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Trash Mash-Up is a community art project. Using disposable materials, collected before they enter the waste stream, participants construct “Maskostumes” which are original pageant masks and costumes inspired by traditions from around the world. This project reduces waste and inspires people to see each other and our environment in a new way.

*Inspire girls to dream big
*Challenge girls to achieve excellence
*Empower girls through knowledge and accomplishment

Remarkable Girls, a unique theatre program for ages 9-18, provides classes, workshops, and performance opportunities designed to promote growth, creativity, and artistry.

In addition to her all-girl program, Jan Downing continues to offer coed musical theatre and drama classes to schools and community organizations.

 

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!

Prior to joining the Performing Arts Workshop, Jessica worked for four years in her native Boston where she managed the staff, funding and coordination for a number of academic research projects related to civic engagement, community development and grassroots organizing. She also developed her own negotiation and community building skills as an organizer for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (AFSCME, AFL-CIO). In 2005, Jessica finished her master's degree in Education and moved to the Bay Area. The Workshop offers her the opportunity to combine her love of the performing arts with her interests in education and community building.

The San Francisco Girls Chorus School offers a program designed to take young girls from their first introduction to the art of choral singing through a full course of choral and vocal instruction. This includes the study and development of choral artistry, vocal technique, music theory, music history, and performing style as pertaining to the repertoire studied and performed by the Chorus

A professionally performing ensemble, the Cypress String Quartet spends about half its resources reaching out to students and community members through various programs. The Cypress Quartet's student work ranges from providing "non-music" and "music" students access to creativity and chamber music as well as training in chamber music. The Cypress is building chamber music audiences in younger generations--for both classic and contemporary music. Whatever level at which students see and hear the Cypress Quartet, they are sure to find their concerts and presentations fascinating and fun.

The Mission Urban Arts after school program offers youth the opportunity to become paid youth advisors within the program. The youth advisors undergo trainings in conflict resolution, communication, workshop/meeting facilitation, and more. MUA youth advisors assist our urban arts instructors with their classes, with program development, fundraising and act as liaisons between the youth and the staff. Youth leadership is very important to MUA, and we are proud of our Youth Advisors and the impact they make in the direction and mission of our program.

The Muliticultural Arts School, located at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, provides year-round arts programs for youth.  Month-long summer day camps offer visual and performing arts programs, and culminate in a performance.  Year-round after-school classes are offered in subjects such as puppet making, mosaic, painting and drawing, mask-making, and hip-hop 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