Project Avary provides youth directly impacted by mass incarceration a 3-day comprehensive youth-led theater workshop to write and perform an original production about issues that are important to them. Bold storytelling allows them a safe space to unpack their own stories and invite healing dialogue and solution for collective liberation.
Our core programs and services include our legendary live musical production, presented annually in Northern California public parks from Independence Day to Labor Day; the eight-week intensive Youth Theater Program, challenging hundreds of young people with playwriting and performance workshops; the Young California Writers Project, our partnership with Balboa High School that support writing and presentation skills. We also work in our community on projects like the restoration of Juana Alicia’s powerful mural Para Las Rosas.

