The Imagine Bus Project harnesses the power of creativity to transform the lives of justice-involved youth through arts education, individualized case management, employment, and a deep belief in their ability to succeed.

India's Music Room offers private lessons and ensemble coaching in violin (all levels), viola, and piano (beginners to intermediate). Students of all ages are welcome! India's method for violin, viola, and piano beginners includes basic foundation studies. Through applied exercises and performance, students learn technique and repertoire in fun and action-oriented sessions. The studio offers weekly lessons, recitals, and workshops throughout the year.

Passport to World Arts™, Induz’s signature program, was launched in 2008 to provide global arts education for low-income students in the San Francisco Bay Area. This art program takes children through a virtual journey around the world, across various countries with a passport in hand. Travel to many destinations while celebrating each region's art and culture thus promoting global learning, acceptance and appreciation of diverse cultures, and nurturing their creativity.

We are a private school in the heart of the Arts Corridor in the Civic Center area of San Francisco. We have a thriving arts curriculum that focuses on internationalism.

Today's youth are the first to experience the practice of virtual self-representation through social media as an aspect of their social development. Their creation and maintenance of an online identity is a lifelong project. This multimedia workshop investigates the perameters that social media sets on self-representation by taking this daily practice out of the virtual realm. Participants create multimedia installations that share their evolving self-narratives in real space and time.

Kayan Cheung-Miaw is a cartoonist, an educator and a community organizer. She spent eight years doing community and labor organizing in the SF Bay Area before starting her MFA program in comics at the California College of the Arts Comics is her favorite medium because she considers it an art for the people. She is currently working on a graphic novel about her grandmother and mother. She facilitates comics and visual storytelling workshops for youth and adults.

KQED Art School is a free video series made for students where local Bay Area artists are interviewed about their careers and intentions before demonstrating a hands-on technique or concept that students can follow along with. Such demonstrations include: how to make a stencil, how to draw comics, how to break dance, and more. The videos can be downloaded free from iTunes by searching KQED Art School, on Youtube, or at KQED.org.

La Peña is a community cultural center that promotes peace, social justice, and cultural understanding through the arts, education, and social action. Our current arts education program consists of low-cost classes in Latin American music, dance, and other art forms taught by some of the best local artists and instructors. We offer both adult, and children’s classes. Our list of classes can be found at: http://lapena.org/classes/

Leap's residency programs place professional teaching artists into Bay Area elementary schools to enhance the classroom curriculum through creative projects. Dynamic educators who are professional painters, sculptors, performers, musicians, dancers and architects represent Leap in these schools.

Little Opera is a comprehensive nine-month after-school program that challenges the assumption that opera is not for everyone. We bring together 2nd-7th grade students of all backgrounds to create, rehearse, and perform an original opera. Our students do everything, from start to finish. They work with professional Bay Area artists to: • Write a story • Create a libretto • Compose music • Choreograph dances and movement • Design sets and costumes • Perform!