We believe arts education is a tool for personal empowerment and academic success, which can lead to social and economic agency. In order to reach students who might not otherwise receive arts education due to economic barriers, documentation status, language, or other systemic disinvestments, we prioritize working with schools with limited access to arts resources.
We also regularly educate our staff about the importance, care, and sensitivity of these topics in an effort to make each workshop a safe and brave space for every student. As an over 50-year-old organization, we are committed to investing in long-term relationships with communities. By prioritizing collaboration, we endeavor to work with our partners to generate more creative opportunities for Bay Area students.
We also regularly educate our staff about the importance, care, and sensitivity of these topics in an effort to make each workshop a safe and brave space for every student. As an over 50-year-old organization, we are committed to investing in long-term relationships with communities. By prioritizing collaboration, we endeavor to work with our partners to generate more creative opportunities for Bay Area students.
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Our work for youth extends beyond the classroom. We advocate for policies and funding streams that expand and protect arts education for all children. Our staff members meet with local, state, and federal elected officials to communicate the most pressing concerns for sustaining and promoting arts education as an integral part of public education.
Performing Arts Workshop provides rigorous arts programming to San Francisco Bay Area youth. Our professional teaching artists teach at preschools, public schools, community centers, transitional housing facilities, and juvenile halls.
Through our pioneering artists-in-residency model, the Workshop provides long-term, sequential instruction in dance, theater, spoken word, creative writing, and music education for more than 4,200 young people a year.Workshop artists meet weekly with students at our partner sites to teach semester-length or yearlong residencies in their art form.
Through our pioneering artists-in-residency model, the Workshop provides long-term, sequential instruction in dance, theater, spoken word, creative writing, and music education for more than 4,200 young people a year.Workshop artists meet weekly with students at our partner sites to teach semester-length or yearlong residencies in their art form.
Workshop artists meet with students at our 86 partner sites around the Bay Area to teach semester-length or yearlong residencies in their art form. Together with site staff, teaching artists set learning goals for their students that go beyond technical training in a particular art form.
Our methodology prioritizes creative student expression, reflection, revision, and technique, turning Workshop classrooms into laboratories of deep engagement with the creative process.Our teaching artists are professional artists and experienced educators in their field. As representatives of the Workshop in the classroom and communities they serve, teaching artists share a commitment to our mission and social justice values.
Our methodology prioritizes creative student expression, reflection, revision, and technique, turning Workshop classrooms into laboratories of deep engagement with the creative process.Our teaching artists are professional artists and experienced educators in their field. As representatives of the Workshop in the classroom and communities they serve, teaching artists share a commitment to our mission and social justice values.
It's just really supportive! I've been given opportunities to get to know everyone in the office, even if my work is not directly related to what they do. Please take a moment to read through the areas where Performing Arts Workshop could use your help! Upon identifying what opportunities best fit your skills and interest, complete the Workshop Volunteer Interest Form!
Whether you're a parent, student, teacher, artist, administrator or afterschool coordinator, you have a vital role to play in bringing art to your community. The Workshop's arts education publications can help you link the performing arts directly with academic subjects in the classroom, strengthen your teaching practice, and foster critical thinking in your students.
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Dilcia Gonzalez
Dec 02, 2013
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