With support from the California Arts Council, Young Audiences Of Northern California (YANC) will develop and present “Arts-Built Inclusion” (ABI), a comprehensive performance series designed to convey a message of tolerance, understanding and acceptance of LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized youth. Using music, interactive performance, and multi-disciplinary theater, ABI will address the overwhelming need expressed by schools and communities for youth-based programs that address the decline in the mental well being among their LGBTQIA+ students and increased hate speech and bullying, all brought on by the national political rhetoric infiltrating social media and the news.
Young Audiences of Northern California (YANC) partners with our network of teaching artists to deliver arts education to schools and community centers through our Signature Core Programs: assembly performances, artist residencies, artist workshops, and professional development for classroom teachers. We work in four arts disciplines: visual art, music, theater, and dance. We provide maximum impact on student learning by ensuring that all of our programs are arts-focused, child-centered, outcomes-driven, and measurably effective. To achieve these qualities, all programs offer students the opportunity to: experience the art form demonstrated by a professional artist; understand the art form and its history and culture; create the art form; and connect their learning to other areas of study, and to their lives and world.

