Program Overview
Youth ARTS Company is a healing-centered arts program where youth produce Community Based Art projects that seek to transform trauma and uplift solutions to violence.
The Youth ARTS Company centers art as a tool for storytelling, resistance, and collective healing. Through a collaborative musical project, participants will explore themes of intergenerational healing, demilitarization, school safety, and community-based alternatives to incarceration. Youth will be supported in using creative expression to deepen understanding of these issues while imagining and building safer, more just futures. Additionally, participants engage in political education workshops to build critical consciousness, strengthen self-awareness, and support holistic growth. The program emphasizes the importance of community, leadership and youth voice when it comes to transforming issues related from violence.
Youth ARTS Company is a healing-centered arts program where youth produce Community Based Art projects that seek to transform trauma and uplift solutions to violence.
The Youth ARTS Company centers art as a tool for storytelling, resistance, and collective healing. Through a collaborative musical project, participants will explore themes of intergenerational healing, demilitarization, school safety, and community-based alternatives to incarceration. Youth will be supported in using creative expression to deepen understanding of these issues while imagining and building safer, more just futures. Additionally, participants engage in political education workshops to build critical consciousness, strengthen self-awareness, and support holistic growth. The program emphasizes the importance of community, leadership and youth voice when it comes to transforming issues related from violence.