Grantee Database

PROJECT MIRACLE

Grant Year

2024-25

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$20,832.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, The Miracle Project (TMP) Express Yourself Class for Multimodality Communicators will produce an original fully-inclusive music video that will elevate the voices of underrepresented artists and challenge limiting perceptions about what “disability” and “ability” mean. TMP’s Express Yourself Class is a first-of-its kind songwriting, production, and performance class for individuals who are minimally speaking and use Assistive Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices to communicate. This professionally produced music video will be created in partnership between our teaching artists and neurodivergent participants in front of and behind the camera.

Organization Summary

TMP’s current core programming consists of:

Improv for Interaction: Social Skills Program – 15 weekly classes that provide instruction, practice, and preparation for real-life social situations and positive social interactions. Through the use of improvisation, theater games, and role playing, participants are provided individual coaching and group facilitation to practice positive interactions with peers, social communication, being part of a group, and transitioning from one social activity to another.

Expressive Arts Classes include – The Triple Threat Musical Theater Class, which utilizes acting, singing, movement, and voice to build self-confidence, enhance self-expression, improve communication, and reduce anxiety and depression among individuals with and without disabilities. TMP’s Company Class is a fully-inclusive performance group that produces original content each year and has explored different mediums including the creation of original musicals and original music videos. “I Can Do That” is a unique professional acting training program that prepares young adults on the spectrum for work in the entertainment industry. The Express Yourself Class for Multimodality Communicators is a first of its kind songwriting, production, and performance class geared at expanding communication and self expression skills for multimodality communicators (i.e. participants who are minimally speaking, non-speaking and unreliably speaking and those that use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices to communicate.) Miracles in Action is a fully-inclusive leadership development & mentorship program for teens and adults interested in giving back to The Miracle Project community. Through arts-based acts of service and community-organizing activities, individuals in the Miracles in Action program take the skills and characteristics cultivated in TMP classes and apply them as leaders in their communities.

Organization

Project Miracle aka The Miracle Project

Address

5870 W OLYMPIC BLVD

LOS ANGELES

90036-4657

County

Los Angeles

Region

South – Los Angeles & Orange

Phone

(213) 739-5495

Congressional District

California's 30th congressional district

State Assembly District

District 55

State Senate District

District 28

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