Community Partners

A Reason To Survive (ARTS)

Natalia Rogers | natalia@areasontosurvive.org

Community ARTS: creative arts programs serving all south SD county youth & teachers. ARTS 4 Justice: serving south county JCCS youth & teachers. SD Promise Neighborhood: supports programs for Barrio Logan schools & teachers. ARTS @ Work: internships for south county youth ages 16-24.

Art Reach

Brooke Benedix | brooke@artreachsandiego.org

ArtReach Free In Class Program for Title 1 Schools

ArtReach In Class Program

ArtReach Mural Programs

Arts Education Connection San Diego

Adrienne Valencia | adrienne@artsedsd.org

AECsd provides workshops, artist-in-residence, and professional learning programs in music, dance, theater, visual art and literary arts. Our professional Teaching Artists tailor their programs to meet your unique academic and budgetary needs.

Banding Together

Julie Guy | admin@bandingtogethersd.org

Banding together is a non-profit that provides music opportunities to individuals with special needs. We offer a monthly Songbirds group that may benefit your elementary school students with special needs and free recordings of Songbirds and Rockstar club are on demand on our website.

Blindspot Collective

Blake McCarty | blake@blindspotcollective.org

Blindspot Collective offers classroom workshops and school residencies for K-12 students in San Diego County. Our professional teaching artists collaborate with students and teachers to deepen engagement in theater and the performing arts, with customized curricula to meet the needs of your school and community.

Center for World Music

Stefanie Schmitz | stefanie@centerforworldmusic.org

Center for World Music's World Music in the Schools Program offerings:

Residencies: Weekly hands-on world music & dance classes with master teaching artists

Workshops: One-time world music & dance class

Assemblies: Interactive performances featuring our world music ensembles

Living Room Learning: interactive world music & dance video lessons

Classics 4 Kids

Corrine Huber | chuber@classics4kids.org

La Jolla Playhouse offers many programs for students and educators including our touring show, Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour, custom residencies, and free online resources.

Diversionary Theatre

Skyler Sullivan | ssullivan@diversionary.org

Kid-Versionary / Teen Versionary / Teen Playwriting Program / D Tours (touring show in your school). All FREE

Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom

Jess Baron | jess@guitarsintheclassroom.org

Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom (GITC) specializes in music integration with academics and social emotional learning to achieve essential educational goals through the power of hands-on music and student songwriting. GITC provides a wide range of services from faculty training courses to classroom teaching artist residencies, instrumental master classes, and music for assemblies and special projects. Our fall after-school courses for educators are currently open for enrollment.

La Jolla Playhouse

Bridget Cavaiola | learningandengagement@ljp.org

Classics 4 Kids 2021-2022 Season includes Virtual Meet & Greets, Special Event Livestreams, Assemblies, and Theatre Concerts (Spring 2022). Book online.

Malashock Dance

Kelly Flansburg | Kelly@malashockdance.com

Arts Integrated Math in Motion or Physical Education Residency Program (in-person or virtual) A residency includes: Specific lesson plans that incorporate either the Math Common Core Standards or the Physical Education Core Standards and the California VAPA Dance Standards K-8

During after-school hours, Malashock Dance Teaching Artist(s) can channel students’ energy through enriching dance classes at your school. Class options include fitness-based dance classes, creative dance, and choreography, or techniques such as Hip Hop, Jazz, and Contemporary Modern. Grades: K-5

Visit a live, professional performance by Malashock Dance Company. Students will experience a unique opportunity to view a Malashock Dance Company production in a dedicated venue with only students in the audience. School is responsible for transportation. Field trips must be reserved and scheduled during the Company’s regular season performance schedule. Grades: K-12

Malashock Dance will provide an Artist In Residence in your school’s existing dance program. A Malashock Company Dancer will teach weekly dance technique classes. The residency will enhance technical proficiency, increase versatility, and further develop your dance department. Weekly classes are scheduled during school hours. Grades: 6-12

The Music Therapy Center of CA

Julie Guy | info@themusictherapycenter.com

Board certified music therapists use evidence-based music interventions to address physical, emotional, cognitive, social and academic goals. Active music making, instrument playing, songwriting and singing are some of the techniques used. Services for special needs students include music therapy sessions, IEP assessment services, and telehealth. In-services including music strategy trainings are also available for teachers.

Refer your students for a free-screening TODAY!

Sign up for our next low-cost music strategies training, In Harmony, offered through the Autism Tree Project Foundation https://www.autismtreeproject.org/programs/atpf-inharmony-program

Outside The Lens

Lucy Eagleson | lucy@outsidethelens.org

Outside the Lens (OTL) amplifies youth voices through photography, filmmaking, and digital media, catalyzing change within themselves, their community, and the world. OTL is passionate about providing youth and underserved communities with the tools and skills necessary to succeed in a digital world. Our vision is that all people, regardless of income, geography, national origin, or identity, have the artistic and technological skills and access to create and share their stories.

OTL closes the gap in access to quality arts education, youth development, leadership development, and digital technology skills, equipping underserved youth with the necessary tools to become successful, competitive, and engaged 21st-century citizens. We provide professional Media Educators and an arts-integrated curriculum aligned with California State Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) standards, National Core Art Standards, and Common Core State Standards.

Through an experiential, project-based curriculum, OTL teaches digital and media literacy skills in our four core programmatic areas:

Cameras in the Classroom, our flagship in-classroom programming for San Diego area K–12 students, brings OTL Media Educators into classrooms, provide professional development training for teachers and teaching artists, restorative practices training; and develops a digital media-integrated curriculum.

Cameras in Communities includes film screenings and festivals, digital skill-building workshops; summer camps; and artist residencies across San Diego County.

Cameras, College, & Careers for teens include professional digital media skill training, business education, real-world community internships, and one-on-one industry professional mentorships.

Cameras Across Cultures, our virtual exchange curriculum engages youth in learning and sharing cultural heritage, facilitating a youth-driven creative online community between San Diego and international youth.

Playwrights Project

Nicole Hernandez | nhernandez@playwrightsproject.org

Playwrights Project's Write On! and Imagine That! residencies provide opportunity for students to creatively express themselves while strengthening their writing and socio-emotional skills through lively theatre games and writing exercises led by a Teaching Artist. The program culminates in professional actors performing cold readings of student scripts, bringing the characters to life and rewarding the students’ hard work!

Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls San Diego

Melissa Grove | rockcampforgirlsSD@gmail.com

Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls San Diego, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, hosts a week-long day summer camp where girls and non-binary individuals ages 8-17 use music as a powerful way to communicate and collaborate while being guided by inspirational female mentors.

In one week, campers form bands, write an original song, learn an instrument and perform live while attending empowerment workshops. Summer 2022 enrollment starts February 2022. Financial aid is available.

San Diego Children's Choir

Ruthie Millgard | ruthiemillgard@sdcchoir.or

The San Diego Children's Choir serves over 1,000 students annually throughout SD County in three programs. One is an Early Years program for ages 4-6, the second is our School Outreach program offered during the school day at Elementary schools, and the third is our Ensemble Program for 1st through 12th grade students in evening and weekend rehearsals.

San Diego Ballet

Camille McPherson | outreach@sandiegoballet.org

Meet a Dancer: A special classroom visit by one of SDB's professional ballet dancers. Dancer will share what it is like to work as a professional artist, answer questions from the class, teach a mini ballet class, and perform a Pointe Shoe demonstration.

Lecture Demonstration Assembly: A group of SDB dancers will come to your school to perform a shortened professional ballet production. Dancers will engage in a Q&A with students post performance.

Residency: SDB engages students on an ongoing basis by working with schools to create residency programs whereby one of our professional teaching artists comes to a classroom multiple sessions throughout the year. Frequency can be crafted to fit individual school's needs and resources.

San Diego Guild of Puppetry

Lynne Jennings | sandiegopuppetry@gmail.com

During the Pandemic, the Guild is offering virtual or properly social distanced programming for Pre-K to 12th grade: single session workshops, long term school residencies, after school enrichment, camp programs, and those of our shows that are able to be performed outside. Plus we have over two dozen simple, bilingual puppet making kits available for individual students or entire classrooms, and we mentor theater programs when they are producing a show that includes puppetry elements. Post pandemic we look forward to returning as well to our larger scale programs that have been on hold since COVID struck: indoor performances by local and touring guest artists, exhibits and displays, family night entertainment, community events(often in collaboration with other nonprofits) and giant puppet parade pageants.

San Diego Youth Symphony

Dr. Lauren Rausch | lrausch@sdys.org

San Diego Youth Symphony offers a wide range of ensemble-based music learning opportunities for young people: from infants and toddlers in our early childhood music program, to young adults (ages 7 – 22) in our large ensembles and elective music classes.

Ensembles rehearse on weekends in Balboa Park and complement student participation in their in-school music programs. Students gain exposure to a wide range of repertoire in a supportive yet challenging environment. Tuition assistance is available and no student is turned away for lack of resources.

13 unique ensembles – from full orchestras to string and wind ensembles - are led by our team of 6 professional conductors. From beginners through pre-professional musicians, there’s a place for any student at SDYS.

SDYS also partners with schools, districts, and other education providers to bring quality music education programs into classrooms and as extracurricular activities. Visit us at sdys.org for more information.

Villa Musica

Aaron Bullard | abullard@villamusica.org

Ensemble coaches and electronic beat making