Thriving Cultures
Young Dancemakers Company
- Bronx, NY
- $20,000
To support free training and multiple performance opportunities for underserved teens who seek to create and perform their original choreography in their ensemble drawn from NYC public high schools.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Young People's Chorus of New York City
- New York, NY
- $100,000 (2 years)
To support and expand the training and performances of Concert Chorus and Young Men's Divisions, increase access through more scholarships and extend YPC's Shuffle Initiative into the YPC Shuffle Effect.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Youth Speaks
- San Francisco, CA
- $75,000
For Spoken Word programs that serve youth in the Bay Area who have the least access to quality arts education programs. Funding will help strengthen our model by investing in core operations, including the poet-mentor program.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Zaccho Dance Theatre
- San Francisco, CA
- $40,000
Support for Artistic Director Joanna Haigood to develop a full-length aerial dance performance for Zaccho's Youth Company focused on environmental and social justice issues. A youth-led project design, community programs, and roundtable discussions will involve teens from community youth groups.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
