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Alphabet Rockers is an interactive, educational hip-hop & modern kids music show that classrooms, kids, and families can enjoy together.

Featuring songs from the 2008 National Parenting Publications and 2008 Parents’ Choice Award-winning CD Alphabet Rockers, this show is set to be the “School House Rock” of the hip hop generation. Family Magazine says: "Alphabet Rockers is cool educational music that the whole family can enjoy together." Parents' Choice Awards state the music is "age-appropriate with toe-tapping appeal." 

Alphabet Rockers performs in school assemblies, family events, community celebrations and more. We look forward to working with you!

A fun and meaningful forum for education, understanding and awareness, the San Francisco Film Society’s Education Program introduces students to the art of filmmaking and celebrates both the differences and the shared values of the many cultural groups that make up our global community. The program aims to develop media literacy, broaden insights into other cultures, enhance foreign language aptitude, develop critical thinking skills and inspire a lifelong appreciation of cinema.

We are constantly establishing new partnerships with schools, cultural centers, sponsors, museums, innovators in the film industry and other nonprofit and arts organizations to support us in our educational objectives. We strive to cultivate students’ imaginations, facilitate their awareness as filmgoers and empower them as true global citizens.

Our programs are also designed to meet the Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards for California public schools, providing key media resources for teaching artistic perception, creative expression, aesthetic valuing, historical and cultural dimensions of the arts, and the means for connecting and applying what is learned through film to other curricula and careers.

Since 1991, the SFFS Education Program has reached more than 30,000 Bay Area schoolchildren and 2,500 teachers from more than 500 educational institutions through film screenings, filmmaker visits and lesson plans.

During the Doing & Viewing Art program, children visit a different museum gallery every week for ten weeks, and then participate in related studio art activities under the guidance of professional artists. The de Young also offers Saturday workshops for families in subjects such as paper art, drawing and painting.

At the ODC School Youth Program, our goal is to provide youth and teens with high-quality technical training, skills to capitalize on their strengths, a positive body image, and tools to express themselves to their fullest capabilities while falling in love with dance. Based in the newly-built and spacious ODC Dance Commons, students are exposed and connected to a large and diverse artistic community including ODC/Dance, a world-class modern dance company; ODC Theater, which presents cutting-edge dance, theater and music; and the Rhythm & Motion Dance Program, which offers myriad multi-cultural dance opportunities. ODC School is dedicated to fostering creativity in a nurturing and challenging environment for students who seek either sheer enjoyment or a career in dance.

Concerts for Kids is the Symphony's oldest education program, providing the sonic and visual experience of a live orchestra to schoolchildren. In advance of the concert, study guides and CDs are provided.  Music for Families is a weekend matinee series that provides children and parents with the opportunity to share in an educational and entertaining series that provides children and parents with the opportunity to share in an educational and entertaining series of stimulating, participatory music encounters.  Pre-concert materials are mailed to promote music engagement at home.

San Francisco Symphony's "Learning Website" is an online interactive educational resource serving children and their families through interactivity, animation, and tools for the creative exploration of music making.  The site is located at www.sfkids.com