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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!

The San Francisco Children's Art Center is a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower children and foster their sense of self through artistic exploration. Our focus is on a process-oriented art experience. While providing instruction in the use of art materials and techniques, our teachers guide students through the creative process in an effort to support each child's individual style of expression. We offer a full range of classes in our Fort Mason studio, for children ages 22 months to 12 years of age, as well as Family Workshops and Birthday Parties on Sundays. Big Kid Weekly Workshops during the summer allow kids to explore more complex topics and materials. Visit www.childrensartcenter.org for more information.

MISSION: Performing Arts Workshop is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping young people develop critical thinking, creative expression, and basic learning skills through the arts.

HISTORY: Performing Arts Workshop (the Workshop) began in 1959, providing classes in dance and theater at community centers in low-income neighborhoods of North Beach and the Western Addition of San Francisco. In 1974, the Workshop launched its core program, Artists-in-Schools (AIS), and became one of the first nonprofit arts organizations in San Francisco to place trained artists as specialists in public schools.

Today, the Workshop offers art residencies to over 5,000 children in public schools, county community/day schools, community centers, and transitional housing facilities throughout the Bay Area (San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties).

Over 60% of all AIS residencies serve “special needs” students, including the economically/educationally disadvantaged, limited English, and the physically and/or learning disabled.

Our other programs include: Professional Development Program which provides workshops and on-site training to school teachers, principals and artists, on integrating the arts into classroom curricula; and, Artists-in-Communities, in which the Workshop has formed partnerships with city agencies and neighborhood organizations to provide arts education to economically and educationally disadvantaged youth throughout the city.

The Imagine Bus Project helps break the isolation many inner-city children face by introducing them to the wonders of art. The Project keeps kids off the streets, helps build their self-esteem, makes them better students, and contributes to healthier families in more creative communities.

Organization Purpose & Goals

The Imagine Bus Project (TIBP) is an arts education organization that addresses the lack of visual arts programming in kindergarten through 12th grade curricula by providing comprehensive arts education classes to inner city children in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District's after school programs and community based youth organizations.

In 1998, the Project's founder, Susan Little, began with one bus and a mission to bring art to inner city kids where they live. Today, our on-site after-school visual art education programs are recognized as the premier program of its kind in the Bay Area.  The Imagine Bus Project has grown to become the largest provider of after-school visual art education in the Bay Area. In 2008, we will reach over 7,000 children.

The Imagine Bus Project programs bring professional art teachers into after-school programs in low-income communities in San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma Counties.  We partner with under-resourced programs to offer youth long-term sequential high quality art classes that are culturally sensitive and informative, engaging and expansive.  

AXIS Dance Company's mission is to create and perform high quality contemporary dance that is developed through the collaboration of dancers with and without disabilities. AXIS teaches dance and educates about collaboration and disability through community outreach and education programs. AXIS is committed to promoting and supporting physically integrated dance, locally, nationally and internationally.

 

AXIS' extensive community education/outreach program, Dance Access and its youth component Dance Access/KIDS! offers classes and workshops for adults and youth of all abilities, school assemblies, presentations, lecture demonstrations, and residencies locally and abroad. Dance Access is a model program that was presented in the Kennedy Center's national Imagination Celebration at the 2002 Olympic Arts Festival, received the CA Arts Council Exemplary Arts award in 2002, is currently on the roster of Young Audiences Northern California, and is featured on the Young Audience's national Arts4Learning website.