InsideOut

Young Audiences of Northern California is currently accepting applications for our 2009-2010 artist roster. Young Audiences works with artists and schools to serve the nine surrounding bay area counties by providing assemblies, artist residnecies and professional development to teachers.

In the 2007-08 school year, Young Audiences partnered with 66 professional artists to provide arts education programming for 160,000 students in 173 Bay Area schools. Young Audiences programming included 500 assemblies for 150,000 students and 93 residencies providing 2,252 hands-on sessions to 10,000 students in nine counties. Young Audiences also engaged 270 teachers for 20 hours of professional development sessions designed to assist them in finding new ways to teach in and through the arts. Our current roster of artists has more than 100 creative and talented professional painters and poets, dancers and musicians, actors and storytellers and ensembles representing a diverse range of classical and contemporary art forms as well as cultural traditions. Young Audiences artists strongly believe that all children deserve to discover the arts as part of their classroom experience.