Artes Para Todos
About Artes Para Todos
In 2022, we launched “Artes Para Todos” -- an initiative that is breaking down traditional language barriers and welcoming a sector of our community that has been vastly neglected by educational theater programs. Through “Artes Para Todos,” we have forged a deep partnership with Second Story, a local nonprofit serving at risk students in Fairfax County. 90% of them come from households where Spanish is the first language spoken. We offer free after school theater workshops at their community based “Safe Youth” sites, and sometimes help them with their drug prevention activities through improvisational drama exercises.
We offer these students scholarships to our Arts Adventure camps, and provide complimentary tickets to our productions, even providing transportation. Through Lenny’s work, our Learning Theater productions at Creative Cauldron also now feature Spanish-language elements, making our productions more accessible and enjoyable to both students and families. We also forged a relationship with Westlawn Elementary School, a Fairfax County Title One school where 70% of the student population qualifies for free and reduced lunch and a similar percentage comes from households. We now have a year-round, after-school drama club on-site with 28 students participating. This coming spring, the club will present a production of “Tales from the Americas,” an original adaptation of Central and South American folktales, for school assemblies. The young Westlawn performers will be joined by two professional actors, and the production will feature live music provided by Andean musician, Juan Cayrampoma, a long time Creative Cauldron collaborator and performer in our annual “Passport to the World of Music” concert series. Juan will assemble a band of traditional musicians who will provide underscoring and musical elements for the dramatized tales.
With support from Arts Fairfax and the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia and individual donors, we were able to provide $27,000 in scholarships to “Artes Para Todos” participants this past year, and almost $2,500 in complimentary tickets. Many of the young people had never been to a camp or a performance before. One young boy, who immigrated to this country with his family from Guatemala only a few years ago, joined our professional cast as a performer in “Monarch: A Mexican American Musical.”
We are grateful to our donors who help fund this important part of our mission to provide affordable access to the arts. CLICK HERE TO DONATE.
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We offer these students scholarships to our Arts Adventure camps, and provide complimentary tickets to our productions, even providing transportation. Through Lenny’s work, our Learning Theater productions at Creative Cauldron also now feature Spanish-language elements, making our productions more accessible and enjoyable to both students and families. We also forged a relationship with Westlawn Elementary School, a Fairfax County Title One school where 70% of the student population qualifies for free and reduced lunch and a similar percentage comes from households. We now have a year-round, after-school drama club on-site with 28 students participating. This coming spring, the club will present a production of “Tales from the Americas,” an original adaptation of Central and South American folktales, for school assemblies. The young Westlawn performers will be joined by two professional actors, and the production will feature live music provided by Andean musician, Juan Cayrampoma, a long time Creative Cauldron collaborator and performer in our annual “Passport to the World of Music” concert series. Juan will assemble a band of traditional musicians who will provide underscoring and musical elements for the dramatized tales.
With support from Arts Fairfax and the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia and individual donors, we were able to provide $27,000 in scholarships to “Artes Para Todos” participants this past year, and almost $2,500 in complimentary tickets. Many of the young people had never been to a camp or a performance before. One young boy, who immigrated to this country with his family from Guatemala only a few years ago, joined our professional cast as a performer in “Monarch: A Mexican American Musical.”
We are grateful to our donors who help fund this important part of our mission to provide affordable access to the arts. CLICK HERE TO DONATE.
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