Grand Vision Foundation (GVF) is a dynamic nonprofit arts organization dedicated to enriching San Pedro, the Los Angeles Harbor Area, and surrounding communities through live music, music education, and historic preservation. GVF drives community connections through two signature programs:
- The Grand Annex Music Hall: An intimate, 150-seat venue established in 2008 that showcases an eclectic lineup of world, roots, Latin, jazz, and Americana artists—bringing audiences and musicians together in a listening room setting.
- Meet the Music (MTM): GVF’s flagship youth education initiative, launched in 2009, which delivers accessible, culturally relevant music programs to students across Los Angeles County while supporting local educators with professional development and classroom enrichment resources.
Founded in 1996, Grand Vision successfully led the charge to save San Pedro’s historic Warner Grand Theatre and helped transform it into a community-focused performing arts center. Today, Grand Vision continues to serve as the official Friends Group, providing marketing, restoration support, and advocacy for the Warner Grand Theatre, which is owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles.
Grand Vision Foundation’s Meet the Music (MTM) provides high-quality, standards-aligned music education and cultural arts experiences for students in elementary and middle schools throughout Los Angeles County. As an established arts education partner, MTM works with schools, educators, and communities to provide engaging opportunities for students to learn, create, perform, and respond to music.
MTM’s programming includes sequential music education, cultural arts concerts and field trips, after-school music and STEAM enrichment, small-group instrumental and vocal instruction, professional development for educators, workshops, and customized experiences. Programs can be designed for entire grade levels, individual classrooms, small groups, or broader school and community audiences, allowing MTM to respond to the needs and goals of each partner.
Sequential music programs introduce foundational musical concepts and skills: active, participatory learning, ensemble playing, music literacy, improvisation, rhythm, and listening and responding through recorders, percussion, strings, and singing. Programs connect music learning to history, culture, language arts, math, science, technology, engineering, social-emotional learning, and other core subject areas. Cultural arts programming expands these experiences through interactive concerts, artist residencies, field trips, and workshops featuring professional musicians and teaching artists.
MTM’s STEAM and enrichment programs use music as a starting point for exploration, experimentation, design, and creative problem-solving, including instrument building, sound and vibration, and connections between music and the world around us. MTM teaching artists are professional working musicians who are selected, trained, and supported to work effectively with young learners using student-centered and culturally relevant teaching practices.
Professional development and collaborative support for educators are also an important part of MTM’s work, providing curriculum, instructional strategies, arts integration approaches, and resources that extend learning beyond the MTM lesson.
At the heart of Meet the Music is the belief that every student should have meaningful opportunities to experience quality arts education and express themselves through art. MTM brings those opportunities directly into schools and communities, creating accessible pathways into music and broader cultural arts.