The following local and national organizations provide opportunities, training, support, and professional development to educators and caregivers in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Performing Arts
After School Enrichment at Your Site
Musical Theater is the ideal way for elementary students to explore performing arts. Join John Brown and staff through singing, dancing and acting while creating a musical production. Vocal instruction is combined with basic choreography and age appropriate building of dramatic skills.
School Day Curriculum at Your Site
Original, age appropriate musicals drawn from a variety of genres, ranging from traditional to pop, show tunes to movie scores as well as some original selections. Each of the musical theatre programs is custom designed and written to “fit” the children so that each student has a role of equal weight. Themes include a wide range of topics appropriately planned for the respective grade.
Each show provides a unique and fascinating experience for the child that further teaches them about collaboration and teamwork. The staging includes choreography that may range from creative movement to country western to swing. When the children have mastered most of the music and dance, we work on interweaving libretto and narrators to deliver a lively 40 to 70 minute show accompanied by professional musicians.
School Assemblies
A variety of school assemblies are offered for local schools. New for this season is the 60-minute interactive, “A Century of Song,” which explores popular music from the early 1900s to today, interwoven with dance, drama and costumes!
K-12 Educators Program
In 2010, the Kennedy Center’s Partners in Education program selected the SCV K-12 Arts Education Consortium – which includes the Performing Arts Center and the Castaic Union, Newhall, Saugus Union, and Sulphur Springs school districts – to participate in its nationally recognized arts-integration program for teachers. The consortium was chosen because of its dedicated commitment to the improvement of education in and through the arts. Over the past seven years, more than 200 teachers have joined with their colleagues from all of the Santa Clarita Valley elementary school districts to learn how to bring arts-integration techniques to their students. Working with exceptional teaching artists from the Kennedy Center, teachers have embraced a new teaching methodology that brings arts education into the classroom.
Music
The Santa Clarita Valley Blues Society is an organization dedicated
to preserving and promoting the art of Blues music in the community.
The Santa Clarita Valley Concert Band is a forum for accomplished adult amateur
musicians to use and further develop their musical skills and also to provide the
community with an accomplished musical resource.
The Santa Clarita Master Chorale promotes fine choral music
through annual concert series of outstanding quality, educational
enrichment programs, and involvement in community-based arts efforts.
The Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra supports fine arts
education via orchestral performances by providing an instrumental
education program for students eight years and older.
Visual Arts
The ARTree Community Arts Center builds community by providing
opportunities to nurture creative thinking and expression through the
unique power of the arts.
Santa Clarita Artists Association is a nonprofit membership organization
for local artists to share their expertise, knowledge, and enthusiasm for art.
Their mission is to promote arts in the valley and offer outreach programs as
well as scholarships to art students.
The Santa Clarita Valley Photographers’ Association is a group of dedicated
photographers, both amateur and professional, that meets monthly to learn
about photography and share images.
Dance
The Santa Clarita Ballet Company was founded as a performing outlet
for advanced ballet students. Through partnerships, student dancers are
given an opportunity to perform with professional guest artists and provide
the community with quality, semi-professional ballet theater.