Classes & Events FOR YOUTH
Hip Hop Dance
Drawing Workshop
Aerial Performance
Theater
Improv & Young Theater
Youth Arts CLASSES
Youth Arts EVENTS
The Center Resource for Education, Art, Theater and Exploration is The Center’s arts education program. It provides opportunities for our community to engage with working artists, the arts, student matinees, a children’s theater program and an educational series for adults.
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Youth Arts
ABOUT OUR YOUTH ARTS PROGRAMS
With four schools within walking distance, we are truly at “The Center” and excited to offer even more options for local students During the pandemic, The Center has created more programs to support working families and children in the community. We continue to adapt and expand our Youth Arts Education programs to enrich the lives of students of all ages.
Family Fun Day
Offered three times a year, these are free all-day events geared toward families and introduces many young children in our community to their first-ever arts experience. We offer families the opportunity to participate in healthy art-based activities together, such as face painting, crafts, and a balloon artist and other fun entertainment.
The Main Stage Playmakers
New to The Center’s programming in this past year, The Main Stage Playmakers aims to provide a theater experience for children ages 7-15, and presents 3 productions a year.
Summer Camps & Seasonal Classes
Our Youth Arts Education Program provides in-person and virtual summer camp opportunities for kids to participate in a wide range of professionally guided and instructed art programs.
The fall, winter and spring sessions includes new daytime classes to help fill the gap for students during independence study time and added classes when hybrid classrooms are not in session.
We Have Scholarships available!
We are proud to offer over $10,000 in Scholarships for Summer Camps and Seasonal Classes in order to increase access to the arts for youth in our community. Thanks to Dignity Health and LaVonne Amaral for being our main supporters of the Scholarship Program, along with the help of our Annual Youth Arts Sponsors and anonymous private donors.
Student Matinee Series
We began a new Student Matinee Series and are working with teachers to provide them study guides and access to quality theatrical productions. Produced in Partnership with the California Arts Council these programs are currently delivered online and provide educational entertainment for students in the classroom or at home.
THANK YOU to our annual Youth Arts Sponsors
The newly renovated building offers a more flexible space and will enable us to expand and improve our Youth Arts Education programs.
During the pandemic, The Center has created more programs to support working families and children in the community. We continue to adapt and expand our Youth Arts Education programs to enrich the lives of students of all ages.
From Family Fun Day to after school programs and summer camps, The Center offers Youth Arts Education to support the local school district, stepping in to provide a creative curriculum throughout the year.
Youth Arts News
Youth Programming
Meeting Mozart, a free matinee at The Center for the Arts, brought community together during historic storm
When a severe winter storm gripped western Nevada County, paralyzing services and schools for nearly a month in March of this year, the local community
December 21st, 2023
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Arts Education
Music in the Mountains & The Center for the Arts Partner to Start World Music Education Program
Music in the Mountains and The Center for the Arts partner to bring new world music education programming for free to our community youth, based on Carnegie Hall’s Musical Explorer’s curriculum.
February 16th, 2021
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Arts Education
Engaging Kids in the Arts in March
The Center for the Arts continues to bring important youth programming to our community during this challenging time. The Center is teaming up with Music in the Mountains to produce a world music program and virtual choir and, also, presenting a virtual theater production with the support of The California Arts Council. Both programs are free.
February 22nd, 2021
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