Grantee Database
CREATIVE NETWERK
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$21,250.00
Project Description
With support from CAC, Creative Netwerk’s culturally-competent, diverse LA- and Santa Barbara-based master teaching artists, specializing in hip-hop and street/club dance styles, will engage in creative collaboration with 200 promising, underserved youth, majority Latinx and African American, at La Cumbre Junior High School’s Theater Department and Santa Barbara HS’ Dance Classes/Team to address violence, marginalization, incarceration, and poverty by offering young people arts career pathways through reliable dance programming, including both technique and pedagogy classes (inclusive of social emotional learning, dance as healing, self-care, community building). Weeklong residencies by master teachers as well as weekly dance classes by program alumni will help the next generation become teaching artists, ready to undertake volunteer hours by helping lead CN classes, youth dance crew performances, and community battles.
Organization Summary
In Santa Barbara County, Creative Netwerk partners with Goleta USD, Carpinteria USD, Lompoc USD, and Santa Barbara USD, offering hip-hop, street/club dance, and DJ programs, and curricula connecting regional dance styles to wellness and family engagement, in after school weekly classes and events.
CN provides access to Winter, Spring Break, and Summer Dance Camps, in partnership with A-OK and United Way, leading to performances and family dance celebrations with live music by DJs. CN currently reaches 3,500 K-12 students/year across Santa Barbara County in Lompoc, Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Goleta, Santa Maria, Santa Ynez, Buellton, Guadalupe, Isla Vista.
CN partners with Title I public schools, affordable housing, juvenile justice facilities and CBOs, finding solutions to learning loss, isolation, and trauma through dance culture, music, and community. CN’s diverse arts leaders deepen collaboration and unification of the many regional street dance forms across California. DJs, teaching artists, and community partners expand access to free, life-changing learning, dance cultural development, and family engagement events.
Community partners include: United Way Fun in the Sun, One Community Bridge Project, the Theater Program at La Cumbre MS, the Dance Program at Santa Barbara HS, Santa Barbara City Parks and Recreation, Santa Maria Juvenile Hall, Notes For Notes, and more.
At the Boys & Girls Club of Downtown Santa Barbara, CN teaches four days/week youth and teen Hip-Hop, Breaking, DJ, and Folklorico classes, weekly open sessions, and a monthly family class.
With Lompoc HS, CN provides weekly after school programs and 20 week-long artist residency programs, sharing foundation, history, culture, and training in dance, DJing, event production, photography, videography, MCing, Music Production.
In LA, CN partners with After-School All-Stars, the ICEF Drama Club, ISANA, Boys & Girls Clubs, Glendale Unified, and the Arc to serve 1,000 students/year, including education in regional dances such as Clowning and Krump.
Organization
Creative Netwerk
Address
PO BOX 22960
Santa Barbara
93121
County
Santa Barbara
Region
Central Coast
Phone
(413) 404-6505
Congressional District
California's 24th Congressional District
State Assembly District
District 37
State Senate District
District 21
