, hands-on learning activities.

AE-EXT-17-1673 Paso Robles Youth Arts Foundation San Luis Obispo County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Paso Robles Youth Arts Foundation will continue to provide FREE, after-school, Visual and Performing Arts Classes at all levels for 900 students per year, filling 3000 class seats. Students will have a safe outlet while learning the arts at a high level and building self confidence. This grant will also fund new Enrichment Classes such as Theater Tech, Theater Lighting, Creative Writing, Sewing, Free-Style Rapping, Mini Music and Construction Kids.

AE-EXT-17-1733 Playhouse Arts Humboldt County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Playhouse Arts will encourage local teens to produce, promote and play in the arts through Apprentice Entertainment, a task force of 15-20 teens.

AE-EXT-17-1778 Plaza De La Raza Inc Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, PLAZA DE LA RAZA INC will present the School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Plaza de la Raza’s SPVA provides over 60 quarterly arts training and experience through classes and workshops to over 4,100 local children and at-risk youth, in a variety of disciplines, at low tuition or no cost. The School’s primary constituency is comprised of low-income Latino families and at-risk youth residing in the surrounding communities of Lincoln Heights.


AE-EXT-17-1671 Poison Apple Productions Contra Costa County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, POISON APPLE PRODUCTIONS will expand and enhance their Apple Academy Educational Theatre Program, a graduated series of performance-based classes for youth aged 5-18. This grant would help maintain the high quality of the programs and shows produced, hire quality Teaching Artists, and provide scholarships for underprivileged youth.

AE-EXT-17-1471 Positive Action Community Theatre San Diego County $8,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Positive Action Community Theatre will provide arts training that teaches social skills to teens with autism and other unique needs. It will also provide them with community and opportunities to grow as artists and as professionals. Our PACTHOUSE PLAYERS will perform anti-bullying theatre events out in the community, and our on-the-job teacher training for young adults with autism will provide free theatre workshops to low income children.

AE-EXT-17-1621 Prescott Circus Theatre Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Prescott Circus Theatre will provide culturally responsive afterschool artists’ residencies at PLACE@Prescott and Lafayette Elementary Schools in West Oakland. Students will learn circus and additional performing arts skills culminating in school wide and community performances. Through this process, youth will develop life skills and self-confidence that will help them thrive on stage and in life. Grant funds will support artists and support staff.

AE-EXT-17-1648 Project Bandaloop Alameda County $17,100

With support from the CA Arts Council, Bandaloop will increase opportunities for and access to its youth education programs by underserved populations. We will further develop our partnership with Destiny Arts to build a standards-based, sequential vertical dance curriculum. With community partners, we will expand after-school opportunities for Oakland youth, provide access to our high quality programs and recruit students for the Vertical Creatives summer camp for further skills development.

AE-EXT-17-1860 Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Arts Council for Long Beach will partner with United Cambodia Community to present the Living Arts program. Living Arts celebrates the diversity of art and culture in Long Beach. This unique program serves high school students in an under-resourced part of our city by providing hands-on arts instruction, fostering social and emotional development through collaborative creative expression, and teaching arts career pathway skills.

AE-EXT-17-1760 Purple Silk Music Education Foundation Inc Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council (CAC), the PURPLE SILK MUSIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION (PSMEF) will provide in-depth, sequential after-school instruction in traditional Chinese instruments, opera, and folk songs, taught by Chinese music experts, to 215 underserved 1-12 grade students at Laney College and Oakland School for the Arts (in Oakland) and Alice Fong Yu Alternative School (in San Francisco) in 2018-2019. CAC award will fund artist fees in the grant period (6/1/18-5/31/19).


AE-EXT-17-1666 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Cal Performances will present Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp 2018, a nationally-acclaimed summer program that uses dance as a vehicle for developing self-esteem, creative expression, and critical thinking skills among underserved or at-risk middle school students ages 11-14.

AE-EXT-17-1689 Regents of the University of California at Riverside Riverside County $7,500

With support from the California Arts Council, ARTSblock will have the critical funds necessary to help a new generation of high-school aged filmmakers to develop their own voices by providing them with new filmmaking technologies along with artist mentorship and a college-level curriculum. Established in 2010 in response to a lack of area art programming, OFF THE BLOCK provides students a summer learning experience leading to the production of short documentary films about their communities.

AE-EXT-17-1489 Richmond Art Center Contra Costa County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council the Richmond Art Center will provide year-long visual art classes to six West Contra Costa Unified School District elementary schools. With the guidance of experienced teaching artists, students in grades K-6 will use printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, animation, book arts, and textiles to explore creativity, learn problem solving techniques, and experience collaborative learning.

AE-EXT-17-1461 Ryman Carroll Foundation Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Ryman Carroll Foundation will provide advanced studio art classes, and college and career guidance, to 600 students during the 2018-2019 grant period. Ryman Arts will serve 300 students in 20 classes at our Los Angeles site at Otis College of Art & Design and 300 students in 20 classes at our Orange County site at CSUF.

AE-EXT-17-1469 Sacra Profana San Diego County $9,014

With support from the California Arts Council, SACRA/PROFANA will provide up to 90 high school students and 50 middle school students with an immersive week-long Summer Choral Intensive (SCI) training program, culminating in a performance alongside SACRA/PROFANA’s core chorus of professional singers. The program goals are to develop both musicianship and leadership skills of participating youth from diverse backgrounds in San Diego County and to inspire the students to continue arts involvement.

AE-EXT-17-1755 Sacramento Theatre Company Sacramento County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Sacramento Theatre Company (STC) will oversee STC teaching artists to provide a ELA and VAPA standard based after school theatre program to students at Albert Einstein Middle School and William Land Elementary culminating in a 7th grade production in the winter and an 8th grade production in the spring at Albert Einstein as well as a spring production at William Land. Teaching artists will collaborate with faculty to address standards.

AE-EXT-17-1690 Sacred Fools Theater Los Angeles County $3,975

With support from the California Arts Council, Sacred Fools will offer a free after-school theatre arts residency at Elysian Heights Elementary, a Title I school in east Los Angeles, and will continue to offer scholarships to its Summer Theater Camp for underserved students in Los Angeles. Students collaborate on the creation of an original play using our unique mix of improvisation and character work. Programs culminate in a free performance. Funds support scholarships and teaching artists.


AE-EXT-17-1803 San Benito County Arts Council San Benito County $15,066

With support of the California Arts Council, the SAN BENITO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL will expand our Afterschool Art Program, which provides year-long arts learning to local students, grades Pre-K-8th, in the visual and performing arts. CAC funds will be used to expand our "Creating with Clay" and "Mariachi Program" for 4th-8th graders at Calaveras, RO Hardin and San Juan schools, as well as expand our afterschool VAPA Programs at ARTspace Annex in downtown Hollister.

AE-EXT-17-1809 San Diego Ballet San Diego County $10,200

provide access to free jazz dance and ballet classes for youth at San Diego Library’s Performance Annex in San Diego’s most culturally diverse neighborhood, City Heights. Rather than providing classes at the SDB home studios, teaching artists go directly to the community to offer training opportunities right in the participants own neighborhood. The program will consist of three one-hour classes for 43 weeks for students grades 2-5 on the weekends.

AE-EXT-17-1617 San Diego Children’s Choir San Diego County $11,813

With support from the California Arts Council, San Diego Children’s Choir will provide nine months of after-school choral training to 240+ Ensemble students. This program is offered at countywide sites in varying ethnic and socio-economic communities. Financial aid is provided to qualifying families in need. During the grant period, children will participate in a full schedule of activities including instruction, performances and touring. Funds will be used to underwrite artistic staff costs.

AE-EXT-17-1786 San Diego Dance Theater San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, San Diego Dance Theater (SDDT) will provide a free 2-week summer intensive dance program for 125 students grades 6-12 at a public high school in Chula Vista. The intensive will culminate in a community performance. Following the intensive, many of these students will attend a free weekly dance class and participate in seasonal performances at Dance Place Liberty Station. This program fosters extended, sequential learning and community building.

AE-EXT-17-1916 San Diego Guild of Puppetry San Diego County $6,750

With support from the California Arts Council, the SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY will pilot a summer camp program for two groups of local 3rd through 8th graders, exploring and celebrating the roots of their pre-Hispanic heritage through the medium of shadow puppetry. All sessions will be bilingual, and held at the new Bread & Salt/Athenaeum Arts Center Complex in the heart of Barrio Logan.

AE-EXT-17-1520 San Diego Junior Theatre San Diego County $5,100

With the support from the California Arts Council, San Diego Junior Theatre will provide a 10-week residency two Title 1 schools during the 2018-19 school year. A team of two artists (director/choreographer and music director) will work with K-5 students in 90-minute sessions, once per week, to create an original "mini musical." This process will help students to understand the the tools of the actor, while encouraging and inspiring teamwork, imagination, empathy, and resiliency.

AE-EXT-17-1875 San Diego Opera Association San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, San Diego Opera Association will partner with Teatro Izcalli and La Maestra Center for Youth Advancement on a summer and after-school arts education project, Words and Music in the Community, serving youth in the City Heights area of San Diego. Through the instruction of Professional Teaching Artists trained in Restorative Practices, Words and Music empowers youth to tell their own stories through the process of collaborative art creation.


AE-EXT-17-1851 San Diego Winds San Diego County $14,799

With support from the California Arts Council, SAN DIEGO WINDS will provide young Californians with a world class summer music camp in partnership with San Diego State University. All students with a passion for music will be given instruction in music from the top musicians and teachers utilizing curriculum designed by top San Diego music educators, including over a dozen credentialed teachers, elite professional musicians and nearly every college & University band director in San Diego County.

AE-EXT-17-1698 San Diego Youth Symphony San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, SDYS will provide free after-school music instruction for 400 mostly low-income 3rd-10th graders in Chula Vista. The program is a partnership with the elementary school district to build music education and performance opportunities. Teaching is focused on creating a supportive, collaborative environment for the students and engaging the families, schools and the community. The goals are to improve academic achievement and strengthen the community.

AE-EXT-17-1588 San Francisco Arts Education Project San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the CAC, SFArtsED will launch its 22nd annual 6-week summer arts camp June 5 through July 21, 2018 for nearly 500 children ages 9-14 with an anticipated 50% enrollment from low-to-middle-income families. Funds will support salaries for professional teaching artists/mentors as well as subsidize partial to full tuition (based on merit and need) for up to 50 children. SFArtsED Summer sessions and programs will be held at Miraloma and Rooftop Elementary Schools in San Francisco.

AE-EXT-17-1819 San Francisco Boys Chorus San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council (CAC), the San Francisco Boys Chorus (SFBC) will provide in-depth, sequential, after-school choral arts training to 200+ students (grades 1-8) at four sites (San Francisco, Marin, Oakland, San Mateo), taught by SFBC’s Teaching Artists, all music educators. Activities during the grant period (6/1/18-5/31/19) will include intensive instruction, performance, touring, and recording. CAC funds will help underwrite artist fees for after-school instruction.

AE-EXT-17-1439 San Francisco Jazz Organization San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, SFJAZZ will sustain the OPC–SFJAZZ Music Academy, offering free jazz instruction in an after-school and summer program in Oakland. A collaboration between the Oakland Public Conservatory and SFJAZZ, the program curriculum is aligned with Common Core Music, California VAPA, and National Core Arts Standards, and welcomes all East Bay public middle and high school students who wish to develop their jazz abilities.

AE-EXT-17-1808 San Francisco Mime Troupe San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE will provide intensive play creation and performance training to ~30 low-income San Francisco youth, primarily young people-of-color. Students will attend workshops led by seasoned theater professionals in two cohorts three days weekly for eight weeks, culminating in at least two public performances of students’ original short plays focused on topics most pressing in students’ lives.

AE-EXT-17-1745 San Francisco Opera Association San Francisco County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, San Francisco Opera Association will renew Performing Arts Connection, a week-long program that occurs during students' spring break. This exceptional, in-depth artistic experience offers Bay Area middle school students of all backgrounds and abilities an opportunity to explore music, theater, dance, and visual arts with local artists and highly trained educators, in a supportive and dynamic environment.


AE-EXT-17-1653 San Francisco Youth Theatre San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, San Francisco Youth Theatre will sustain and expand its afterschool theatre arts education program to five SFUSD K-5 schools, providing experienced teaching artists in theatre, music and visual art. This program continues a four-year partnership with Mission Graduates, a non-profit afterschool enrichment program that increases the number of K-12 students in San Francisco’s Mission District who are prepared for and complete a college education.

AE-EXT-17-1669 San Jose Museum of Art Association Santa Clara County $13,056

With support from the California Arts Council, San Jose Museum of Art Association will offer a custom-designed, condensed off-site variation of the Museum’s popular art camp curriculum to 100 Title One students participating in the Third Street Community Center’s summer enrichment program for at-risk students. Support will cover training of 3rd street’s current volunteer art teacher, curriculum design, and program delivery to 20 students per week for five weeks.

AE-EXT-17-1574 Santa Barbara Dance Institute Santa Barbara County $15,300

With support of the California Arts Council, SBDI will partner with three public elementary schools to provide standards based, after-school educational programs for at least 90 mostly low-income students. Their classes will culminate in an original public performance before a broad and diverse community audience. Using SBDI’s values of trust, teamwork, and individual expression, students will develop critical life skills, build confidence, and experience the exhilarating feeling of success.

AE-EXT-17-1674 Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art will provide the community of Santa Barbara with 120 hours of arts education though the Homework/Artwork After-School Program. Held at the Eastside Branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library, activities are led by Teaching Artist Tina Villadolid and reach K-6 students consistently throughout the school year while offering field trips to SBMA, exhibitions of student artwork, and structured homework assistance.

AE-EXT-17-1709 Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association Santa Barbara County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, the Santa Barbara Symphony will provide hands-on music education for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders in 3 programs: BRAVO!, Goleta String Workshop and Hope Violins. In collaboration with 3 school districts, these after- and before-school programs utilize a comprehensive sequential curriculum developed by Symphony education staff. A majority of schools served are Title 1 or Title 1 Targeted. For 2018-19, the programs will serve 540 unduplicated students.

AE-EXT-17-1512 Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Santa Cecilia Orchestra will present Latino Composers: a Music Mentorship for Latino Youth, an afterschool music program for Latino teens who live in economically-disadvantaged Northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods. The program will comprise instruction and workshops led by professional musicians, performance opportunities, and symposia led by Latino composers, who will lead a performance of their own music followed by a discussion and critique.


AE-EXT-17-1765 Santa Rosa Symphony Association Sonoma County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the Santa Rosa Symphony Association’s Simply Strings program will continue to create positive social change in an economically disadvantaged community, not only improving access to music education for underserved children through free after-school instrument instruction, but making a long-term commitment to each participant’s academic success, emotional health, and social development, as well.

AE-EXT-17-1815 Scholarship Audition Performance Preparatory Academy Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, SAPPA will provide free musical instrument instruction for children and youth ages 7 to 18 at sites serving low-income communities in Watts, South Los Angeles and West Long Beach. The program, called the Watts Willowbrook Conservatory, takes place after school, on weekends and throughout the summer. Participants learn to play orchestral string instruments, develop their musical knowledge, perform in public concerts, and build their self-conԍdence.

AE-EXT-17-1622 School of Arts and Culture At MHP Santa Clara County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, School of Arts and Culture at MHP (SOAC) will implement its Arts Education Program to 800 low-income, predominantly Latinx children in East San Jose. Through work of its teaching artists, the SOAC will strengthen developmental pathways, providing sustained and sequential instruction in instrumental technique, music notation, and overall musicianship, primarily in mariachi music and Mexican folkloric dance.

AE-EXT-17-1646 Shadowlight Productions San Francisco County $3,938

With support from the California Arts Council, ShadowLight Productions will partner with the Columbia Park Boys & Girls Clubhouse creative arts program to teach 48 hours of arts instruction during a shadow theatre after-school program. The program will culminate in original and adapted shadow plays created and performed by youth participants for their peers and the community during 2 public performances.

AE-EXT-17-1702 The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles Inc Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, The Shakespeare Center's Will Power to Youth program will hire urban teens for 7 weeks to create an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One. Professional artists will mentor students in Acting, Writing, and Movement as well as Scenic, Costume, and Sound design. WPY will culminate in 3 public performances that include new text reflecting the students' thoughts, feelings and experiences of Shakespeare's themes.

AE-EXT-17-1615 Shakespeare-San Francisco San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival will partner with Cadwallader School in San Jose and Deer Valley High School in Antioch to bring a sustained performing arts residency to underserved youth. In this after-school program - Midnight Shakespeare - professional artists provide a standards-based program that will culminate in a student performance of an abridged Shakespeare play for an audience of school peers, families and the larger community.


AE-EXT-17-1836 Siskiyou County Arts Council Siskiyou County $6,413

With support from the California Arts Council, Siskiyou County Arts Council will partner with Mt. Shasta Children's Theater to offer a 4-week summer musical theater camp for 50-75 children ages 8-16 from low-income families. The program will align with State Standards and include public performances of "The Lion King", through which students will demonstrate skills learned. Broadway Camp will be led by Shasta Studios founder/artistic director, Wendy James, and a team of teaching artists.

AE-EXT-17-1793 Slam! Program Los Angeles Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, SLAM! will provide music instruction to 500+ disadvantaged students; facilitate professional development for 100+ aspiring college student music educators; focus on progressive initiatives that redeploy its network of volunteers on a newly focused strategic plan; build a robust sustainability plan; and hire a University Engagement Coordinator and a School Program Coordinator to liaise with SLAM!'s burgeoning college student volunteer base.

AE-EXT-17-1906 Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Sonoma County $13,473

With support from the California Arts Council, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art will offer a multi-faceted public art program for youth participants. The project will engage a lead artist and 15 high-school students in a ten-week residency program which will incorporate workshops, artist-led talks, performances, and other educational and community building opportunities, and will culminate in the production of a large street mural in the Boyes Hot Springs area of Sonoma Valley.

AE-EXT-17-1775 Sound Art Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, SOUND ART will continue offering music instruction two days per week at the IMPACTO After School Program at Aliso Pico Recreation Center (APRC). Funding will be used to support our teaching artists. By bringing our culturally-relevant, after-school mobile music program directly to schools and community centers, Sound Art has taught the fundamentals of musicianship to more than 18,000 underserved youth, ages 5 - 19 in over 130 locations.

AE-EXT-17-1694 Southland Sings Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Southland Sings will bring "My Story, My Voice: Poetry to Song" to the Oak Grove Center for Education, Treatment and the Arts in Murietta, California. Oak Grove is a nonprofit 24-hour residential, educational and therapeutic treatment center serving 76 residents ages 8-18, as well as 90–100 day students. In 2018-19, Southland will foster inclusion and opportunity by delivering our sequential, hands-on arts program to these at-risk children.

AE-EXT-17-1491 Stanford Jazz Workshop Santa Clara County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Stanford Jazz Workshop will produce after-school music education programs for middle and high school students. Five ensembles will meet for 11 weeks per semester (22 weeks per year), and two additional classes will take place for 12 weeks per trimester (36 weeks per year). Sequential instruction will focus on technique, improvisation, and interpretation. At least 9 public performances will celebrate student progress.

AE-EXT-17-1436 Street Poets Inc Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Street Poets will facilitate weekly Beats and Rhymes music and poetry sessions at our office space in West Adams. Youth will then work on recording tracks for our annual CD and perform them at the Open Mic/CD Release party.


AE-EXT-17-1517 Streetside Stories Inc San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the CAC, Streetside Stories will provide high-quality storytelling arts programming for more than 225 San Francisco students in partnership with Bay Area Community Resources afterschool programs. 15 workshops, each averaging 20 hours of instruction, will reach students in grades 2-5 during afterschool hours and the summer months. Students will reflect on their unique narratives of identity through creative writing, comics, photography, animation, visual arts, and performance.

AE-EXT-17-1498 Theatre of Hearts Inc Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the CAC, Theatre Of Hearts/Youth First will deliver 12 multidisciplinary, standards-based Artist-In-Residence Programs, comprised of 312 program hours during the summer or after school in low income neighborhoods with boys and girls with gang or drug abuse affiliations, where quality arts instruction is limited. Each AIR Program culminates with a Work-In-Progress Presentation, in which students showcase their original artworks to peers, family, and the community-at-large.

AE-EXT-17-1416 TheatreWorkers Project Los Angeles County $3,910

With support from the California Arts Council, TheatreWorkers Project (TWP) will collaborate with the Family Center at Cleveland Elementary School and Friends Outside in Los Angeles County to provide theatre workshops to grade 3-4 students whose families have been impacted by incarceration. TWP’s theatre activities will enhance the After School Group curriculum, increasing opportunities for the children to strengthen their pro-social skills and social competence through artistic exploration.

AE-EXT-17-1587 TranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project San Diego County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project will provide a professional, intensive dance theatre program for up to 24 youth, ages 14 - 18 years, from underserved San Diego communities, with the ultimate goal of creating and presenting a youth-driven dance theatre performance inspired by the desire to dismantle the social stigma of mental illness. This original work will be presented in a professional venue in San Diego that is open to the public.

AE-EXT-17-1514 Unusual Suspects Theatre Co Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company will provide 60 at-risk Edison Middle School youth with our standards-based, after-school Youth Theatre Residency Program. Via a 10-week playwriting workshop and a 10-week performance workshop, youth will gain the skills to collaborate on the creation and performance of an original play. Each workshop culminates in a free performance. Funds will support staff and artistic personnel who implement the residency.

AE-EXT-17-1659 Venice Arts Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Venice Arts will sustain its award-winning Art Mentoring & Education Program, which provides sequential arts education workshops in photography, film, multi-media, and comics after-school and during our four week Summer Media Arts Camp.


AE-EXT-17-1657 Versa-Style Dance Company Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Versa-Style Dance Company will manage/operate the Versa-Style Next Generation Program. VSNG is a pre-professional hip-hop dance company that gives Los Angeles youth the opportunity to train and perform, experiencing the life of a professional dancer in a supported, family-centered community environment. The grant will provide rehearsal space and mentorship/tutelage from Versa-Style Dance Company members and professionals from the Los Angeles area.

AE-EXT-17-1907 Vista Academy Foundation San Diego County $6,000

With support from the California Arts Council, Vista Academy Foundation will welcome the talents of Tierra Caliente Academy of Art's Ballet Folklorico in an after-school conservatory to the upper grades at Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts. Based on a successful pilot program launched last year, monies requested will supply an adequate instructional, costume, and materials base, ensuring future program growth.

AE-EXT-17-1485 Walking Elephant Theatre Company Sonoma County $2,975

With support from the California Arts Council, WALKING ELEPHANT THEATRE COMPANY will offer a summer program to children at Village Elementary School in Santa Rosa, California. The program is a two-week theatre intensive that gives students the opportunity to create and perform an original theatre piece. Participants conduct interviews of their community to create and perform an original production. They choose moments that make them laugh, cry, cheer, and see the world in a whole new light.

AE-EXT-17-1505 Women’s Center for Creative Work Los Angeles County $8,250

With support from the California Arts Council, Women’s Center for Creative Work will provide its third year of a 2-week interdisciplinary arts summer camp for 5th and 6th grade girls from our local Elysian Valley neighborhood school, Dorris Place Elementary.

AE-EXT-17-1883 Women’s Audio Mission San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Women's Audio Mission's Girls on the Mic (GOTM) program, a groundbreaking after-school program, will provide 1,500+ underserved San Francisco Bay Area girls (96% low income/90% girls of color/ ages 11-18) a year with free, hands-on music production & media arts training in a professional studio environment. The GOTM curriculum is rooted in the National Media Arts/California Performing Arts Standards and amplifies the voices & creativity of girls.

AE-EXT-17-1596 Arts for Learning San Diego San Diego County $5,083

With support from the California Arts Council, Arts for Learning San Diego (A4LSD) will partner with the Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership (DEEP) to provide a 4-week Summer Readers-Future Leaders program on the campuses of two schools elementary schools, Chollas-Mead and Johnson. With a focus on improving the educational outcomes for 100 students in San Diego’s Diamond Community, A4LSD will provide high quality arts integration instruction, linking dance with literacy.


AE-EXT-17-1832 Young Choreographers Project Los Angeles County $3,630

With the support from the California Arts Council, YOUNG CHOREOGRAPHERS PROJECT will provide an 8-week choreography and mentoring program to young dancers (ages 8-18) living in and around the inner-city of Los Angeles. Students will receive one-on-one coaching and group instruction in choreography and leadership. Students will work with some of LA's best professional dancers. The program will end with a showcase, where students will present their work to friends, family, & community members.

AE-EXT-17-1743 Young Musicians Foundation Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the Young Musicians Foundation’s Teaching Artist Program (TAP) will serve a combined 225 students at Para Los Niños Charter Elementary School in Los Angeles, New Los Angeles Charter Elementary School and New Los Angeles Charter Middle School. All programming will be delivered during after school hours. Students will engage in tuition-free music instruction in instruments and voice twice weekly for 32 weeks from September 2018–May 2019.

AE-EXT-17-1593 Youth Art Exchange San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Youth Art Exchange will partner with John O’Connell High School to deliver intensive after school architecture classes to students from San Francisco public high schools. The architecture program, led by professional architects, engages youth in designing and building structures and spaces across San Francisco. Our young architects work on real-world projects from concept to installation, working with clients, community organizations, and the city.

AE-EXT-17-1754 Youth In Arts Marin County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, YOUTH IN ARTS will provide "Intensive Arts Mentorship" (I AM) programs offering visual and performing arts training to teens with a demonstrated interest in the arts. I AM out-of-school arts learning opportunities will lead towards advanced study and careers in the arts for approximately 50 teens in vocal music (`Til Dawn A Cappella), visual arts (C Street Project) and theater (Youth in Arts Theater Ensemble).

AE-EXT-17-1430 Youth Speaks Inc San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Youth Speaks will provide weekly after school spoken word workshops and performance trainings facilitated by highly trained artists to help young people build voice, power, community, and develop artistic expertise. We will expose youth to the arts with over 100 spoken word/poetry free after school workshop sessions at community sites across the Bay Area and provide large-scale public performance opportunities.

AE-EXT-17-1910 Youth Spirit Artworks Alameda County $15,300

With the support from the California Arts Council, YOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS and Charles Blackwell will lead weekly creative writing workshops inspiring underserved youth to express self-appreciation and respect for their community. Every two weeks a guest artist will participate ensuring culturally and creatively diverse skill building. Once a month, youth will present their works to the community alongside professional artists in a 3 hr Street Spirit - Youth Spirit Poetry Salon.

AE-EXT-17-1718 Youth Uprising Alameda County $15,300

With the support from the California Arts Council, Youth UpRising will provide four afterschool and summer arts programs to 100 at-risk youth ages 13-24. The program areas of music, modeling, design, and photography will encourage youth who need a safe space for recreation to explore their creative skills while also increasing their job marketability. 80 classes will be offered throughout the 2018-2019 year, and directly affect over 500 people.


AE-EXT-17-1757 Z Space Studio San Francisco County $5,505

With support from the California Arts Council, Z Space will provide Youth Arts programming to English Learners at Bryant Elementary School. Students will work closely with professional teaching artists to read and perform stories, while gaining literacy, team-building, and social-emotional skills.

AE-EXT-17-1888 Zimmer Childrens Museum Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, the Zimmer Children’s Museum will provide arts programs in East Los Angeles, Huntington Park and South Central Los Angeles. Over ten sessions, youth in these neighborhoods will work with teaching artists to explore the assets and challenges in their community. Through a creative process, these youth will work toward positive change by producing an artistic work, community celebration, community dialogue and/or other public engagement opportunity.

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