After 40 years of touring internationally, TBC currently focuses on regional art-making.

LIVE CONCERTS:
1) All with dance, circus, and a cappella singers, SoVoSó.
•”JOY!”
•”Nutz REMixed” an alternative Nutcracker
•”Mangia del Arte” a unique benefit concert (raising funds for Salinas’ Cesar Chavez Library, Lobero Theatre+.)

2) “Keep on Truckin’”: free 20-minute family shows (Music and Circus), outdoors and covid-safe, with diverse artists and forms: Gospel, Brazilian, Balkan, Latin Percussion, Celtic, Moroccan. Classical, Americana, Old Timey Music, Body Music & Banjo, Circus, Chinese Magic. In parks, schools and senior centers.

3) “HereAfterAfter: a self-guided tour of eternity” on the subject of our mortality(’18, ’24) with 15 outreach events. Partner: Hospice

4) Other new TBC concerts. Examples: “Scoville Units”-’20, “In C”-’22, New Music Works-’24.

5) Free annual Multicultural Fair. Partner: local schools and Chamber of Commerce.

ARTS EDUCATION:
ArtSmart, TBC’s flagship arts education program, is celebrating 52 years of inspiring the next generations with vibrant art in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito County schools. Partnering with COEs, Districts, schools and Arts Councils. Highlights include:
•87 concerts in schools and school-theatres ’22-‘23.

•”Dance Around the World” 8-week VAPA-aligned residencies furthering kinesthetic and socio-emotional learning; language development; engagement with the beauty of diverse world cultures; and dance.

•”The Kindness Project” focuses on caring for others and the broader community. After movement exercises, reflecting, writing, and listening to each other’s essays, students collaborate to choose where they want to expand kindness in the community. Then TBC gives them a check for a non-profit that champions their intentions and choice.

•“WideWideWide World” introduces classrooms to different world artists each week.

•“Expanding Horizons”-Teaching-Artist Training open to public, partnering with Cabrillo College and Arts Council. Selected teaching-artists receive individual mentorship as paid assistants. Schoolteachers can receive Continuing Education Units to support their commitment to arts-learning.