Schools in the UK have been working with partners in South Africa, India and the US on an international Shakespeare project run by the British Council in the build-up to Festival 2012. – Read more at BBC
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Inner-City Arts Hosts "Summer on 7th" Fundraiser
It’s safe to say that without a robust education in the arts, many of our city’s best and brightest people would have never found success. Even beyond the movie stars, visual artists and musicians that call Los Angeles home, have proven that arts education improves literacy, spatial reasoning, and every other conceivable metric of early […]
A Royal Visit to Inner-City Arts
Mandalas, Tortoises and Children Captivate The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge During Their July 10th Visit to Inner-City Arts One hundred and twenty-five students from Frank del Olmo Elementary School received the royal treatment on Sunday, July 10, 2011, when they had the opportunity to make art at Inner-City Arts with The Duke and Duchess […]
Yo-Yo Ma Shows Love for Lil' Buck's Brand of Street Dance
An audience of over 100 grade school students at Los Angeles’s Inner City Arts got a big treat recently when world famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma teamed up with locally-based dancer Charles Riley for a rendition of “The Dying Swan.” In the performance, Ma uses his high-brow style of performance to provide the soundtrack for Riley’s […]
End of the Year Summary and Predictions for 2011
In reviewing the over 60 blogs I’ve posted in this past year on The Huffington Post, I wondered if there was a pattern in my series of observations that I could present as the “messages” for the year. If there are any, they would be in my critiques of some of the mistaken ideas about […]
10 Nonprofits Teaching Arts Education To Kids Across The Country
With ever-increasing budget cuts negatively affecting US schools, it has been up to independent nonprofits to step in and make up for the deficit in arts programming. Across the country, arts education programs are teaching kids to draw, act, dance and, most importantly, gain an appreciation for the arts. We aren’t sure where we’d be […]
Congresswoman Hosts Congressional Colleagues at Inner-City Arts
Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) welcomed Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-31) and Congresswomen Laura Richardson (CA-37), Maxine Waters (CA-35) and Diane Watson (CA-33) to Inner-City Arts for a dialogue on arts education, the cultural economy and civic engagement. Inner-City Arts is a non-profit arts education center on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Los Angeles Councilwoman Jan Perry, 9th […]
Creativity in Education: There is Room for it (VIDEO)
At a recent panel hosted by GOOD and the University of Phoenix, I had the honor to join Jan Kirsch from Inner City Arts, Cynthia Campoy-Brophy from The HeArt Project, and Sophia Klatzker from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. We discussed the changing environment of schools and how our programs are working to help […]
Social Media for Social Good
Los Angeles’ Skid Row is widely recognized as the homeless capital of the world where thousands of people are without shelter every night. But what is invisible in this equation are the children of the inner city — 30,000 of them living within a two and a half mile radius of downtown Los Angeles. Given […]
Live From Social Media Week LA Opening Party
Last night was the Social Media Week Los Angeles opening party at Inner-City Arts. Inner-City Arts generously served as hosts to this party and words can’t quite describe how magical the setting and evening were. See photos from the event below, taken by Social Media Week LA Official Event Photographer Guest of a Guest. The […]
Inner-City Arts And Social Media Week LA
Social Media Week is proud to partner with Inner-City Arts, for over twenty years, an oasis of learning, achievement and creativity for underserved children in the heart of Skid Row. They provide a safe place for kids to express themselves, “to fuel the dreams of children, especially those living in poverty who may believe dreams […]
LAUSD Partners with Inner-City Arts to Win $1.3 Million Grant
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Arts Education Branch, together with Inner-City Arts, has been awarded a four-year, $1.3 million U.S. Department of Education Model Development and Dissemination Arts Education grant. The grant is a project of Los Angeles Unified School District working in partnership with Inner-City Arts, a nonprofit organization providing arts learning […]
