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ART-BYTES
P.O. Box 2424 - Nevada City, CA 95959
Art-Bytes is a concept that fits with many different programs. Completed projects to date include regular radio broadcasts, Web page design, video production, music production, interactive CD-ROM production, international touring visual art exhibition and theatrical presentations over the Net.

ARTS ED
De Domenico Building 200 Frank Ogawa Plaza - Oakland, CA 94612
ARTS Ed, an Initiative of the East Bay Community Foundation, bridges schools and communities to create comprehensive and sustainable arts education for the children of the East Bay.

CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT
1235 B Veronica Springs Road - Santa Barbara, CA 93105
The Children's Creative Project, a nonprofit arts education organization, is a program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office. It provides visual and performing arts workshops conducted by resident artists and touring artist performances for 80,000 children in 150 schools. It also produces the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival, an annual fund-raising event.

CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND
699 Bellevue Avenue - Oakland, CA 94610
Children's Fairyland is a 10-acre storybook park with programs that build a young child's desire to read, listen, and utilize the visual and theatre arts, such as dance, instrumental, vocal music, and arts and crafts as a means of expression.

CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATER SAN JOSE
1401 Parkmoor Avenue - San Jose, CA 95126
The nation's leading youth conservatory offering performance opportunities for ages 6-20, after-school and summer classes for ages 4-20, in-school programs, the unique online "Theater as Digital Activity" program, and quality musical theater performances for the community.

CULTURAL INITIATIVES SILICON VALLEY
1153 Lincoln Avenue Suite I - San Jose, CA 95125
Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley (CISV) is a nonprofit grant-making arts organization that is helping to implement the cultural plan for our region.

ENRICHMENT WORKS
5605 Woodman Avenue Suite 207 - Valley Glen, CA 91401
Enrichment Works is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that creates and presents assembly programs, classroom presentations and specialized instruction to grades K-8 in Los Angeles County public and private schools, linking professional actors with the school curriculum.

GREAT LEAP, INC.
1145 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 100-D - Los Angeles, CA 90017
The arts have always found a way to leap boundaries. Stories and songs of our cultures thread our common truth. A dance connects us to the rhythms of each other. We must sing it, we must tell it, we must celebrate it. We are Great Leap.

LOS LUPEÑOS DE SAN JOSÉ
P.O. Box 997 - San José, CA 95108
A dynamic nonprofit organization providing the best in traditional Mexican folk arts to the community, as well as nationally and internationally, through theater productions, studio classes and in-school arts programming.

LUCKMAN FINE ARTS COMPLEX
California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive - Los Angeles, CA 90032
COLTA (Creating Opportunities for Learning Through the Arts) is the education and outreach program of the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, a multifaceted theater complex located on the campus of Cal State, Los Angeles.

LUNA KIDS DANCE
P.O. Box 6307 - Albany, CA 94706
Luna Kids Dance is an arts education organization which houses a creative-based children's dance program for youth ages 3-17, and professional development services for school-based teachers and dance artists.

PERFORMING ARTS WORKSHOP
Fort Mason Center, C-265 - San Francisco, CA 94123
PAW's creative learning programs for students, teachers, and artists bring the transformative power of arts education to a culturally, educationally, and economically diverse population.

SAN DIEGO JUNIOR THEATRE
1650 El Prado, Suite 208 - San Diego, CA 92110
San Diego Junior Theatre educates youth ages 3-19 in theatre arts through innovative classes and high-quality productions.

SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
455 Franklin Street - San Francisco, CA 94109
San Francisco Ballet, America's oldest professional ballet company, with 72 dancers led by artistic director Helgi Tomasson, has evolved from a respected regional troupe to an international company praised for its broad repertoire, dancers of uncommon range and skill, and a vision that continually sets the standard for the international dance world.

TAHOE ARTS PROJECT
P.O. Box 14281 - South Lake Tahoe, CA 96151
Tahoe Arts Project is a nonprofit bistate organization in California and Nevada, presenting professional performing arts in our schools along with a public performance series.

THE GALEF INSTITUTE
5670 Wilshire Boulevard 20th Floor - Los Angeles, CA 90036
Founded in 1989, the Galef Institute is a nonprofit educational organization whose primary purpose is to work with educators in public schools, schools of education, and other reform agencies in communities throughout the nation to strengthen the teaching profession and to focus school reform where it matters most--on the child in every classroom.

WORLD ARTS WEST
Fort Mason Center, Building D - San Francisco, CA 94123
World Arts West presents and promotes ethnic and cultural diversity through the performance and teaching of world dance traditions. Access, education, and advocacy are offered to world dance artists and cultural communities to achieve a strong, active, and mutually informative relationship. The annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival presents more than 30 Northern California dance groups. People Like Me introduces Bay Area elementary school students to the diversity of world dance and music through a narrated performance of five different ethnic dance groups.

YOUNG AUDIENCES OF SAN DIEGO
1549 El Prado, Suite 9 - San Diego, CA 92101
Young Audiences supplements the existing performing and visual arts curriculum in schools by providing selected actors, dancers, painters, musicians, and language artists in professional performances, workshops, and long-term artists' residencies.

YOUNG AUDIENCES OF THE BAY AREA
125 Stillman Street - San Francisco, CA 94107
Founded in 1958, Young Audiences of the Bay Area is one of more than 30 chapters of Young Audiences, Inc. nationwide. Our audiences are diverse populations living in the Bay Area.

YOUTH IN ARTS
1115 Third St., Suite 3 - San Rafael, CA 94901
Youth in Arts is a non-profit provider of performances and in-school arts programs serving over 30,000 children annually in Marin, Sonoma, and surrounding counties.

ART-BYTES
P.O. Box 2424 - Nevada City, CA 95959
Art-Bytes is a concept that fits with many different programs. Completed projects to date include regular radio broadcasts, Web page design, video production, music production, interactive CD-ROM production, international touring visual art exhibition and theatrical presentations over the Net.

ARTS ED
De Domenico Building 200 Frank Ogawa Plaza - Oakland, CA 94612
ARTS Ed, an Initiative of the East Bay Community Foundation, bridges schools and communities to create comprehensive and sustainable arts education for the children of the East Bay.

BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE
2025 Addison Street - Berkeley, CA 94704
Berkeley Repertory Theatre's arts education program, the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, offers an interactive environment where students of all ages will immerse themselves in all aspects of the craft and artistry of theatre.

CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT
1235 B Veronica Springs Road - Santa Barbara, CA 93105
The Children's Creative Project, a nonprofit arts education organization, is a program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office. It provides visual and performing arts workshops conducted by resident artists and touring artist performances for 80,000 children in 150 schools. It also produces the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival, an annual fund-raising event.

CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND
699 Bellevue Avenue - Oakland, CA 94610
Children's Fairyland is a 10-acre storybook park with programs that build a young child's desire to read, listen, and utilize the visual and theatre arts, such as dance, instrumental, vocal music, and arts and crafts as a means of expression.

CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATER SAN JOSE
1401 Parkmoor Avenue - San Jose, CA 95126
The nation's leading youth conservatory offering performance opportunities for ages 6-20, after-school and summer classes for ages 4-20, in-school programs, the unique online "Theater as Digital Activity" program, and quality musical theater performances for the community.

CULTURAL INITIATIVES SILICON VALLEY
1153 Lincoln Avenue Suite I - San Jose, CA 95125
Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley (CISV) is a nonprofit grant-making arts organization that is helping to implement the cultural plan for our region.

ENRICHMENT WORKS
5605 Woodman Avenue Suite 207 - Valley Glen, CA 91401
Enrichment Works is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that creates and presents assembly programs, classroom presentations and specialized instruction to grades K-8 in Los Angeles County public and private schools, linking professional actors with the school curriculum.

GREAT LEAP, INC.
1145 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 100-D - Los Angeles, CA 90017
The arts have always found a way to leap boundaries. Stories and songs of our cultures thread our common truth. A dance connects us to the rhythms of each other. We must sing it, we must tell it, we must celebrate it. We are Great Leap.

INSIDE OUT COMMUNITY ARTS
P.O. Box 1108 - Venice, CA 90294
Artist-run nonprofit. Professional artists provide multidisciplinary after-school arts programs for at-risk and underserved middle school youth, culminating with topical art shows and performances for community audiences.

LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE
P.O. Box 12039 - San Diego, CA 92039
Founded in 1947, La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit regional theatre in residence on the campus of The University of California at San Diego. La Jolla Playhouse produces a six play main stage season and numerous Education and Outreach programs for the southern California and Baja, Mexico community.

LUCKMAN FINE ARTS COMPLEX
California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive - Los Angeles, CA 90032
COLTA (Creating Opportunities for Learning Through the Arts) is the education and outreach program of the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, a multifaceted theater complex located on the campus of Cal State, Los Angeles.

PERFORMING ARTS WORKSHOP
Fort Mason Center, C-265 - San Francisco, CA 94123
PAW's creative learning programs for students, teachers, and artists bring the transformative power of arts education to a culturally, educationally, and economically diverse population.

SAN DIEGO JUNIOR THEATRE
1650 El Prado, Suite 208 - San Diego, CA 92110
San Diego Junior Theatre educates youth ages 3-19 in theatre arts through innovative classes and high-quality productions.

TAHOE ARTS PROJECT
P.O. Box 14281 - South Lake Tahoe, CA 96151
Tahoe Arts Project is a nonprofit bistate organization in California and Nevada, presenting professional performing arts in our schools along with a public performance series.

THE GALEF INSTITUTE
5670 Wilshire Boulevard 20th Floor - Los Angeles, CA 90036
Founded in 1989, the Galef Institute is a nonprofit educational organization whose primary purpose is to work with educators in public schools, schools of education, and other reform agencies in communities throughout the nation to strengthen the teaching profession and to focus school reform where it matters most--on the child in every classroom.

YOUNG AUDIENCES OF SAN DIEGO
1549 El Prado, Suite 9 - San Diego, CA 92101
Young Audiences supplements the existing performing and visual arts curriculum in schools by providing selected actors, dancers, painters, musicians, and language artists in professional performances, workshops, and long-term artists' residencies.

YOUNG AUDIENCES OF THE BAY AREA
125 Stillman Street - San Francisco, CA 94107
Founded in 1958, Young Audiences of the Bay Area is one of more than 30 chapters of Young Audiences, Inc. nationwide. Our audiences are diverse populations living in the Bay Area.

YOUTH IN ARTS
1115 Third St., Suite 3 - San Rafael, CA 94901
Youth in Arts is a non-profit provider of performances and in-school arts programs serving over 30,000 children annually in Marin, Sonoma, and surrounding counties.

ART-BYTES
P.O. Box 2424 - Nevada City, CA 95959
Art-Bytes is a concept that fits with many different programs. Completed projects to date include regular radio broadcasts, Web page design, video production, music production, interactive CD-ROM production, international touring visual art exhibition and theatrical presentations over the Net.

ARTS ED
De Domenico Building 200 Frank Ogawa Plaza - Oakland, CA 94612
ARTS Ed, an Initiative of the East Bay Community Foundation, bridges schools and communities to create comprehensive and sustainable arts education for the children of the East Bay.

ARTS IN EDUCATION AID COUNCIL, INC.
19142 Sylvan Street - Reseda, CA 91335
Arts in Education Aid Council, Inc. is a non-profit organization that benefits public school students of the San Fernando Valley by providing them with an arts education by working independent of, but in cooperation with, the Los Angeles Unified School District.

CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT
1235 B Veronica Springs Road - Santa Barbara, CA 93105
The Children's Creative Project, a nonprofit arts education organization, is a program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office. It provides visual and performing arts workshops conducted by resident artists and touring artist performances for 80,000 children in 150 schools. It also produces the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival, an annual fund-raising event.

CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND
699 Bellevue Avenue - Oakland, CA 94610
Children's Fairyland is a 10-acre storybook park with programs that build a young child's desire to read, listen, and utilize the visual and theatre arts, such as dance, instrumental, vocal music, and arts and crafts as a means of expression.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS
253 Martens Avenue - Mountain View, CA 94040
The Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) is a non-profit center for arts education committed to providing "Arts for All!" regardless of age, skill level, background or economic circumstances. CSMA offers arts-in-the-schools programs, lessons, classes, camps, concerts and community outreach events, and a financial aid program.

CULTURAL INITIATIVES SILICON VALLEY
1153 Lincoln Avenue Suite I - San Jose, CA 95125
Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley (CISV) is a nonprofit grant-making arts organization that is helping to implement the cultural plan for our region.

ENRICHMENT WORKS
5605 Woodman Avenue Suite 207 - Valley Glen, CA 91401
Enrichment Works is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that creates and presents assembly programs, classroom presentations and specialized instruction to grades K-8 in Los Angeles County public and private schools, linking professional actors with the school curriculum.

INSIDE OUT COMMUNITY ARTS
P.O. Box 1108 - Venice, CA 90294
Artist-run nonprofit. Professional artists provide multidisciplinary after-school arts programs for at-risk and underserved middle school youth, culminating with topical art shows and performances for community audiences.

LUCKMAN FINE ARTS COMPLEX
California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive - Los Angeles, CA 90032
COLTA (Creating Opportunities for Learning Through the Arts) is the education and outreach program of the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, a multifaceted theater complex located on the campus of Cal State, Los Angeles.

NUART
Nevada Union High School Fine Art Department 11761 Ridge Road - Grass Valley, CA 95945
NuArt is the exhibition and publishing component of the Nevada Union High School Fine Art Department.

RICHMOND ART CENTER
2540 Barrett Avenue - Richmond, CA 94804
The Richmond Art Center is the oldest, non-profit community art center in the Bay Area, providing art classes and workshops for children and adults, educational outreach, and museum-quality exhibitions featuring emerging and mid-career San Francisco Bay Area artists.

THE GALEF INSTITUTE
5670 Wilshire Boulevard 20th Floor - Los Angeles, CA 90036
Founded in 1989, the Galef Institute is a nonprofit educational organization whose primary purpose is to work with educators in public schools, schools of education, and other reform agencies in communities throughout the nation to strengthen the teaching profession and to focus school reform where it matters most--on the child in every classroom.

YOUNG AUDIENCES OF SAN DIEGO
1549 El Prado, Suite 9 - San Diego, CA 92101
Young Audiences supplements the existing performing and visual arts curriculum in schools by providing selected actors, dancers, painters, musicians, and language artists in professional performances, workshops, and long-term artists' residencies.

YOUNG AUDIENCES OF THE BAY AREA
125 Stillman Street - San Francisco, CA 94107
Founded in 1958, Young Audiences of the Bay Area is one of more than 30 chapters of Young Audiences, Inc. nationwide. Our audiences are diverse populations living in the Bay Area.

YOUTH IN ARTS
1115 Third St., Suite 3 - San Rafael, CA 94901
Youth in Arts is a non-profit provider of performances and in-school arts programs serving over 30,000 children annually in Marin, Sonoma, and surrounding counties.

ART-BYTES
P.O. Box 2424 - Nevada City, CA 95959
Art-Bytes is a concept that fits with many different programs. Completed projects to date include regular radio broadcasts, Web page design, video production, music production, interactive CD-ROM production, international touring visual art exhibition and theatrical presentations over the Net.

ARTS ED
De Domenico Building 200 Frank Ogawa Plaza - Oakland, CA 94612
ARTS Ed, an Initiative of the East Bay Community Foundation, bridges schools and communities to create comprehensive and sustainable arts education for the children of the East Bay.

CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND
699 Bellevue Avenue - Oakland, CA 94610
Children's Fairyland is a 10-acre storybook park with programs that build a young child's desire to read, listen, and utilize the visual and theatre arts, such as dance, instrumental, vocal music, and arts and crafts as a means of expression.

CULTURAL INITIATIVES SILICON VALLEY
1153 Lincoln Avenue Suite I - San Jose, CA 95125
Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley (CISV) is a nonprofit grant-making arts organization that is helping to implement the cultural plan for our region.

YOUNG AUDIENCES OF THE BAY AREA
125 Stillman Street - San Francisco, CA 94107
Founded in 1958, Young Audiences of the Bay Area is one of more than 30 chapters of Young Audiences, Inc. nationwide. Our audiences are diverse populations living in the Bay Area.

ART-BYTES
P.O. Box 2424 - Nevada City, CA 95959
Art-Bytes is a concept that fits with many different programs. Completed projects to date include regular radio broadcasts, Web page design, video production, music production, interactive CD-ROM production, international touring visual art exhibition and theatrical presentations over the Net.

ARTS ED
De Domenico Building 200 Frank Ogawa Plaza - Oakland, CA 94612
ARTS Ed, an Initiative of the East Bay Community Foundation, bridges schools and communities to create comprehensive and sustainable arts education for the children of the East Bay.

CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT
1235 B Veronica Springs Road - Santa Barbara, CA 93105
The Children's Creative Project, a nonprofit arts education organization, is a program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office. It provides visual and performing arts workshops conducted by resident artists and touring artist performances for 80,000 children in 150 schools. It also produces the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival, an annual fund-raising event.

CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND
699 Bellevue Avenue - Oakland, CA 94610
Children's Fairyland is a 10-acre storybook park with programs that build a young child's desire to read, listen, and utilize the visual and theatre arts, such as dance, instrumental, vocal music, and arts and crafts as a means of expression.

CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATER SAN JOSE
1401 Parkmoor Avenue - San Jose, CA 95126
The nation's leading youth conservatory offering performance opportunities for ages 6-20, after-school and summer classes for ages 4-20, in-school programs, the unique online "Theater as Digital Activity" program, and quality musical theater performances for the community.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS
253 Martens Avenue - Mountain View, CA 94040
The Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) is a non-profit center for arts education committed to providing "Arts for All!" regardless of age, skill level, background or economic circumstances. CSMA offers arts-in-the-schools programs, lessons, classes, camps, concerts and community outreach events, and a financial aid program.

CULTURAL INITIATIVES SILICON VALLEY
1153 Lincoln Avenue Suite I - San Jose, CA 95125
Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley (CISV) is a nonprofit grant-making arts organization that is helping to implement the cultural plan for our region.

ENRICHMENT WORKS
5605 Woodman Avenue Suite 207 - Valley Glen, CA 91401
Enrichment Works is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that creates and presents assembly programs, classroom presentations and specialized instruction to grades K-8 in Los Angeles County public and private schools, linking professional actors with the school curriculum.

GREAT LEAP, INC.
1145 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 100-D - Los Angeles, CA 90017
The arts have always found a way to leap boundaries. Stories and songs of our cultures thread our common truth. A dance connects us to the rhythms of each other. We must sing it, we must tell it, we must celebrate it. We are Great Leap.

LUCKMAN FINE ARTS COMPLEX
California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive - Los Angeles, CA 90032
COLTA (Creating Opportunities for Learning Through the Arts) is the education and outreach program of the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, a multifaceted theater complex located on the campus of Cal State, Los Angeles.

OAKLAND YOUTH CHORUS
2619 Broadway - Oakland, CA 94612
Celebrating its 25th year, the Oakland Youth Chorus is a comprehensive multi-cultural music education and performance in-school and after-school program, led by professional educators who are also professional musicians, serving Oakland's youth ages 5 to 21.

PACIFIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA--CLASS ACT
1231 East Dyer Road, Suite 200 - Santa Ana, CA 92705
Class Act seeks to facilitate learning in the arts by providing close interaction with professional musicians, offering lessons about the Orchestra and "Composer of the Year," and by forming relationships between school communities and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.

SAN DIEGO JUNIOR THEATRE
1650 El Prado, Suite 208 - San Diego, CA 92110
San Diego Junior Theatre educates youth ages 3-19 in theatre arts through innovative classes and high-quality productions.

SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS
P.O. Box 15397 - San Francisco, CA 94115
The San Francisco Girls Chorus (SFGC) is an internationally acclaimed choral training and performance center for young women's voices that has been called "a model in the country for training girls' voices" by the California Arts Council.

TAHOE ARTS PROJECT
P.O. Box 14281 - South Lake Tahoe, CA 96151
Tahoe Arts Project is a nonprofit bistate organization in California and Nevada, presenting professional performing arts in our schools along with a public performance series.

THE GALEF INSTITUTE
5670 Wilshire Boulevard 20th Floor - Los Angeles, CA 90036
Founded in 1989, the Galef Institute is a nonprofit educational organization whose primary purpose is to work with educators in public schools, schools of education, and other reform agencies in communities throughout the nation to strengthen the teaching profession and to focus school reform where it matters most--on the child in every classroom.

YOUNG AUDIENCES OF SAN DIEGO
1549 El Prado, Suite 9 - San Diego, CA 92101
Young Audiences supplements the existing performing and visual arts curriculum in schools by providing selected actors, dancers, painters, musicians, and language artists in professional performances, workshops, and long-term artists' residencies.

YOUNG AUDIENCES OF THE BAY AREA
125 Stillman Street - San Francisco, CA 94107
Founded in 1958, Young Audiences of the Bay Area is one of more than 30 chapters of Young Audiences, Inc. nationwide. Our audiences are diverse populations living in the Bay Area.

YOUTH IN ARTS
1115 Third St., Suite 3 - San Rafael, CA 94901
Youth in Arts is a non-profit provider of performances and in-school arts programs serving over 30,000 children annually in Marin, Sonoma, and surrounding counties.



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