Young Audiences of Northern California makes art happen in schools and community venues every day. Our mission is to create arts experiences that inspire young people, expand learning, and enliven communities. Working closely with a roster of world-class, community-based teaching artists, we serve children and young adults, preschool through high school, their teachers, and families, in both public and private schools as well as in community and after-school settings.

CCA's Young Artist Studio Program (YASP) is an exciting, intensive studio experience for students who want to explore the visual arts in a professional art school setting. Eligible students will have just completed the sixth, seventh, or eighth grade.

The YBCA Young Artists at Work Program is a paid, multidisciplinary art-as-activism residency for teens at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Within the residency model, YBCA provides resources, space, aesthetic inspiration, and collaborative community to support young people who self-identify as artists and activists to produce their own original social justice art projects. The Young Artists at Work are proud to be the next generation of creative thinkers and social changemakers.

WritersCorps is a project of the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Public Library that places professional writers in community settings to teach creative writing to youth.

UpStar Records is a youth-run record label aimed at turning today’s hip hop enthusiasts into tomorrow’s digital technology leaders. This innovative workforce development program provides youth employment and leadership opportunities. Trained by a cadre of talented industry professionals, youth get hands-on experience recording, mixing, mastering, releasing, distributing and promoting their own music and videos.

Trash Mash-Up (TMU) is a community art project. Using disposable materials, collected before they enter the waste stream, participants construct 'Maskostumes' which are original pageant masks and costumes inspired by traditions from around the world. TMU reduces waste and inspires people to see each other and our environment in a new way.

Todd Berman is an artist who has been working in education ever since moving to San Francisco 16 years ago. In that time, he has become an expert at engaging teenagers in the creative process. Berman works with teachers to integrate visual arts practices into curricula to make lesson plans more engaging and meaningful for students to comply with Common Core Standards. He can help you can bring your entire community together to collaborate on one engaging and meaningful art project.

TILT teaches young people who are typically underrepresented and misrepresented in media the fundamentals of moviemaking and media literacy through hands-on training in video production. TILT provides youth with lifelong skills for accessing, evaluating, analyzing, and producing media to make positive change in themselves and their communities. TILT values diversity, collaboration, student-driven and project-based learning, professionalism, and creative and critical thinking.

We offer high-quality literacy arts education programs to students in kindergarten through the 8th grade in schools, after-school programs, and community-based organizations throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. While Streetside services are available to a wide array of schools and community organizations, we focus our resources on reaching underserved young people who attend struggling schools.

Stern Grove Festival Association is a nonprofit cultural organization committed to providing the people of the Bay Area with admission-free access to diverse performing arts. Every year since 1938, the organization presents Stern Grove Festival, an admission-free performing arts series, in Sigmund Stern Grove, a beautiful outdoor amphitheater located at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco.