Grantee Database
24TH STREET THEATRE COMPANY
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
General Operating Support
Award Amount
$30,832.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, 24TH STREET THEATRE COMPANY will use CAC general operating support to fund increasing staff costs associated with its burgeoning K-12 arts education program service. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the return of school field trips and in-school teaching artist residencies serving LA County schools, CAC funding will help increase its staff of teaching artists to meet the unprecedented demand for its theatre arts education programs that promote social emotional learning to help youth manage and direct their fears and anxieties to positive, creative ends. These programs help mitigate youth wellness challenges identified by the U.S. Surgeon General’s December 2021 public health advisory on youth wellness. This grant will also help further expand service to youth in lowest-quartile Healthy Place Index neighborhoods.
Organization Summary
24th Street Theatre is a 99-seat professional theatre located just south of Downtown LA. The theatre is a national leader in Theatre for Young Audiences, a well-known venue for theatre for Spanish-language audiences, and a primary regional resource and destination for K-12 arts education programming. The theatre serves approximately 20,000 children and adults annually, including 10,000+ K-12 students and teachers.
-24th Street presents at least one professional stage production annually engaging 3,000 guests.
-Enter Stage Right: an in-school arts education program endorsed and contracted by LAUSD for providing sequential, standards-based arts learning programming that serves 10,000+ students annually.
-After ‘Cool/Summer ‘Cool: free standards-based afterschool and summer camp arts enrichment programs for inner-city kids that serve 80 youth annually through 60-hour/30-week and 40-hour/2-week immersive curriculums.
-Leadership Academy: a teen mentoring, college-readiness and jobs skills development program that serves 20 youth annually through a 60-hour/30-week afterschool theatre arts curriculum.
-Multiweek teaching artist residencies at schools (curricular and extracurricular)
-Professional development workshops serve 500 teachers annually.
-Teatro del Pueblo: an annual program that engages 30 non-actor neighborhood residents as actors and writers in the creation of an annual holiday-themed play.
-Día de Los Muertos: an annual community festival that engages 5,000 guests from the theatre’s low-income, immigrant neighborhood with cultural performances, art-making activities, and vendors providing Central American foods and crafts.
Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 24th Street has experienced unprecedented demand for its K-12 theatre arts education programs, setting program service records for the theatre in the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 school years. In these years, professional stage productions were put on hiatus to focus on meeting school demand for these programs. The popularity of these programs comes from the theatre’s leadership in social emotional learning techniques refined during the pandemic that help youth manage their fears/anxieties to positive, creative ends.
Organization
24th Street Theatre
Address
1117 W. 24th Street
Los Angeles
90007
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(213) 745-6516
Congressional District
District CA-37
State Assembly District
California's 57th District
State Senate District
District 28
