With support from the California Arts Council, Young Audiences of Northern California will work with Alphabet Rockers, AXIS Dance Company, and San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus to bring powerful and socially-relevant assembly performances and workshops to 8 Bay Area middle and high schools. With timely and necessary exploration of the challenges facing young people in today’s America, these three performing arts groups showcase honest and diverse perspectives through dancing and singing.
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.

