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As L.A.’s performing arts center, The Music Center convenes artists, communities and ideas with the goal of deepening the cultural lives of every resident in Los Angeles County. The Music Center provides year-round programming inside The Music Center’s four theatres, on Jerry Moss Plaza, outside at Gloria Molina Grand Park—a 12-acre adjacent green space—in schools and other locations all over Los Angeles County.

Since 1997 24th Street Theatre has been a leader in Arts Education, both in LA and nationally, by providing world-class theatre field trips, school residencies, and professional development workshops that teachers actually love! 24th Street Theatre is a unique organization blending professional children’s theatre and world class Arts Education.

Center Theatre Group, one of the nation’s preeminent arts and cultural organizations, is Los Angeles’ leading not-for-profit theatre company and programs the Mark Taper Forum and the Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.

Originally established in 2006, ETM-LA reaches approximately 18,000 students across 41 schools and five school districts annually. To date, we’ve impacted over 150,000 children with music education. Our work is built on four key pillars:

The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company (US) is a recognized leader in the fields of arts education, mentorship and community building, having been a thriving force in the underserved neighborhoods of Los Angeles County for over two decades. Our participant-driven theatre-arts programs utilize arts education to mitigate the underlying family and community risk factors that threaten the healthy development of the 1,000+ children and adults we serve annually (90% in grades 5-12), including foster youth and incarcerated minors.

MISSION To elevate, educate, and entertain audiences of all ages by presenting thought-provoking classics, socially relevant plays, and education programs in a beautiful, natural outdoor sanctuary for the arts. By passing on a sense of history to young people and adults alike, great works of art inform their present and inspire their future.

Center for the Empowerment of Families Inc. is a grassroots organization which was founded in 2006 by the late Dr. Sharon Jacques-Rabb, a Clinical Psychologist and Licensed M.F.C.C. , educator, lead pastoral counselor and guest speaker at various conferences and workshops. Dr. Rabb’s purpose was to address the problems of disintegration of family systems.

African Soul International is a cultural institution with nearly 3 decades of experience in youth, family and community development through the arts. They integrate traditional cultural experience in modern ways that engage, educate and inform. From high energy presentations, to drum circles of all sizes, their programming will inspire joy and healing for all audiences.

The Arts for Healing and Justice Network (AHJN) provides structure and coordination for the collaborative work of community-based arts education organizations serving system-impacted youth in Los Angeles County to create alternatives to incarceration, build resiliency and wellness, increase community health, eliminate recidivism, and center arts as a change strategy for young people, communities, and systems

UniverSOUL Hip Hop (USHH) is a Los Angeles-based collective of professional Hip Hop and Street Dance artists bringing culturally grounded, joyful dance experiences to schools and communities. Through arts education, expanded learning, interactive assemblies, family engagement, and professional development, USHH partners with schools to support student learning, creative expression, belonging, and positive school culture.