EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
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Mission Statement
The mission of East Bay Center for the Performing Arts is to engage young people in imagining and creating new worlds for themselves and new visions for their communities through the inspiration and discipline of rigorous training in world performance traditions. The Center focuses on creating opportunities for artistic excellence, personal growth, and open communication for children from diverse backgrounds, and nurturing culturally distinctive performing arts as tools for civic engagement, social justice, and change.
About This Cause
Founded in 1968, East Bay Center engages youth and young adults in imagining and creating new worlds for themselves and new visions for their communities through the inspiration and discipline of rigorous training in world performance traditions. The Center provides an environment where young artists dig deep into transformative training in world traditions and the arts to emerge as champions of creativity, social justice, and the humanities. In 2011, after a successful $16 million capital campaign, the Center moved into a completely rebuilt permanent home in the heart of Richmond’s Iron Triangle. The result is one of the finest mid-sized cultural arts facilities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The Center functions much like a living organism existing within the local ecosystems of greater Richmond. Locally, the Center’s reach is fairly broad, touching thousands of pre-K through middle school students in the greater Richmond area through in-school and after-school programs. These programs feed into more intensive offerings through our on-site classes and lessons. Those programs develop transformational young leaders and produce work telling Richmond’s story from a community and youth/young adult perspective. At the Center’s core, our Young Artist Diploma Program – with attendant resident ensembles – provides rigorous training and development to a select group of older and passionately committed students – many of whom participate in the production projects that link us back to the broader community and specific constituencies within the whole. 1. School Partnerships: High quality music, dance, and theater instruction for 5,300 students at 17 K-12 public schools, and professional development for 40 classroom teachers per year. 2. Training and Instruction: Year round comprehensive courses, private instruction, recitals and student support services/mentoring at the Center’s Cultural home site for 410 unduplicated students ages 3-18. 3. Artistic Productions: Nine youth/young adult companies (comprised primarily of Diploma students and faculty) who reach local audiences of 20,000+ annually. These three program areas work in synergy to: 1. Reach out to all children and families in the community with free, multicultural, multidisciplinary arts programs of the highest quality. 2. Identify and engage passionate and committed young artists, providing them with the rigorous training necessary to achieve their academic, professional, and artistic goals. 3. Engage diverse young people, community members, and artists in new and evolving ways of telling their stories and making the arts an essential part of life in Richmond.